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In a letter addressed to heads of all centrally-funded institutions, Higher Education secretary Amit Khare said the decision on examinations will be reviewed again in the first week of June, 2021. The Education Ministry has directed IITs, NITs, all centrally-funded educational institutions (CFTIs) to defer their offline examinations scheduled this month. The ministry, however, said that online exams can continue. The ministry’s request comes in the midst of worsening Covid-19 pandemic situation. Amid the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education on May 3 asked all the centrally-funded…

The convergence of mind and matter, the coming together of digital and material sciences lies at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution. From search algorithms to self driving cars, artificial intelligence is everywhere. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an area of computer science that enables machines to work and think like humans. Generally viewed as the simulation of human intelligence by machines, the AI comprises of learning, reasoning, problem solving, planning and self correction. Machines are increasingly going beyond the physical repetitive work and include planning, strategising and decision making…

A cyber-physical system (CPS) is an orchestration of computers and physical systems. CPS combines various models including engineering and environmental, civil, electrical, biomedical, chemical with methods of computer science. However, these models and methods do not combine easily so, CPS consequently constitutes a new engineering branch, which demands its own models and methods. The “cyber-physical systems” word emerged during 2006 and was coined by Helen Gill at the National Science Foundation in the United States. Another related term “cyberspace” is attributed to William Gibson, who used the term in the…