jodhpur iitjodhpur will be organising its sixth convocation on december 6 virtuallyin a first the event will be held in mixed reality mode using ai technique at the lecture hall of the institute where the graduates will be given their degrees in virtual mode while the medals and certificates to the academically outstanding students will be awarded through their computergenerated 3d avatara total of 232 students including 117 btech 51 msc 33 mtech and 31 phd students who have graduated in 2020 will be awarded their degrees by the institutegeoffrey hinton one of the pioneers of deep learning technology which triggered todays ai revolution and recipient of turing award which is equivalent to noble prize in computer science would be the chief guest of the event and would be attending the ceremony in virtual mode from toronto and deliver his convocation addressan emeritus professor at computer science department in university of toronto hinton is also a vp engineering fellow at google and chief scientific adviser at the vector institute spokesperson of the institute amardeep sharma said that the newly established school of artificial intelligence and data science aode will also be inaugurated on the occasion by hinton and r chidambaram chairman board of governor virtually tnn