IIIT- is it different?
Vardhman, a PG student at IIIT (and was my TA soem years back) has shared some views on why IIIT is different. I have a perspective on IIIT- both as a Faculty (adjunct) member teahcing a few courses, and as an industry insider observing IIIT from outside. Surely IIIT attempts to be different. And so far has seen good success. I remember in the first convocation, it being said that IIIT aims to focus on applied research. research that can benifit the industry and society. This is a very noble objective. Theoretical reserahc is surely good and needed. But what is severely lacking in our country is tehapplied research.IIIT so far has done well. A good testimony to this is the R&D showcase that seems to be getting better and better. Its research credential cannot be better sttested to than the fact that many of the PG students in IIIT are students that did their UG from IIIT. This is not too common. IN any goo dinstitute, by and lareg teh PG students come from outside. In IIIT though, many students seem to be wanting to continue to PG (and hopefull some even PhD) right there. This is surely very different.
And personally. I would like to see one more different. The "applied" part fo research cannot be mroe pronounced than in cases when some new research/approach/technology is taken and commercialized into a product. A successful product. While this i sanother area IIIT led teh path in actively promoting enterprises froms tudents, it did take some time to show results. Now there are a few initiatives being incubated. I would support any such initiative- can be a good sounding boardto present a Product Company's view and inputs. I would really like to see some good product company successes from IIIT. And this should hopefully motivate more such initiatives.
Like I have blogged (and spoken) many times, the next big opportunity for the indian IT industry is in IP creation. In Sofwtare Products. And more so in high value infrastructure products!
posted by Ramesh L. @ 10:44 PM
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Our country is in debt until forever, we don't have jobs, and we live in fear. We have invaded a country and been responsible for thousands of deaths.
The more people that the government puts in jails, the safer we are told to think we are. The real terrorists are wherever they are, but they aren't living in a country with bars on the windows. We are.
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