Students of Maharashtra Institute of Technology (MIT)’s College of Engineering and Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT) can now work towards making their innovative ideas a reality –thanks to the hardware and software laboratory set up by Amdocs India at the college campuses. Called as ‘Amdocs Innovation Labs’, the first one at PICT was set up in September 2008, while the one at MIT was launched on Tuesday.
Amdocs being a provider of customer relationship management and billing software for communications service providers, is encouraging students from the computer, IT and electronics engineering to come up with innovative ideas related to mobile phones. Since September, PICT students came up with about 200 ideas like voice blogging, incorporating a smart photo editor in a mobile phone, social networking based on mobile numbers, location-based reminders to name a few, said Shrirang Bapat, Vice President, Products Business Group, Amdocs adding that only two of those were taken up for testing in the lab. “The idea is to establish a link between academia and industry, and to inspire innovative thinking in the minds of the top students,” said Anshoo Gaur, general manager, Amdocs India.
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