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Cover Story DIGITAL INDIA: “A Program to Transform India into a Digitally Empowered Society and Knowledge Economy” 7
ArticleThe Man who Invented the Relational Data Model – A Tribute to Dr. E.F. Codd 16
Innovations in IndiaNew Paradigms - How to Make an Enterprise’s Intellectual Property Sustainable 23
Technical TrendsQuicker Method for User Friendliness to Improve Smart Phone Applications 11
Research FrontDigitization of the Election Process of Indian Democracy 14
CSI Communications | April 2015 | 3
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PLUSBrain TeaserDr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra
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CSI Report 26
Innovative Activity under Digital India by CSIProf. M. N. Hoda and Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra
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Call for State & Regional CSI Student CoordinatorsSanjay Mohapatra
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CSI Report 38
CSI Report 39
CSI News 41
CSI News 46
Cover Story
7 DIGITAL INDIA: “A Program to Transform
India into a Digitally Empowered Society
and Knowledge Economy”
Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Rashid Sheikh
and Trupti Agrawal
9 Digital Gujarat
S J Haider
Technical Trends
11 Quicker Method for User Friendliness to
Improve Smart Phone Applications
Anil Kumar Dubey, Ashish Guwalani and Rakesh Rathi
Research Front
14 Digitization of the Election Process of
Indian Democracy
Chander Shekhar, Shiv Kumar
and Rajendra Kumar Agrawal
Articles
16 The Man who Invented the Relational
Data Model – A Tribute to Dr. E.F. Codd
K V N Rajesh and K V N Ramesh
18 Bridging Digital Divide through Digital
India Initiative
Shailesh Kumar Shrivastava and
Amar Nath Pandey
21 Case Study of Digital Literacy
Program: Microsoft Innovation
Center-Sri Aurobindo Institute of
Technology Indore
Durgesh Kumar Mishra and Rashid Sheikh
Practitioner Workbench
22 Programming.Tips() »
Orphan Process in Parent Child
Relationship
Swapnil M Parikh
Innovations in India
23 New Paradigms - How to Make an
Enterprise’s Intellectual Property
Sustainable
Taruna Gupta
Note: temporarily removed from this issue.
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It gives me immense pleasure to greet you and convey my best wishes to all the distinguished fellows, members of the managing committee of the chapters, corporate members, members from academic institutes and young student members of CSI in the Golden Jubilee Year of CSI.
As 29th President of the premier professional society of India, it is my responsibility to follow the imprints of respected past presidents of CSI including Late Prof. Narasimhan, Maj. Gen. Balasubramaniam, Dr. F C Kohli, Prof. P V S Rao, Dr. H N Mahbala, Shri Hemant Sonawala, Brig. SVS Chowdhry, Dr.S Ramani and Prof. C R Muthukrishnan. It is a challenging task however I am confi dent that with the whole hearted support of my Executive Committee Colleagues, Chapter OBs and Member of CSI, I will be able to take CSI at a greater heights.
The new Executive Committee of CSI has taken charge from 1st April,2015, after the joint meeting of the Executive Committee at CSI HQ, Mumbai. The previous year was a year full of events including various International Conferences, 49th Annual National Convention, Regional and Divisional Conferences at various chapters, National Students Convention, Regional and State Students Conventions including Golden Jubilee Celebrations by chapters and Student Branches. These events are reported time regularly in CSI Commuincations and on CSI Website.
You will be happy to know that members of the Executive Committee (2015-16/17) are from various sectors like industry, banking & fi nance and academic, having long term association with CSI and rich experience in their fi elds. Their aspiration is to serve CSI and desire to take CSI to its highest level of pride.
There are 100,000 + members including student members in CSI. It is a major responsibility of Executive Committee of CSI, Managing Committee of Chapters and Student Branch Coordinators to serve them by conducting high level conferences, seminars and workshops. CSI has also to serve the society at large following the motto of CSI “Steering IT for Masses through Innovation”
CSI is also promoting research and innovations in fi eld of IT and allied fi elds, considering the fact that research and innovations plays signifi cant role in the development of the multi disciplinary approach leading towards overall development of the society and country at large. There are various schemes are available at CSI for promotion of research and innovations. I am sure interested members will take advantage of such schemes.
In one of the articles published in Times of India “Opening the Flood Gates “by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasasd, Hon’ble Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, he is optimistic that Digital
India would deliver a real improvement in the quality of life of every citizen. This fl agship programme of Central Government has a potential to bridge the gap between the digital haves and have not’s, between the poor and the effl uent, rural and urban, literate and illiterate, employed and unemployed and between the empowered and the disempowered.
I fi rmly believe that CSI , being the oldest and largest society of IT professionals, scientists, leading academicians, researchers and students , can contribute much in the fl agship programme ‘Digital India’ of Government of India by various initiatives.
There are many challenges ahead for CSI. We need to strengthen CSI HQ and CSI Education Directorate. We are in process of enhancing our services to members and stakeholders with support of Offi ce Bearers and Executive Committee Members. You may send me your suggestions including your thoughts how you can contribute in the development of CSI.
With best wishes,
Bipin V Mehta
President’s Message Prof. Bipin Mehta
From : President’s Desk:: president@csi-india.orgSubject : President's MessageDate : 1st April 2015
Dear Members
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EditorialProf. AK NayakChief Editor
Dear Fellow CSI Members,
For the last three decades, India is committed to the task
of promoting the spread of Information & Communication
Technology. The key role of ICT as an important element of
national development is also well recognized. The ICT system
needs to be infused with new vitality if it has to play a crucial &
benefi cial role in advancing the well being of all sections of our
society. The nation continues to be fi rm in supporting ICT in all
facets. It recognizes ICT’s central role in raising the quality of life
of the people of the country, particularly the vulnerable section of
society including rural masses and women community in creating
wealth for all, in making India globally competitive, in utilizing
natural resources in a sustainable manner, in protecting the
environment and ensuring the national security.
ICT has enabled citizen participation in governance through more
eff ective interaction between the government and the citizens
making a closer partnership between the two. But undoubtedly,
there is a massive digital divide in the country based on income,
education, residence and use of ICT which are correlated
with economies, political and cultural power. To overcome the
problem, the eff ective solutions should be found out for using ICT
for inclusive growth, promoting gender inclusivity and ensuring
balanced regional growth.
Now world is in the midst of a knowledge revolution, complemented
by opening up of entirely new vistas in communication
technologies and recent development in the fi eld of information
and communication technology (ICT). Since ICT is meant for
everyone and doesn’t discriminate between rural and urban, man
and woman, both can take the equal benefi ts off ered by it. It has
the potential to reach and empower women and encourage them
to participate in economic and social progress and help them make
informed decisions about issues that aff ect them. The government
has attempted to involve, encourage and empower the citizens
of the country in the decision making process to ensure their
participation at local and district levels of governance.
Digital India is an initiative of Government of India under the
leadership of our visionary Prime Minister for transforming India
into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.
The objective of the project is to integrate the government
departments and the people of India by ensuring the government
services are made available to citizens electronically by reducing
paperwork with the plans to connect rural areas with high speed
internet networks. The three core components of this project that
are: digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, delivering
services digitally in governance & service on demand and digital
empowerment of citizens with digital literacy; deserve full support
from the people of the society at a large. The Govt. of India
organisation Bharat Broadband Network Limited which executes
the National Optical Fibre Network Project shall be the custodian
of digital India project and it has ordered United Telecoms Ltd. to
connect 250000 villages in the fi rst phase and it is expected to be
completed by 2017.
With the eff ective activation & inclusion of nine pillars of digital
India such as broadband highways for all, universal access to
phones, Public Internet Access Programme, e-Governance as
the tool for reforming government through technology, electronic
delivery of services, Information for all, electronic manufacturing,
Information Technology for Job creation and early harvest
Programmes like wi-fi - for all Universities, secured email within
government etc.; shall refl ect its impact by 2019 such as broad
band in 2.5 lakh Villages, universal phone connectivity, zero
Import of IT equipments by 2020, 4 lakhs public internet access
points and job creation (1.7 crore direct & 8.5 crores indirectly)
and projecting India as a leader in IT use in services like health,
education, banking, agriculture, water resources, etc.
In the light of the implementation of this noble project into action,
Computer Society of India brings out the April – 2015 issue of CSI
communication (The Knowledge Digest for IT Community) with
the theme “Digital India” which is very much relevant and timely
in the present context. This issue contains the various sections
like cover story, the technical trends, research front, Practitioner
Workbench and related articles etc. along with other regular
features like case studies, cross words, CSI reports and news from
divisions, chapters and student branches, calendar of events along
with the contact details of EXECOM and Nomination Committee
of 2015 –16/17. This issue also contains a special article on Dr. E.F.
Codd, the father of relational Data Model as a tribute to him on the
occasion of his 12th death anniversary on 18th April 2015.
This issue is coming with the new publication committee which
took over CSI communications from 1st April 2015 and it will be
the fi rst issue under the same committee. The new editorial team
is yet to be constituted. This process is under way to have a very
dynamic and vibrant editorial team for maintaining the technical
excellence in the contents of the magazine and to carry the same
to the scale of height. Within the short span of time, tremendous
eff orts has been put in compiling this issue to publish it timely. I
take this opportunity to give the credit of successfully bringing
out his issue to my newly constituted publication committee
particularly to Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, the guest editor of
this issue who continuously with consultation and help of Prof.
M.N. Hoda brought the issue into the shape I am also thankful
to the secretary and executive secretary of CSI for the support
in providing the relevant information where ever it was required.
Finally I am thankful to the entire EXECOM of CSI and looking
forward to my fellow members for their continuous support and
guidance.
On behalf of the publication committee I wish to express my
sincere gratitude to all Authors who contributed signifi cantly for
enrichment of this issue. I hereby place on record my appreciation
to our panel of experts and referees who have supported in
reviewing the articles and other technical matters.
Finally we look forward to receive the feedback, contribution,
criticism, suggestions and reply from our esteemed members &
readers in csic@csi-india.org.
Prof. A.K. Nayak
Chief Editor
CSI Communications | April 2015 | 7
IntroductionThe “Digital India” initiative aims at
availing digitizing of various individual
projects of all central government
and ministries like education, health
services and other services, that can be
delivered to citizens using Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) by
joining all the areas of India including the
Gram Panchayats at high speed internet
through broadband connectivity, in order
to focus on the e-governance till 2019.
It can also be viewed as the next step of
already running National e-Governance
Plan. In this program government will
prefer to adopt Public Private Partnerships
(PPP) wherever feasible for execution of
this initiative.
For the smooth execution of this
program, government will enhance
National Informatics Centre which
is responsible to carry IT projects in
government departments. For faster
design, develop and implement various
e-Governance projects, in at least 10 key
ministries positions of Chief Information
Offi cers (CIO) will be created and
necessary senior positions within the
department will be created by Department
of Electronics and IT (DeitY) for managing
the initiative.
It is rightly said by the hon’ble Prime
Minister of India, Narendra Modi that
Information Technology plays important
role to make India a digital country, in
his words “India Today(IT) + Information
Technology(IT) = India Tomorrow(IT)”.
ComponentsKey components of Digital India are: Digital
Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen,
Digital Governance & Services on Demand,
and Digital Empowerment of Citizens (By
various digital literacy programs).These
visions are supported by the nine pillars of
this program, shown in Fig.1:
Execution BodyThis initiative will be executed by the
DeitY, and is been implemented in phases
from the year 2014 till 2019. It would
also provide a “cradle to grave digital
identity” that is “unique, lifelong and
online”.[2] The draft of Internet of Things
(IoT) Policy of India should be read
along with Digital India initiative for the
better understanding.[3] The monitoring
committee is the highest level committee
of this initiative chaired by the hon’ble
Prime Minister. Other committees under
this monitoring committee are illustrated
in Fig.2:
Estimated Costs Overall Costs of Digital India initiative
is approx Rs. 1.13 lakh crore for ongoing
schemes as well as new schemes and
activities. To jointly explore opportunities
for collaboration on implementing this
ambitious initiative, India and the United
States have already agreed for the same.[4]
Programs InvolvedDigital India is in the progress mode
from the month of November 2014. It
will be analyzed by the Apex Committee;
media reports have already hinted
development of policies for Digital India
very soon. If correctly implemented,
Digital India initiative will soon change
the delivery way of public services in
India. The program will be executed in
order to provide digital literacy to rural
citizens, providing digital lockers and
various other services. Various programs
and/or services based on PPP of Digital
India program are:
• National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM)
The key to Digital India program is Digital
Literacy. It ensures digital literacy to
disadvantaged community by “reaching
out the unreached”. The digital literacy
program is in progress through NDLM
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Cover Story
Durgesh Kumar Mishra*, Rashid Sheikh** and Trupti Agrawal*** *Professor (CSE) and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore MP** Associate Professor, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore***Asst. Prof., Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore(CSE Dept.)
Fig.2: Insti tuti onal Mechanism of Nati onal Level [1]
Fig.1: Nine Pillars of Digital India [1]
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which makes rural citizens digitally
literate by various training and building
programs.[5]
• Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)
DEF with aim to ‘Inform, Communicate
and Empower,’ started its journey in
December, 2002. It is registered as not-
for-profi t under the Societies Registration
Act XXI of 1860. It fi nds feasible ICT
solutions in under-served and unreached
regions and communities.[6] It has reached
over 22 States and 8 countries, since
2003. The various projects carried out by
DEF are:
o CWIRC (Chanderi Weavers ICT
Resource Centre)
o Digital Panchayat
o Soochna Seva
o EMSME (Digital Empowerment
Foundation for Micro, Medium and
Small Enterprises)
o ENGO (web service package design)
o Social Media for Democracy
o WforC (Wireless for Community)
o Mobile for Good
o DKC (Digital Knowledge Centre)
o Green Prakriya
o ICT4D
o CIRC (Community Information
Resource Centre)
o GyanPedia
o Neerjaal
o Internet Rights
o The E-Heritage Project
• Digitization of cable TVAs part of Digital India initiative,
the Ministry of Information and
Broadcasting (MIB) has taken initiative
of converting the TV broadcasting from
analog to digital in various phases in
India. By the end of 2015 overall Indian
television will be digitized proving good
audio/video quality to each customer
even in the rural area. [7]
• Digital Locker or DigiLocker (Beta version)
Ministry of Communications and
Information Technology as part of
Digital India initiative has developed
DigiLocker to provide each citizen
a personal storage dedicated to the
individual so that e-documents as well
Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) link
of e-documents issued by various issuer
departments. The e-documents can also
be signed by using e-sign facility of the
DigiLocker. The DigiLocker will also be
linked with the Aadhar number of the
same.[8]
• National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)
NOFN project will provide a way to
implement various services, such as
e-health, e-education and e-governance
etc.by establishing broadband
connectivity on optical fi bre to 2,50,000
village panchayats across India.The
Network thus forms the core of PM Modi’s
ambitious ‘Digital India’ project. Bharat
Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL) is working in
diff erent phases for same.[9]
Estimated OutcomesDigital India initiative will provide
broadband in 2.5 lakh villages, universal
phone connectivity with the help of
NOFN, Net Zero Imports by 2019.
Also, 400,000 Public Internet Access
Points as well Wi-Fi in 2.5 lakh schools,
all universities; Public Wi-Fi hotspots
for citizens will be provided. 1.7 Cr IT,
Telecom and Electronics Jobs will be
created by training citizens as well 8.5
indirect jobs. E-Governance & eServices
will be provided across government. IT
use in services like health, education, and
banking will make India a leader country.
Citizens will be digitally empowered by
using public cloud and internet access.
The Digital India once implemented
will be executed eff ectively as there are
already 173 million mobile Internet users
in India in December, 2014 and Internet
users in India is expected to reach 213
million by June 2015, as per a report
Mobile Internet in India 2014 released by
IAMAI and IMRB International launched
at an event.
ChallengesDigital India initiation also face some
challenges like: Privacy Protection[10], Data
Protection[11], Cyber Law[12], Telegraph[13],
E-Governance[14] and E-Commerce [15] Etc.
Recently, ninth India Digital Summit was
been hosted by the Internet and Mobile
Association of India (IAMAI) in New
Delhi on Jan.2015 to discuss the plans
of Digital India Initiative.[16] There the
increment in mobile wallets in India for
payment and e-commerce infrastructure
was been discussed by a panel, as over
60% of Indian citizens still deal in cash
and don’t have bank accounts, so in order
to establish digital transaction mobile
wallets are very essential.
Rajan Anandan, Managing Director
at Google India, said: “Enabling
content consumption in local Indian
languages can greatly push the Internet
consumption up.”
Bipin Preet Singh, Founder and
CEO at MobiKwik, said “Consumers
can overcome the trust factor in online
payments,”
Aloke Bajpai, Co-founder and CEO of
meta search site ixigo.com, said: “While
the growth in desktop is almost zero, it’s
terrifi c on mobile,” “It is not only mobile
fi rst anymore but mobile only soon. Will
have to see whether to work any further
on evolving our desktop experience.”
Dhruv Shringi, CEO of Yatra.com,
said: “The next thing to aim for travel
companies is personalisation of travel
purchases such as hotels and holiday
packages as also using predictive
computing to understand and predict
consumer behaviour and reacting to it.”
ConclusionThe Digital India program is just the
beginning of a digital revolution, once
implemented properly it will open various
new opportunities for the citizens. It is
one of the highly ambitious programs
of Indian government, and is directly
monitored by Hon’ble Prime Minister of
India. The program is a multi-ministry
program, with the involvement of central
cabinet ministers, state governments etc.
Various grand companies like Microsoft,
Google and Fujitsu will also agreed be
partner and help the success of Digital
India initiative. [17, 18, 19]
While there are many obstacles in the
path of Digital India program, one major of
which is electricity. But this problem will
soon be solved as there will be pressure
on local leaders to get electricity in their
village when Digital India program will be
running in the nearby villages. Also, it will
open gates for employment as Telecom
Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said while
addressing students at Shri Ram College
of Commerce: “IT gives employment to
about 30 lakh people. Once Digital India
becomes reality, we can give jobs to fi ve
crore plus people.”[20]
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fi les/dit/fi les/Digital%20India.pdf.
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Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, received his PhD in Computer Engineering from DAVV Indore. Presently working as Professor (CSE)
and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore MP. He has published more than 90
papers in referred journal and conferences.
Rashid Sheikh completed his B. E. from SGSITS, Indore in 1994 and M. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from
RGPV, Bhopal. Presently he is Associate Professor at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore. He has published
several research papers in national and international journals and conferences. His area of research is information and
network security.
Trupti Agrawal received her Bachelor of Engineering degree in CSE dept.,from RGPV and M.Tech in Computer
Network, from Oriental University, Indore. She is currently Asst. Prof. at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology,
Indore(CSE Dept.). She has published 2 research papers in International journals and 2 research papers in national
conferences. She is doing research in cloud computing and computer networks.Abo
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Gujarat has been a frontline State in
the Country in the implementation of
eGovernance projects. The State has been a
leader in setting up core ICT infrastructure
like State Wide Area Network (SWAN),
State Data Centre (SDC) and eGRAM -
Common Service Centres (CSCs) as well
as in using advanced technologies like GIS
and mobility solutions, to provide smart
Governance to its citizens and businesses.
Nothing bears a more eloquent
testimony to this fact than the staggering
number of e-transactions (close to 125
crores) which have been registered on
e-Taal (e-Transactions Aggregation and
Analysis Layer) Portal, National e-Services
Dashboard (NeSD) since January 2013.
This accounts for over 26% of the total
transactions in the State Project Category.
The adoption of innovative, constructive and
result-oriented policies and the burgeoning
use of ICT as facilitator of Good Governance
have tremendously benefi tted the masses
resulting in signifi cant e-transactions as
recorded on e-Taal Portal.
Gujarat has successfully implemented
State-wide Public Services Programmes
such as SWAGAT, Public Distribution
System, Mutation linked with Registration,
ATVT (Apano Taluka Vibrant Taluka),
eNagar, eMamta, etc. On the one hand, this
has helped the Government to improve the
quality, effi ciency and transparency in the
delivery of services and on the other hand
facilitated the citizens to avail themselves
of the services in their own taluka or village.
State Wide Attention on Grievances
by Application of Technology (SWAGAT)
is a State-wide Online Grievance Redressal
Programme that off ers citizens an eff ective
platform to air their grievances related to
the functioning of the offi cial machinery
directly to Hon’ble Chief Minister through
online portal and video conference facility.
Presently, SWAGAT covers all Taluaks
and 60 million citizens of the State. Of the
applications received, nearly 93% have been
resolved since the implementation of this
initiative.
Under the Targeted Public Distribution
System, Gujarat has been able to link the
complete supply chain, that is, dispatch
of food grains from the godown to the
time until the citizen avails himself his
entitlement from the Fair Price Shop (FPS).
Here, the use of m-Governance has led
to the empowerment of the citizens who
are now kept updated from the time of
allocation of their monthly quotas to the
time when the FPS owners lift the foodgrains
from the godown.
Apno Taluko Vibrant Taluko (ATVT)
empowers all the Talukas in the State
to deliver services to citizens in a time-
bound manner eff ectively through the
ICT enablement of Taluka machinery.
ATVT has enabled the decentralization of
administration up to Taluka level and made
it more speedy, eff ective, transparent and
citizen-centric.
Internet has been a key to various
successful e-Governance initiatives which
have favourably impinged upon the lives of
each and every section of the society and
specially the marginalized. In Gujarat, we
have been able to bridge the urban-rural
digital divide through our 13,685 e-Gram
Centres where we have provided internet
through VSAT network which is used to
provide a basket of services to the rural
citizens near their door-steps in the far-fl ung
areas of the State. The facilities at the eGram
Centres are also being used for imparting
various skill development, educational and
training programmes for the empowerment
of the citizens.Satellite Communication (SATCOM)
is being used as a key tool to impart distant interactive educational and skill development training. Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG) is the State-level Nodal Agency in Gujarat which implements the dissemination of educational and developmental programmes through satellite communication to lakhs of people through nearly 50,000 Direct-to-Home (DTH) sets spread over the entire State. BISAG is gradually augmenting its outreach with the operationalization of 16 additional channels.
In Gujarat, we have been using Geo-Informatics
based eGovernance to provide decision
support system to the sectoral stakeholders
through large-scale (village level) geo-
spatial databases and supporting analytical
tools. These comprehensive databases
are being used by the Government for
rational, quicker and more transparent
decision-making in an institutionalized
manner. Thus through Geo-Informatics-
based eGovernance, convergence of various
programmes is being achieved where time,
cost and eff orts are optimized.
Good Governance is the foundation of a
functional democracy and is largely realised
employing e-Governance. Rapid advances
in ICT have made e-Governance the most
potent tool for attaining the vision of Good
Governance. The Government of Gujarat has
been incessantly endeavouring to achieve
the Vision of “Maximum Governance,
Minimum Government” to the fullest
possible extent with the help of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT).
In order to, inter-alia contribute
towards the realization of the vision of
‘Digital India’ programme of Government of
India, the State Government had declared a
dedicated eGovernance Policy. The Policy is
aimed at broad-basing and institutionalizing
‘Digital Gujarat’ to provide transparent,
aff ordable and effi cient public services on
the principle of ‘Minimum Government,
Maximum Governance’.
Over the last decade or so, the State
Government has proactively formulated
and successfully implemented a number
of e-Governance Projects which have
S J HaiderSecretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat
Digital Gujarat
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Hon. Chief Minister Smt. Anandiben Patel and other dignitaries for the celebrati on of Good Governance Day by Government of
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eff ectively attempted to promote
transparency, effi ciency,
accessibility, etc. in public
service delivery and marginalize/
eliminate the scope of corruption,
malpractices and irregularities
in a systemic way. Unlike the
adoption of cosmetic approach
which only provides symptomatic
treatment to individual cases,
these eff orts strike at the root of
corruption and are a long-lasting structured
and institutionalized remedy to the problem.
In Gujarat we now intend to extend
eGovernance to its next level and enable
socio-economic empowerment of the
women, the youth & the marginalized
through Digital and Financial Inclusion with
use of next generation technologies like
m-Governance, Cloud Computing, Business
Analytics, Internet of Things, Social Media,
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Shri S. J. Haider, IAS is presently working as Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat
Department of Science and Technology (DST) was established by the Government of Gujarat in 2002 to help realize Gujarat’s goals of
sustainable development and inclusive growth through well-planned strategies and initiatives. DST plays a pivotal role in the promotion of
Science & Technology in the State. The Department has wide ranging activities from facilitating high-end research, providing services for
simplifi ed governance, promoting investments in emerging technology areas, aiding development for appropriate skills and implementing key
policies and initiatives to boosting, supporting and facilitating innovation and development. As of now, DST is looking after the following areas
of technology in the State: Information & Communication Technology including e-Governance, Biotechnology, Science & Technology, Remote
Sensing and Space Application, Seismology
DST has constituted six organizations to help the Department in these focus areas, viz., Gujarat Informatics Ltd. (GIL), Bhaskaracharya Institute
for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG), Gujarat State Bio Technology Mission (GSBTM), Institute of Seismological Research
(ISR), Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST) and Gujarat Council of Science City.
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Hon. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, delivering his digiti zed message to the parti cipants of 18th Nati onal Conference on
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IntroductionThe interfacing technologies have
motivated the behavior of people and
change their living style. Mobile is the
prompt entity for human life and the
applicant user can’t live without it[1].
The rapidly developing world of the
multi-touch and surface computing
has produced some new possibilities
in the interaction between user and
technology[2]. Some advance gestures
available in the market as stylus, gear
and eye sensors etc. has provided more
facilitated environment for interaction
with a system. In the current world time
is the most critical thing for human so
everyone wants to communicate with
system in the quickest manner without
incurring the valuable time. To manage
this few of the GUI, applications are
innovated by the researcher or industry
and has been launched them time to
time according to their versions. All
of them are targeted to facilitate the
simplest manner of interaction to the
technology in a shorter time period.
Through the discovery of the Elograph,
by Elographics, Inc, touch screen
technology entered the public eye in
1971 [3, 4].
From last two decades Interactive
surface and multi-touch are an established
area for HCI research. Surface interface
is the most valuable technology in the
era of smart phones. Surface interface
provides the natural way to interact with
the applications of smart phones. User
realizes the actual phenomenon during
the touch and tap method of accessing
smart phones. Several ways are produced
during this process to understand the
technological applications of surface
interface that changes the revolutions of
interaction.
Lilian Genaro Motti[5] has provided
the study report & comparative of
researcher to compute the experience
of diff erent age of people for diverse
technique uses indirect inputs i.e., touch
panel, mouse, keyboard and wireless pen.[5]
In previous days windowing
environment were focused to interact
a single user with the system, but the
current innovation facilitate multiple users
to interact with the smart phones i.e. multi
touch devices. As the science-oriented
producer 3M Touch Systems puts it, multi-
touch refers to a touch system’s capable
for concurrently detect and determinate a
minimum of 3+ touch points”[6].
Contextual Surface
Smart phones now come with additional
features conventionally related to PDAs
such as Internet access, video, and
multiple application programs, and PDAs
are beginning to incorporate telephony
functionality.
Within these markets diff erent software platforms are varying for market share, the most prominent being Microsoft CE, Palm OS and Symbian OS. The lack of a common platform poses difficulties to deliver large-scale solutions and has led researchers to call for more standardization[9].
Related Work A lot of studies report is investigated
for diff erent interaction techniques
& input devices using touch screen.
New technologies are developed to
improve & enhance the exchange of
information and communication to
everyone. Consequently, novel interaction
techniques have been created to enlarge
the possibilities for human computer
interaction via new user interfaces & input
techniques[9].
The advance era into computing
and technological improvement with I/O
Quicker Method for User Friendliness to Improve Smart Phone Applications
Technical Trends
Anil Kumar Dubey*, Ashish Guwalani** and Rakesh Rathi****Ph.D. Research Scholar (CSE) Career Point University, Kota Rajasthan**M.Tech Scholar (CSE) Jagannath University, Jaipur Rajasthan***Assistant Professor & Head (CS& IT) Government Engineering College, Ajmer Rajasthan
Abstract – The current scenario of research promoted towards the smarter techniques that has been deployed into touchable devices for user
applications. People have acquired the newest technology for reducing the time duration that has been occupied by any application process of
touchable devices like smart phone, mobile phone etc. Author has deployed their quicker method for touchable devices especially for surface
interface to control the maximum required time in the operations. This approach is designed according to user’s opinion and usability engineering.
The deployed model, using such approach is more appropriate in the scientifi c age of automation techniques and the usability of quicker method
has improved the production of items (touchable devices) as users are more likely to interact with them.
Keywords - Smart phone; Surface interface; Multi Touch; Time; Quicker Method.
Fig.1: Surface interface [3]
Fig. 3: Contextual surface[8]
Fig. 2: Operati on of surface interacti on[7]
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application, network connectivity have
shifted their concerned from PCs and
focused on mobile devices. According to
market analysis, it predicts that in year 2015
there will be 1.5 billion smart phones and
640 million tablets in use worldwide [10]. In
today’s society, the physically interaction
of peoples with electronic devices is
varying day to day. This change has led
to enormous advances, including the
design and development of touch screen
(touchable devices) technology[3].
Touch screens are most extensively
adopted interactive panel for portable
devices such as tablets, smart phones and
navigation systems. The touch screens
are separated from the display panel.
The categorization of touch screens
might be possible through used sensing
method and infrared based touch sensing
techniques. Properties used for separation
via sensing methods are resistive[11],
capacitive[12], acoustic- wave[13]. Except
that, the capacitive based method is
gradually more popular due to their
durability, sensitivity, and ability to detect
multi-touches.
In regards to improve the
performance of used technology &
decreasing the error rates, tactile
feedback is more useful techniques as
proved by several studies [14-16].
Problem DiscussionProblem Defi nition
The traditional process to operate any
contextual applications into touchable
devices acquired maximum amount of
time to perform the task. Author has taken
the objective to reduce the unwanted time
taken by touchable devices during the
completion of contextual operations.
Research Methodology
The research methodology are followed
the qualitative approach for time
reduction during the process of contextual
applications in touchable devices. The
novel technique has been proposed to
reduce the time taken into a specifi c
task (copy/cut and paste the data) of
traditional surface interface.
Quicker Prototype ModelBefore the implementation of any product
the design procedure must be performed.
Each and every implementation requires
the initial and deep designing considering
the prototype model of product.
The prototype classifi es the actual
conditions of designed module before
their implementations. On the basis of
previous related work we summarize
the problem encountered in contextual
applications of smart phone, i.e. effi ciency
in use and manual procedure for cut copy
paste procedures. The above problems
motivated us to propose the new method
to monitor the occurrence. We have used
android tools to deploy a prototype model
for solving the above problem.
Quicker Prototype
We have designed a new contextual
design using android code for reducing
the time taken for cut copy and paste
operation on the content stored in the
smart phone. Initially the smart phone
user will select the content for cut and
copy from their source location as given in
the screenshots of this application.
As we can seen in the above
screenshot a folder named with Columbia
has been selected and dragged into cut
icon which is situated at the bottom of the
screen so by this design we can perform
cut operation of content by the easiest
and quicker method.
Similarly we can perform copy
operation over the content of smart phone.
For copy operation we have to drag the
fi le into the copy icon which is situated at
right bottom position of the screen. Now
search the destination from your smart
phone where the users want to paste the
cut and copied content or data.
The process incurs less time in
comparison to currently used conventional
application used for cut/copy and paste in
smart phones.
ApplicationsLast few decades have marked signifi cant
improvements in the technological era.
People interaction with technology has
also undergone major enhancement with
the advent of touch screen, a user is able
to manipulate the digital environment
via only the touch of fi nger or another
alternative devices on the screen[3]. The
upgraded surface interface content is
much more eff ective in use. The smart
method of cut copy and paste make
the applications of smart phone more
Fig. 4: Initi al positi on of opened applicati on
Fig. 6: Copy the content
Fig. 5: Cut the content
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fl exible. Users can easily adopt the newly
proposed quicker method for applications
in operating the apps.
ConclusionWe have focused the eff ective surface
interface for users to make the user
friendly mobile applications. As most of
the user desire the quicker method for
operating the task into their touchable
devices i.e. copy and paste, that required
the maximum amount of time to process
these operations. Authors target to
minimize the users valuable time from
touchable devices that is used during the
process of copy and paste. In previous
system user manually search content and
select them one by one for cut and copy
which incurs valuable time. We minimized
such type of manual procedure and
proposed a smart method for cut or copy
and paste the appropriate content to its
required destination.
Future WorkThe proposal is more eff ective for
users that impacted the smart phone
production industry to deploy the
production of surface interface (smart
phones) according to the proposed model
, because it have considered the usability
engineering era of application to surface
interface. Big industries and organizations
(Smart Phone designer, Mobile phone
designer) are invited to release the fund
for deployment of Smartphone according
to the proposal that is more interactive to
the users few of the others future scopes
expected in this domain
• Quicker method impacted the user
interaction and applications for
maximum usability..
• Change or upgrade the technological
era of user applications as Traditional
contextual operations.
• User friendly context increase the
effi ciency of use.
• User interaction enhanced the
production of smart phones.
Acknowledgment The authors are thankful to INDIACOM 2015
that allows us to submit the extended version
of our paper titled: Surface Interface for
User Friendliness: Quicker Method & Smart
Procedure for Enhancing Mobile Phone
Applications. Authors are also thankful to
the researcher working in this era.
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Fig. 7: Paste the copied data
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Our country India being the largest
democracy of the world conducts
the free and fair elections at regular
intervals since independence as per
the Indian Constitution, Electoral Laws
and System. After taking into account
the Constitutional and legal provisions,
the Election Commission of India
make comprehensive preparations for
conduct of Parliamentary and Assembly
elections and State Election Commission
of the concerned state take care for
conduct of Urban Body and Rural Body
elections. In 2014 the Elections were
held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha,
Assemblies of Maharashtra and Haryana
states. Likewise assembly elections for
Jharkhand, J&K S and Delhi states as per
schedule were held.
The Election Commission of India is
responsible for planning and executing a
whole amount of complex operations that
go into the conduct of elections. Since free,
fare, fearless and participative election
involves complex planning, detailed
analysis and series of consultations with
all stakeholders. Election Commission
evolved a detailed framework for smooth
delivery of General Elections.
In the General Parliamentary/
Assembly Elections – 2014, Election
Commission of India used Information
Technology in a big way for providing
easier access to electors for service
delivery, greater transparency, information
dissemination and better election
management. India is the world’s largest
democracy, Election to the world’s largest
democracy pose immense challenges with
respect to collection of huge data from the
geographically spread fi eld, Processing,
presentation, and dissemination
throughout the world in real time.
Election Commission of India and
National Informatics Centre worked
together from district level, state level to
National level. The major activities that are
carried out at district level are deployment
of polling personals using on computerised
random process, preparation of route
chart, randomization of Electronic Voting
Machine (EVM) before sending to polling
station, Electoral Rolls Management, SMS
based G2C Service, SMS based Poll Day
Monitoring, Compilation of booth wise voter
turn out statistics, Processing of counting
results data at the day of counting, pre
election data processing, Public Grievance
Monitoring etc. That all activities are carried
out with the technical support of District
Informatics Offi cer of NIC. At national level,
to provide real time information on election
results all over the world on 16/5/2014 for
parliamentary elections and on 19/10/2014
for assembly elections for Maharashtra
and Haryana States proved to be a big hit
across the world. During parliamentary
election total 467 million hits were recorded
with peak of 13357 hits/ second. The
whole system worked with a great success
without any technological glitches in spite
of such high demand on the infrastructure
resources has set an example of large scale
of appraisal.
The General Assembly Election to
constitute the House of Assemblies of
Maharashtra and Haryana was held in
phases in the month of Sept. and Oct-
2014. Counting of the votes polled was
held on 19th Oct. 2014 simultaneously
at all counting centres of both the states.
The results of counting were captured with
the valuable eff orts of Returning Offi cers
(ROs) and technical offi cers i.e. District
Informatics Offi cers (DIOs) of NIC from all
the counting centres of both the states. The
information was disseminated in real time
to public all over world through url http://
eciresults.nic.in. The data fl ow diagram is
as below in fi g. 1.1.
The comprehensive Information made
available to public are:
1. -All India party wise result status
along with vote share.
2. -State wise, party wise result status
along with vote share.
3. -Constituency wise all candidate’s
votes details
4. -State wise, constituency wise
leading candidate, leading party,
trailing candidate, trailing party,
margin of votes, result status
The copy sample web page is as
Fig. 1.2
The results delivery architecture was
designed in High Availability (HA) mode
keeping in view of the high computational
requirements. High end servers were
deployed at supercomputing level. In
Parliamentary/Assembly elections all
the concerned Counting centres where
ResearchFront
Chander Shekhar*, Shiv Kumar* and Rajendra Kumar Agrawal**National Informatics Centre, A Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi
Fig. 1.1
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all the 543 Parliamentary/Assembly
constituencies counting are carried out
throughout the country are connected
directly to NIC Data Centre Shastri Park
using web service for
sending the round wise
result on counting data
in real time. Counting
is carried out assembly
segment wise, and
the setup has been so
prepared to take the
load of 5000 concurrent
live connections from
counting centres. All
committed transactions
are mirrored to Disaster
Recovery site at
Hyderabad. Partial
data is replicated to
ECI, Nirvachan
Sadan, New
Delhi. HTML
pages are
generated to
d i s s e m i n a t e
all over the
world through
url : http://
eciresults.nic.
in. Anticipating
large number of
hits from across
the world, in last
two elections, CDN technology
was used for smooth delivery of
election results.
NDC, Shastri Park, New Delhi is the
primary site and NDC, Hyderabad, Andhra
Pradesh acts as DR Site. The primary site
(NDC, Shastri Park) is confi gured as tier
3 data centre with expected availability
of 99.982%. The tasks performed to
achieve the set goals of the project
includes Virtualization of Servers,
Setup of DR/Mirror Site, Replication to
ECI, NLB Confi guration, Pre counting
data availability, Live data fetching
from counting centres, Business Logic
Implementation, Web page generation,
Emailing trends/results to given emails
etc. The architecture of the infra has
shown in fi g. 1.3. n
Fig. 1.2
Fig. 1.3
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The Man who Invented the Relational Data Model – A Tribute to Dr. E.F. Codd
K V N Rajesh* and K V N Ramesh***Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Vignan’s Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam
**Project Manager, Tech Mahindra, Visakhapatnam
Dr. E.F. Codd is a luminary who made great
contributions in the fi eld of computing and
database technologies. It is twelve years
that Dr. E.F. Codd died and forty fi ve years
that he proposed his relational data model,
but this brain child of his is all the more
relevant today too. People would probably
still be using systems based on Codd’s
relational model hundred years from now.
This article is written as a tribute to and in
remembrance of Dr. E.F. Codd whose twelfth
death anniversary falls on 18th April.
The contribution Of Dr. E.F. Codd
to the database fi eld is so profound that
the timeline of databases and digital
information storage can be easily divided
as Before and After Codd. His invention
of the relational model is one of the main
contributors to the information revolution
that we see now and can be easily
compared to that of the contribution of
steam engine to the Industrial Revolution.
Much of the structured data stored
now is in the form of tables with rows and
columns courtesy the relational model
invented by E.F.Codd. The size of just the
RDBMS products market is $30 billion as
in 2013. If we consider the other RDBMS
dependent services and technologies like
IT consulting and Data Warehousing, the
market size would be even more. This whole
industry owes its existence to the relational
data model invented by E.F.Codd.
It is not an exaggeration to say that
there are few people on this planet who
have not been touched by the invention
of E.F.Codd. Bank accounts, Hospital
management systems, fi nancial systems,
billing systems and many other forms of
information technology systems which
involve storage of data or usage of stored
data, rely mostly on the relational databases.
These in turn rely on the relational data
model invented by Dr. E.F.Codd.
Edgar Frank “Ted”.Codd (E.F.Codd)
was born on 23rd August 1923. He was
born in Isle of Portland. It is an island in
Dorset which is a county in the South West
England on the English Channel coast. His
father was a leather manufacturer. His
mother was a school teacher. He was the
youngest child among the seven siblings.
He had his school education in the Poole
Grammar school, Poole, England. He
initially went to Exeter College, University of
Oxford on a scholarship to study chemistry.
His education was interrupted when he
voluntarily joined in 1942 the Royal Air Force
Coastal command during the World War II.
He served as a pilot fl ying the Sunderalnds in
the squadrons which were hunting German
U-boats. After the war, he returned back to
complete his B.A and M.A in Mathematics
from University of Oxford during the period
1946-1948. He then emigrated to the
United States of America in 1948 at the
age of 25. He worked for a short period
as a salesman at the Macy’s department
stores. He then worked as a mathematics
lecturer in the University of Tennessee. In
1949, he joined the IBM. He worked on the
Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator
(SSEC) as a programming mathematician.
SSEC was an electromechanical computer
which was made of vacuum tubes and
electromechanical relays and was the
fi rst machine to combine electronic
computation with stored program. During
the period of Second Red Scare (1947 to
1957) popularly known as McCarthyism,
he left the USA in 1953 angered by Senator
Joseph McCarthy’s witch-hunt of people
who were believed to have communist
ties or sympathies. He went to Ottawa,
Canada and ran a computing center for
the Computing Devices of Canada Limited.
He returned back to the USA after the Red
Scare died down. He re-joined IBM where
he participated in development of several
important IBM products like IBM 701 (IBM’s
fi rst commercial computer) and IBM 7030
(IBM’s fi rst transistorized supercomputer).
IBM 7030 was the outcome of the Project
Stretch at the IBM campus at Poughkeepsie,
New York. As a part of the project Stretch,
E.F.Codd led the development of world’s
fi rst Multiprogramming system whose main
aim was to keep components of computer
systems in productive use most of the time.
This involved nonlocal concurrency which
provides for simultaneous execution of
instructions which may belong to entirely
separate and unrelated programs.
He then joined the University of
Michigan in Ann Arbor and did his M.Sc
and Ph.D in the department of Computer
and Communication Sciences on an IBM
scholarship. His doctoral thesis was on
the topic of cellular automata which were
originally conceived by Von Neumann
as ideal structures for modeling self-
reproducing “machines”. Von Neumann
approach consisted of cellular array using
29-states per cell and a 5-cell neighborhood.
As a part of his doctoral research, E.F.Codd
tried to reduce the complexity of the von
Neumann’s machine. He showed that it
was possible to make a self-reproducing
machine with eight states per cell and
rotation symmetry. Codd’s construction was
infl uenced by careful consideration of the
physiology of the nervous system in animals.
His Doctoral advisor was John Henry
Holland who was a professor of psychology
and professor of electrical and computer
science at the University of Michigan. In
1968, E.F.Codd reported this doctoral work in
a book titled “Cellular Automata” published
by Academic Press. His approach to cellular
automata continues to infl uence Artifi cial
Life research to this day.
His greatest and most famous
contribution was yet to come. He joined
back IBM in 1968 after completing his Ph.D.
While working at IBM Research Laboratory,
San Jose, California, he turned his attention
to the management of large commercial
databases. He introduced the relational
data model to the world in his classic paper
titled “A Relational Model of Data for Large
Shared Data Banks” which was published
in June, 1970 in the communications of the
ACM journal. The relational model consists
of building databases using tables consisting
of rows and columns. The main purpose of
the relational model was to protect the
database users from having to know how
the data is organized in the machine. Though
this way of organizing is so obvious now,
this was revolutionary idea at that time and
brought a great change in the way the data is
organized. A whole industry of RDBMS got
created as a result of this model of E.F.Codd.
E.F.Codd’s relational model is widely
recognized as one of the most important
technical innovations of the 20th century.
It is indeed a surprise that his relational
model did not initially fi nd good audience
and reception at IBM where he developed
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this model. This was due to the large and
powerful support for the traditional database
system at that time in IBM. Meanwhile,
other new Silicon Valley companies like
Relational Software, Inc. and Relational
Technology, Inc implemented Codd’s ideas
and released relational database products
ahead of IBM. Relational Software, Inc later
became the famous Oracle Corporation
and Relational Technology, Inc later
became the Ingres Corporation. Later, the
relational model caught the attention of
the IBM chairman Frank Cary in a meeting
of a high-level IBM technical committee.
Finally, in 1981, SQL/DS (Structured Query
Language/Data System) was released as
IBM’s fi rst commercial relational database
management system. Later in 1983, DB2 for
MVS was released.
With the success of the relational
model in the early 1980s, most the database
vendors of the time started repackaging
their existing database products with
a relational touch. Seeing his vision of
relational databases being diluted, Codd
came up with a set of thirteen rules to defi ne
what is required of a database management
system for it to be considered relational.
These are famously known as Codd’s 12
rules since they start numbering from
zero to twelve. He published these rules
in two articles titled “Is Your DBMS Really
Relational?” and “Does Your DBMS Run by
the Rules?” in Oct 14 and Oct 21 editions of
Computerworld, a popular weekly. These
rules written by Codd were to discourage
database products with relational interfaces
being branded and marketed as Relational
Database management systems.
In 1983, Codd suff ered a serious injury
from a fall. He resigned from IBM after
his recovery. In 1985, he cofounded and
established two lecturing and consulting
companies named “The Relational Institute”
and “The Codd and Date Consulting Group”
along with his longtime IBM collaborator
Chris Date and Sharon Weinberg. These
companies specialized in all aspects of
relational database management systems
and relational database design.
1n 1993, E.F.Codd coined the term
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) in
a white paper titled “Providing OLAP to
user-analysts: An IT mandate” which he co-
authored with S.B.Codd and C.T.Salley. This
paper was commissioned by Arbor Software.
This paper included 12 rules for OLAP and
generated considerable controversy at that
time since it was vendor sponsored and the
rules had explicit reference to Essbase which
was a product of Arbor Software.
For extraordinary contributions
over his career, he received a number of
recognitions. The most important of it is
the 1981 ACM Turing Award presented
to him on 09 November 1981 by the
ACM president Peter Denning at the
ACM Annual Conference in Los Angeles,
California. He was selected for the Turing
Award by the ACM Award Committee
for his “fundamental and continuing
contributions to the theory and practice of
database management systems.
Other honors received by him are the
elected Fellow of the British Computer
Society, IBM Fellow, the elected ACM
Fellow, the elected member of national
academy of engineering and the elected
member of American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He received the IEEE Computer
Society Pioneer Award in 1996 for the
invention of the fi rst abstract model for
database management. He also received
the fi rst annual achievement award from
international DB2 users group and annual
achievement award from DAMA in 2001.
On personal front, he was divorced
from his fi rst wife, Elizabeth in 1978.
He married his IBM colleague Sharon
Weinberg after 12 years of courtship.
He had a daughter Katherine and sons
Ronald, Frank and David.
E.F. Codd died at an age of 79 on 18
April 2003 at his home in Willliams Island,
Florida, due to heart failure.
Dr. E.F. Codd was a stalwart who
never tried to develop a personality cult
for himself. That should not stop the IT
community from further recognizing his
genius in manner befi tting his contributions.
Few people in the fi eld of computing and
information technology can match him
in the terms of the contributions made in
this fi eld. The IT community should come
forward to propose and celebrate his
Birthday as International Database Day.
SIGMOD which is a special interest group
on Management of data of Association for
Computing Machinery (ACM) had renamed
the “SIGMOD Innovations Award” in 2004
as the “SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations
Award” in honor of Dr. E.F. Codd. The stature
of this award may need to be increased or
another Annual prize called Codd Prize
needs to be created on the lines of Nobel
prize, Fields Medal and Turing Award to be
given to people who make lasting and major
contributions in the database fi eld.
References [1] Codd, E F (1970). A relational model
of data for large shared data banks.
Communications of the ACM, 13(6),
377-387.
[2] S Sumathi, S Esakkirajan (2007).
Fundamentals of Relational Database
Management Systems. Springer.
[3] http://amturing.acm.org /award_
winners/codd_1000892.cfm
[4] h t t p : / / w w w . n y t i m e s .
com/2003/04/23/business/edgar-
f-codd-79-dies-key-theorist-of-
databases.html
[5] h t t p : //w w w. b r i t a n n i c a . c o m /
EBchecked/topic/914158/Edgar-
Frank-Codd
[6] h t t p : //w w w . e e c s . b e r k e l e y .
edu/~christos/classics/codd.pdf
[7] h t t p : //w w w . c s . n d s u . n o d a k .
edu/~perrizo/classes/765/codd
[8] h t t p : / / w w w . s m h . c o m .
a u / a r t i c l e s / 2 0 0 3 / 0 5 /
19/1053196515448.html
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awards/pioneer
[10] http://ed-thelen.org /comp-hist/
IBM-7030-Planning-McJones.pdf n
Mr. K V N Rajesh has obtained his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological
University in 2005. He obtained his M.Tech in Computer Science and Technology from Andhra University in 2010. He
is working as Senior Assistant Professor in department of information technology at Vignan’s institute of information
technology, Visakhapatnam since 2005. He is a member of Computer Society of India. His research interests include
Business Intelligence, Location Intelligence and Big Data and he has published papers in the respective areas. He can be
reached at kvn.rajesh@gmail.com.
Mr. K V N Ramesh is a M.E in Structural Engineering from Andhra University. He has 14 years of experience in IT industry
with expertise in the area of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. He has worked on UNIX, Oracle, Sybase, Business
Objects and OBIEE during these years. He is an Oracle certifi ed professional in Oracle DW and OBIEE. He is currently
working as Project Manager at Tech Mahindra, Visakhapatnam. He can be reached at kvn_ramesh@yahoo.com.Abo
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Article Durgesh Kumar Mishra* and Rashid Sheikh***Professor (CSE) and Director, Microsoft Innovation Center, SAIT, Indore**Associate Professor (CSE) and Manager, Microsoft Innovation Center, SAIT, Indore
In this electronic era the knowledge of the
computer becomes essential part for day-to-
day activity. For successful implementation
of use of computer in delivery of knowledge
of the digital technology is required. For
the growth of India there is a need to uplift
the digital literacy rate as presently vast
classes of people are deprived from the
technology. There is gap in the literacy
rate best on the income, region, race, and
gender. This “Digital Divide” is a matter of
great concern. Microsoft Innovation Center
at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology
(MIC SAIT) together with the Next
generation foundation, a Non-Government
Organization, and Computer Society of India
took this opportunity to digitally literate
students, school teachers, working and non-
working women, handicaps, and other elder
people.
With an objective to spread
the awareness of Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) among
common people of India, we used the
“Microsoft Digital Literacy” contents to
train these people with evaluations, and
certifi cations. The program helps understand
basic working with computer to new users
as well as existing users. Computer Society
of India student chapter at SAIT-MIC
involved its student members to digitally
train their family members, neighbors, and
other under-privileged students.
The courses helps learn the essential
skills to begin computing with confi dence, be
more productive at home and at work, stay
safe online, use technology to complement
lifestyle, and consider careers where skills
can be put to work. Five course modules
are provided by Microsoft on the Web:
Computer Basics; Internet, Cloud Services,
and WWW; Productivity Programs;
Computer Security and Privacy; and Digital
Lifestyle. At MIC SAIT we successfully
trained and provided certifi cates to 1942
persons and program is still on-going.
You can visit following link for course
material:
h t t p s : //w w w. m i c r o s o f t . c o m /
about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/
giving/programs/up/digitalliteracy/eng/
curriculum4.mspx
You can use the link for taking the
test:
http://www.microsoft.com/about/
corporatecitizenship/citizenship/giving/
programs/up/digitall iteracy/ASMT/
Instructions.aspx?lang=eng&aid=as26a
For online course material with
Microsoft email account you can visit
following link:
https://dsaksharta.in
It will also fulfi ll the target of the
Digital India as set by the Prime Minister of
India, Shri Narendra Modi. Hon. Speaker of
Loksabha, Smt. Sumitra Mahajan has also
gave consent orally to spread program
nation-wide.
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Case Study of Digital Literacy Program: Microsoft Innovation Center-Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology Indore
School teachers Digital Literacy program at MIC SAIT Bsc (Nursing students)
Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, received his PhD in Computer Engineering from DAVV Indore. Presently working as
Professor (CSE) and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore MP. He has
published more than 90 papers in referred journal and conferences.
Rashid Sheikh completed his B. E. from SGSITS, Indore in 1994 and M. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from
RGPV, Bhopal. Presently he is Associate Professor at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore. He has published
several research papers in national and international journals and conferences. His area of research is information and
network security.
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Programming.Tips() »Orphan Process in Parent Child RelationshipA Process is program in execution. In UNIX Operating System,
starting from booting only process creation takes place.
At booting time, a special process called the "swapper" or
"scheduler" is created. The scheduler in turn creates three
child processes: 1) Process Dispatcher (init process) 2)
vhand 3) bdflush with Process ID 1, 2, 3 respectively. fork is a
system call which creates a child process. So we have parent
child relationship in UNIX. Parent and Child Processes can be
identified by their process id. getpid system call gives process
id of currently running process. getppid gives parent process
id of currently running process. What happens when parent
process terminates before child process? Such processes are
called as orphan processes.
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
int pid;
printf("\nBefore executing fork (creating child process)...\n");
pid = fork();
if (pid==-1)
printf("fork failed...\n");
else if(pid==0)
{
printf("Child process executes (before sleep)...\n");
printf("Child pid(value rerurned by fork) = %d\n", pid);
printf("Child's Process ID = %d\n", getpid());
printf("Child's Parent Process ID = %d\n", getppid());
sleep (20);
printf("Child process executes (after sleep)...\n");
printf("Child's Process ID = %d\n", getpid());
printf("Child's Parent Process ID = %d (init)\n", getppid());
printf("Child process terminates...\n\n");
}
else
{
printf("Parent process executes...\n");
printf("Parent pid(value returned by fork) = %d\n",pid);
printf("Parent's Process ID = %d\n", getpid());
printf("Parent's Parent Process ID = %d\n", getppid());
printf("Parent process terminates... \n\n");
}
return 0;
}
In the above program using fork system call child process has been
created. If fork is unable to create child process then it returns
'-1'. Here we have assumed that child process executes fi rst. The
output of the program is shown below.
Output:Before executing fork (creating child process)...Child process executes (before sleep)...Child pid(value rerurned by fork) = 0Child's Process ID = 7828Child's Parent Process ID = 7827Parent process executes...Parent pid(value returned by fork) = 7828Parent's Process ID = 7827Parent's Parent Process ID = 2420Parent process terminates...Child process executes (after sleep)...Child's Process ID = 7828Child's Parent Process ID = 1(init)Child process terminates...
Orphan Process is a process whose parent has terminated but its
own execution is still remaining. In this case, Child Process will
be adopted by the process dispatcher (init) itself so new parent
process id will be 1...
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Practitioner Workbench
Swapnil M ParikhHead (2nd Shift)and Assistant Professor, CSE Department, Babaria Institute of Technology, Varnama, Vadodara
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Prof. Swapnil M Parikh is working as a Head (2nd Shift) and Assistant Professor in CSE Department at Babaria
Institute of Technology, Varnam. He has experience of 7 years and 8 months in research and academia. His area of
research is Cloud Computing and Parallel Processing.
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Innovations in India
Taruna GuptaCorporate IPR Group, TCS
New Paradigms - How to Make an Enterprise’s Intellectual Property Sustainable Most large organisations today have a formal program to manage their intellectual property (hereafter referred to as IP). However, there are possible key challenges that an organisation may face to ensure that an enterprise’s IP is indeed sustainable for the long term and yields signifi cant returns in terms of growing valuation and subsequent monetisation through direct or indirect licensing. Interlinking a well-managed, strategically-designed and optimally-aggregated IP portfolio to customer-centric off erings, products or solutions is important to ensure reduced IP and business risk, increased valuation and monetisation of IP, business assets and sustainable IP-backed business.
A strong IP portfolio may comprise defi ned patent clusters, aggregated on the basis of domain or technology, such that it ultimately benefi ts the enterprise’s business and enables it to have a leading competitive edge in the marketplace. TCS has come up with an innovative, robust and sustainable IP portfolio management system, model and processs for an enterprise to achieve this. These help to ensure sustainable linkages between the IP portfolio of an enterprise and the market focus or business off erings as shown in Fig 1.
It follows a bottom-up approach and includes sustainability at the following three levels:
IP sustainability module to handle sustainability at the atomic (patent) level and enable mapping of the IP to an off ering in the Sustainable Enterprise Off ering (SEO) module.
Landscape Analytics module confi gured to create well-defi ned IP landscapes at the next level.
Portfolio Optimization module to create an overall optimised enterprise IP portfolio at the highest level.
It can be expected that an individual patent is sustainable based on its novelty and inventive step. As more and more patents are added to a portfolio, they also need to be assessed as contributing to the sustainability of the portfolio to which they are being added. This is done by applying a set of parameters to determine strength, spread, duplicity (if any) and diff erence of the new patent’s claims when compared to the enterprise’s existing patents and the key player’s patents, both individually aggregated in a time sequential manner. It is to be noted here that strength of a portfolio denotes how a new patent’s claims help to create new or incremental protection for the portfolio and the spread of a portfolio denotes the widening of the same, thus creating a stretch in the technology landscape.
The IP sustainability module applies advanced patent claim analytics (as shown in Fig. 2) to the above assessment in an innovative way to generate a comparative matrix (vis-a-vis an enterprise’s patents), a competitive matrix and a topology matrix (vis-a-vis key player’s patents) and a diff erence matrix dataset (to determine the competitive advantage of the new IP), in line with a Collaborative Invention Mining (CIM) matrix structure to deliver against the stated objective. This is made possible by using a combination of a patents repository, a CIM dictionary, a claims parsing algorithm library, a claims parsing pattern library, a claims parsing ranking algorithm library and an evolutionary genetic algorithm-based technique to generate a digital IP genome for each patent being added to a portfolio. Diff erent components of this system and process work together to carry out eff ective computation of the digitised elements of the new IP to conclude on its maturisation and eff ective contribution to a sustainable portfolio. To ensure that the changing or evolving data set is taken into consideration
at all times (both of the enterprise IP as well as key player’s IP), additional techniques related to ‘automation in discovery’ are applied.
At the next level, the Landscape Analytics module may generate patent maps (indicating growth and synergy), active key player-based maps and other trends, by applying advanced patent analytics and a set of stratifi cation rules to generate new intermediate data structures or data patterns. This can be done on the basis of strength and spread of comparison and competitive matrices, by clubbing information from individual subject areas based on synergy factors - International Patent Classifi cation (IPC) /Cooperative Patent Classifi cation (CPC), related or similar keywords, citation maps and so on) and resulting in an intermediate structure (landscape).
At a more advanced level, the Portfolio Optimization module will help to create an overall optimised enterprise IP portfolio – one that maximises value and minimises risk by applying the Identify-Analyse-Position methodology. This involves taking in the input data set such as patent clusters with their associated matrices, associated valuation for the resultant claim set, patent maps and so on, and then using a set of optimisation parameters – synergy, growth, strategic alignment, valuation, and gain and risk parameters for further computation and results.
Reference[1] – TCS Patent Published Application
– US20140279690 A1 - ‘Managing
Sustainable Intellectual Property
Portfolio of an Enterprise’ - Santosh
Kumar Mohanty, Shampa Sarkar,
Taruna Gupta n
Fig. 1: TCS Sustainable IP Portf olio (SIP) Model for an Enterprise
Fig. 2: Advanced Claim Analyti cs to Determine Sustainable IP
Taruna Gupta is a senior member of the Corporate IPR Group at TCS. In her current role, she is responsible for driving Copyright initiatives across TCS, also to drive IP creation strategy and execution for several TCS units. This involves working with the various TCS units to promote, protect and profi t from TCS IP in the form of business aligned patent portfolios, IP led solutions, copyrights and trademarks. Prior to this role, she led Presales for TCS Life Sciences & Healthcare, Energy & Resources, and for a large global banking customer relationship. In her earlier roles, she headed the TCS Knowledge Management Practice, and has led Program Management for many large projects.
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Brain Teaser Dr. Durgesh Kumar MishraChairman Division IV Communications, Professor (CSE) and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore
Crossword »Test your knowledge on Digital IndiaSolution to the crossword with name of fi rst all correct solution providers(s) will be appear in the next issue. Send your answer to CSI
Communications at email address csic@csi-india.org with subject: Crossword Solution – CSIC April Issue.
CLUES
6. A secret word, phrase, or sequence of characters that must be presented in order to gain access
8. A server is a system (software and suitable computer hardware) that responds to requests across a computer network to provide, or help to provide, a network service
9. Relating to high-bandwidth data transmission11. The process of converting information into digital form13. A new online medium for course delivery and learning which enables learners
to participate in a course with content and interactive tools for learning.14. To gain access to (a computer fi le or network) illegally or without
authorization17. A place or situation that permits or encourages the formation and
development of new idea19. Synonym used for the Internet20. A number sent on mobile for making the transaction 3D secure21. A mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically
having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded apps.
ACROSS1. A public area where a short-range wireless transmitter provides high-
speed access to the Internet3. The mode of governing through ICT4. A sequence of data elements made available over time to the end user7. A self-confi guring wireless network between objects10. A range of radio frequencies assigned by a regulatory agency for use by a
given group or organization12. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name15. A software utility that enables text messages to be sent and received over
digital cellular telephone networks16. A local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit
and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet.18. A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and
present all types of geographical data.19. The collection of data and services available through the Internet on
utility basis22. The measurement of physical characteristics, such as fi ngerprints, DNA,
or retinal patterns, for use in verifying the identity of individuals23. A specially designed Web page which brings information together from
diverse sources in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information; often, the user can confi gure which ones to display.
24. Simulating a hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or network resources.
25. The process by which the identity of citizen is verifi ed for any online transaction
26. A social utility that connects people with friends and others
DOWN2. The act of stealing content or idea from original work and publishing in one’s
name.5. A government of India initiative to deliver services electronically.
A Success Story of e-Governance in Indian State: MPOnline
MPOnline is a joint venture of Madhya Pradesh (MP) government and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd which was set up in July 2006 to impart online services to all corners of society. It runs a unique portal to serve various government departments and make their services available to citizens and other organization on the Internet. It has more than 1000 KIOSKs running in 51 districts of MP in over 350 tehsils delivering services successfully to its citizens and diff erent organizations. The services provided by MPOnline ranges from admission to various boards, online assessment for recruitment, counseling for admission to various colleges, bill payment, reservation for forest excursion booking, donation to religious services, and admission to various universities. The portal is expanding its services day-by-day. Recently the portal started PAN card application fi lling which facilitates an individual to get the card with ease. The venture is a recipient of many prestigious awards like Manthan Award South Asia and Asia Pacifi c 2012, SKOCH Digital Inclusion National Award 2012, SKOCH Digital Inclusion National Award 2011, Golden Peacock Award 2010, National Editors Choice 2010, and Nihilent e- Governance 2009-2010.
(For more details please visit: http://www.mponline.gov.in/Portal/AboutMPOnline.aspx)
Prof. Rashid Sheikh, SAIT, Indore
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Members of Joint Execom Meeting held at CSI-HQ Mumbai Offi ce on 28th – 29th March 2015
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The regional round of Computer Society of India Young IT
Professional Award for region – III was organized by CSI
Ahmedabad Chapter at Seminar Hall, Chapter Offi ce, Centur
Building, Vijay Cross Roads, Ahmedabad on Wednesday, 18th
March, 2015 at 4:30pm onwards.
The YITP Award is not just a competition but it provides an
excellent platform to the young IT professionals, researchers
and organizations to develop innovative ideas for solving real
life problems using either personally or by team work.
The event was graced by panel of judges from Industry,
Academia and Research organizations, are Shri Ashish
Shrivastav, System Dynamics (Software) Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad,
Dr. Savita Gandhi, Professor & Head, Dept. of Computer
Science, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad
Dr J. Ravishankar, Head – HRDD/PPG, Space Application
Center(ISRO), Ahmedabad, GujaratThe event received four nominations from individual and organizations of diff erent domain, are
1. Mr. Gaurang Panchal, Assistant Professor, CHARUSAT University, Changa, Gujarat
2. Team YUDIZ Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Mr. Pankit Chapla, Br. Pratik Patel & Mr. Dhaval Patel) Ahmedabad, Gujarat
3. Mr. Rajkumar Popat, SAANVI Life Care Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad4. Dr. Viral Nagori, Assistant Professor, GLS Institute of Computer
Technology, Ahmedabad
To start with the event, Shri Bharat Patel, Convener, YITP-2014 and Past Chairman, CSI Ahmedabad welcomed all the judges for the event and he briefed about the event to the participants. Judges conveyed the rules and regulations of the competitions to all the participants and invited the participants for the
presentation of their work.
(Proceeding of the event and judges during the presentation)
Report on Regional Round of CSI Young IT Professional Award (YITP-2014) – Region III CSI Ahmedabad Chapter
(Participants presenting their work)
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CSI-AC has organized the Regional Round of 4th National Project Contest at Chapter Offi ce, Vijay CrossRoads, Navarangpura Ahmedabad on 1st March, 2015 at 9:00 am.There were 11 Teams registered for the event.5 Teams from Madhya Pradesh,2 Teams from Rajasthan and4 Teams from Gujarat.The projects were judged byDr Jyoti Pareek, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Gujarat University,Ahmedabad, GujaratMr Nitin Bawse, CEO, Verve Systems Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, GujaratMr Rakesh Patel, Founder & CEO, Space-O Technologies, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Report of Regional Round of 4th National Project Contest
Winner:
Ms Trishla Shah, M.Tech. Student, Institute of Technology, Nirma
University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Project Title: An LFSR based Cryptographically Secured Key
Stream Generator to raise Security of Network.
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Report: 5th Edition of CSI Excellence in IT Awards 2014The fi nal evaluat ion round of the CSI- Excellence in IT Awards, one of the most coveted and prestigious awards of the IT fraternity was
conducted in association alongwith event partner i3RGlobal on 20th February 2015 at Mumbai followed by the awards night.
This year we had an overwhelming response from industry across all verticals. As India’s premier industry association, it was
encouraging to know and understand the eff orts taken in implementing state of the art technology by Indian organisations. More than
65 nominations were received. Indeed it was a tough call for the jury, who had to pick the best from the nominations submitted.
The esteemed Jury panel comprised of Mr S. Karode–Past
Hon. Secretary - CSI , Mr. M D Agarwal - Ex-CIO BPCL, Senior
Consultant – TCS and Mr V L Mehta- CIO, MIEL Securities,
Mr. Monish Darda - CTO, Icertis, Mr. Aditya Abhyankar- Dean
Technology, Pune University, Mr. Prashant Deshpande- CEO,
Expert Global, Mr. ArunKadekodi- CEO, Soft Corner, Prof.
Pradeep Pendse- Dean – IT & Business Design, Welingkar
Institute of Management, Mr. Sanjay Prasad,- CTO’s Offi ce,
TCS, Mr. Anand Joglekar- CEO, Ameya Software, Mr. Arvind
Benegal- VP - Technology Practices, Persistent Systems Ltd
and Mr. Mohan Datar- Ex - IT Director MSEB,
Mr. Salil Warrior Director, i3R Global welcomed the
dignitaries Prof S V Raghavan – Chair Awards Committee,
Mr. H R Mohan – President CSI, Mr. Shekhar Sahasrabudhe
– Convenor CSI Excellence in IT Awards Mr. S Karode – Chief
of Jury Excellence in IT Awards, and Mr. Ranga Rajagopal –
Treasurer CSI, Co-convenor Excellence in IT Awards.
Mr H R Mohan - President CSI gave the welcome
address highlighting the vision of CSI and the signifi cance of
having such excellence based awards for the industry. Prof
S V Raghavan honored the jury members with a token of
appreciation for their great support throughout the evaluation
process. Mr. Shekhar Sahasrabudhe provided an overview of
the event and expressed his happiness to be associated as a
Convenerfor this year’s edition. Mr. S Karode elaborated on
the evaluation process and the parameters used to examine
the nominations received.
The fi nal round witnessed cut throat competition
between 47 fi nalists spread in four categories namely BFSI,
Telecom, IT/ITeS, Education/e-Learning & Healthcare and
Manufacturing & Infrastructure. From each category, a
Winner, Runner up & Special Mention were awarded. The
Winners received a cheque of Rs. 1, 00,000 with a certifi cate and trophy; the Runner Up and Special Mention were recognized and
given trophies and certifi cates.
The projects that took away the credits in each category were:
Category Winner Runner up Special Mention
BFSI The ShamraoVithal Co-operative
Bank Limited
Tata Consultancy Services State Bank of India
Telecom IT/ITeS IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited Persistent Systems Ltd Vodafone India Ltd
Education/e-learning & Healthcare
Tirubaa Technologies Pvt Ltd Tata Consultancy Services Electronics Corporation of
India Limited
Manufacturing & Infrastructure
Bharat Petroleum Corporation
Limited
Hindalco Industries Ltd Biomatiques Identifi caton
Solutions Pvt Ltd
Mr.Ranga Rajagopal delivered the Vote of Thanks. He summed up the event by thanking all the stakes for their valuable support and
presence. The event was support by Biomatiques as Exhibit Partners and Deloitte as Knowledge partners and supported by HQ team
comprising Ms. Suchit Gogwekar, Ms Nourine Bhimani and others.
CSI Report
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India has more than 6,50,000 villages, in which more than half of its population live in rural areas and off -the-map villages. Most of them are remote and too isolated from the mainstream to get benefi tted from the country’s impressive economic progress. Though, the country is moving forward on the world map and considered as the world’s second fastest-growing mobile market, but it is lagging behind when it comes to internet connectivity, in the rural areas of the country. Connecting the community and its members to the world, through the Internet and other digital technologies, is becoming increasingly essential for the overall development and social progress, in recent years. Under the present circumstances, social inclusion and technology led inclusive growth will only help us to realize the vision; India 2020. The ambitious Digital India drive undertaken by the Government of India is an important step in that direction. However, the citizens, in the length and breadth of the country, are not digitally empowered enough to participate in it and derive the maximum benefi ts out of such a great initiative. Just developing digital infrastructure and bringing governance and services on demand in digital mode will not be suffi cient unless the citizens are also digitally empowered. For this, capacity building initiatives, to create digitally / IT ready citizens, particularly for the downtrodden sections of the society, need to be undertaken very seriously. Digital Literacy and IT related people awareness programmes, in a mission driven manner, in the length and breadth of the country, particularly for the unreached and downtrodden sections of the society, including house wives, should be conducted in a big way, not only to digitally empower them but also to connect them with the mainstream and empower them to participate in the process of making the Digital India, a reality.
Digital Literacy Programme is a dynamic and integrated platform of digital literacy awareness, education and citizens’ empowerment that will help rural communities to take lead in the global digital economy and help them in maintaining the competitiveness and also shape a technologically empowered society enabling them to derive the maximum benefi ts from government schemes and services.
The motto of CSI, which is the oldest and largest body of IT professionals in the country, is IT for Masses, which aims to digitally empower the citizens of the country. In order to realize this motto, variety of the programmes and initiatives are undertaken, from time to time, by diff erent Divisions, Chapters, Students’
Branches, etc. which are the arms of the society. In this sequel, Division – I has collaborated with the CSI Students’ Branch of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi to conduct Digital Literacy Programmes for the people from rural areas of Delhi and adjoining states. Around 40 such programmes have already been successfully conducted by BVICAM, New Delhi, since last 10 years and trained over 2400 citizens, free of cost. The programmes were technically supervised by CSI and fi nancially sponsored and
conducted by BVICAM, New Delhi. The duration of such programmes ranges from 01 day to 02 weeks, covering concepts like Computer and ICT Fundamentals, MS-Offi ce, Internet, Search Engines, Uses of Internet for Exploring the Information or Services on the Internet, etc. Now, Division – I plans to repeat the success stories of
Delhi and conduct the similar programmes in diff erent parts of the country.
Division – IV has collaborated with the CSI Students’ Branch of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology (SAIT) jointly with Microsoft Innovation Center, Indore, and is actively engaged in conducting such Digital Litracy programme with the support of Microsoft for providing on line and off line Course material and certifi cation program. As a part of this, Over 5000 people have already been trained by Division – IV in diff erent rural areas of the Madhya Pradesh, Rajastan and Andhra Pradesh.
Innovative Activity under Digital India by CSIReport by Division – I and Division – IV on “Digital Literacy Programme”
Prof. M. N. Hoda, Chairman, Division – I, CSI
Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Chairman, Division – IV, CSI
Digital Literacy Programme at Gaurav Vaibhav Higher Secondary School Indore.
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In Andhra Pradesh, Prof. P. Trimurthy Ex-Presedent CSI provides support for the activity in association with Sri-Ji High School, Ongole, and KL University Andhra Pradesh. This activity were also conceded for under privileged school students in Madhay Pradesh, Rajasthan Now similar activity is planned for Gujarat state and rest part of the country. This programme is supervised by CSI and supported by Next Generation Foundation.
nDig ital Literacy programme at Sriji High School, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh
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Call for State & Regional CSI Student CoordinatorsComputer Society of India, with 500+ Student Branches across India with close to one lakh members invites
applications from Life Members of CSI interested in serving as Regional and State Student coordinators.
The Student Coordinators should be able to contribute to the growth of CSI Student Branches and to
increasing activity towards spreading of IT Education in diff erent academic institutions. The Regional Student Coordinators (RSCs) will work closely with the Regional Vice Presidents and CSI Education Directorate for leading,
coordinating and managing student activities in the seven regions in the country. RSCs will be supported by the State Student Coordinators (SSCs) in each of the states which constitute the Regions. Details of the Regions and constituent
states are given below in this advertisement.
The applicants must be dynamic with experience of serving the student community and with ability to organize Student
Conventions. CSI has ambitious plans of growth and intends to conduct programs in line with the national IT policy of the
Government of India so as to prepare the student community to contribute towards nation building.
The student coordinators at the Regional and State level must be Life Members of CSI with experience of serving CSI at the
Chapter level and should be ready to devote time to carry out the tasks for the benefi t of CSI Student Branches. Preference
will be given to applicants who have organized Institutional / State level / Regional / National events and are working in an
academic institution.
Interested candidates are requested to send their detailed CV over email by April 30, 2015 to Hony. Secretary, CSI at
secretary@csi-india.org with a copy to Vice President, CSI at vp@csi-india.org mentioning details of the position applied for in the subject line of the mail.
The following is the list of Regions and States for which Student Coordinators are invited:
Region States
Region 1 Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab & Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
Region 2 Assam, Bihar, West Bengal
Region 3 Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
Region 4 Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha
Region 5 Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Karnataka
Region 6 Goa, Maharashtra
Region 7 Kerala, Tamil Nadu 1 & Puducherry, Tamil Nadu2
Sanjay MohapatraHon. Secretary
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INDIACom – 2015 11th – 13th March, 2014
Report of the Conference
The 09th edition of INDIACom i.e. INDIACom - 2015, 2nd 2015
International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development” was organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth
Institute of Computer Applications and Management
(BVICAM), New Delhi during 11th – 13th March, 2015. The
conference was technically sponsored by IEEE Delhi Section
and was patronized by CSI Region – I and CSI Divisions – I, II,
III, IV & V. IETE Delhi Centre, IET (UK) Delhi Local Networks
and ISTE Delhi Section were also supporting and promoting
the event.
The inauguration of the three days conference was
done on 11th March, 2015. Dr. Anurag Mishra, Conference
Chair, welcomed the audience and all the dignitaries.
Prof. M. N. Hoda, Director, BVICAM, New Delhi & General
Chair, INDIACom-2015 briefed the audience about the
history of past 09 editions of INDIACom, since its inception
in the year 2007 and presented a brief report of INDIACom
- 2015. Shri R. K. Vyas, RVP (Region-1), CSI, acknowledged
the presence of all the dignitaries and talked about how CSI
has been associated with INDIACom since its inception
and is open to honest feedback for further improvement.
Prof. Mini Thomas, Chairman, IEEE Delhi Section, appreciated
the huge success of the event and also acknowledged the
contributions of BVICAM, New Delhi towards the activities
of IEEE Delhi Section. Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Co-Chair
Innovation Working Group, Asia, was the key note speaker.
He discussed, at length, diff erent dimensions of sustainable
computing, particularly issues related to carbon footprints,
healthcare and their related future innovations. Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, STPI, Ministry of Communications and
IT, Govt. of India, was the Chief Guest. During his inaugural
address, he shared his thoughts upon the Digital India initiatives
and the Make in India Campaign initiated by the Government
of India along with appreciating India’s growth as the largest
outstanding hub for research and development. The Inaugural
Session was presided over by Mr. Stefanus Botes, Minister
Counsellor for Economics, South African High Commission, who
introduced the audience with the growing business and tourism
relationship between India and South Africa and encouraged
new investments in his country and the scope of Business
Partnership with India. The Inaugural Session was chaired by
Prof. K. K. Aggarwal, Former founder Vice Chancellor, GGSIP
University, New Delhi, Past President and Fellow of CSI, who
expressed his appreciation to see the event growing immensely
over the years. He shared his views on the importance of
computing in a students’ life and that the education system
should be open to accept students’ alternatives of solutions to
encourage logical thinking. He also expressed his concern on
how the focus is always laid upon the fi nances involved in the
introduced innovation related projects rather than analyzing
their cost benefi ts and savings in the future. The amount
and quality of shared ideas and life stories kept the audience
hooked and inspired at the same time. The pre-conference hard
copy of the proceedings for INDIACom-2015; in two volumes;
were released by the dignitaries during the inaugural session.
Dignitaries also released the soft copy of the conference
proceedings. Also, an
advanced version of the
Conference Management
Portal, developed in-
house by the students of
BVICAM, New Delhi under
the supervision of the
faculty, was released along
with Mobile Applications
for INDIACom - 2015 for
Windows, Android and
iOS platforms. During
inaugural session, members
of National ExecCom,
Computer Society of
India (CSI); Prof. Anirban Basu, Vice President-cum-
President Elect, Shri R. K. Vyas, Treasurer, Shri Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony.
Secretary, Prof. A. K. Saini, (INDIACom – 2015: Inaugural Session is in progress)
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Prof. A. K. Nayak, Prof. M. N. Hoda, Prof. Durgesh K. Mishra,
Shri Shiv Kumar were felicitated. Mrs. Anukiran Jain, Convener
of the Local Organizing presented vote of thanks. The inaugural
session concluded on the Cultural Evening having series of nerve
breaking cultural items performed by the students of BVICAM,
New Delhi. The session was anchored and co-ordinated by
Mrs. Parul Arora, Asstt. Professor, BVICAM, New Delhi.
INDIACom – 2015 attracted over 1500 papers from
all over the world, in both regular and special sessions.
Out of this, 1360 papers were considered worth reviewing,
remaining papers were rejected out-rightly. Based upon the
review reports, 508 papers were accepted to be presented
in 39 different technical sessions under 08 parallel tracks,
having four tracks (1, 2, 3 & 4) of regular papers and four
tracks (5, 6, 7 & 8) of special sessions. Turnitin was used to
check the plagiarism of the papers, exhaustively. Professors
/ Researchers, from different parts of the world, collaborated
together and convened Special Sessions in the conference,
All the 508 papers have been published as a Pre-Conference
Proceedings on DVD having ISBN and ISSN serials. A further
shortlisted set of 289 papers, out of 508 accepted papers,
have been published in the Hardcopy of the Pre-Conference
Proceedings in two volumes; one each for Regular and Special
Sessions, having ISBN and ISSN serials, which was released
during the inauguration. Track # 1 was on Sustainable
Computing; Track # 2 dealt with High Performance
Computing; Track # 3 for High Speed Networking and
Information Security; Track # 4 on Software Engineering and
Emerging Technologies. Track # 5 was for Digital Life; Track
# 6 was for Next Generation Computing; Track # 7 was for
Next Generation Networking while as Track # 8 was devoted
to Emerging Technologies. A total of 471 papers out of 508
accepted papers were presented in 39 technical sessions
under 08 parallel tracks over 03 days of the conference.
Proceedings of the papers, which were presented during the
conference, will be published and indexed by IEEE Xplore.
A Panel discussion was organized on the evening of 12th
March, 2015 based on the theme “Digital India”; an initiative
undertaken by the Government of India, which includes creation
of digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally and digital
literacy. The Panel Discussion was moderated by Mr. Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, Cyber Media, Gurgaon. Other panelists
for the session were, Mr. Shiv Kumar, Technical Director, NIC,
MC&IT, Govt. of India, Justice Talwant Singh, District and
Sessions Judge, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Mr. V. K. Gupta, IET (UK)
and Mr. Viksit Nijhawan, AVP (Engineering), Aricent, Gurgaon.
The Panel Discussion was chaired by Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony. Secretary, Computer Society of India.
Over 900 guests from diff erent parts of the country and
abroad, including 110 session chairs and invited speakers
participated in 03 days of the conference. Paper presentations,
key note addresses, invited talks showcased the solid research
base built by the experts and participants. The skill with which
the event was executed, welcomed positive feedback from
all visiting dignitaries. Diff erent tracks of the events were co-
ordinated by the faculty members, Dr. Anupam Baliyan, Mrs.
Anukiran Jain, Mrs. Shalini Singh, Mrs. Parul Arora, Dr. Shivendra
Goel, Mr. Vishal Jain, Mr. Nitish Pathak, Mrs. Ritika Wason, Mrs.
Vaishali Joshi, Mrs. Narinder Kaur Seera, Mr. Vinod Kr. Chauhan,
Mr. Imran Khan and Mr. Manish.
Finally, on the last day of the conference, 13th March, 2015;
the Valedictory Session was concluded on Kavi Sammelan,
which was enjoyed by all the guests and students of BVICAM,
New Delhi.
(INDIACom – 2015: Memento presentati on is in progress)
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First Prize - Dr. G Suvarna Kumar
Dr. Suvarna Kumar did his Ph.D in
Computer Science and Engineering
from JNT Kakinada University in 2013
in the subject of Signal Processing -
Image and Audio Processing Using
Machine Learning techniques. He
did M Tech (CS) with Artifi cial
Intelligence and Robotics
specialization with Distinction and
second rank from Andhra University
in 2008. With an experience
spanning over 12 years, he has major
interests in the domains of Machine Learning and Computer
Networks. He visited MEXICO and USA in 2013 as member of the
Group Study Exchange Program of Rotary International. Supported
by DST, he presented his research work at Singapore in 2011. He is
an Educator for Microsoft Applications developed for engineering
students. He has presented papers at 5 international conferences
and has publications in 15 international journals.
Dr. G Suvarna Kumar won the CSI Best Ph.D Thesis Award for
his work “Towards Quality Improvement in Learning Environment
Using an Intelligent Novel Adaptive Framework”. The pursuit of
excellence in innovative education necessitates a vital role of
instructors and learners in enhancing teaching-learning outcomes.
The thesis proposes two signifi cant frameworks; the fi rst to
automate the attendance system for learners in a class, and the
second to consolidate the feedback assessments of the instructor’s
delivery eff ectiveness with the utilization of the resources. The
fi rst framework deploys face recognition techniques with a novel
heuristic approach to identify learners. The other framework
“Intelligent Adaptive Feedback-Assessment” provides relative
feedback assessment of the instructors by correlating diff erent
learning styles of students. Computer vision and speech analysis
are utilized to extract features and assess the performance.
Second Prize - Dr. L Latha
Dr. L. Latha was the recipient of the
award “Active Participation - Women
Members” of CSI in 2011 for
organizing the CSI National Student
Convention. Her research domains
include Multimodal biometrics,
Network security and Digital Image
Processing. She has published 15
papers in international journals and
presented 35 papers in international
and national conferences and has
won the ‘Best paper award’ thrice;
she is a reviewer of research articles in international journals. Her
career includes an year’s stint of research at Fluid Control
Research Institute, Palghat, followed by over 18 years of experience.
She developed the “Multimodal biometric authentication system
for secure access control applications using palmprint and
fi ngerprint” as a sponsored project.
Dr. L Latha won the CSI Best Ph.D Thesis Second Prize
for the project “Highly Reliable Biometric Methods for Person
Authentication in Access Control Applications”. Biometric
systems analyze the physiological and behavioral characteristics
for personal identifi cation. Initially, the project proposes
procedural enhancements for feature extraction in unimodal
biometric authentication systems based on iris, retina and ear.
Secondly, diff erent score normalization and fusion schemes have
been attempted, with multiple snapshots, units, and biometrics.
Five diff erent multimodal biometric systems were developed
based on the fusion of various combinations of the fi ve traits - iris,
retina, ear, palm print and fi ngerprint. As Biometrics is becoming
increasingly inevitable in all security and automation applications,
continuing development, its scope and performance need
consistent upgradation in all future missions.
Third Prize - Dr. Kuldeep Yadav
Dr. Kuldeep Yadav, a Research
Scientist in Distributed Computing
group in Xerox Research Centre
(XRCI), India, has research interests
in mobile sensing, usability evaluation
of mobile systems, and designing
mobile systems for developing
countries. An alumnus of IIT, Delhi,
he was a recipient of the prestigious
Microsoft Research Ph.D Fellowship
in 2011. He received the Google
sponsored best presentation award
in Ph.D Forum at MobiSys’12 and the fi rst runner up award in Ph.D
research session at Microsoft Research Tech Vista. He has a large
number of presentations and publications to his credit.
The work on “Geo-localization and Location-aware
Opportunistic Communication for Mobile Phone” fetched the
CSI Best Ph.D Thesis Third Prize to Dr. Kuldeep. App stores,
such as Google Play, have millions of applications for download,
many of them dependent on user’s location and other contextual
information. But the signal, infrastructure and other parameters
have limited the performance in several countries. The research
work aims to aims at overcoming the limitations with systems and
services for smartphones and feature phones with no additional
infrastructure or energy requirements. Adequate user location is
obtained without the need for expensive sensors. The resultant
user location can be either raw geo-coordinates, or high-level
information of places and routes. Robust algorithms are proposed
for computing user location, while creating profound system
knowledge to package them as a platform, for direct use by third-
party application developers using open APIs.
Hearty Congratulations !!The Winners of the CSI Best PhD Thesis Awards 2014
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3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONINNOVATIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING (ICICSE-2015)
Organized by
GURU NANAK INSTITUTIONS
IN COLLABORATION WITH COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA,DIVISION IV AND HYDERABAD CHAPTER
7th & 8th August, 2015Theme: Innovations in Computer Science & Engineering (ICICSE)
The aim of the International Conference on Innovations in Computer Science & Engineering (ICICSE) is to provide
an opportunity for researchers, scientists, technocrats, academicians and engineers to exchange their innovative
ideas and new research fi ndings in the fi eld of Computer Science & Engineering and related disciplines as on
today. The conference will provide an interactive platform for the participants, professionals from the academia
and industry. It would facilitate scientifi c research from academic and scientifi c institutions, defense and industry
segments across India and globe to share their research expertise, experiment breakthroughs or vision/trends in
the following broad areas but not limited to: Research and review papers are invited for presentation.
☛ Data Warehousing & Mining, Machine Learning and Neural Networks, Human Computer Interaction.
☛ Image Processing, Software Engineering, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing
☛ Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing, Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms
☛ Networks and Information Security, Grid Computing
☛ Pervasive Computing, Distributed Operating Systems
☛ Artifi cial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Brain Computing, Network on Cheap
☛ Global Information Systems.
Selected papers will be published in the Jrl. of Computer Science & Engineering being brought out by GNI.
Important Dates:
Paper submission: June 2nd, 2015
Acceptance notifi cation for papers: June 16th, 2015
Last date of registration: July 2nd, 2015
Final Submission-Camera ready paper July 13th, 2015
Website: For details please browse www.icicse2015.orgVenue: Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus, Ibrahimpatnam, Hyderabad
For details contact :
Dr. H. S. Saini Dr. D. D. Sarma md@gniindia.org dirmca.gnipg@gniindia.org
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Student Essay Contest Harnessing the Power of ICT for our New InitiativesMr. Ramesh Gopalaswamy (gopalaswamy_ramesh@yahoo.com)
and
Mr. H.R. Mohan (hrmohan.csi@gmail.com)
Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter, in association
with the IEEE Computer Society, Madras and IEEE Professional
Communication Society, Madras conducted an Essay Contest
in two streams: Stream 1: Open to School Students (from 8th
Standard to Plus 2); and Stream 2: Open to College/Polytechnic
Students (UG/PG students of all disciplines).
The participants had the option of submitting an essay on
“ICT for Digital India” or “ICT for Make in India” or “ICT for Clean
India” by 31st Jan 2015.
Submitted essays were evaluated on criteria such as
originality, novelty, applicability, potential value of the proposed
idea(s) and clarity and style of presentation by a panel consisting
of Mr. Ramesh Gopalaswamy (Author, Consultant and Guest
Faculty, IIT Madras), Mr. Pramod Mooriath (President, Qatalys
Software Tech & Chair, CSI Chennai), Ms. Latha Ramesh (VP-
Academic Engagement & Service Delivery, Classle Knowledge
Pvt Ltd & Past Chair, CSI Chennai) and Mr. K. Adhivarahan (ICT
Consultant & Past Chair, CSI Chennai).
It was indeed very refreshing and encouraging to see the
response of the students. More than 200 essays were received
from various parts of India. In this article, we share some of the
highlights of these essays. All the prize winning essays which
are referred in this article are hosted at the website at http://
goo.gl/FziCmK
On the topic of Digital India, some essays had
sectorial focus. There were applications for travel planning
[alag19940818], use of ICT for road safety [dany19930820],
digitization to make sure buses stop at designated bus stops
[a real problem indeed!], use of
Aadhaar numbers for an easy and
foolproof way of getting birth / death
certificates and other Government
services [amar19941014] and also
for “Smart Travel Card” systems
[para19920912] an e-Attendance
system to ensure students are not only
physically but also mentally present
in a class room. [Amit19940508].
The essay [jana19951127] presented
an interesting concept of “Demat”
for academic certificates. The essay
[Manj19940611] covered a very
wide variety of possibilities including
politically sensitive areas like
fisherman safety. Similarly the essay
[saravana19930929] also covered
a wide ground including healthcare,
disaster management, e-Governance,
etc. There was also an interesting system to connect common
man to the Government called “Online Common Panchayats
And Palikas Information System” [neel19941007].
[prin19950403] touches areas like digitization of elections
and digitization of law and order. [sand19940508] brought
out an innovative idea of “Biometric Voting Machines” to
replace the current Electronic Voting Machines to minimize
fraud and impersonation. The essay [srej19940727] went
into the architectural details of various current success
stories like e-Choupal. The essay [swet19950907] touched
upon the important aspect of educating people about digital
technologies. Very innovative methods of modernizing
education using ICT were brought out in [vini19940901].
For “Make in India” initiative, there were some good
suggestions too, belying the myth that students do not know
much about manufacturing. An example was [chit19930531]
which outlined the use of ICT for the entire product life
cycle starting from investments through planning, product
design, production, human resources and marketing. Some
of the essays transcended just the technology borders
in formulating solutions. For example, [dami19930930]
proposed an application of the Crowd Funding model to
secure investments for “Make in India”. Another essay
[resh19940913] focused on the importance of ICT for
agriculture by discussing the application of robotics to
agriculture like SLUGBOT, ACROBATS, etc. Realizing the
importance of ICT in defense, [sind19960608] stresses
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the role of “Make in India” for Defense Manufacturing. The
importance of promoting entrepreneurship for the success of
“Make in India” initiative was brought out in [sona19940709].
The essay [mana19921126] brought out the importance of
ICT for Make in India and its relevance to the common man,
the aam aadmi.
In terms of “Clean India” too, there were several
interesting essays. One of the essays [ashw19920604]
made a very poignant and thought provoking observation
that the number of mobile phones in India may exceed the
number of toilets! This essay went on to propose novel
methods of harnessing ICT to promote awareness and an
attitudinal change in the minds of people about cleanliness.
One of the most talked about technologies today is the
use of drones. The essay [gaya19950228] suggested some
innovative methods of using drones to address one of the
most common problems we encounter – that of open pits
and drains. Another essay [ram19871213] went beyond the
traditional “ICT” to even take concepts from Chemistry to
real life problems in areas in Chennai like Perungudi Dump
Yard. The essay [shiv19950721] touched upon a very real
problem for Chennaiites – namely cleaning of the Cooum
River! The fact that there are already laudable initiatives like
the m-bin initiative in Andhra Pradesh which significantly
increased the productivity of the people working in sanitation
was brought out in [ramv19990617]. The role of leveraging
the appeal of film stars and cricketers through ICT media
was brought out in [sona19940215]. The fact that “Clean
India” transcends all religion was amply brought out by using
quotations from Gita, Quran and Bible by [thaf19930429].
The use of ICT for the full cycle of waste management
was discussed in [swat19930910].One of the essays
[vipi19951120] went into a fair amount of implementation
details of how to implement an important aspect of Clean
Toilets. At the end of the day, cleanliness is a habit. This
was nicely brought out by [gane19970607]. “Clean India”
goes beyond just sanitation. It covers problems faced by the
current generation like e-Waste. The essay [priy19950917]
presents the importance of e-Waste management for
Clean India.
Some of the essays also showed creativity and ingenuity
in the presentation styles which augur well for the long term
future. For example, [chan19931008] coined nice and catchy
acronyms for several initiatives – like DIC for Digital India
Classrooms, a model for hybrid learning, combining MOOCs
with traditional class rooms. The essay [jaya19951003] also
used relevant quotes from Mahatma Gandhi “Sanitation
is more important than independence” to drive home the
point of cleanliness. One student [MONI19940808] even
coined a nice poem to bring out the importance of Clean
India! After all, in the modern world, style is as importance
as substance!
This spark of creativity and humour is aptly brought out in
the conclusion of the essay [shub19930629]. “To conclude this
article in a lighter vein, in one of the famous cartoons of Dennis
the Menace, the irrepressible boy tells his father with logic
beyond his years: “Dad, if everything is made in China, then God
must be living in China”. When the Prime Minister’s vision of
“Come, Make in India” is realised, and India becomes an enviable
manufacturing hub of the world, Dennis may perhaps fi nd God
shifting his residence to India!”
It is proposed that the enthusiasm of the students be
recognized appropriately and some of their well thought out
suggestions and ideas presented in these prize winning essays
will be taken up for exploring the feasibility of implementation
through governmental agencies.
The essay contest was sponsored by Dynamic Group,
Anjana Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, HP Networking,
Cognitive Platform Solutions (CPS) Pvt Ltd, Orbit
Innovations and CloudReign Technologies. Prof. San
Murugesan (Adjunct Professor, University of Western
Sydney, Australia) and Mr. S. Ramasamy (GM, Great Lakes
Institute of Management & Past RVP-VII and Past Chair,
CSI Chennai) extended support in the successful conduct
of this essay contest. Mr. H.R. Mohan (Former Associate
Vice President (Systems), The Hindu and President, CSI)
was the convener of this contest.
On 30th March 2015, in a function organized at the CSI
Education Directorate at Chennai, the Chennai based contest
winners in each stream were awarded the following prizes &
certifi cates:
• One 1st Prize: Rs. 10000/-
• Two 2nd Prizes: Rs. 5000/- of each
• Four 3rd Prizes: Rs. 2500/- of each
• Consolation Prizes: Rs. 1000/- each
Certifi cate of appreciation: For short listed essays based on
a certain cut-off score over and the above prize winning essays.
Mr. S. Arjun, a student of class 9 from Chennai, who had
received the ‘National Child Award for Exceptional Achievements
(for Computer Technology) 2014” from the President of India
was also felicitated and awarded a cash prize of Rs. 5000/- and
a certifi cate of appreciation.
Mr. S. Mahalingam, Past President of CSI and Director
and Former Executive Vice President & CFO, TCS was
the chief guest at this felicitation function. Mr. Prakash
Damodaran IAS, first IT Secretary to the Government of Tamil
Nadu and Director, UTI Infrastructure Tech Services Ltd was
the guest of honour. Both of them wished and encouraged the
prize winners and highlighted the opportunities in the areas
of information and communication technologies which are
playing a major role in or day to day life.
Mr. H.R. Mohan, President, CSI & Chairman, IEEE CS &
PCS welcomed the prize winners and the parents and teachers
accompanied the winners. He then outlined the genesis of
this essay contest and explained the process adopted for the
evaluation. Mr. Mohan briefly explained about the Computer
Society of India and its services to the student community
and elaborated the various benefits of the membership in
CSI. He also highlighted about the recently launched initiative
of CSI which offers institutional membership to the schools
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facilities a host of benefits including the computer clubs
in the school, mentoring the students by the senior CSI
members, faculty development programmes for the teachers,
sensitizing the students on cyber security and e-Waste,
career counselling, contests in programming, applications
& websites development, project expos etc., and urged the
schools to join CSI as institutional members and requested
the parents and teacher to publicize this initiative among
their contacts.
The judges, Ms. Latha Ramesh and Mr. K. Adhivarahan
shared their views and appreciated the contest participants for
their ideas presented in the essays. Mr. Pramod Mooriath, the
chairman of CSI Chennai Chapter thanked the sponsors of the
contest, the parents, teachers and the students for making this
contest a meaningful and useful exercise.
For the details of the prize winners and the pictures
taken at the prize distribution function, pl. visit the website at
http://goo.gl/FziCmK
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CONSEG – The International Conference on Software
Engineering is the premier software engineering conference,
providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators
to discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and
concerns in the fi eld of software engineering.
The goal of this year conf. CONSEG-2015 is to provide a
forum for discussion and exploration of software engineering
challenges in the SMAC (Social Networks, Mobile, Analytics
and Cloud) context. The objective of this conference is to
promote interactions and synergy among researchers and
developers who deal with the challenges of developing and
deploying eff ective analyses of social and mobile data, towards
shared understanding of the implications of SMAC for software
engineering.
The theme of CONSEG 2015 is “Software Engineering in
SMAC (Social Networks, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud)”
SMAC is the newest challenges of software engineering.
Enterprises are increasingly basing decisions on advanced
analytics, and using analytics to interact more eff ectively with
their customers (eg. to determine suitable promotions to off er
them). Social network data is ever more prevalent and important,
and mobile devices are key both for information gathering (eg.
location) and communication (eg. off ering a promotion to a
customer who is nearby). Business innovations arise frequently,
and lead to the need for rapid development of customized
analytics and analytics-based applications. These are often
hosted on clouds, leading to the quartet known as SMAC: Social,
Mobile, Analytics and Cloud.
Computer Society of India – Coimbatore Chapter in
association with Division II (Software) and Division III
(Applications) organized CONSEG-2015, the International
Conference on Software Engineering during 6-7, March 2015 at
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.
Most of the delegates were professionals associated with
Information Systems department and EDP units of various
industries in and around Coimbatore.
On 6th March, 2015 (Friday), Mr. H.R. Mohan, President
of CSI, inaugurated the conference highlighting the Software
Engineering trends
and challenges in the
context of SMAC which
plays a major role both
in development and
deployment. Prof. R.
Nadarajan, Chair, Div
II and the convenor of
the conf. provided an
overview of the conf.
prorgamme. Dr. M.
Sundaresan, the Chapter
Chairman welcomed
the gathering and
Mr. Ranga Rajagopal,
Patron, CSI Coimbatore
and national Treasurer,
CSI elaborated on the
chapter activities and informed the gathering on the hosting
of CSI-2016, the 51st annual convention of CSI at Coimbatore.
Mr. S. Arumugam, the Chapter Vice Chairman thanked the
participants and the invited speakers.
CONSEG-2015 programme included the following invited talks.
• “Role of Open Source in Teaching Software Engineering” by Dr. D. Janakiram, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.
• • “Building Digital Applications” by Mr. V. Srinivasa Rao, CEO
and Chief Digital Consultant, BT & BT, Hyderabad.• “Driving Innovation on SMAC” by Mr. Manikandan
Thangarathnam, Director-Software Development, Amazon, Chennai.
• “Role of Software Testing in SDLC and Software Testing Tools” by Mr. Vivek Pai, Senior Manager-Health Care, Deloitte, Bangalore.
• “Work Flow Automation” by Dr. R. Ramaseshan, Venture Leader, Automatika, Cognizant, Chennai.
• “Software Architecture” by S. G. Ganesh, consultant and author from Bangalore.
• “Agile Methodologies” by Mr. S. Govindarajan, General Manager, ThoughtWorks, Chennai.
• “Role of Software Engineering in the world of SMAC” by Mr. Rajavel Sekaran, Program Director-Strategy, IBM, Bangalore.
• “Mobile Commerce and Trends” by Mr. U.N. Murali Krishna, Vice-President, Skava Systems, Coimbatore.
• “Soft Data Analytics” by Dr. P. Radha Krishna, Principal Research Scientist, Infosys, Hyderabad.
• “SMAC and beyond and its infl uence on the society” by Dr. Vivek Nirkhe, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA.
At the feedback session, the delegates numbering over 120 including 50 students, expressed that this conference was very useful for them to learn the latest technologies and also appreciated the effi cient time management adopted in this conference. Mr. R. Murali, Secretary, CSI-Coimbatore Chapter,
delivered the vote of thanks at the end of the day.
CSI Division II and Division III ReportCONSEG – 2015: International Conference on Software Engineering
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The National Conference on Cyber Space Security, NCCSS2015
was held on the 13th and 14th of March 2015 at Hotel Atria,
Palace Road, Bangalore with the theme “Secured Cyberspace for
Digital India”. This was organized by Computer Society of India,
Bangalore Chapter along with the CSI - Special Interest Group on
Information Security SIG-IS.
The conference was well attended by the Industry,
Academia, Ministry of Defense, DRDO, State Police Department
and Staff of State Govt. About 100 delegates from leading IT
industries and Defence Organizations attended this National
Conference participating in technical discussions on both days.
Main Sponsors for the Event are: Check Point, QOS Systems
Pvt Ltd, Bharat Electronics Limited, C-DAC, KBITS and DRDO.
Dr. K.D. Nayak, DS & DG (MED, CoS & CS), DRDO was
the chief guest and inaugurated this two days conference. Shri.
Pronab Mohanty IGP-CID Bangalore police was the guest of
honor. Mr. H.R. Mohan, President of CSI, addressed the gathering
on the importance of Cyber Security and the role of CSI. He
congratulated the SIG-IS for having planned this conference
when Cyber Security would be playing an important role
particularly during the “Digital India” initiative which is aiming
to bring more than 500 million people online. Mr. Kapil Awasti
of M/s. Checkpoint, the principal sponsor was also a guest at
the inaugural session. Dr. Chakravarthy, Convener, CSI-SIG-IS,
Mr. Bindhumadhava, Imm. Past Chairman, Mr. Chander Mannar,
Chairman, CSI Bangalore & Ms. Bhnaumathi, Vice Chair, CSI
Bangalore were among the other dignitaries present at the
inaugural.
Mr. Chander P Mannar, Chairman CSI-BC welcomed the
gathering. Mr. Bindhumadhava event chairman of NCCSS-2015
spoke on the Cyber Threats and the work that CSI has done so far.
He mentioned that this is the Fourth Cyber Security Conference
through CSI and explained the two days program in store for the
delegates, wherein the best speakers had been brought in. He
added that the Key note address will be given by Kapil Avasti,
Check point and by Ms. Hemavathy of CRL BEL.
Each one of the key note addresses dwelt on specifi c
topics. Dr. Chakravarthy highlighted the activities of Special
interest Group on Information Security (SIG-IS). He particularly
thanked the support given by CSI Headquarters, Execom and
in particular the President of CSI. The SIG-IS has been holding
the two prestigious conferences of CSI with the help of CSI
Bangalore Chapter – “IT For Defense” and NCCSS. In fact these
conferences are held in high esteem by CSI and by
top offi cials of Ministry of Defense, PSU, DRDO
and academia. He also suggested the following
important recommendations for consideration at
the national level by Government of India, DietY.
• We do not have an organization like NIST
in India while the defense has its own cyber
policy committee CPC. There should be at the
national level an independent organization to draft
standards for Cyber Security in space.
• The Organization should also come up with
criteria for evaluation of diff erent types of secrecy
system and the methodology of grading them for
transmission of secret top secret messages.
Ms. Bhanumahti, Vice Chair, CSI-BC, in her
vote of thanks thanked the Chief Guest, Guest of Honor, all
speakers and participants for attending the conference.
Dr. K.D. Nayak, in his inaugural address spoke on the
aspects of the Cyber Security which enhances the idea of Digital
India. Shri. Pronab Mohanty, IGP-CID outlined the involvement
of Cyberspace in their works and also the need for a Digital
India campaign. He went on to mention that as cyber-attacks
are increasingly being mounted through cyber media and
infect computers operating at diff erent levels, harming people
and economics. This may be the reason wherein the need for a
secure cyberspace is increasing.
Mr. Ramandeep Singh, one of the keynote speakers
from Checkpoint highlighted how Checkpoint plays a role the
fi eld of cyber space and elaborated on their solutions. Ms. M
Hemavathy, the other keynote speaker from BEL touched upon
the aspects of “Security Testing for Defence Network”.
On the day one of the conf., the fi rst session was started
with a presentation by Dr. Nagraj Kulkarni on “Big Data Role
in Cyber Security”. It was followed by session by Dr. Srinivasa
providing an insight on Cloud Security. A later session on day
one concentrated on the various crimes and legal systems in the
fi eld of cyberspace by Mr. M.T. Nanaiah, Senior Advocate.
The second day sessions were started off with an address
by Dr. N Rajesh Pillai, DRDO on “Make in India” for Cyber
Security. Other speakers of the day two sessions, provided an
in depth knowledge of some of the cyber space applications in
Smart Cities and in Mobile Internet and Banking. Mr. Haribabu
of CDAC concluded the technical sessions, speaking on “Cyber
Security for Internet of Everything”.
In the Panel Discussion, followed the lunch, the panelists
Mr. Narasimha Rao and Dr. Mohammed Misbahuddin discussed
the Role of E-Aadhar for Secure Digital India.
During the feedback session, the delegates highly
appreciated the program and applauded CSI for arranging such
a wonderful and informative conference. CSI-BC acknowledges that NCCSS-2015 would not have
been successful without the support and generous sponsorships
and the help of staff members of CSI-BC. The pictures of the conf. NCSS-2015 taken on day one and
day two can be seen at http://goo.gl/h8RtOl and http://goo.gl/
X35ZyV respectively.
NCCSS-2015: National Conference on Cyber Space Security
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“OxyTech2K15”, a national-level student’s convention and
techno-cultural fest, was organized by the students of MCA
and ISE Departments of The Oxford College of Engineering
under the aegis of the Student Branches of Computer Society
of India (CSI) & IEEE This fest, offered an awesome platform
for the students to showcase their innovative talents.
Oxy-Tech 2K15 started with the ceremonious inaugural
function presided by the honourable Chief Guest Sri. H.R.
Mohan, President, CSI & Chair, IEEE CS, Madras and Former
Associate Vice President (Systems), The Hindu. The Guest of
Honour was Sri. Sundar Ramakrishnan, Director of Engineering,
CISCO Systems, Bangalore.
The fest was an amalgamation of technical and cultural
events such as – ‘Web Weaver’, ‘Code Warriors’, ‘Online
Treasure Hunt’, ‘Brain Scratch – IT Quiz’,
‘Innovative App Challenge’, ‘Kurukshetra
– NFS & CS’, ‘Just a Minute’, ‘East meets
West – Group Dance’, ‘Take One –
Documentary Movie’ and ‘Gully Cricket’.
The alluring events magnetized
students from all over India. A total of
742 students from across 43 colleges
participated.
‘Innovative App Challenge’ was
introduced for the fi rst time. The
judging panel was astonished by the
performance of students. ‘Web Weaver’,
‘Code Warriors’ showcased the fi nest
techies. Participants of ‘Brain Scratch –
IT Quiz’, ‘Take One’ and ‘Just a Minute’ enthralled the audience
with their amazing knowledge and creativity.
The energy packed performance of participants, in ‘East
meets West’, electrifi ed the viewers. ‘Gully Cricket’ was fl ooded
with enthusiastic participants.
Student Coordinator Aaditya, said, “Expertise planning
and dedicated execution of volunteers made the fest a
grand sensation. We thank our Founder Chairman Sri. S.
Narasa Raju and Executive Director Sri. S.N.V.L. Narasimha
Raju for being our pillar of support. We thank Dr. M.S.
Shashidhara, HoD-MCA and Dr. D. Jayaramaiah, HoD-ISE
for their able guidance and untiring efforts in successful
completion of this fest.
OxyTech 2K15 – National Level Student’s Convention and Techno-Cultural Fest
CSI Communications | April 2015 | 41
CSI Report
From CSI SIG and Divisions »Please check detailed news at:
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A Seminar “ICT in Healthcare” in Association with CSI Division III & Division IV A seminar “ICT in Health care” in association with CSI division III & division IV under CSI student branch activity was organized at
Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore on 27 Mar 2015. Senior
Doctors of Oncology department, dentistry and radio diagnosis
delivered lectures on use of technology and software in treatment
planning and execution of life threatening diseases like cancer.
Dr. Virendra Bhandari (Professor-Radiation Oncology IGRT,
IMRT and Brachytherapy Specialist) emphasized on technological
changes and improvements in treatment planning like faster,
more accurate and advanced techniques. Dr. Tushar Phulambrikar
(Professor and Head, Sri Aurobindo College of Dentistry Indore)
discussed “The role of Computer technology in Dental imaging”.
Dr. Yajush Jain talked about aspects of Tele Radiology which
helps the doctor to communicate the cases even if they located
at distant locations. In the beginning the guests were welcomed
by Dr. C.K. Jain (Academic Advisor), Dr. D.K. Mishra (HOD – CSE)
and Prof. Rashid Sheikh. Program conduction was done by Mrs.
Sarika Jain Bhatti and Mr. Prasanna Kapse.
Recent Trends in Network Security (RTNS-2015)Computer Application Department of Bhopal School of Social
Sciences(BSSS) ,Bhopal in association with Computer Society
of India (DIV-IV) organized University Grant Commission
sponsored(UGC) two-day national Seminar on “Recent Trends in Network Security” with an aim to aware the participants on
the types of threats and the recent trends in Network Security.
Eminent scientist, engineers, researchers, research scholars
from prominent institutions were invited to share their practical
knowledge and input on the recent trends in network security.
The seminar was inaugurated by the chief guest Mr. Amit
Kumar Mishra – Advisor to Urban Development Government
of M.P., Invited special guest Mr. Satnam Sethi CEO MPOnline,
Keynote speaker Dr. Vipin Tyagi – Associate Professor JP University
of Engineering and Technology Guna, College Principal Fr.
Dr. Joseph P.P., College Director Fr. Dr. Johnney P.J., Vice Principal
Sr. Dr. Lissy Jose.
The invited talks were delivered by Dr. Vipin Tyagi Dr. Durgesh
Mishra, Prof. & Head, CSE, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology,
Indore,Dr. M.A. Rizvi, Associate Professor, NITTR, Bhopal, Mr. Basant
Tiwari, Associate Professor, BIRT, Bhopal, Prof. Astitva Bhargav, NLIU
Bhopal, Dr. R. S. Thakur, Associate Professor, MANIT, Bhopal.
Conference “Tec’afe - 2K15” @ Garden City College, BangaloreThe 2nd National Conference “Tec’afe 2K15 – “Convergence in
Operational and Computational Technology” held on 18 March
2015. Participants from various parts of the country were part of the
conference. Tec’afe 2015 took its new wings by being in association
with Computer Society of India (CSI) and Bangalore University
(BU). The Conference was declared “OPEN” by Dr. B.L. Muralidhara.
The Conference Proceeding with the ISBN No: 978–81-207-97147
was released during the inaugural function by Mr. Pratap Hegde &
Dr. Durgesh Mishra Chairman Division IV Communication.
CSI Division IV – Communications Report Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra
Seminar on ICT in Healthcare at SAIT, Indore
Recent trends in Network Security at Bhopal
Co nferece Tec’afe 2K15
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CSI Report
Report on CSI ContestsThird National Alan Turing Computer Science Quiz 2015
Computer Society of India, jointly with Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune organized the third National Alan Turing Computer Science Quiz 2015 exclusively for CSI Student Volunteers. This initiative is yet another CSI venture off ered to the student community. This is a team based competition consisting of two students each. The fi rst two rounds of this quiz are online. A total of 760 teams registered for the quiz program. The top six teams were invited for the Final on stage round which was hosted at ASM’s Institute of Business Management and Research, Pune on 14-3-2015. Prof. K Nirmalacoordinated this event. The Quiz was inaugurated by Mr. Anand Joglekar, Chairman, CSI Pune Chapter. The Quiz Master for this event was Mr. Deven Nilesh Deshpande, Software Engineer, L &T Infotech, Pune. The team from RMK Engineering College, Chennai consisting of Mr. M Mukesh & Mr. A Sivasubramanyam bagged the fi rst prize. Ankit Dubey & Bhavin G Kotak, Silicon Insitute of Technology, Bhubneshwar & Sagar Wadhwani & Pallav Kabra, Shri. Vaishnav Institute of Technology & Science (SVITS), Indore were the fi rst and second Runner-up teams. Dr. Deepak Shikarpur, Past Chairman, CSI Pune Chapter & Dr. R Venkateshwaran Senior Vice President, Persistent Systems were the Chief Guests. Cash Awards and Certifi cates were presented to the winning teams.
CSI Discover Thinking Third National Programming Contest 2015Computer Society of India and Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune
organized the third National Programming Contest 2015 exclusively for the CSI Student Volunteers. This is an individual event to showcase the programming abilities of the student in
C++ and Java languages. A total of 2157 CSI student volunteers registered for this contest. The fi rst two rounds tests were online and the next round was held over skype. The top six students were called for the Final, through online, supervised round hosted at Amity Institute of Information Technology (AIIT) on 21-2-2015. The event was coordinated by Prof. Laxmi Ahuja, Associate professor, AIIT & Prof. Sunil Kumar Khatri, Director, AIIT and Vice Chairman & Chairman–Elect, CSI Noida Chapter. The First Prize was won by Rachit Nagdev, Birla Institute of Tech, Mesra (Jaipur Campus) and the fi rst and second runner up prizes were bagged by Hardik Agrawal, Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engg, Bandra, Mumbai and Sanjay Rawat, Army Institute of Tech, Pune. Mr. Anuj Agarwal, Chairman, CSI Noida Chapter was the Chief Guest for this event. M/s Reliscore, Pune were the technology partners for the event. Both these events were coordinated by Mr. Navin and Mr. Amit with support from Mr. Dilip of CSI Headquarters.
CSI Discover Thinking Fourth National Student Project Contest 2015
The National Student Project Contest is an academic initiative from Computer Society of India with the partnership of Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune with the objective of preparing the students for a competitive information technology career, by encouraging students nationally to design innovative projects and to improve their skill set to become market ready. It provides an opportunity to demonstrate the projects with a strong social relevance. Regional rounds were held at 5 places across the country. The top two teams from each region were called for the Final round which was held at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai on 14-3-2015. Prof. P Kumar, Immediate Past Chairman, CSI Chennai Chapter coordinated this event. Mr. Arvind Benegal, Vice President Technology, Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune, Mr. Pramod Mooriath, Chairman, CSI Chennai Chapter & Mr. Rajan T Joseph, Director (Education) CSI Education Directorate were the Panel of Judges. The First Prize was bagged by Ms. Trishla Shah, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad while the First and Second Runners up were Mr. Saad Memon, Padmashree Dr. D Y Patil Inst of Engineering and Management and Research, Pune and team comprising Mr. Vishal Pundalik Patil & Mr Nihil Satish Varma, Sandip Institute of Tech and Research Centre, Nashik
The Regional Level Project Contests were Coordinated and Evaluated by :
1. Mr. Saurabh Agrawal, Chairman, CSI Ghaziabad &
Dr. Dilkeshwar Pandey, ABES Institute of Technology,
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Ghazibad, (Region I)
2. Prof. Nilesh K Modi, Chairman CSI Ahmedabad Chapter &
Dr. Nisarg Pathak, State Student Coordinator, Gujarat State
(Region III)
3. Prof. K.Ramchand, ASN Women’s Engineering College,
Tenali, Guntur & Prof. Praveen Krishna, KL University,
Koneru (Region V)
4. Dr. Akhil Khare and Prof. Santoshkumar V Chobe,
Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Engineering and
Technology, Pune (Region VI)
5. Prof. K Ramalakshmi, Asst. Prof., Karunya University,
Coimbatore (Region VII)
CSI Discover Thinking Quiz for Young LearnersThis quiz is being conducted by CSI for the 5th consecutive year.
The event was held at more number of chapters this year and had
encouraging response. The chapters which conducted the prelims
included Ghaziabad, Noida, Ahmedabad, Koneru, Pune, Goa,
Chennai, Hosur and Kochi. This amazing quiz for School Children
from Class 6th to Class 9th aims at encouraging young learners to
discover science, and ICT. The top t wo teams from each chapter /
region were called for the Final Quiz Contest which was held at
K L University, Koneru on 21-2-2015. Prof. A V Praveen Krishna of
KL University coordinated this event.
First Prize was won by Firdous Fatma & Y.Chinmayee,
Sri Prakash Vidya Niketan, Paykaroapeta, Andhra Pradesh. The
First Runner-up was Adithyan Unni & Athul Unnikrishnanan,
Bhavans Vidya Mandir,Kochi, Kerala and the Second Runner-up
was Aadi Bhure & Chinmay Mandke, New India School, Pune.
For all these contests, CSI presented Cash Awards of
Rs.15,000, 10,000 and 5,000 along with Certifi cates and Trophies
to the Top 3 winners. All the Chapter and Regional level rounds
were also supported through technical and fi nancial assistance
by CSI. CSI expresses its sincere appreciation and thanks to the
sponsors, the participants, the host institutions as well as Prof. P Thrimurthy, Mr. Shekhar Sahasrabudhe, Mr. Ranga Rajagopal, Ms. Mini Ulanat, Mr. Rajan T Joseph, Mr. S Ramasamy, Mr. M Gnanasekaran, all RVPs and chapter offi ce bearers for their
support in conducting these events. n
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REPORT ON THE CSI- DELHI CHAPTER ACTIVITY HELD ON 16TH February 2015, AT INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTER, LODHI ROAD, NEW DELHI
Under golden jubilee celebration Delhi chapter of computer society of India organized a Panel Discussion on “MAKE IN INDIA” in the evening on Monday the 16th February,2015 at IIC, New Delhi.
Dr. Ajay Kumar, I A S, Jt. Secretary and Director General, NIC was the Chief Guest and Prof. (Dr) D P Agarwal, Former, Chairman, UPSC, was the Panelist. The event was presided over by Shri H R Mohan, President, Computer Society of India.
Shri V K Gupta, Honorary Secretary while introducing the subject of the discussion described it as C 2 M and then requested the Chairman to welcome the dignitaries.
Shri S D Sharma, chairman in his welcome address said that Make in India is a very old idea and was developed in villages. Villages wanted to be self suffi cient which has now come to macro concept. India want to become self suffi cient by producing everything they have and doing itself, due to advent of technology and change in energy. Mantra power is the rule of Make in India.
Col. Kewal Kohli, Anchor of the session showed his pleasureness to work as an anchor person in the discussion of role of Computer Society of India as how it can make success. He then gave a brief introduction of the Chief Guest, Panelists and the President of CSI.
Shri H.R Mohan in his presidential address said that India has a tremdus power in Make in India. It has become a talk of the world, which has proved in the past and need initiating in changing the scenario. It is said by Chinese that we have missed the bus but we are catching up. He touched upon the 50th year celebrations as the Golden Jublee Celebration taking place in Delhi. CSI as a small step taken in Make In India initiatives in ICT, Digital India, Make-in India, and Clean India. It has a major role to play in taking all the sincere eff orts in making successful Make-in India.
Shri Ajay Kumar in his key-note address stated that in China, there is a saying that the time to plant a tree was 20year ago but the best time is today. He showed importance of doing
so as the economy growth. Young countries demand is going very fast, solar power of 20 G Watt increasing to 100 G watts, internet connection from 250 million to 1000 million and so on. He stressed that in view to meet the growing demand going very high there was a challenge in policies made, changing fast, and hardware & software amalgamation of these two. Opportunity is high in Make in India by way of strengthing IT. India has the largest base of young engineers. So we should focus on innovation in make in India. IP creation, P & D with CSI as a partner, venture of Capitalist, Electronic for development Fund, Incubators, Standard Culture in Make in India cannot succeed without these standards and CSI must participate in these areas.
Prof. D. P Agarwal in his address impressed upon the basic means to make in India , development of economy in past 15 year, knowledge society, education paradigm, power of IT manufacturing process, quality of life, supply chain, new product development, venture functioning IT revolution, electronic development zones, culture of research & development in Industries, Global Technologies nuclear energy technologies , chip story, clean energy, power in textile technology, clean building, new technologies brought in India, use technology in India and Make in India, infrastructure in building, development, productivity effi ciency through IT support, data information technology, local taxes, skill development power, vender development, supply chain management and future with IT.
Col Kewal Kohli, the Anchor stressed upon IP generation and new starts up in IT fi elds.
Dr. M. N Hoda thanked all the dignities and the august audience. He showed his gratitude for excellent presentations and participants’ interaction, challenges highlighting by our panelists. Young entrepreneurs starting their own venture is our power, which is creating history in CSI fraternity. n
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CSI News
From CSI Chapters »Please check detailed news at:
http://www.csi-india.org/web/guest/csic-chapters-sbs-news
SPEAKER(S) TOPIC AND GIST
NOIDA (REGION I)
Ms. Preeti Das, India Head (Services Business),
Microsoft & Former CEO Birlasoft Pvt Ltd., Dr. K M Soni,
Dy Director, Amity School of Engineering & Technology,
Ms. Nitasha Hasteer, Acting HoD (IT), Amity School of
Engineering & Technology
March 25, 2015: “Expert Talk on "New Generation Technologies : A Paradigm Shift”The lecture exposed the students to the technologies prevalent in the current industry scenario and requirement of the industry in days ahead. The lecture also focused on the expectations industry has from young engineers. The students interacted with the speaker about the innovations going on in the industry
Students and faculty along with the resource person
From Student Branches »(REGION - III) (REGION -III )
PARUL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, VADODARA MATRUSHRI L J GANDHI (BAKORVALA) BCA COLLEGE, MODASA
18-2-2015 - Participants with SBC, M. Pritesh Upadhyaya & Ms Nidhi
Sharma during COMPETITION RIVALRY ON C++19-2-2015 - BCA College, Modasa and GLS MCA College , Ahmadabad
was jointly organized Computer Awareness Program for villagers
(REGION-III) (REGION-III)GLS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER APPLICATION, AHMEDABAD GLS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, AHMEDABAD
26 & 27-2-2015 - on Content Management System (CMS) Joomla 7-2-2015 - Ms. Tripti Dodiya, Prof. R P Soni, Shri Devang Nanavati,
Prof. Bipin Mehta, Dr. B H Joshi and Dr. B H Trivedi during inauguration of
State Level Student Convention
(REGION-IV) (REGION-V)HI-TECH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHORDHA THE OXFORD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BANGALORE
20-2-2015 - Dr. A K Nayak, Chairman, Div III & Dr. RN Satpathy, RSC-IV
during BBSR Seminar on ICT for women empowerment
11 & 12-3-2015 – Mr. HR Mohan, President releasing the SpritM Magazine
during National Level Students Convention & Techno-Cultural Fest
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(REGION-V) (REGION-V)GUDLAVALLERU ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GUDLAVALLERU ANIL NEERUKONDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCES (ANITS),
VISAKHAPATNAM
2 & 3-1-2015 - Sri Satya Gopal during two day workshop on HADOOP 23-1-2015 – CURSORS 2K15 Tech Fest was inaugurated by Dr. Atul Negi,
University of Hyderabad
(REGION-V) (REGION-V)B M S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT, BANGALORE ANURAG GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS, HYDERABAD
14-2-2015 - National Conference on Recent Trends in Information
Technology (NCRTIT-2015)
24-1-2015 – Mr. Pavan Kumar Reddy during the event on HTML5.O
(REGION-V) (REGION-VI)CMR TECHNICAL CAMPUS, HYDERABAD K K WAGH INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION & RESEARCH, NASHIK
28-2-2015 – Mr. Laxmi Shiva Rama Krishna during Guest Lecture on
Hadoop Distribute File System
12-2-2015 - Mrs. Tejaswini during Expert Talk on Web application - Client
side and Server side Architecture
(REGION-VI) (REGION-VI)KAVIKULGURU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE (KITS), NAGPUR P E S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AURANGABAD
12-2-2015 – Dr. Kishor K Bhoyar during Student Branch Inauguration 13-2-2015 - Dr. A P Wadekar, Principal addressing during workshop on
Development of Soft Skills
(REGION-VI) (REGION-VI)PROF. RAM MEGHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH, AMRAVATI KJ SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, MUMBAI
17 & 18-1-2015 – Workshop on Android Application Development 19-1-2015 - VFX seminar in progress
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(REGION-VI) (REGION-VI)SHRI RAMDEOBABA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, NAGPUR S N J B’S KBJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING , NASHIK
21-2-2015 - National Conference on Research in Cloud & Cyber Security 1-2-2015 - Tree Planting during Academic Competition on Vedanta
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)JEPPIAAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHENNAI SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI
5 & 6-2-2015 – Mr. Subramaniam, Dr. Marie Wilson and Dr. Kannan
during the workshop on R-Programming Language for Data Analysis &
Visulaization
9-3-2015 - Two days workshop on Adobe Photoshop
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, TIRUNELVELI KSR INSTITUTE FOR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
27-2-2015 – Prof. Amudhavanan, Dr. Velayutham, Mr. Jeyasekar Mani,
Mr. Harbajan singh & Dr. Ramar during National level Technical Symposium
13 & 14-2-2015 – Mr. Bhaskaran, Director BILVAA Learning, Chennai
during Regional Level Convention.
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KOVILPATTI SASTRA UNIVERSITY, KUMBAKONAM
23-2-2015 – Prof. Prashant R Nair, RSC-VII, CSI during National
Conference on Computing and Applications NACCA’15
17-2-2015 – during workshop on SHORT FILM MAKING
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(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)AMRITA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ,KOCHI JAMAL MOHAMED COLLEGE, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI
30 & 31-1-2015 – during workshop on Data Analysis Using Weka &
Bioinformatics Solutions Using R
10-1-2015 - Dr. MA Maluk Mohamed releasing the souvenir during the
inauguration of Inter-collegiate Under Graduate Technical Symposium -
VARIT 2K15
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)SHREE VENKATESHWARA HI-TECH ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GOBI VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KATTANKULATHUR
19-2-2015 - Workshop on BIGDATA ANALYTICS 14-2-2015 – Mr. Loganathan, ArcusInfotech Pvt Ltd during Guest lecture
on Software Testing
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)VIT STUDENT BRANCH, VELLORE ADHIYAMAAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, HOSUR
23-1-2015 - workshop on Git Version Control 20-2-2015 – Prof. Sakthivel during one day National Level Workshop on
PHP Scripting Language
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)DHANALAKSHMI SRINIVASAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI TOC H INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ARAKKUNNAM
5-3-2015 – Student Branch Inaugurated by Prof. Bipin V Mehta, Vice
President, CSI & Mr. Rajan T Joseph, Director (Education), CSI
26 & 27-2-2015 - Dr. K C C Nair, Prof. Santhosh Kumar & Mr. Arvind
Sanjeev addressing the gathering during TECH FOSS 2K15
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(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)NEHRU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & RESEARCH CENTRE, THRISSUR KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COIMBATORE
28 & 29-1-2015 - Guests during inauguration ceremony on National
Conference on Research Methodologies & Eff ective Documentation
using LaTex
6-2-2015 - Prof. Gowrisankar, Dr. Sivaganesan & Mr. Pravin Renold during
one day Workshop on Hands on Training on Wireless Sensor Networks
using Cooja Simulator
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)ER PERUMAL MANIMEKALAI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, HOSUR SKR ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI
9 & 10-3-2015 – Mr. Vasu, & Dr. Chitra, Principal during two days
workshop on Big Data Analytics with Hadoop Mapreduce
28-2-2015 – Dr. Suguna, Dean of CSE awarding cash prize to a winner
during National level Technical Symposium on SKRIPTOS
(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)S A ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI SCAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECH, CHERANMAHADEVI
12-3-2015 – Dr. Viji Rajesh, Dr. Sasilatha, Mr. Kathiresan,
Dr. Suyambazhahan, & Prof. Geetha, during CSI Awareness Programme
7-3-2015 - National Level Technical Symposium
WORKSHOP ON ROUTER CONFIGURATION AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT AT SRINIVAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-MANGALORE
CSI student chapter of Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangalore
(Member No: I01574) has organised a one day workshop on 27th March
2015 on the topic “Router Confi guration and Network Management “for
the benefi t of students. Mr. Umesh Damle, Program Manager, ITTC ,
Mangalore was the resource person. About 100 students of CSI chapter
took part in the Workshop. The whole event was coordinated by Prof.
Mohan, Student Branch Coordinator.
Please send your student branch news to Education Director at director.edu@csi-india.org. News sent to any other email id will not be considered.
Please send only 1 photo per event, not more.
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Mathura Chapter: Golden Jubilee Celebration of CSI (March 27, 2015)Computer society of India has completed 50 years of its
establishments. On the occasion of the golden Jubilee celebration
of CSI a Debate Competition on “Social Networking Platform – A
Boon or Curse for Society” was organized by Computer Society
of India – Mathura Chapter with the fi nancial assistance of CSI
HQ. Prof. D.S.Chauhan, Vice Chancellor, GLA University, Prof.
A.M. Agarwal, Pro. Vice Chancellor, GLA University, Mr. A.K.
Singh, Registrar GLA Univeristy, Dr. Anoop Gupta, Director IAH,
Prof A.S.Jalal, Head- CEA dept & Secretary of CSI– Mathura
Chapter, Dr. Dilip Kumar Sharma, Vice Chairman CSI- Mathura
Chapter, Mr. Nitin Tyagi Treasurer, CSI-Mathura Chapter, Prof.
Ashish Sharma , Prof. T.N Sharma and Prof. Charul Bhatnagar
were present during inauguration of the event. The event was
started with a cake cutting ceremony. Prof A. S. Jalal, Secretary
of CSI – Mathura Chapter welcomed everyone on the behalf of
the Dept. of CEA, GLA University & CSI Mathura Chapter and
acquainted the audience with the mission and objective of the
CSI. Dr. Dilip Kumar Sharma, Vice Chairman, CSI - Mathura
Chapter addressed the audience by giving detailed overview
of CSI through presentation. He has also discussed about the
benefi ts to become the member of CSI. Prof A.M. Agarwal
motivated students for active participation in such events.
Prof. D.S. Chauhan addressed the audience and motivated the
students to constantly gain the knowledge.
Students of Computer Science & Engineering and of other
department participated in the debate competition and present
excellent views on “Social Networking Platform -A Boon or
Curse for Society”. The judges of this debates competition were
Prof. T.N Sharma, Head-EC Dept. and Prof. Charul Bhatnagar,
CEA Dept and Dr. Rachna Rastogi, English Dept. The winners of
the competition were Mohit Tripathi, who secured 1st position,
Kartikey Pandey & Prachi Vijh stood 1st and 2nd runner up
respectively for the event.
Mementos were presented to the all the members of CSI,
Guests, winners of event by Prof. A. S. Jalal and Dr. Dilip Kumar
Sharma.
Lastly the event ended with vote of thanks presented by Ms.
Deepali Singh Panwar to all the members of CSI and management
of GLA University for organizing such an event which are very
useful in the overall growth of students as well as faculty members.
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Cake cutting ceremony of Golden Jubilee Celebration of CSI by
Mathura Chapter.
CSI News
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Felicitation Programme Report from CSI Indore ChapterCSI Indore Chapter –Falicitated Master Prateet Mishra of Ryan
International School Indore for
securing 4th position in Student
Essay Contest up to Class 8th level
on ICT in Digital India organized
by Computer Society of India,
Chennai Chapter, in association
with the IEEE Computer Society,
Chennai, and IEEE Professional
Communication Society. It was
an essay contest on the role of
Information and Communication
Techn ology (ICT) in India, for
school students. Through this
contest, student’s thoughts,
innovative ideas and solutions on
how ICT could support and help
these initiatives on Digital India
were presented.
Essays were assessed by a
panel of experts on criteria such as
originality, novelty, applicability, potential value of the proposed
idea(s) and clarity and style
of presentation. Master
Prateet Mishra received
cash prize of 1000 rupees
and certifi cate of award. CSI
Indore proudly Falicitated
Prateet’s achievement with
a vision to promote such
activities at school level
said Dr. Priyesh Kanungo,
Chairmen CSI Indore
Chapter. Students gain a
sense of empowerment
from learning to control the
computer and to use it in
ways they associate with
the real world said Dr. Kamal
Sethi, Vice Chairmen CSI
Indore Chapter.n
Mr. Prashant Lakkadwala, Past chairmen CSI Indore Chapter,
Mr. Anil Gupta CSI Indore Chapter and Mr. Vijendra Mishra
Treasurer CSI Indore chapter also appreciated the eff orts of young
kid and said CSI Indore chapter will also take initiative to provide
such platform for school students of city and state.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS
CSI Executive Committee 2015-2016/2017
Immd Past President (2015-16)
Mr. H R Mohan40B/41, Phase 5, 15th Cross
St, Wood Creek County,
Ganapathipuram Extn, St. Thomas
Mount Post, Chennai 600016
Email : hrmohan.csi@gmail.com
Phone : 044-22313738 (R)
Mobile : +91 98414 32179
President (2015-16)
Prof. Bipin V. MehtaDirector, School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University,
AG Teachers College Campus, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 3800009
Email : bvmehta@aesics.ac.in
Phone : (079)-2656-8750
Region-III (2015-17)
Dr. Vipin Tyagi Dept of CSE
Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology
Raghogarh, Guna - MP 473226
Phone : 07544 - 267310-14 ext.134
(M) : 09826268087
Region-IV (2014-16)
Mr. Hari Shankar MishraCommand Care, Opp.
Loreto Convent School,
A.G. Offi ce Road,
Doranda, Ranchi – 834002, Jharkhand
Phone : 0651-2411318 (R)
Mobile : 9431361450
Email : hari_m12@yahoo.com
Region-I (2015-17)
Mr. Shiv KumarQtr #9, Block-’G’, Type-4/Spl., 2nd
Floor,
Andrews Ganj Ext. New Delhi – 110049
Phone : 9818168337 (M)
Email : shivk@nic.in
Region-II (2014-16)
Mr Devaprasanna Sinha73B Ekdalia Road,
Kolkata - 700 019
Phone : (033)24408849
Mobile : 91 9830129551
Email : devaprasannasinha@rediff mail.com
Hon. Secretary (2014-16)
Mr. Sanjay MohapatraDuplex 26, Plot 1565 (p), Sector-VI,
CDA, Cuttack-14, Orissa.
(M) : 91-9861010656
email: smohapatra70@yahoo.co.in
Vice President (2015-16)
Dr Anirban BasuFlat #309, Ansal Forte, 16/2A Rupena
Agrahara, Hosur Road, Bangalore
560068.
Email : abasu@anirbanbasu.in /
abasu@pqrsoftware.com
Phone : 080 25731706
(M): 9448121434
Hon. Treasurer (2015-17)
Mr. R.K.Vyas70, Sanskant Nagar Society , Plot No-3
Sector -14, Rohini, Delhi -110085
Email : rkvyas_99@yahoo.com
Phone : 011-27866259 (R),
(M) : 09810592760
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REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE (2015-2016)
DIVISION CHAIRPERSONS
Region-V (2015-17)
Mr. Raju L kanchibhotlaAashirvad, 42/260/1/2, Shramik nagar,
Moulali Hyderabad-500046, India
(M) : 91 9000555202, 94 40 32914192
email : kanchibhotla@gmail.com
Dr. Anil Kumar SainiB-77 CC. Colony, Rana Pratap Bagh,
Delhi - 110007
Phone : 011-27410592 (R) 011-25302608 (O)
9811165001 (M)
Email : aksaini1960@gmail.com,
aksaini@rediff mail.com
Region-VII (2015-17)
K.Govinda A.P(SG),SCSE,VIT University, Vellore – 14 Mobile : 9894597112 Email : kgovind_99@yahoo.com
Prof. (Dr.) U.K. Singh Director General, Indian Institute of Business Management, Budh Marg, Patna
Phone : 0612-3269705 / 9835020036, (M) : 9386598580
Email : uksingh@zhi.org.in
Region-VI (2014-16)
Dr. Shirish S. SaneDattaprasad, Plot No. 19, Kulkarni Colony,
Sadhu Waswani Road, Nashik 422 002
Phone : 0253-2313607(R)
Mobile : 09890014942
Email : sssane65@yahoo.com
Mr Rajeev Kumar SinghAssistant General Manager, Casting Group
RDCIS, SAIL, Shyamali, Ranchi, Jharkhand-834002
Mobile : 8986880324
Email : vinitraj3@yahoo.co.in
Division-I: (2015-17)
Prof. M N HodaDirector, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of
Computer Applications and Management
(BVICAM), A-4, Paschim Vihar, Rohtak
Road, New Delhi – 110063. Phone: 011-
25275055 (M) : 09212022066
email : mca.hoda@gmail.com
Division-II: (2014-16)
Dr. R NadarajanProfessor and Head, Department of Applied
Mathematics and Computational Sciences, PSG
College of Technology, Coimbatore - 641 004
Phone : (O) 2572177
Mobile : 9952427229
Email : nadarajan_psg@yahoo.co.in
Division-III: (2015-17)
Mr. Mankikar Ravikiran Jer Villa 3rd Road,TPS 3 Santacruz East
Mumbai 400 055
Mobile : 9820329854
Email : ravi.mankikar@gmail.com
Division-IV: (2014-16)
Dr. Durgesh Kumar MishraDirector, Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri
Aurobindo Institute of Technology Indore, MP
H-123-B, Vigyan Nagar, Annapurna Road, Indore
Mobile : 9826047547
Email : drdurgeshmishra@gmail.com
Division-V: (2015-17)
Dr. Suresh Chandra SatapathyFlat no: E204 Vasanth Vihar Apartment Kommadi
(way to Gayatri Engg College) Vishakapatnam
Mobile : 90002-49712
Email : sureshsatapathy@ieee.org
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CSI Calendar 2015
Anirban BasuVice President, CSI & Chairman, Conf. Committee Email: abasu@pqrsoftware.com
Date Event Details & Organizers Contact Information
April 2015 events
3-4 April 2015 National Conference on Creativity and Innovations in Technology Development (NCCITD’15) at Udaipur. Organized by CSI Udaipur Chapter, Division IV, ACM Udaipur Chapter and S S College of Engineering, Udaipur. www.csi-udaipur.org
Amit Joshiamitjoshiudr@gmail.comDr. Jaydeep AmetaJaideep_ameta@yahoo.com
10 April 2015 Fifth National Conference on Computational Intelligence, Security and Systems (NAC-CISS’15) is organized by Sona College of Technology in association with IEEE Madras Section, IEEE Computer Society, Computer Society of India and ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu to be held on 10th April, 2015. Website: www.sonatech.ac.in/nac-ciss15
Dr. M Ushausha@sonatech.ac.innac-ciss15@sonatech.ac.in
24-25 April 2015 AICON’15 “All India Conference On “Sustainable product in Computer Science & Engineering Chhatrapati Shivaji Institute of Technology Durg(C.G) association with Computer Society of India Division IV and CSI Region IV.
Mr. Prashant Richhariyaprashantrichhariya@csitdurg.inMs. Dipti Dubeydeeptydebey@csitdurg.in
May 2015 events
7-9 May 2015 International Workshop on Intelligent Approaches for Object Oriented Modeling in Component Based Software Engineering (IAOOM-2015) to be organized at Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna (MP) http://www.juet.ac.in
Dr. Shishir Kumardr.shishir@yahoo.com
15–17 May 2015 International Conference on Emerging Trend in Network and Computer Communication (ETNCC2015) at Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Informatics Polytechnic of Namibia in Association with Computer Society of India Division IV. http://etncc2015.org/
Prof. Dharm Singhdsingh@polytechnic.edu.na
30-31 May 2015 Two Day National Conference on ICT Applications “CONICTA-2015” at IIBM Auditorium, Patna organized by CSI Patna Chapter in association with Division III ad Division IV of Computer Society of India.
Prof. A K Nayakaknayak@iibm,inDr. Durgesh Kumar Mishradrdurgeshmishra@gmail.com
July 2015 events
3-4 July 2015 International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development, organized by CSI Division IV, Ahmedabad Chapter, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Chapter and Sabar Institute of Technology for Girls, Gujarat At Ahmedabad http://www.ict4sd.in
Amit Joshi amitjoshiudr@gmail.comDr. Nisarg Pathaknisarg.pathak@gmail.com
24-25 July 2015 International Conference on ICT in Health Care and E-Governance, at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore in association with Computer Society of India Division III, Division IV, Indore Chapter, ACM Udaipur Chapter. www.csi-udaipur.org/icthc-2015/
Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishradrdurgeshmishra@gmail.comDr. AK Nayakaknayak@iibm.inMr. Amit Josiamitjoshiudr@gmail.com
Aug 2015 event
7-8 Aug 2015 3rd International Conference on Innovations In Computer Science & Engineering (ICICSE-2015) Organized by Guru Nanak Institution, Hyderabad in association with Computer Society of India Division IV and Hyderabad Chapter. www.icicse2015.org
Dr. H S Saini md@gniindia.orgDr. D D Sharmadirmca.gnipg@gniindia.org
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Sept 2015 event
10-12 Sep 2015 International Conference on Computer Communication and Control (IC4-2015) at Medicaps Group of Institutions, Indore in association with Computer Society of India Division IV, CSI Indore Chapter and IEEE MP subsection.
Dr. Promod NairMitm,csedepartment@yahoo.comProf. Pankaj DahorePk_dashore@yahoo.co.in
Oct 2015 events
9–10 Oct 2015 International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT-2015) at Udaipur, organized by CSI Udaipur Chapter, CSI Division IV, SIG-WNs, SIG-e-Agriculture and ACM Udaipur Chapter. www.csi-udaipur.org/icict-2015
Dr. Y C Bhattdrycbhatt@hotmail.com Amit Joshiamitjoshiudr@gmail.com
16-17 Oct 2015 6th Edition of the International Conference on Transforming Healthcare with IT at Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore, India. http://transformhealth-it.org/
Mr. Suresh KotchatillConference coordinator mail@transformhealth-it.org
CSI Communications | April 2015 | 56 www.csi-india.org
COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIADIVISION – III (APPLICATIONS) REPORT
A state level seminar on “Cloud Based ICT: An Emerging trend in Education System” was organized by the Department of Computer
Applications, Magadh Mahila College in collaboration with division-III (Applications) and patna chapter of Computer Society of
India on 21st Feb, 2015.
The conference was inaugurated by Prof. A.K. Nayak, Director, IIBM & National Chairman Division –III (Applications), CSI & Prof.
U.K. Singh Pro. Chancellor of The global Open University, Nagaland participated as the chief guest. The function was presided by
Prof.(Dr.) R. K. Verma, the Pro Vice Chancellor of Patna University.
The Principal of the college Dr. Dolly Sinha delivered the welcome address and felicitated the guests. Mr. Bhaskar Jyoti Ghosh,
Project Leader, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad presented the key note address. Sri Sailesh Srivastava, Technical Director, NIC,
Patna, explained the use and importance of Cloud Computing through mobile devices. Md. Shams Raza, PIC, XICS, IGNOU and
chairman, CSI Patna Chapter spoke about the emerging trends of ICT in 21st century. The invited speaker Er. Sanjay Jhunjhunwala,
Director, Kaapro Management Solutions Pvt. Ltd., discussed about the importance of Cloud Based Education System. Dr. Mamta
Deepak, Assosiate Professor & Coordinator of BCA department proposed the vote of thanks. Er. Manju Juhjhunwala, Guest Faculty,
Department of Computer Application coordinated the seminar.
Prof. A.K. NayakChairman, Division III
Computer Society of India
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