Palash Taneja, the 18-year-old from New Delhi was suffered from dengue fever when he was in class 10 and bedridden for three months. Palash created an app that allowed you to see hospital bed availability and book it. Also, Akhil Tolani who was 13 years old when he built a music player application called “iMusic” and launched it on the Apple AppStore. The Music Player went on to get 500,000+ downloads from the users across the globe, and it was acquired by a company based in Sweden three years later.
Now Palash Taneja, Akhil Tolani and few others are en route to Apple Annual Developer Conference WWDC, beginning on June 3 in San Jose, California.
A student from Macro Vision Academy, Burhanpur, Jay Firke is working on e-portfolio iOS app where class teachers can fill out students report about skills and educational topics. “I want to know and learn about new AR,” said Firke about what he expects from WWDC.
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Taneja, on the other hand, wants to get “understand how an idea or a feature is conceived and implemented in a setting with the scale of not thousands but millions of users.” As a child, Taneja would dismantle toys, electronics and got into programming in class 5 to figure out how software worked.
Every year at WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) an event organized by Apple takes a few student scholars across the globe to attend this event and they provided with one-year membership in the Apple Development Program. The 17-year-old, Sudarshan Sreeram is one of those students who attended WWDC in 2018 and has this to say about his experience. “As a WWDC18 scholarship winner, I can confidently state that attending the conference has certainly taught me a great deal about the systematic processes involved in the iOS application development cycle and the skill set and practices required to push out a successful project.”
First research paper by Sreeram was on “Autonomous Robotic System Based Environmental Assessment and Dengue Hot-Spot Identification”, which discussed the use of a methodology to utilize a drone, a rover, and image analysis algorithms to identify dengue hotspots. “I presented this work at the 18th IEEE EEEIC, Palermo, Italy,” he said.
Akhil Tolani, who is now 21-year-old, has already worked with three start-ups and his personal apps have received over 600,000 downloads on App Store. He is eager to know about the launch of “new frameworks specifically related to the artificial intelligence and machine learning domains.”