IIIT Hyderabad
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Located in Hyderabad, the Institute combines the freedom of an academic institution with the strength of the corporate sector. It enjoys the locational advantage of being close to the Hi-Tec City (a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Motorola, Infosys and GE Capital) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centres.
The institute is situated on a campus of 62 acres (250,000 m²). It is fully residential in nature and hence is a self contained unit. There are 6 buildings that house the corporate schools. In addition to this, the academic building has the lecture halls, tutorial rooms, computer and electronics labs and offices of the administration and faculty
All students are provided with individual hostel rooms. The institute has a comfortable Guest house with four air conditioned suites. Two hostels for men and one for women have a total of about 876 rooms. There is an optical fibre network connecting all buildings on campus including the hostels.
The institute has well-equipped air-conditioned computer laboratories which are allocated batch-wise to students. The labs are equipped with modern hardware and software. The PC to students ratio is about 1:2. All computers are part of an intranet (1 Gbit/s Backbone). The institute has high bandwidth (2 Mbit/s) Internet connectivity round the clock. Research students have 24 hours access to the computer facilities. The students administer their own computer systems. The research centres and corporate schools provide specialised equipment for research and development.
The entire campus is now wireless. Using 802.11g technology and multiple access points the entire campus is being converted into one giant hotspot.
Each year IIIT holds it's annual cultural and technical festival Felicity [1] (http://felicity.iiit.ac.in). Since its inception four years ago, Felicity has gone from strength to strength and is now one of the most eagerly awaited college fests in Hyderabad. Felicity attracts students from all major engineering and degree colleges across the country. Renowned Indian bands like Strings[2] (http://www.stringsonline.net), Parikrama[3] (http://www.parikrama.com) and Bombay Vikings have performed at Felicity over the past few years.
External link
- IIIT home page (http://iiit.ac.in/)