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IIT Guest Houses

You meet the most interesting people while eating at an IIT Guest House.

Each campus of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) has a Guest House, essentially, an on-campus hotel in which they house visitors.  I have stayed in the Guest House of IIT Delhi, Kanpur, and Kharagpur.  The guest rooms are basic, but each is nice in its own way. The dining room, at least in those I’ve visited so far, is set with large tables for 8-10 people and the food is served buffet style or family style.  Thus, guests sit and eat together.  As a result, I’ve met many fascinating people. Read on!

IIT Delhi guest house.
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IIT Delhi

A visit to IIT Delhi.

Today I visited the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi [location].  I enjoyed my stay at the Guest House and my conversations with faculty and students in the department.  

IIT Delhi: the computer services building.

Before breakfast I took a walk around campus, capturing a few photos.  It is a beautiful campus, though much smaller than the other IIT campuses.

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IIT Bombay

The IIT Bombay campus is beautiful, on the shores of Lake Powai and bordered by a national park.

I spent a day at IIT Bombay, one of the five classic IIT campuses. My host was an old friend, Varsha Apte; she and I were both students in Computer Science at Duke University in the late 1980s.  She is now a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at IITB, and I was visiting to give a lecture and meet some of the other faculty and their students.  

The CSE building has a large atrium in the center.

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit, and was intrigued by the many interesting research projects.  There is a lot going on there, at least in the area of wireless networking.

Gyanam Paramam Dhyeyam (Knowledge is the Ultimate Goal).

Varsha was kind enough to show me around campus.  You can see some of my photos, and the location of IITB.

IIT Bombay: an on-campus Hindu temple.

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