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Odisha 19-year old B. Tech student Soumya Ranjan Behera selected to attend Google I/O 2018, held in Mountain View

in Information & Technology May 24, 2018 0 295 Views

Bhubaneswar:24/5/18; Udacity, the global lifelong learning platform, made the dreams of young Bhubaneswar resident and Udacity Nanodegree student come true by sending him to attend Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O 2018, held in Mountain View, early this month.

SoumyaRanjan Behera  had enrolled for Udacity Front-End Web Developer courses under the Google-Udacity Scholarship for Front End Developers in India and was invited to attend the event through the scholarship program.

For the 19-year old B. Tech student Soumya, being present amongst the world’s best developers for these platforms was an educational and inspirational experience.

As a student of Computer Science at Silicon Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, travelling to be a part of Google I/O was only possible due to his studies at Udacity.

The annual Google I/O conference showcases technical in-depth sessions focused on building web, mobile, and enterprise applications with Google and open source platforms such as Android, Chrome and Chrome OS, APIs, Google Web Toolkit, App Engine, and more. This year, Google unveiled its AI-driven assistant’s ability to pass the Turing Test, making this a historical moment for the development of AI.

For this young Bhubaneshwar resident, travelling all the way to California to witness this landmark moment was nothing short of a life-changing moment.

About Ashok Palit

Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.

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