Prof. Siddhartha Ghosh has received IBM's (USA) Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Awards 2010 for his project “A Proposal to Design and Development of Teaching Materials for Smarter Cities” along with a cash award of USD $10,000. Prof. Ghosh will now develop a course along with IBM Team on “Future (2050) Smart Cities” which will be taught in USA universities. The competition was open for all the engineering faculty members across the globe and jointly conducted by IBM Academic Initiative, IBM University Relations and IBM Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Awards 2010. It's a reputed award across globe in teaching fraternity. In his paper Ghosh has shared his concepts, ideas and dream on how to use Artificial Intelligence to convert the present cities to smart cities by 2050. He has touched the areas like
