@VT_DAC @VT_CS students are on a roll! Subhodip (@dataquidnunc), Zhiqian (@imczq), and Fanglan (@DTSH4869) brought home the best paper award from ACM SIGSPATIAL @ACMSIGSPATIAL today for their work on school redistricting algorithms - congrats folks!

Happy to announce that our paper "Incorporating domain knowledge into Memetic Algorithms for solving Spatial Optimization problems" has received the best paper nomination at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020. Joint work with @DTSH4869 @imczq @profnaren C-T Lu @VT_CS @VT_DAC @SIGSPATIAL_GIS 1/n

UTTAM KUMAR would’ve turned 94 on 3rd Sep seen here as ‘Nayak’, with Satyajit Ray and Sharmila Tagore

Actually sir, you are more than enough. Even after 40 years. Happy birthday.

President Shri Pranab Mukherjee was a devout public servant who believed deeply in the importance of our two nations tackling global challenges together. Jill and I are saddened to hear of his passing — our prayers go out to his loved ones and the Indian people.

Congratulations to the Indian Chess Team on winning the FIDE online #ChessOlympiad. India is delighted by your stellar performance. We are all very proud of you. Congratulations to the Russian team too.

Raat Akeli Hai is the best Hindi film to have premiered on an OTT platform by quite some distance.Superb debut by @HoneyTrehan and @Nawazuddin_S is in scintillating form leading an explosive ensemble of @radhika_apte, @shivaniraghuva3, @shwetatripathi, @dirtigmanshu and #IlaArun.

Legends!!

8yrs Gangs Of Wasseypur 1. A film,a scene that changed my https://t.co/sou05c0QIE yes,dreams do come https://t.co/q19SQp6T5g these dark times I’m glad I have these moments to look at.Heart full of gratitude.I know the best meant for me will happen. I trust . I surrender❤️

Steven Spielberg once said: “AMRISH PURI is my favourite villain. Best the world has ever produced & ever will”. A theatre actor who made his debut at the age of 39 & featured in films in 7 languages. Tribute to one & the only on his birth anniversary.

Childhood heroes!!

“This is the movie that introduced me to the human that is Irrfan Khan, which you must know, is just as beautiful as the actor Irrfan Khan.” @BecauseImFreida shared with us his six movies that are closest to her heart.

To walk down memory lane I did today what I used to do growing up in Kolkata—read Tagore & Nazrul Islam. They came from different backgrounds, had different styles but how beautifully they wrote. What drew them to each other was their shared universalism & instinctive secularism.

Growing up in Calcutta I had at least three aunts who, even in normal times, would wash every coin and currency note that came into their houses. Visitors had to sit on washable chairs that would be scrubbed as soon as they left. These eccentricities caused much laughter. 1/2

Truly deserving!!!

Sardar Patel, The Iron Man of India, Was India's First Home Minister. Sardar Patel, The Visionary Leader From Gujarat Unified India From Kashmir to Kanyakumari

The success of Indian Americans - economically, in corporate hierarchies, and increasingly in politics and culture - is just staggering. They might be the most successful group of American immigrants ever.

With his second feature THE PATHETIC FALLACY, Ritwik Ghatak fashions a tender story about a taxi driver who struggles to fit into the modern, industrialized world. Intros by Richard Peña on Nov. 1 & 3: https://t.co/lZp8QgEqkQ

Abhijit Banerjee's pathbreaking work has also benefitted lakhs of children studying in Delhi govt schools One of Delhi govt's most imp education reform 'Chunauti' has transformed govt school classroom teaching. It is based on the model developed by him.

Congratulations to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer on winning “the Nobel prize” in economic Science “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. Their research has helped economists better understand how to fight poverty in India & the world