AKTU CAMPUS TO HAVE GOOGLE LAB BY YEAREND

LUCKNOW: The internet giant and search engine Google is establishing its coding lab on Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University’s Lucknow campus. This will give the students and the faculty an opportunity to work with Google and develop an app for its utility services in Java.

“The lab is nearing completion and is expected to become functional by the year-end. Once ready, the lab will help the faculty and students to see how Google functions. Not only it will be a learning experience for them, but will also open up a new vista for students once they graduate from the varsity,” said Prof Vinay Kumar Pathak, V-C, AKTU.

Google will establish a server room on the campus where students will learn the code generation activity and digital security system. However, the lab will not be open for all the students.

“Only few of them, who are well-versed with the new age technology and are potentially talented, will get a chance to study at the lab, said Manish Gour, who heads the Centre for Advance Studies at AKTU.

“In view of increasing use of mobile phones, the university has tied up with Google to start android-based application development programmes. As Google apps are free, hence there is a lot of scope for students to explore new things,” Gour said.

Though the lab would be accessed by only a few students, students of all technical colleges affiliated to AKTU stand a chance to visit the lab, he said and added, it would also train faculty members who would pass on the acquired knowledge to all the students, he said.