Institute of Informatics and Communication (IIC) is a constituent institute of the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

, in

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. The institute offers degree in Masters of Science (

Informatics Informatics is the study of computational systems, especially those for data storage and retrieval. According to ACM ''Europe and'' ''Informatics Europe'', informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession, in which ...

). The institute was established in 1997 and has an intake of 62 students. The institute provides studies in the field of informatics, which is essentially a blend of three domains:

networking Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

telecommunication Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

and

software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consists ...

, on three major platforms:

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and

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Notable alumni

* Prashant Pillai, Professor of Cyber Security and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Enterprise at

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Events at IIC

*Techspur is an annual one-day technical seminar at IIC organised primarily aiming at strengthening the industry-academic relationship. It comprises talks by eminent personalities from the field of

communication Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...

and

information technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (I ...

. *REMINISCENCE:The alumini meet of IIC. *Envisage is a national level technical festival organised annually to promote

open source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

technical excellence. The event provides platform for students to participate from across the country. The principal aim of the fest is to facilitate the growth and exchange of knowledge and imagination among the participants of diverse educational backgrounds hailing from all over India.

References

{{reflist Delhi University 1997 establishments in Delhi Schools of informatics