MADURAI: The Thiagarajar College of Engineering (TCE) in Madurai has been urged today to play a lead role in bringing Artificial Intelligence to Tamil language because it has a management that has dual passion for technology and Tamil.
“I am putting this proposal today. We have to think what AI can do for Tamil or what can Tamil do for AI. Madurai is known as Tamil capital and hence Tamil should make a transition to AI era and in my opinion the Thiagarajar College of Engineering in Madurai is best suited to take up that initiative and play an important role,” Mr.Soma Velayutham, General Manager, AI-5G-Telecoms, NVIDIA, from the US has said here today.
He was speaking at the Founder’s Day celebration of TCE in Madurai on July 29th 2024 where he mooted the idea of making TCE as centre of AI-General AI, with focus specializing in developing Artificial Intelligence in Tamil.
“Tamil can teach a lot to the field of AI. If the TCE makes a foray, it will spur AI infrastructure in Madurai and in Tamil Nadu. I will support you in your work if you work for linking AI and Tamil, Artificial General Intelligence in Tamil. I will also give a seed money of Rs.10 lakhs for this,” Mr.Soma Velayutham from NVIDIA has said in Madurai today.
The Founder’s Day event of TCE was addressed by chief guest Dr.Balaraman Ravindran, Professor and Head, School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Head of Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Centre for Responsible AI at IIT-Madras, who delivered the Rukmini Shanmugam Endowment Lecture on the topic ‘Taking AI Forward’.
SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS:
Scholarships were distributed today to deserving students of TCE through the TCE Alumni Charitable Trust while the TCE’s 1997 batch alumni had donated Rs.5 lakhs to the alumni corpus.
Mr.K.Hari Thiagarajan, Chairman and Correspondent, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, who presided over the Founder’s Day celebration, had paid glorious tributes to the college founder late Karumuttu Thiagarajan Chettiar.
Dr.M.Palaninatha Raja, Principal in-charge, TCE, welcomed the gathering while Dr.S.Parthasarathy, Professor and Head, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, had proposed a vote of thanks. For academic year 2024-25, the scholarship beneficiaries number is 227 and the total scholarship amount is Rs.87 lakhs.
