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DIAT mulls tie-ups with three international defence institutes
The Pune-based Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) is planning tie-ups with three international defence institutes-Naval Post graduate Institute, California, Royal Military College of Sciences, UK and the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
We are exploring the possibilities of a tie-up with these institutes. Although formal agreements are yet to be made, these institutes have expressed interest, said Lalit Patnaik, vice chancellor, DIAT.
Patnaik was speaking to the media on the sidelines of DIAT National conference on Modelling and Simulation.
This is a deemed university, which has several short-term and long-term courses in defence studies and has trained several DRDO officers as well.
Patnaik said that the subjects for collaboration would include security, cryptography, modeling, and sensor networks. With Israel, DIAT is planning on collaborating in cryptography, he said.
Besides such tie-ups, DIAT attracts several foreign students as well. Already there are several students from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Khazakistan, Myanmar and Bhutan, he said.
On Wednesday, the DIAT hosted the National conference on Modelling and Simulation, where the keynote address was delivered by Professor S S Iyengar of the Louisiana State University, USA who spoke on Algorithmic and Graph Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Iyengar largely dwelt on data mining, which could be used by security agencies to detect fraud. Key suspects after the 9/11 tragedy were apprehended after security agencies scanned images and other relevant data and the airports and drew conclusions. Such data mining technology was also widely used in defence applications where forces use night vision technology and detect targets on real time basis.
Iyengar said that there was a need to scale up cloud computing facilities.
During the Katrina crisis, he said the state of Lousiana was blacked out without communication facilities as there was no way to access any sort of data.
He said in such disaster situations storing data on servers which can be accessed from anywhere will help, he said.
The Pune-based Defence Institute of Advanced Technology (DIAT) is planning tie-ups with three international defence institutes-Naval Post graduate Institute, California, Royal Military College of Sciences, UK and the Weizmann Institute in Israel.
We are exploring the possibilities of a tie-up with these institutes. Although formal agreements are yet to be made, these institutes have expressed interest, said Lalit Patnaik, vice chancellor, DIAT.
Patnaik was speaking to the media on the sidelines of DIAT National conference on Modelling and Simulation.
This is a deemed university, which has several short-term and long-term courses in defence studies and has trained several DRDO officers as well.
Patnaik said that the subjects for collaboration would include security, cryptography, modeling, and sensor networks. With Israel, DIAT is planning on collaborating in cryptography, he said.
Besides such tie-ups, DIAT attracts several foreign students as well. Already there are several students from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Khazakistan, Myanmar and Bhutan, he said.
On Wednesday, the DIAT hosted the National conference on Modelling and Simulation, where the keynote address was delivered by Professor S S Iyengar of the Louisiana State University, USA who spoke on Algorithmic and Graph Problems in Wireless Sensor Networks.
Iyengar largely dwelt on data mining, which could be used by security agencies to detect fraud. Key suspects after the 9/11 tragedy were apprehended after security agencies scanned images and other relevant data and the airports and drew conclusions. Such data mining technology was also widely used in defence applications where forces use night vision technology and detect targets on real time basis.
Iyengar said that there was a need to scale up cloud computing facilities.
During the Katrina crisis, he said the state of Lousiana was blacked out without communication facilities as there was no way to access any sort of data.
He said in such disaster situations storing data on servers which can be accessed from anywhere will help, he said.
