Bengaluru Nov 16 (IANS) IT major Infosys on Thursday announced plan to train its employees in self-driving car engineering technology in partnership with online learning company Udacity.
The programme known as Udacity Connect a combined in-person and online training offering will give Infosys employees the skills needed as the company continues to focus on autonomous technology across a range of industries including automotive manufacturing and mining the IT major said in a statement.
The 20-week curriculum will train Infosys employees on engineering technologies for self-driving vehicles including advanced courses in deep learning and machine learning.
"The goal of this programme is to train 500 engineers by the end of 2018 " Infosys said.
"Infosys is committed to re-skilling and training its employees in groundbreaking technologies such as artificial intelligence machine learning and autonomous technologies " said Ravi Kumar S. President and Deputy Chief Operating Officer at Infosys.
"We are proud to expand our partnership with Udacity with the launch of the in-person and online Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree programme as we accelerate the pace of skill adoption and ensure our clients continue to be at the forefront of innovation " he added.
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