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Case Western Reserve University and IITB connecting

Case Western Reserve University and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay have reached a memorandum of understanding designed to build on the academic and research strengths of both institutions.

Sumo wrestlers to be seen in ‘desi style’ at Mood Indigo 2010

Mood Indigo 2010, IIT-Bombay’s annual inter-collegiate festival, will organise the event and two popular wrestlers from Mongolia will be seen in action in dhotis and pagdis.

Alumni in the news, August 30

Quantum MF Appoints S.R. Balasubramanian as New Director| Arvind Iyengar Honored as 2011 Siebel Scholar| Mr Vijay Ratnaparkhe named as the new Managing Director at RBEI

IIT-B embraces foreign languages

Over the past six months, the elite Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay has introduced two, eight-month foreign-language courses — and included a bit of culture and etiquette in the syllabus.

CNBC-TV18 starts “Lessons in leadership” with IIT Mumbai

Travelling to the country’s best campuses, starting with IIT Mumbai, the event will be an occasion where business leaders will share views and experiences from their stellar business careers on a variety of subjects

IIT Bombay selected for HP's research program

HP has announced that the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) has been selected to participate in the prestigious HP Labs Innovation Research Program (IRP). The work is being conducted in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay.

Students with poor scores make best of IIT-B rehab programme

An analysis of the academic rehabilitation programme (ARP) for undergraduates at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, has revealed that the programmehas had a 50% success rate.

Alumni in the News - August 20

Vasant Prabhu ('81), Vice Chairman and CFO of Starwood Hotels and Resorts was interviewed on CNBC and rang the NYSE Closing Bell | Viral Acharya ('95), Professor of Finance of NYU's Stern School of Business talks about Derivative dilemmas in the Financial Times | Ritesh Samadhiya ('05) in Deutsche Bank's new Asian equity strategy team.

IITB Professor receives VSR award from ISRO chairman

Professor Abhay Karandikar from the IIT, Mumbai, was awarded for his contribution to wireless technology and standards, particularly for 4G Wireless Technology.

Alumni Student Mentorship Program 2010 launched by Student Alumni Relations Cell

Student Alumni Relations Cell (SARC) set in motion the second phase for its Alumni Student Mentorship Program (ASMP) on 14th August, 2010 with improvised matching criteria for students and alumni. ASMP, which was launched in January, turned out to be a very effective platform for interaction between alumni and students and resulted in a lot of alumni getting reconnected with the institute. To know more details about the program and to register, please visit http://www.sarc-iitb.org/mentorship

Steve Jobs features IITBian's Pulse at iPad launch

The Pulse News Reader app, which displays a grid of news feeds as thumbnail images with a short caption preview, gained a following after Apple Inc. chief executive Steve Jobs featured it during the iPad's launch. Alphonso Labs now has versions for the iPhone and Android phones. "Google Reader users can seem really stressed out and overloaded," said Kothari, who launched the company in May with fellow recent Stanford University graduate Ankit Gupta (IIT Bombay '08).

A companion for IIT-Bombay PG students

Be it academic problems or the problem of settling down in a new environment; language barrier or feeling of homesickness; career guidance and counseling, IIT-Bombay’s “student companion programme” will take care of it all.

IIT, IIM grading leaves PSUs in fix

The country's centres of excellence, mentored by foreign governments, have graded their graduates based on a Western system-the cumulative grade point (CGP) index-for several years. Now a section is moving to a more conventional marking system, based on percentage, after Indian public sector undertakings have asked the Indian Institutes of Technology, the Indian Institutes of Management to provide an equivalent of their grades by giving percentages.

Alumni in the News - Aug 12

Sandip Tarkas joins Board of Directors of Manhattan Communications

Weak IIT students to get another chance

The institute has initiated a probation programme, which focuses on PG students (masters and PhD), especially the weak ones, to give them a second chance to survive and continue in their programmes.

Brown university, IIT-B to tie up

Ivy League College, Brown University, is tying up with the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) for student and faculty exchange as well as research programmes.

IIT-B's fest to promote youth as 'change-makers'

IITB's annual technical festival, Techfest, has taken up several initiatives which promote youth as change makers.

IITBian offers proof for P not equal to NP

IITB alum Dr. Vinay Deolalikar ('94) has offered a proof for the P=NP riddle. Dr. Deolalikar, who is with Hewlett-Packard Labs, has sent to peers copies of a proof he did stating that P is not equal to NP. Mathematicians are reviewing his work, a task that could go on for a long time. If he’s correct, Dr. Deolalikar will have figured out one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s seven Millennium Prize Problems, for which they give $1 million prizes.

GO-IITB Launched by Class of 2010

IIT Bombay seems to be reviving the old tradition of "gurudakshina". More than 735 students of the batch passing out in 2010 pledged to donate 1% of their salaries to their alma mater. Christened "Go IIT-B: Give One for IIT Bombay", this fund-raising is in association with the IIT Bombay Heritage Fund. Their motto: Pledge now and pay later. Participants can start donating within a year after they begin to earn.

Hamid Ansari unhappy with IITs’ performance

Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) may be the centre of excellence in India, but they seem to have failed to impress the vice-president of India