Chitkara University in Collaboration With Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), India Organized COMPUTE 2018

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The second part of the conference was directed toward students, research scholars, academicians who wish to present solutions to solve India specific problems, with a poster presentation competition organized on the theme, COMUTING FOR BETTER BHARAT. Around 23 students' teams from engineering institutions all over the country participated to show how computation can be used to solve India specific problems. The team from UIET, Panjab University, bagged the first prize worth Rs. 25,000 for their poster titled, 'Automatic Triggering of Acoustic Sensing by Human Activity Recognition using Accelerometer'. Federal Institute of Science and Technology, Kerala, won the second prize worth Rs 15,000 for their poster titled, 'SignDict - Mobile based ISL learning tool'. Third prize worth Rs 10,000 was awarded for poster titled,

Speaking at COMPUTE 2018, Dr. Madhu Chitkara, Vice-Chancellor of Chitkara University, said, "We are excited to have Dr. Anil. D. Sahasrabudhe (Chairman - AICTE) at our campus and are thankful for his kind appreciation towards innovation at Chitkara University. Computation can have many positive influences on modern life, but these benefits are unevenly distributed, particularly in our country. It was nice to see the subject being discussed at length between professors, students and IT professionals from the industry, to address the problem areas in our country. The International Symposium, COMPUTE 2018, has set the right tone for a 'Better Bharat'."

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