IIIT-H to focus on Research – Rediff

Consider this: In the field of computer science, electronics and communications and related subjects, the US produces 600 PhDs every year.

In contrast, China’s doctoral output in related subjects is a mind-boggling 3,000. And India’s annual output in these disciplines is 75 or even less.

All the universities in the country, Indian Institutes of Technology, NITs and CSIR laboratories together produce only this much. As part of an effort to bridge this gap between the PhD-holder pools of India and countries like the US and China, the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, proposes to produce about 100 PhDs by 2012 against 15 today.

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GDIT99 Blog Ring

I have discovered several veteran blogger batch-mates from IIIT. May be its time we create a blog ring for ourselves. This page shall have the list of all Gdit99 bloggers.

• Best of GDIT99
• Thiyagarajan
• Vasant
• Vakiba
• Nishkala
• Prashanth
• Prasad
• Bunny
• Priyam
• Hari
• Sri Lakshmi
• Kalyan
• Babu Siva Krishna
• MNSSK
• Vamshi Ambati
• Dhiraj
• Sitharamaraju
• Yaswanth
• Santhosh

Suggestion: Please link to the next blogger in the above list or to this page.