Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 10: Model Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) organized Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) distinguished lecture at its campus.
Dr Gargi Banerjee Dasgupta, Senior Research Manager, IBM Research, India delivered a deeply insightful talk on “Cognitive Computing” covering aspects of artificial intelligence, machine and deep learning, natural language processing and sentiment analysis for over 200 computer science and IT students and faculty members of MIET.
Dr Gargi was accorded a warm welcome by the members of the ACM Student Chapter at MIET and given a demonstration of the in-house developed analytics product ‘Performance Insight 360’.
She then proceeded to deliver her talk which revolved around increasing the intelligence of machines in terms of their ability to think, reason and act. She specifically covered details of IBM Watson, the most popular cognitive engine in the world and the diverse applications of Watson APIs from healthcare, financial services, customer/tech support and the like. She also presented an overview of IBM Research, India and the internship opportunities for students.
Later the students asked Dr Gargi several engaging questions on the future evolution of the domain and its challenges. Dr Gargi also held a separate session with the girl students under the ACM Women in Engineering initiative.
Prof Ankur Gupta and Dr Gargi held discussions on possible collaboration on innovative projects in cognitive computing, especially in the domain of analytics for education and learning management.
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