Here’s the English translation of the newspaper article 👇 --- ### *#NitEvent* *"At the workshop, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor from University of Melbourne spoke"* ### *Headline:* *"AI, Cloud and Quantum Computing Together Will Bring Major Change in Health, Education and Digital Services"* --- *Raipur.* A 5-day international workshop titled *'Next-Gen Cognitive Intelligence: AI for Network Optimization and Edgenetics (NCI-AINE-26)'* started on Monday at NIT Raipur. During the inauguration, *Prof. Rajkumar Buyya*, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor from *The University of Melbourne, Australia*, said that the purpose of technological development today is no longer limited to big industries or scientific institutions or defense. The biggest challenge and need now is to take its benefits to the last person in society. He said that *Artificial AI, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and future Quantum Computing* together will give a new direction to health, education, communication and digital services. With the availability of huge data, cameras and cloud computing, the development of smart systems capable of real-time decision making has become possible. Meanwhile, *Quantum Computing* will bring revolutionary changes in the world of computing in the coming years. --- ### *Research on Quantum Computing and AI* The chief guest at the event organized by IIIT was *Prof. Sanjeev Parashar*, Director, IIIT Raipur. Also present were *Prof. N. V. Ramana Rao*, Director, NIT Raipur, *Prof. Titash Mandal* from IIT Kharagpur, and *Prof. Sudhakar Pandey* from the Department of Information Technology. Under a collaborative research project, this program has been jointly organized by NIT Raipur, IIT Kharagpur, The University of Melbourne and Curtin University, Australia. --- ### *Technical sessions till 10th July* This workshop, running until 10th July, will include expert lectures, hands-on training and technical discussions on topics like Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Cryptography, Quantum Networking, Edge AI, Graph Neural Networks, IoT-based Quantum Networks and Quantum Intelligence. ---