Reaffirming the Chhattisgarh Governments commitment towards the pursuit of excellence in Education, Research and Development, IIIT Naya Raipur has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with C-DAC (Center for Development of Advanced Computing, a scientific society under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India) for creating excellence in the field of electronics and ICT related technologies.
This is more specifically in the areas of Supercomputing, Cloud and Grid Computing and their applications; Multi-lingual computing and its applications; Professional Electronics and its applications; Software Technologies including turnkey solutions related to Governance, Processes, Societal Applications, Telecom, Finance, Power, Health etc.; Cyber Security including data security and cyber forensics, and in Education and Training pertaining to high end computing, an IIIT press release issued here on Thursday informed.
This collaboration shall drive towards developing skills to meet the engineering, research and industry demands, with a capacity of solving multi-disciplinary grand challenging problems in science and engineering of State and national importance, it informed.
Dr Pradeep K Sinha, Vice Chancellor and Director, IIIT Naya Raipur said “This partnership will bring in national expertise in R&D and industry and shall accelerate the pace of III NR’s aim to emerge as India’s prime contributor for research and development leading to innovation fostering entrepreneurship. The faculty, research scholars and students both at UG and PG level will be highly benefitted working in applications for socio-economic advancement with the mission of expanding the frontiers of Information and Communication Technologies.”