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Amid the countrywide lockdown due to coronavirus , students and faculty of premier institutes like the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are working round the clock. They have developed mobile applications, robots and ventilators to help the country in its fight against coronavirus. The app "GoCoronaGo", developed by a team at IISc, can help identify people who may have crossed paths with Covid-19 suspects. "The app will help identify people who may have crossed paths with Covid-19 positive individuals or suspects by tracking their interactions in the past using bluetooth and GPS. It uses temporal network analytics in the backend to understand the risk propensity even for distant contacts, understand disease spread and identify high-risk people who are likely to contract and spread the virus," Tarun Rambha, a faculty member at IISc, told PTI. Read More

With the highest annual package of over $164,000, or Rs 1.17 crore, this year, IT giant Microsoft has continued its streak of emerging as the top recruiter on Day One of final placements at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Older as well as some newer IITs kicked off their first phase of the final placements process in two slots on Sunday. Last year, Microsoft had given the highest international offer of $215,000 (more than Rs 1.54 crore) at multiple IITs. Participating in the first slot of the first day of placements, Microsoft gave the highest number of offers at multiple campuses including IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, and IIT Guwahati. At IIT Madras, Microsoft gave 20 offers, followed by 11 by Goldman Sachs, nine by Qualcomm, and seven by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The US-based IT giant extended 24 offers, the highest, at IIT Kharagpur, followed by Goldman Sachs at 14. Read More

GATE 2020: The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi) has extended the deadline for GATE 2020 registration to September 26, 2019. The institute will close the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2020 application process tomorrow. Candidates who have not applied yet are advised to register for GATE 2020 examination on IIT Delhi official website iitd.ac.in, or appsgate.iitd.ac.in or gate.iitd.ac.in. Earlier, IIT Delhi was going to close the online registration process for GATE 2020 exam without the requirement of the late fee payment on September 24, 2019. Now, the last date to submit the GATE 2020 application form with late fee is October 1, 2019. That means, by paying the late fee, candidates can still apply for GATE 2020 up to October 1. The decision to extend the GATE 2020 application deadline was taken after the official website of IIT Delhi crashed due to heavy traffic. Read More Article Source -> Business Standard