Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 19: Sumant Pangotra and Suave Bajaj, two students of final-year in Computer Science and Engineering, MIET, brought laurels to the institute and the State of J&K by winning three awards at the 9th India Innovation Initiative, a national-level innovation competition organized by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII).
The team from MIET emerged winners in the two-stage competition, first finishing in the top 10 in North-India at Chandigarh and then finally emerging winners at the all-India level in a competition, which was open to over 10,000 technical colleges in the country. Sumant and Suave received the AICTE Most Promising Student Innovator Award with cash prize of Rs forty thousand, I3-KLU-CIIE Best Student Innovator Award and the SIDBI Incubation and Mentorship Award.
The MIET team finished on the podium among the 40 finalists, who had been selected at all India level for the finals of the innovation competition at Delhi.
Sumant and Suave worked on the project, “Message Authenticity Checking System”, which is a first-of-its kind veracity checking application for messages shared over mobile messaging applications such as Whatsapp and Hike etc. The application builds a database of credible news from trusted sources automatically and then allows the users to fact-check the messages for authenticity. Thus, the spread of malicious and inauthentic information is prevented. The application can prevent serious law and order problems by checking the spread of malicious information. Even Facebook is grappling with issues of spread of fake news.
The students made use of IBM Watson cognitive computing engine for performing context analysis of news feeds and submitted messages devising a novel algorithm for context matching and generating authenticity indices for each received message. A patent has also been filed at the Indian Patents and Trademarks Office by MIET encompassing this innovation. Faculty mentors from MIET, associated with the project, included Rishi Gupta, Sahil Sawhney and Purnendu Prabhat.
The students received the award from Prof A S Sahasrabudhe, Chairman AICTE, Anjan Das, Executive Director CII and. Chander Mohan, Senior Scientist DST at a glittering awards ceremony at the AICTE headquarters, New Delhi.
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