The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) is one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, set up in the then-industrial city of Kanpur in 1960. IIT Kanpur has grown into one of the top technological institutes in India, primarily focused on research in engineering and science, and the teaching of undergraduates. Image File history File links Logo of IIT Kanpur Obtained from IIT Kanpur website: http://www. ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... This article is about the concept. ... Institutions are structures and mechanisms of social order and cooperation governing the behavior of two or more individuals. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... , Kanpur   (Hindi: कानपुर, Urdu: کان پور, spelled as Cawnpore before 1948) is one of the most populous cities in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ... , Uttar Pradesh (Hindi: , Urdu: , translation: Northern Province, IPA: ,  ), [often referred to as U.P.], located in central-south Asia and northern India, is the most populous and fifth largest state in the Republic of India. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Location of IITs The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are an elite group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes of higher education established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Government of India. ... , Kanpur   (Hindi: कानपुर, Urdu: کان پور, spelled as Cawnpore before 1948) is one of the most populous cities in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. ...

History

IIT Kanpur was established by an Act of Parliament in 1959. The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the Canteen Building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur. In 1963, the Institute moved to its present location, on the historic Grand Trunk Road near the village of Kalyanpur in Kanpur district. During the first ten years of its existence, IIT Kanpur benefited from the Kanpur Indo-American Programme, where a consortium of 9 US universities namely M.I.T, University of California, Berkeley, California Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Carnegie Institute of Technology, University of Michigan, Ohio State University, Case Institute Of Technology and Purdue University helped set up the research laboratories and academic programmes.^[1] The first Director of the Institute was Dr. P. K. Kelkar (after whom the Central Library was renamed in 2002). Sansad Bhavan, The Parliament of India The Parliament of India (or Sansad) is bicameral. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Grand Trunk Road (abbreviated to GT Road in common usage) is one of South Asias oldest and longest major roads. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology, as well as in numerous other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science, and philosophy. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... Princeton University is a private coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. ... The Carnegie Institute of Technology (Carnegie Tech), the predecessor to Carnegie Mellon University, was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools. ... The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (U of M, UM or simply Michigan) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Michigan, and one of the foremost universities in the United States. ... The Ohio State University (OSU) is a coeducational public research university in the state of Ohio. ... Case Western Reserve University is a university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, with some residence halls on the south end of campus located in Cleveland Heights. ... Purdue redirects here. ...

Under the guidance of eminent economist John Kenneth Galbraith, IIT Kanpur was the first institute in India to start Computer Science education. The earliest computer courses were started at IIT Kanpur in August 1963 on an IBM 1620 system, a novelty then even in many North American and European universities. Gradually, the Institute drew upon some of the brightest young Indians in Computer Science to serve on its faculty and in 1971, initiated an independent academic program, leading to M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees. John Kenneth Galbraith John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908–April 29, 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. ... The IBM 1620 was announced by IBM on October 21, 1959 and marketed as an inexpensive scientific computer. It was withdrawn on November 19, 1970. ...

Board of Governors

Board of Governors includes:

• Prof. M Anandakrishnan (Chairman)
• Prof. Sanjay Govind Dhande (Director)
• Dr. G.K. Mehta (Eminent Nuclear scientist)
• Anil Ambani (CEO ADAE)
• Dr. S.S. Lele (Director IT BHU)
• Aman Kumar Singh (CEO, CHIPS)

Professor Sanjay Govind Dhande, a brilliant academician of high caliber, is presently working as the Director of [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]]. IIT Kanpur, under the captainship of Prof. ... Anil Ambani (born June 4, 1959) is an Indian businessman. ...

Laboratories and other facilities

Tutorial Block of IIT Kanpur

The sprawling campus is spread over an area of 4.3 km². The Institute has a number of facilities, including the National Wind Tunnel Facility. Other large research centres include the Advanced Centre for Material Science, a Bio-technology centre, the Advanced Centre for Electronic Systems, and the Samtel Centre for Display Technology, Centre for Mechatronics, Centre for Laser Technology, Prabhu Goel Research Centre for Computer and Internet Security, Facility for Ecological and Analytical Testing. The institute is also going to get a state of the art nanotechnology research centre soon. The P K Kelkar library has an exhaustive collections of academic textbooks, peer-reviewed journals, and other research material in the country, and boasts of an excellent reference section (where course material is reserved for students). In addition, the various departments have their own smaller libraries. Apart from this, IIT Kanpur also has its own airfield, for flight testing and gliding activities. Image File history File linksMetadata Tutorial_Block_IIT_Kanpur. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Tutorial_Block_IIT_Kanpur. ... PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur P K Kelkar Library (Formerly Central Library) is an academic Library of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) with a collection of more than 3,00,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 1000 periodicals. ...

The Western Labs

The Computer-Centre (referred to by the campus residents as "C-C") has about 100-150 Linux terminals and more than 100 Windows-NT terminals supported by PARAM 10000 super computer, and is continuously available to the students for academic work and recreation. Disk storage is provided using a networked file server system. Internet access is provided by the means of two proxy servers, one for students and another for faculty (the computer science department in IIT Kanpur has its own independent network). In addition, it hosts about 50 SUN workstations that are considered powerful workhorses for heavy computational tasks. It is a major intellectual, social and cultural hub in the campus. The IITs (and especially IIT Kanpur) and BITS Pilani are among the first large academic institutions in India to be extensively networked, with an institute-wide LAN and Ethernet access to every student room in the residence halls. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... PARAM is a series of supercomputers developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) in Pune, India. ...

Students

PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur

The undergraduate students at IIT Kanpur are selected through the Joint Entrance Examination of the IITs. The Post Graduate students are selected throuh various entrance exams. Master in Business Administration (MBA) - Joint Management Entrance Examination (JMET); Master of Science (M. Sc.) - Joint Admission Test (JAM); Master of Technology (M. Tech.) - Graduate Aptitute Test of Engineering (GATE). Presently, the institute has around 4,000 students, with an equal distribution of graduate and undergraduate students. Download high resolution version (1192x792, 102 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1192x792, 102 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Students at IIT Kanpur reside in the hostels, or 'halls of residence', most of which have their own unique history and lore. There are eight hostels (Hall 1-5, 7-9) for boys and two for girls, called GH-1 (Girls Hostel 1) and GH-2 (formerly Hall 6).There is a bristling inter-hall rivalry between halls 2 and 3,as these are the halls the students are allocated.Traditionally,Hall 3 has always been performing better,but Hall 2 does do a good job playing catch-up.

The annual cultural festival is called Antaragni. The annual science and technology festival, Techkriti, is held at the end of February each year. The annual sports festival, Udghosh/IIT Kanpur Sportsmeet, is held around the end of September each year and Umang, the annual Film Festival, is held in early January. All four are amongst the most popular college events in North India.The annual business festival Megabucks is also one of the landmark events in the iitk calendar. A culfest (short for cultural festival) is an annual event organized by colleges in India. ... Antaragni is the cultural festival of IIT Kanpur, held annually in October/November, and is one of the biggest college festivals in India. ... Techkriti is the annual science and technology festival of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. ... Umang is an annual inter collegiate festival hosted by Narsee Monjee College of Commerce & Economics (popularly called N.M.College). ...

In addition to this,each hall has its own cultural festival.The Hall 3 cultural festival is called Crescendo.The Hall 2 cultural festival is called Bakaiti.Crescendo has a huge roster of competitions,ranging from the simple solo dance to the complex Treasure Hunt.It is one of the most awaited events in Hall 3.The sports festival of Hall 3 is Olympus,another large scale event.

Avant Garde, a monthly eNewsletter is a collection and discussion of various issues that have an impact on the country as a whole.The Students also bring out a monthly campus newspaper - Vox Populi ,and a magazine Meander.

Another highlight of the student community is the self governance achieved in the form of the Students' Gymkhana, which is a democratically elected body.

The Students Gymkhana, is the centre of all inter hostel and intercollege activites that the students of IITK engage in. The Student Gymkhana has the following councils :

The Presidential Council, The Games Council, The Cultural Council, The Science and Technology Council, The Films and Media Council.

The President, heads the student body, followed by general secretaries for the subdivisions. A number of secretaries head the various smaller departments.The Student's Senate is a decision making body which comes under the Presidential Council.It has elected members who hold six-month terms in office.Typically,one student per every hundred is elected into the senate.

The English Literary Society[ELS] is one of the most active clubs in IIT Kanpur.It holds regular Dumb Charade,Extempore,Word games,Literary Discussions,Group Discussions,etc.The new batches are showing amazing potential.

The Book Club of IIT Kanpur has a very good compilation of books,and to date,has 5000 books.It has all popular authors and also not-so-famous critically acclaimed pieces.With a huge comic collection and a number of biographies,non-fiction,science fiction,fantasy etc cater to a wide audience.

SIDBI Innovation & Incubation Centre

IIT Kanpur has set up the SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre in collaboration with Small Industries development Bank of India (SIDBI) to foster innovation, research, and entrepreneurial activities in technology-based areas. SIIC provides a platform to Start-ups prospective entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to convert their innovative ideas into commercially viable products.

Incubatee Companies: Weather Risk Management Services Pvt. Ltd. Hexolabs Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd. Aurora Integrated Systems Pvt. Ltd. Simmortal Systems Pvt. Ltd. Innovative Embedded Systems Whorl Engineering Solutions Private Limited Multifacet Softwares Systems Pvt. Ltd. Empowered Interactive Pvt. Ltd. Alumni Ashoke Sen (String theorist) N.R. Narayana Murthy (founded the software corporation Infosys) Mr Jeet S. Bindra, (President, Chevron Global Refining 1969 Batch B.Tech Chemical Engg.) Manindra Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, and Neeraj Kayal (proved with their AKS primality test that the problem of checking primality has a polynomial time algorithm, a major result in theoretical computer science) Umang Gupta (Entrepreneur, wrote first business plan for Oracle, founded Gupta Technologies, and currently CEO of Keynote Systems) Raj Singh (Venture Capitalist, former billionaire, funded Teligent among others, married to Nita, also an alumnus of IIT Kanpur) Ambuj Goyal (GM of IBM's Information Management business) Satish Kaura (Padma Shri and founder of Samtel Group) Umesh Mishra (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB and a leading expert on wide-band gap semiconductors) Pradeep Sindhu (Founder - Juniper Networks) Rajnish Garg (Co-Founder Euroinfosys, winner of Microsoft's Global Excellence Award) Ashok Jhunjhunwala (Padma Shri and Professor, Dept of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras) S. Sivaram (Director, NCL Pune) S.P. Mehrotra (Director, NML Jamshedpur) Rajeev Motwani (Professor at Stanford University; guided the founders of Google) K. Vijayraghvan (Director, NCBS Bangalore) Satyendra Dubey (Whistle-blower whose murder shocked the nation) Rajiv Sangal (Expert in language processing, first director of IIIT Hyderabad) Sudhir Vyas (Prominent diplomat, India's Ambassador to Bhutan) Muktesh Pant (MD of Reebok India, later Chief Marketing Officer (worldwide) of Reebok) Anand Pathak (Professor of Physics, University of Hyderabad; expert on Ion Beam studies of Materials) Saurabh Srivastava (Founder - IIS Infotech/Exec Chairman Xansa, Venture Capitalist) Bhavana Garg (IAS, Indian civil services first ranker in her first attempt and joined services immediately after leaving the campus) IIT Kanpur alumni have also made significant contribution in performing arts, journalism, music and allied fields. 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