Today I visited the School of Information Technology (and met some people in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering) at IIT Kharagpur, in north-east India (location: 120km west of Kolkata).
IIT Kharagpur (see also wikipedia) is the largest of the IITs, both in physical size (2,100 acres) and student population (about 2,700). It is also the first IIT, founded in 1951 on the site of a prison camp used by the British to detain dissidents who were arrested during the non-cooperation movement for independence.
I spent my time in the School of Information Technology, although they have significant overlap with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (indeed, both are chaired by the same professor). I enjoyed meeting MS and Ph.D students who were engaged in research on security, cryptography, ad hoc networks, and sensor networks.
In a walk around campus, I took some photos.
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David Kotz 
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