Wednesday, October 11, 2017

IIT-KGP signs MoU with Samsung to set up digital academy

IIT-KGP signs MoU with Samsung to set up digital academy



For setting up a digital academy on its campus, IIT-KGP has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Samsung India.The Samsung Innovation Lab will be hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, which it will use to train the students in Internet of Things (IoT) based on the Tizen operating system. Tizen is an operating system used by the company for its mobile phones and home appliances.An IIT- KGP statement said "IoT is a network of computing devices embedded in objects of everyday use for storage and exchange of information. The training would help students acquire industry-relevant skills and “become job ready". After signing the MoU yesterday, the managing director of Samsung Research & Development Institute, Delhi, YoungKi Byun, said, “Samsung is happy to partner with IIT-Kharagpur to help students leverage the growing digital technology market, especially Internet of things (IoT), the future of connectivity”. The company is committed to work in the field of next-generation technology development, he said.  IIT-KGP Director Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, echoing similar sentiments, said "The partnership will help our students in developing their skills on the emerging areas of IoT and Artificial Intelligence."“This (IoT) lab will enable our students to have hands-on experience with the Tizen operating system as well as facilitate research and app development on IoT platforms,” the head of the department of Computer Science and Engineering, Sudeshna Sarkar, said.



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