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Saathee:
Your New Companion

With around one third of the world population currently subject to self-isolation, the spectre of loneliness, regularly affects as many as more than 40 percent of seniors according to a University of California....

Footprint by footprint, we can save our planet.

Let me take you all into the future, twenty years from now, where you drive on Highway 50 in your shiny electric car that you purchased on a rebate and then witness a groundbreaking technology: an amine-based carbon capture plant that directly captures carbon dioxide from the air. If humanity intends to reverse climate change, then working towards making this vision a reality is necessary.

Student Spotlight: Team MDS helps businesses breathe easier

COVID-19 has killed millions across the globe and devastated businesses. Even after one full year into the pandemic, there is still no end in sight with new outbreaks in places like India. Businesses....

AI Techniques for automatic classification of planetory objects

Scientists continue to learn more about space every day-- 1.3 million observations have been taken by the Hubble Telescope. There are approximately 20,000 nebulae in the Milky Way Galaxy, but we have only been able to classify 1800 of them. Classification done by humans can take a longer period of time, and be subject to more errors.....

This is Technovation: The 15 year old girl making change for generations to come

At 15 years old, most adolescents aren’t thinking about closing gender gaps or establishing a community focused on mentorship and the positive change they can cause for generations to...

Enhancing The Farmers' Experience: Using AI to Predict Crop Yield

As extreme weather events increase , stable food security is becoming a global concern. The variability in crop yields due to climate change is a major threat to the world's food security. There is a need for an efficient and quicker way to identify the impact of climatic changes on crop yield production on a global scale.

Alumnae Blog

Generative AI
By Meenakshi Nair. “Wow…” you remark as you marvel at the hues of the orange and pink in the horizon, casting a golden glow onto the calm waters of a vast ocean. Although it is just a realistic-looking image you have come across on...

Empowering Women in Tech: Bridging the Gender Gap in AI and Innovation

The year was 2017. Taekwondo class just finished, and a girl wearing a polka dot sweater with a pink backpack rushed out of the building and stepped into the shiny white Honda. Ten minutes later, the car pulled forward to a red-bricked house, and the girl stepped out. She eagerly ran the doorbell and, upon entering, she realized that each and every teammate of her robotics team was a guy — not a single one of those ten kids was a girl.

AI driven slum mapping

Worldwide, ~1.1B people live in slums with an additional 2B people expected to live in such settlements in the next 30 years. Adequate housing is a human right, and the absence of it negatively affects urban equity, health and, livelihood opportunities. Slum mapping AI based technology acts as a crucial tool for Informed decision-making • Assessing vulnerability levels to disasters • Prioritizing resources and for targeted interventions.

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