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Follow UsTexas Instruments (TI) organized
Innovation Day for the education and skills sectors in New Delhi. The
company's customers showcased a number of innovative solutions they
had developed partnering with TI that could help in providing
inclusive education and skills to school students across the country.
Kapil Sibal, Minister for Human
Resource Development, Government of India, delivered the keynote
address. D Purandeswari, Minister of State for Human Resource
Development also addressed the gathering comprising more than 120
senior officials from the Central and State governments, trade and
industry associations and education service providers. Dr Biswadip
Mitra, President & MD, Texas Instruments India and senior
executives from the company were present.
The solutions demonstrated at the event
included e-book, 3D digital light processing (DLP) projector, pico
projector, pointBlank Interactive DLP, network projector, web
console, thin client, solar-powered handheld tablet, LED DLP
projector, Video conferencing and TI Education technology devices.
DLP, a technology developed by TI, is widely deployed in projectors
and 3D cinemas across the world. Pico projector is a tiny device
developed using DLP technology that can be fitted into cell phones,
camcorders, etc. to make high resolution presentations.
Solutions developed by Indian Institute
of Science, Bengaluru and TI's first leadership university outside
the US and by TERI for their green schools initiative under their
'Lighting a Billion Lives' program were also demonstrated.
Delivering the keynote address, Sibal
said, “Eradication of illiteracy is absolutely critical for the
fruits of our technological and economic prosperity to reach the
masses that are spread far and wide. The Government has been
steadfastly striving to make India a strong, knowledge-based economy.
Industry and academia must work with the Government to build a strong
education infrastructure in the country.”
“We need to innovate and develop
solutions that will make our education system challenging, engaging
and exciting,” said Purandeswari. “This can be best achieved
through innovative technologies that will attract young minds and
engage them in the learning process,” he added.
“Indian engineers have made an
indelible impression the world over for their remarkable prowess in
system design innovation,” said Mitra.. “Partnering closely with
our customers, we have been making efforts to help them come up with
system level innovation in product design and bring out
differentiated products tailor-made for the education sector,” he
added.
The 'Innovation Day' for the education
sector was the first major event organized by TI in its Silver
Jubilee Year in India. Sibal also presented trophies to the winners
of the first-ever Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest held
recently for under-graduate engineering students from all over India.
Anna University, Chennai received the Tom Engibous Trophy, instituted
in the name of TI's former Chairman & CEO for emerging as
winners. IIT Madras and IIT Delhi received the first and second
runner-up trophies.
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