Sundar Pichai ('93) of Google: 'Technology Doesn't Solve Humanity's Problems'

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The New York Times recently spoke with Sundar Pichai ('93) about his time growing up in India, attending KGP, and some of the challenges Google is currently facing. Read the entire interview in the newsletter article below.

UPCOMING EVENTS

January 11-13, 2019: 16th Annual Alumni Meet

January 18-20, 2019: Kshitij

January 25-27, 2019: IIT Kharagpur 2019 Spring Fest

January 28, 2019: Avinash Gupta Professor Chair Symposium in Healthcare

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Sundar Pichai of Google: 'Technology Doesn't Solve Humanity's Problems'

Google is facing more challenges today than at any time in its 20-year history. Employees are outraged over sexual harassment. Executives are under scrutiny for an effort to secretly make a censored version of its search product for China.

VGSoM celebrates the festival of lights at Disha Seema

The curve of the smile on the cute, innocent faces and the joy in watching them is an unparalleled experience. Saamanjasya, the student-run CSR Club of the Vinod Gupta School of Management celebrated the festival of lights at Disha Seema.

Upcoming Events for IIT-KGP

January 11-13, 2019: 16th Annual Alumni Meet January 18-20, 2019: Kshitij

January 25-27, 2019: IIT Kharagpur 2019 Spring Fest

January 28, 2019: Avinash Gupta Professor Chair Symposium in Healthcare

IIT-KGP to host Avinash Gupta Professor Chair Symposium in Healthcare

IIT Kharagpur will be hosting an Avinash Gupta Professor Symposium on Healthcare, January 28, 2019 at the Westin Hotel in Kolkata. The one-day symposium is organized by the Department of Architecture & Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur.

IITKGP Foundation USA campaign to build Alumni Clocktower has raised $78,000, we need $12,000 more

We need your help to meet our goal! Give back to help build the USA Alumni Clocktower at KGP!

Meet Anand Deshpande ('84)--the brain behind Persistent Systems

This week we feature the journey of Anand Deshpande, Founder and Managing Director of Persistent Systems, and chart his 28-year-old path to make the technology services company a $470 million enterprise.

PGI, Chandigarh, and IIT-KGP collaborate on software for detection of early lung cancer

The PGI, Chandigarh, in collaboration with the IIT Kharagpur, has developed India's first indigenous computer-aided detection (CAD) system for the diagnosis of early lung cancer and various patterns of interstitial lung diseases (ILD).

IIT-KGP playing role in the move of agribusiness to digital technology

The world's population is predicted to reach 10 billion in the year 2056. This growth combined with urbanisation--both in developed and developing nations--will increase the demand for preservative-free, fairly produced, and sustainable food.

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