{"id":128612,"date":"2020-06-19T02:21:05","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=128612"},"modified":"2020-06-19T02:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T20:51:05","slug":"webinar-on-ai-gets-underway-at-rgu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/webinar-on-ai-gets-underway-at-rgu\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar on AI gets underway at RGU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Webinar-on-AI-gets-underway-at-RGU.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128619 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Webinar-on-AI-gets-underway-at-RGU.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Webinar-on-AI-gets-underway-at-RGU.jpg 472w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Webinar-on-AI-gets-underway-at-RGU-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/a>RONO HILLS, Jun 18:<\/strong> A two-day webinar on &#8216;Recent trends in artificial intelligence (AI)&#8217; got underway at Rajiv Gandhi University here on Thursday. It is being conducted by the university&#8217;s electronic &amp; communication and computer science &amp; engineering department.<br \/>\nAddressing the inaugural programme, RGU Vice Chancellor, Prof Saket Kushwaha said, &#8220;In this Covid-19 pandemic situation, AI can be integrated with existing technologies to improve the teaching-learning experience in the educational system.&#8221;<br \/>\nAI-based machines could be used to treat coronavirus patients &#8220;as it would involve very less direct intervention of frontline workers and they would be protected from infection,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nPro-VC, Prof A Mitra spoke on how AI can be used to make India &#8220;one of the best technological countries,&#8221; while Registrar, Prof Tomo Riba said that AI &#8220;has brought revolutionary changes in technology and the way we use technology.&#8221;<br \/>\nComputer Science &amp; Engineering Head, Prof Utpal Bhattacharjee said &#8220;AI is one of the most rapidly growing technologies in science,&#8221; and added that &#8220;the present state of technologies needs to be upgraded, and it is possible by using AI.&#8221;<br \/>\nNIT-Manipur Associate Professor, Dr Aheibam Dinamani Singh presented an overview of AI and its applications in different fields of technology.<br \/>\n&#8220;AI is breaking frontiers in the fields of medicine and agriculture,&#8221; Dr Singh said, and stressed on using AI technology &#8220;as a practicable option to fight the current Covid-19 pandemic.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe first day of the webinar was attended by more than 100 participants from various universities and colleges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Jun 18: A two-day webinar on &#8216;Recent trends in artificial intelligence (AI)&#8217; got underway at Rajiv Gandhi University here on Thursday. It is being conducted by the university&#8217;s electronic &amp; communication and computer science &amp; engineering department. Addressing the inaugural programme, RGU Vice Chancellor, Prof Saket Kushwaha said, &#8220;In this Covid-19 pandemic situation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}