NEW DELHI: Palash Taneja was in class 10 when he suffered from dengue fever and bedridden for three months. The 18-year-old from New Delhi then created an app that allowed you to see hospital bed availability and book it. Likewise, Akhil Tolani was 13 years old when he built a music player application called "iMusic" and launched it on the Apple AppStore. The music player went on to get 500,000+ downloads from users across the world, and it was acquired by a company based in Sweden three years later.
Now Tolani, Taneja and a few others are headed to Apple’s annual developer's conference WWDC, starting on June 3 in San Jose, California.
Jay Firke, a student at Macro Vision Academy, Burhanpur is working an e-portfolio iOS app where class teachers can fill out the students report about skills and educational topics. “I want to know and learn about new AR,” says Firke about what he expects from WWDC.
Taneja, on the other hand, wants to get “understand how an idea or a feature is conceived and implemented in a setting with the scale of not thousands but millions of users.” As a child, Taneja would dismantle toys, electronics and got into programming in class 5 to “to figure out how software worked.”
Every year Apple at WWDC takes a few student scholars to attend the event and these scholars also get one-year membership in the Apple Development Program. Sudarshan Sreeram, 17, is one of those who attended WWDC in 2018 and has this to say about his experience. “As a WWDC18 scholarship winner, I can confidently state that attending the conference has certainly taught me a great deal about the systematic processes involved in the iOS application development cycle and the skillset and practices required to push out a successful project.”
Sreeram wrote his first research paper on “Autonomous Robotic System Based Environmental Assessment and Dengue Hot-Spot Identification”, which discussed the use of a methodology to utilize a drone, a rover, and image analysis algorithms to identify dengue hotspots. “I presented this work at the 18th IEEE EEEIC, Palermo, Italy,” he says.
Tolani, who is now 21, has already worked with three startups and is personal apps have received over 600,000 downloads on App Store. He is keen to know about the launch of “new frameworks specifically related to the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning domains.”
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Vladimir
(1794 days ago)
Value for indian brain is outside of India. In India that brain is only for bhakti and BS. I always encourage rich parents to send their kids outside of that 💩 hole