| Computer Society of India |
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| Call for Students’ Participation |
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| Appeal for Support from Academia and Industry |
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| National and Regional Student Conventions |
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| As India’s largest and oldest society of IT and computing professionals, the Computer Society of India has always aimed at inculcating professionalism and research aptitude among its student members - the budding professionals. In pursuant with the above, it has been decided to organize the national and regional student conventions on a regular basis with the aim/objectives and expected outcomes focusing on the indicated themes/technical tracks listed hereunder: |
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| Aim and Objectives |
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| -To provide an opportunity for students to interact/network with eminent academicians/researchers and the experts from industry |
| -To enrich the participants through invited talks, tutorials, and workshops on the emerging technologies |
| -To enrich the participants through invited talks, tutorials, and workshops on the emerging technologies |
| -To motivate the students to bring out the best of their innovation and creativity through presentation of technical papers and demonstration of path-breaking projects |
| -To provide an exposure to the latest technological developments through exhibitions and industry sponsored programmes |
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| Expected Outcome |
| -Recommendation and future directions by expert panelists |
| -Publication of the domain specific state-of-the-art technical reports |
| -Short listing of best technical papers for presentation during the National Student Convention |
| -Identification of potential students’ work for technology-business incubation |
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| Indicative Tracks and Themes for Convention |
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| Technology |
Process and Tools |
| Operating Systems and System Programming, Database Management and Applications Programming, Data Communication and Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Multimedia and Internet Technologies, Hardware and Embedded Technologies, Mobile Computing and Communication |
Requirements Engineering, Effort/size Estimation, Prototyping, Architecture & Design, Development, Testing & Debugging, Verification & Validation, Maintenance & Enhancement, Change Management, Configuration Management, Project Management, SQA, Process Improvement |
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| Vertical Applications |
Inter-disciplinary Applications |
| Scientific Applications, Business /Enterprise Applications, Government-Citizen Interface, Judiciary & Law Enforcement, Infrastructure Management, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Education & Research, Transport, Energy, Defence, Aerospace, Automotive Telecom, Agriculture and Forest Management |
CAD/CAM/CAE ERP/SCM Geo-informatics Bioinformatics Industrial Automation Power line Communication Electronic Design Automation |
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| The conventions shall be organized with joint collaboration of Chapters/Branches and reputed academic institutes in several regions of India - especially reaching out to the unrepresented territories. The orientation shall be towards open source software development, end-user development methodologies, affordable computing, software product lines, systems’ methodologies and trans-disciplinary applications and not just programming aspects. The best technical papers (including the presentations of project work) will be considered for presentation during the subsequent National Student Convention. Further, the combined proceedings of regional student conventions held in an academic year shall also be published in order to motivate and encourage research publications of the students. |
| The CSI aims to be an ideal facilitator and a springboard when it comes to shaping the future of students along with the industry and academia. The students in particular and academia at large need to play a pro-active role in reaching out the research and consultancy opportunities and networking with the industry. In this context, it is an earnest appeal for student’s participation and academia-industry support in these conventions which eventually would be foundation for realizing India’s Vision 2020. |
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| Region |
Convention Theme |
Dates |
Chapter/ Branch |
Host / Institute |
| I |
Enterprise Applications Development Methodologies & Tools |
25 Feb'07 |
Delhi Chapter |
Bharati Vidyapeeth's Inst. of Computer Appl. & Mgmnt, New Delhi |
| III |
Software Engineering Methodologies & Tools |
17-18 Feb'07 |
Ahmedabad Chapter |
Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University |
| IV |
Web Engineering |
24-25 Mar'07 |
Rourkela Chapter |
Rourkela Institute of Management Studies |
| V |
Information Security and Management |
23-24 Mar'07 |
Bangalore Chapter |
RV College of Engineering, Bangalore |
| VII |
Pervasive Computing- Technology & Applications |
23-24 Feb'07 |
NEC Student Branch |
National Engineering College, Kovilpatti |
| VII |
Multimedia and Internet Technologies |
5-6 Jul'07 |
Thanjavur Chapter |
Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women, Thanjavur. |
| National |
GenNext |
19-22 Dec'07 |
Bangalore |
Host Institute to be decided |
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| Region 1: Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, HP, J&K, UP, Uttaranchal and other areas in North Region 2: Assam, Bihar, WB, North Eastern States and other areas in East & North East. Region 3: Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and other areas in Western India. Region 4: Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Orissa and other areas in Central & South Eastern India. Region 5: Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh Region 6: Maharashtra and Goa Region 7: TN, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar, Kerala, Lakshadweep Region 8: International Members |
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| Prof. H.R. Vishwakarma National Student Coordinator hrvishwa@ieee.org |
