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Dr. S. Salivahanan H.R. Mohan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 94441 89433 Dear Friends, Dear Friends, The current issue of LINK, the last in the Wish you all a very happy and year 2009 is in your hands with regular features prosperous new year 2010. and few interesting items such as “Effects of Climate Change Today”, “Common Myths about It gives me immense pleasure to mention Ubiquitous Computing”, “Emerging Technology in that IEEE Madras Section organized a 2009” and “Kaizen” to provide points to ponder. Workshop on “RF & Microwave Circuits & An article by the student member Mr. S. Bala Systems” on Dec 14, 2009 at SAMEER-Centre for Electromagnetics, Ragavendran on “The Navigator GPS Receiver” is a timely one. Chennai in which more than 125 delegates participated. The following resource persons delivered lectures on different topics in microwaves: The “Climate Change” issues are attracting greater attention globally and our country is being targeted by the developed nations. Dr. Barry S. Perlman, Life Fellow of IEEE, Associate Director,  While every one agrees that there is a definite need to reduce the emission U.S. Army Communications-Electronics RD & E Center of Greenhouse Gases, the industrialized nations should lead the way and  Dr. Samir El-Ghazaly, Fellow of IEEE, President, Distinguished also support the other countries in achieving the goal. Cleaner and Prof. and HOD of Electrical Engineering at Univ. of : renewable energy will help us in the long run. Miniaturized RF Components LINK draws the attention of the staff members of various  Dr. Madhu S. Gupta, Fellow of IEEE, Prof. and RF Systems institutions to inform the students to utilize the new combined and cost Industrial Chair, Director, Communication Systems and Signal effective membership offer for the year 2010 in IEEE & IEEE CS with Processing Institute: Phase Noise in Oscillators-Characterization, access rights to the IEEE CS Digital Library at just USD 40 per year. It Simulation and Optimization is right time to increase the membership strength.  Dr. Vijay Nair, Fellow of IEEE, Member IEEE MTT-S ADOM, LINK is pleased to report the student branch activities of Jeppiaar Principal Research Scientist at Intel Corporation, Phoenix, AZ: Engineering College which includes a technical awareness programme, Heterogenous Network Communication devices Website launch and the induction programme along with the inauguration  Dr. Shiban Kishen Koul, Prof., CARE, IIT Delhi: Millimeter wave of the student branch at Sri Eshwar College of Engineering. Integrated Circuit Techniques& Technology Brief reports of the events organized by the IEEE Computer  Dr. P. Hanumantha Rao, Scientist – SAMEER: Electromagnetic Society such as CIO Meet on “Openbravo – an open source, Web based Bandgap Structures (EBG) ERP”, Talk on “Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 – Hype or Hope” and a Presentation  Dr. Amitava Das Gupta, Prof., IITM, Chennai: RF MEMS on “Data Integration Technology and Tools” appear in this issue of applications and components LINK. With the increase in the use of Internet, there is an increase in the Ms. S. Vidya, the final year student of B.E. (ECE) in NIT, Trichy cyber crimes. Deliberations of the day long workshop organized by the presented their web based software developed under the guidance of Cyber Society of and supported by the IEEE Computer Society Prof. Dr. S. Raghavan for Smith Chart calculations and design of array are also published in this issue. multiplication and radiation patterns of antennas. LINK congratulates Mr. C.A. Sanjiv Kumar of M.N.M. Jain A Faculty Development Programme on “Graphical Systems Engineering College and Mr. M.N. Gokul of Mahindra Satyam, the Design Concepts (Using Labview)” was conducted by IEEE Madras winners of Info Contest - 0911 who will receive a prize of Rs. 500/= Section on 18 & 19 Dec 2009 in association with Dept. of ECE, Aarupadai each sponsored by SRA Systems. Veedu Institute of Technology. The resource persons include Prof. K. LINK draws the attention of readers to the Intl. Conf. on Wireless Jayaraman, School of Electrical Sciences, VIT, Vellore and experts from Communications and Sensor Computing to be held at Chennai in Jan Trident Techlabs Pvt Ltd, Banglaore. 2010. Readers may pl. respond to the call for papers for the conferences It was a memorable day, the 21st Nov 2009, when the IEEE on “Information and Software Engineering”, and “Advances and Emerging Execom meeting was conducted at Numeric Power Systems Ltd., Trends in Computing Technologies”. Semmancherry, Chennai which was founded by one of our Execom LINK still gets contributions for publishing without following the members Mr. R. Chellappan. The members got an opportunity to visit recommended guidelines. May we request the contributors to adhere to the solar power plant and other facilities available there. On behalf of the guidelines (available Section website at www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras) IEEE Madras Section, we thank Mr. R. Chellapan for the hospitality while submitting the materials for publication, failing which, they may extended during our visit. get ignored. All the IEEE members are requested to renew their memberships LINK wishes all its readers A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS for the year 2010. For further details, please visit www.ieee.org. NEW YEAR 2010.

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Technical Awareness Program by Jeppiaar Engineering College

a new experience for them, as it was a concept of fun with learning. The vision and mission of this program is to reach as many students as possible. Specially, those students who are less fortunate in terms of quality education and infrastructure, we try to reach these masses through this program and help them discover the numerous opportunities available for them in the global phenomenon. We consider this as a process of giving back something to the society that we live in. If we, a team of 60 can reach up 500 students within a span of 6 months through two programs, consider a no. of these unfortunate students who can benefited if the same program is propagated from all the 137 student branches of Madras Section and what if it is extended to all the 400 odd colleges in the Tamil Nadu. It will lead to an education revolution, which would not only improve the quality of education, but The 2nd Technical Awareness Program recognition system, animal communication, also the possibility of creating the awareness (TAP) under the “We Can Bring The Change” submarine, RNAI, large hadron collider, about the varied fields and their consequential campaign was held on 6th Aug, 2009 at St. Microsoft surfacing, OLED, flying cars. Raphael’s girls school in Santhome, Chennai. possibilities. The program was inaugurated by the The program was organized by the IEEE student So our aim as a student branch is to reach principal of the school. There were two sessions branch of Jeppiaar Engineering College. these children and enlighten through these fun on 1.5 hours — pre and post lunch. The group consisted of 60 members from learning programs coupled with activities and the various departments like EEE, ECE, E&I, Most of the videos presented were edited attractive prizes for grabbing their attention. In CSE & IT and from various years like 2nd, 3rd and formatted in such a way that it would lead this endeavor, we have the able support of our & 4th was split into 16 teams and they made to a better and simpler way of understanding chairman Dr. Jeppiaar, our dynamic directors more than 20 presentations to the students. The the latest technologies. The presenters were Mr. Marie Wilson, Mrs. Regena Wilson and gropup was lead by staff coordinator Mr. T. eloquent and interactive when it was their turn. our branch counselor Mr. Sellakumar. We are thankful to all the above mentioned generous Arun Srinivas and Miss. Reena Joshi. The students on the other side were very hearts, as it is only because of their continuous active and enthusiastic with this new way of The topics presented include: nanobots, support we are able to reach such great heights. vision mars, nxg fuels, biometrics, face approaching education. This was a completely

IEEE Computer Society System Competition Prizes of $1,000 will be awarded to the winning team in each of these categories: The purpose of the competition is to However, not all judges, evaluators, and users o Originality of the architecture designed promote excellence in the design of a system will have alternative operating systems on their by a team of students. The IEEE Computer home computers. o Functionality, quality, and versatility of Society has constructed a realistic and non- the simulator Each team must certify that their reports trivial task that requires a group of students to o The use of software engineering in the and software are their own work and have not solve a real-world problem. design of the simulator been derived (with or without permission) from Judging will be carried out according to other sources. The deadline for registration is 11 the following criteria: January 2010 & for the submission is 9 April A team may consist of three to five 2010. o Originality of the architecture designed students at an institution of higher education. o Functionality, quality, and versatility of All members of the team must be on a course For more details, pl. visit: http:// the simulator leading to a first degree. Note that team members www.computer.org/portal/web/competition/ do not necessarily have to be on a computer home o The use of software engineering in the science degree course – the only restriction is design of the simulator that they are students. The simulator must be able to run on Visit our Website A top prize of $7,000 will be awarded to typical PCs under Windows. We appreciate www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras the team the judges declare the overall winner. that some may find this restriction restrictive.

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IEEE Student Branch Website Launch at Jeppiaar Engineering College

Director Mrs. Regeena Wilson who was overwhelmed by the efforts put in by our members and also appointed the efforts of our web designer for my coming out with such a beautiful product. She concluded her speech by saying that she expects more from the team and hopes that they will satisfy her expectations. Mr. Marie Wilson, appreciated the efforts taken by the IEEE Student Branch JEC, as he was thrilled and upheld by the continuous growth of this student branch and its path breaking success. The interactive features of the website were specially highlighted and he suggested the involvement of more students from different departments in the forth coming The IEEE members meet was held on 7th launch of IEEE Student Branch-JEC website. events. He had made some surprise July, 2009 in Jeppiaar Engineering College The site was launched by our beloved directors announcements for the members. He announced Auditorium. It was a meet filled with surprises. Mr.N.Marie Wilson and Mrs. Regeena Wilson. that the best innovative project from the final The chief guests for the event were the directors The launch of the website was followed by a year would earn a prize of Rs. 25,000 and a of Jeppiaar Eng College, Mr.N. Marie Wilson session explaining the various features available laptop, the best IEEE student member from the and Mrs. Regeena Wilson. The function was in it and its varied applications. The site was final year would be given a prize of Rs. 20,000. also preceded over by the HOD of EEE designed by our student member Mr. M. Bertin, The webmaster or the person updating the department Mr. R.Madhusudhanan, HOD of Final year EEE, our web designer who has put a website would be given Rs.1000 per month. ECE department Mr.Venugopal and our branch lot of effort in building this website. These announcements were a heartening surprise counselor Mr.S. Sellakumar. After the launch on the web session, it to the members, as they were enthralled by the The welcome address was given by was the turn of our directors to give their opportunity of obtaining recognition through Mr.F.Felix Chairman IEEE Student Branch JEC. feedback about the site and their valuable sincere efforts. The first surprise gift for the members was the insights. The first in line was our madam

Inauguration of Student Branch activities at Student Membership Sri Eshwar College of Engineering Join IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society, and receive FREE access to the Computer being an IEEE member and also encouraged the Society Digital Library (CSDL) for only $40. students to join in Women-In-Engineering The 2010 membership year begins early affinity group. The student branch members September 2009 — mark your calendar now Mr.V. Arun and Mr. S. Karthick explained the to become a member of IEEE and the IEEE students about the mission of IEEE. Computer Society for just $40, and get access to the Computer Society Digital Library.Pl. The director, Mr. R. Rajaram presided visit http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/ over the function. At the end, Mr. B. membership/join Hemananth, IEEE student branch counsellor proposed vote of thanks. The IEEE student branch activities of Sri Section Membership as on Behind the success of this function, lie 15th December 2009 Eshwar College of Engineering were inaugurated the hard work of all teaching and non teaching on 31st October 2009. Prof. Ramalatha staff members and the young energetic students Life Fellow - 1 Marimuthu, IEEE WIE Asia-Pacific co-ordinator of Sri Eshwar College of Engineering. Fellow - 1 and HOD, Karpaga Vinayaga College of Life Senior - 7 Engineering & Technology, graced the occasion The student branch office bearers Senior Member - 74 as the chief guest. Chair person : Divya. S (II EEE) Life Member - 4 The function started with a prayer song. Vice-Chair person : Tamil Selvan. S.N Member - 1648 The Principal Dr. S. John Alexis welcomed the (II ECE) Associate - 98 gathering. IEEE student branch member Affliate - 39 Secretary : Samson Amalkumar. S Graduate Student Member - 765 Ms.R.Tharani, II EEE introduced the chief (II EEE) guest. The chief guest inaugurated the IEEE Student Member - 4748 Join secretary : Arun. V (II ECE) student branch activities and delivered the Total - 7,385 inaugural address detailing out the benefits of Treasurer : Sriram. G (II EEE)

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Induction Program at Jeppiaar Engineering College session on “About IEEE” by Anand, 2nd EEE, Rohit, 2nd ECE. This was the session which broke the basic myth on the various confusions related to a person’s role on IEEE. The “Eye Ppener-2” session conducted by F. Felix, (Chairman, IEEE SB JEC) was dedicated to enlighten the students about the various aspects of human life. The session as a whole could be summarised in four letters “IIII” which stands for insight, innovation, inspiration and influence. The speaker linked these four ‘I’s with the various ways in which it affects an individual. The “Eye Ppener-2” revealed the difference between response and reaction to a particular instance. The Induction program at Jeppiaar 4th year ECE, which highlighted the various All the above mentioned sessions were Engineering College was held on 12th Sep 2009. qualities that a successful professional should actually a culmination of thought, actions and The challenging part about this program was possess. As its title suggests, it was a effective implementations, along with the active that we did not invite any guest speakers from completely eye opening session, as the young participation of the audience. The program was outside the college. We ourselves (i.e. 2nd,3rd professionals were given the opportunity to a instant hit among the first years and the & 4th years) not only took charge as the know about the various successful people in all feedback session revealed that we have achieved, organisers, but also held the responsibility of walks of life. presenting the various topics. what we had actually targeted. There were more This was followed up by the activities than 200 students, who were interested in joining The welcome address was given by like “Answer my previous question” and “Spin- as student members, which not only achieved Ms.Vinya, 2nd ECE. The first presentation was a-yawn”, for which there were many volunteers our initial target but also went beyond our given by Ms.Satya Prabha, 2nd CSE on from the audience took part. The hosts for this expectations. “Mission of IEEE”. This was followed by a session were Bhokasio Bervin Raja, 3rd EEE We thank our chairman Dr.Jeppiaar our presentation by Bertin.M, 4th year EEE (Web- (Vice-Chairman, IEEE SB JEC), Anish Amal beloved directors Mr.Marie Wilson, designer, IEEE SB JEC) on “Benefits of IEEE” Raj.A, 2nd EEE, Anjali, 2nd ECE, Snehaline Mrs.Regeena Wilson and our dynamic SB - a valuable session has it highlighted the various Viji, 2nd ECE. These activities were an instant Councellor Mr.Sella Kumar. benefits experienced by any IEEE member. hit among audiences as it invoked their enthusiasm to participate in the events. “Eye Opener -I” session was presented Report by F.Felix, Chairman, IEEE SB Jeppiaar Engineering College by Hemanth.S (Chief Advisor, IEEE SB JEC), The activities were followed up by a

CIO Meet on “Openbravo - an open source, Web product enhancements via an annual based ERP and Point-of-Sale solution” subscription. Openbravo, offers real alternative to IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter provided an overview of Essentia and Open proprietary ERP solutions and has attributes & CIO Forum of CSI Chennai jointly organized Bravo and said that Essentia is setting up that are appealing to Small and Medium along with Essentia Soft Solutions, the CIO meet competency and support centre for many open Enterprises. It was highlighted that till now, and a presentation on “Openbravo - an open source products in India in particular at Chennai. many companies have been unable to afford an source, Web based ERP and Point-of-Sale ERP solution and now Openbravo ERP gives Mr. Manel Sarasa and Mr. Paolo Juvara solution” by Mr. Manel Sarasa, CEO, Open them an option to go for a full-fledged ERP presentation covered details on Openbravo Bravo and Mr. Paolo Juvara, CTO, Openbravo solution at an affordable cost and at a fraction (www.openbravo.com), an award-winning on Tuesday, 27th Oct 2009. of the cost of other existing commercial developer of professional open source solutions solutions. The presentation highlighted the Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS in for businesses, offering the industry’s first real features and comparative advantages of his opening remarks highlighted the growing alternative to proprietary enterprise software. Openbravo Vs other standard ERP solutions. adoption of Open Source Products by the It’s web-based Enterprise Resource Planning enterprises to reduced the TCO and avoid (ERP) and Point of Sale (PoS) solutions, the This CIO meet attracted a participation of vendor lock-in. He also said that the professional most popular in their respective market, have over 80 and comprised of industry professionals from India have started contributing for the been downloaded more than a million times and and academic community. The industry Open Source. He added that the IEEE CS & are used in over 50 countries. Openbravo’s professionals looking for alternative solutions CSI have started the Open Source Software growth is fueled by an ever expanding at a lower cost got their apprehensions on open Product Development Forum in association international community of users, partners and source products clarified. Dr. Gopi Ganapathy with Essentia to induct the engineering students developers. Openbravo’s commercial open of Essentia, to a query on SaaS model for in the OSS area. Then Dr. Gopi Ganapathy, source business model eliminates software Openbravo said that there is a proposal to set CEO and Director of Essentia Soft Solutions license fees, providing support, services, and up such a facility at Chennai soon.

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Doodle4Google India contest appeared  In the third line, write your email id. for the whole day on ’s India homepage.  In the fourth line, write your name. IEEE MAS LINK C. Provide the answer / Fill in the blanks.  In the fifth line, write your college / organization name SRA Systems C1. ——— is the initial name of Google  In the sixth line, write the answers to the C2. AMD codenames its notebook platforms five questions of Section A, separated Info Contest based on ——— by comma. H.R. Mohan C3. ——— is the Indian researcher behind Chairman, IEEE CS, Madras Chapter ‘SixthSense’, “a wearable gestural  In the seventh line, write the answers to Editor, IEEE MAS LINK interface” the five questions of Section B, separated AVP (Systems), The Hindu, Chennai by comma. C4. The nationality of Linus Torvalds is This is the 20th edition in the series of ———  In the eighth line, write the answers to Info Contest – a regular column in our newsletter the five questions of Section C, separated IEEE MAS LINK. The content mix now C5. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the by comma. includes some General Knowledge questions in World Wide Web, has confessed and addition to IT related. This, we believe would apologised for ———, the ‘unnecessary’  In the ninth line, write the answers to the provide an overall exposure and also facilitate part of a Web address five questions of Section D, separated by comma. more participation. D. Select the correct answer.  In the tenth line, write the answers to the TWO lucky winners who answer to D1. Murphy & Kelly are the common names five questions of Section E, separated maximum no. of questions and early (selected of Ireland / Scotland by lot if multiple entries qualify) will receive an by comma. D2. Which is considered as the universal award of Rs. 500/= each, sponsored by SRA As the evaluation of the entries is currency? Euro / US Dollar Systems. automated, pl. ensure the above guidelines are Members are encouraged to participate D3. After Delhi, which metro leads in followed. in the contest and win prizes. Answers are to teledensity. Chennai / Mumbai Email the answers to: be sent by EMAIL ONLY. Please follow the D4. The oldest model from Maruti. Omni / hrmohan.infocontest@.com guidelines provided at the end of the questions. 800 The last date to receive the answers by email Info Contest – 0912 D5. World’s largest two wheeler maker. Hero is 5th Jan 2010. Honda / Bajaj This contest has 25 questions in five Info Contest – 0911 sections — A, B, C, D & E — each having five E. Fill in the blanks / Provide the answer. Answers & Winners questions. E1. ‘The World On Time’ is the tagline of Answers: A. In the following acronyms/ ——— Computer, Certified, Cyan, Commerce, abbreviations “L” stands for what. E2. The game, Table Tennis is also known as Command A1. LF ——— Catamaran, HDD, , Asus, False Doodle, Nook, Photon+, HTC, Sixth Sense A2. DLL E3. Cloned animals age faster than normal , Nile, Germany, Kozhikode, Dubai animals. State True / False A3. LZW Aghani Bora, Chandigarh UT, Demark, E4. The recent UN Climate Summit was held Andhra Pradesh, Meira Kumar A4. BLOB at ——— Winners: A5. CJLI E5. Duodecennial occurs every ——— B. Provide / Select the answer. years. Sanjiv Kumar C.A M.N.M Jain Engineering College B1. According to Google zeitgeist, in 2009, Guidelines to submit the answers to the Info Mem No.: 90697124 the largest queries were made on Michael Contest by email. Email: [email protected] Jackson / Facebook In the Subject, B2. First IT Company to surpass $100 billion  Write the Contest No. (Info Contest – Melappalayam N. Gokul in annual revenue. IBM / HP Mahindra Satyam 0912) in the subject line. B3. Jungle-Search.com is associated with Mem No : 80659991 finding the deals available with which Web In the body of the mail, Email: [email protected] site  In the first line, write the contest No: Both the above will be B4. Identify the company from its tagline Info Contest – 0912 awarded a prize of Rs. 500/= “The ultimate in clean power” each. LINK acknowledges with thanks the  In the second line, write your membership sponsorship of the awards by SRA Systems B5. Whose winning entry for the no. (www.srasystems.com).

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Workshop on ‘Combating Cyber Crimes in gave a demo in the form of video clipping of a typical scenario describing the features of good financial transactions and the role of Standards’ security practices in a corporate organization. He urged upon the corporates and security heads A workshop on Combating Cyber Crimes from his experience as a top police official of present to understand the requirements of a in financial transactions and the role of Standards the State, he said the basic urge to commit any sound security policy in the organisation. was held on 23rd Oct 2009. The workshop was fraud is greed and lust for some thing that do Shri S.N. Ravichandran, from CySI organized by the Cyber Society of India and not belong to the individual. He said that only Coimbatore gave a simple interesting and user- supported by the Madras Chapter of the IEEE the modes of committing the crime vary in a friendly talk on the various cyber crime cases Computer Society and CSI Chennai Chapter. cyber crime and it is basically an electronic being reported to the police every day. He variant of normal crime only. He jocularly added explained the practical difficulties in The workshop started with a welcome that in a cyber crime, it is sometimes easy to investigating a cyber crime. He stressed the address by Chairman Shri R. Ramamurthy. He commit and difficult to detect, whereas a normal gave an introduction of CySI’s activities and a importance of parental care and monitoring when and physical crime is difficult to commit and brief account of CySI’s commitment in the children browse the net. He also explained easy to detect. He highlighted the efforts of the spreading awareness on Cyber Crimes and how many vital cases go un-reported and how police in nabbing a cyber criminal and the special related areas. Talking from his past experience many ISPs and Banks handle such issues tasks that it normally involves. of participating in international conferences on without proper care that they deserve, like Cyber Crimes, he narrated the various crime- Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE opening an account without address verification prone areas and the tasks ahead for citizens, Computer Society in his brief address stated in a Bank, giving a mobile with an id proof etc. investigators, governments and finally the that the computer crimes are not reported Shri M.L. Srinivasan, started his rich NGOs. properly and awareness level on cyber crimes s presentation commenting about the meaning of low even among professionals and added that The Chief Guest of the workshop Shri the words, threats, vulnerabilities and risks. He the professional bodies such as CySI, CSI & T.S. Krishnamurthy was introduced by Shri K. described the practical implications of risks in IEEE CS should join together and organize Srinivsan, CEO Prime Point Foundation and a an enterprise and described what is popularly similar events across the country. founder-life member of CySI. While called a bot and botnet. He gave pictorial introducing, he narrated the tremendous After the tea break, Shri V. Rajendran, representations of how a computer system gets contribution of Shri TSK in his role as Chief Secretary of Cyber Society of India and a affected by a bot and how it acts as a zombie Election Commissioner, when for the first time, practicing Cyber Law Advocate and Consultant invariably without the knowledge of the rightful the country went on a 100% EVM-based presented the various cyber crimes reported and owner of the PC. He gave useful tips on how to elections. the role and relevance of I.T. Act 2000 and the guard against such threats for a home user as amendment Act 2008. He presented some of well as for a corporate user. Shri T. S. Krishnamurthy former Chief the most important sections of the Act and Election Commissioner inaugurated the Participants gave a wonderful feed-back compared it with the significant provisions of workshop. In his inaugural address, he briefly introducing one after another. Participants from I.P.C. which bear relevance in the I,T. scenario. discussed the cyber crime scenario in the banks commented that more sessions could have He presented how effective the Act has been, country. He narrated the various vulnerable been included on topics concerning cyber crime over the past years and the significance of the areas in financial transactions especially in areas in computers and stressed the need for 2008 amendments. increasing awareness on the use of computers, banking. Almost everyone praised the way the its fraud-prone areas. He wondered how even Shri N.R. Krishnamukar, Regional workshop was conducted sticking to the time educated people fall an innocent prey to Director of DNV, the main sponsors of the event schedule and giving a good coverage of all the computer crimes falling victims to greed for gave a very rich presentation. He described the areas planned for. money. He presented the modus operandi in best practices in the industry to combat cyber There was a very good interactive session Nigerian Crimes; credit card frauds etc., and crime and the usefulness of ISO 27001 standards with participants posing questions on the various finally lauded the efforts of CySI and assured and 27002 standards. He discussed the areas covered by the speakers, right from mobile to be closely associated with the activities of requirements of such standards and highlighted frauds, credit card frauds, phising, guarding CySI in all its socio-academic activities in future. the importance of putting these into practice against id theft etc and going for the appropriate certification Shri A. Vijay Kumar, Life Member of adding that expenditure on adherence to best At the end, Shri U.P. Prakasham, CySI introduced Shri C.L. Ramakrishnan, former practices and standards is like expenditure spent Treasurer of CySI summed up the entire DGP adding that as a former DGP and a former on a life-jacket or a fire-extinguisher and that proceedings of the day in a very brief and crisp DVAC, he has rendered memorable service in the return on such expenditure should never be manner narrating the highlights of every session. the police force, which is worthy of emulation calculated in simple terms. He proposed vote of thanks thanking everyone for any police official. He added that Shri CLR for the successful conduct of the programme enrolled for and completed his Ph.D. in Vedanta After the lunch break, Dr B. and every participant for the valuable after his retirement. Muthukumaran, Chief Security Consultant of contribution in the interactive and other Gemini Communications Ltd presented the Shri C.L. Ramakrishnan, delivering the sessions. security aspects in a typically networked key-note address stressed the relevance of I.T. environment stressing upon the need for having Report by Shri V. Rajendran, Secretary, Act, the circumstances under which the Act was sound systems like anti-virus, fire-wall with Cyber Society of India passed and its use in investigation. Drawing intrusion prevention and intrusion detection. He

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The Navigator GPS Receiver and inertial systems, as well as GNSS assistance and augmentation data, is likely to be critical in promote the feasibility of using GPS for the future success of GNSS. S.Bala Ragavendraa onboard navigation of geostationary (GEO) or II year, EEE other high altitude space missions. With the For many tasks, especially those that are Sri Muthukumaran Institute exception of GPS signals, Navigator requires not critical, GPS alone is adequate. For the rest, of Technology. no external data (e.g., current estimate of time, the perceived success of GNSS (and GPS) will E-Mail:[email protected] recent GPS almanac, or converged navigation be underpinned by many other underlying filter estimate of the receiver dynamics). positioning techniques and technologies. It will be the way these disparate technologies can be Abstract: Until now, Global Positioning Data processing software fused together that will lead to wide-scale robust System (GPS) receivers, while providing an By double buffering data up front in 1ms and reliable positioning for navigation applications. accurate and inexpensive means of navigation, blocks, data can be processed as it is acquired. Benefits have been limited to low Earth orbit (LEO) A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) is used to missions. This innovative receiver technology calculate the 1 ms correlations. Time is  Enables GPS in High Earth Orbit: It developed by NASA Goddard Space Flight significantly reduced by using a FFT algorithm can acquire and track even very weak Center is a leap forward for GPS technology. to compute these DFT’s. Computational signals and requires no external data, (e.g., The Navigator is an autonomous, real-time, efficiency is optimized and tradeoffs among ground station uplinks of position, fully space-flight-qualified GPS receiver with sampling rate, data format, and data-path bit velocity or time), the Navigator receiver exceptional capabilities for fast signal acquisition rate are carefully weighed in order to increase enables use of GPS in high Earth orbits and weak signal tracking. These features enable performance of the algorithm. (HEO), geostationary orbits, and other the use of GPS navigation in high Earth orbit high altitude uses. In addition, the Navigator’s hardware- (HEO), geostationary orbit, and other high  Acquires Signals Faster: By altitude applications. independent receiver software includes both a hardware interface to perform low-level employing efficient Fast Fourier Technology Details functions, such as controlling the acquisition Transform (FFT) algorithms and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) to Because GPS signals at altitudes above engine and tracking loops as well as basic implement a massively parallel search, the GPS constellation are 10 to 100 times navigation software. The navigation software even weak signals can be acquired weaker and less densely populated, GPS runs on the Nucleus real-time operating system receivers have not been feasible for use above and forms measurements; provides standard thousands of times faster than in LEO. The Navigator is a radiation-hardened GPS position, velocity, and time-point solutions (when traditional serial search methods. receiver specifically designed for use in high four or more satellites are being tracked); and  Operates Autonomously: With the Earth orbits. It is capable of significantly faster handles commanding and telemetry . exception of GPS signals, the receiver acquisition times and tracking for both strong It also is capable of determining attitude when requires no external data for operation. and weak signals. It requires no external data, it is set up with an appropriate antenna  Is robust and reliable: The radiation- and its fast acquisition enables it to be powered configuration. Onboard orbit determination and hardened receiver can reliably operate in down in any orbit until needed. accurate state estimation/propagation during the harsh environment of space. (High periods with no GPS access are accomplished How it works altitude orbits can present particularly by integration with the GPS Enhanced Onboard harsh radiation environments.) In order to determine positioning using Navigation System (GEONS). GPS, a receiver must first acquire the GPS signals  Improves GPS Navigation in LEO: Accuracy enhancement: Augmentation and then track those signals simultaneously. When used in LEO, the receiver’s fast When tracking the signal, the receiver holds and Augmentation methods of improving acquisition rate eliminates the approxi- extracts data, making range measurements from accuracy rely on external information being mately 20-minute cold start delay time, each satellite. Those measurements are processed integrated into the calculation process. There acquiring GPS signals in only seconds. to determine the position of each satellite and are many such systems in place and they are Applications then extrapolate the receiver’s position. To enable generally named or described based on how the it to acquire GPS signals very quickly and also GPS sensor receives the information. Some  High altitude spacecraft (e.g., track weak signals, the radiation-hardened systems transmit additional information about Geostationary Operational Environmental Navigator receiver utilizes a bank of hardware sources of error others provide direct Satellite (GOES), Magneto Multiscale correlates, a Cold Fire microprocessor, and a measurements of how much the signal was off Science (MMS), other geostationary orbit specialized fast acquisition module. The in the past, while a third group provide (GEO) satellites) hardware is implemented in VHSIC Hardware additional navigational or vehicle information  Low Earth orbit spacecraft (offers Description Language (VHDL) to target to be integrated in the calculation process. enhanced GPS navigation via Navigator’s radiation -hardened Field Programmable Gate Future take-up fast-acquisition capability) Arrays (FPGA) rather than Application- specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), in order to It is likely that GPS will remain the hub maintain flexibility for growth and design around which navigation applications are Editorial Team modifications. centered for some time to come, although Mr. H.R. Mohan, Dr. S. Salivahanan, gradually this role will be taken on by a few Autonomous operation Dr. M. Ponnavaikko, different GNSS, including Galileo and Glonass, One of the Navigator’s two design Dr. P. Suresh Chander Pal, which will work alongside GPS. However, the Mr. T.S. Rangarajan, Mrs. M. Ramalatha principles was autonomous operation to role of other techniques, such as map-matching

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Emerging Technology in 2009: An Engine for Growth we saw the rise of services designed to adapt these technologies for business use. But 2009 In 2009 we saw plenty of new and Next-Generation Processors - saw some radical new twists on the idea of innovative technologies that not only offer a Typically processor growth is measured in collaboration. Browser maker Opera released a boost to current users and businesses but also small performance improvements that mean little new technology called Opera Unite, which was point the way toward future technological to most users. However, 2009 saw several major essentially a Web server inside a browser. While improvements that could become the next wave upgrades in processor technology both on the wearing my security hat I was greatly concerned that will lift up businesses and individuals. high and on the low end. The Intel Xeon Nehalem of the implications of a Web server on everyone’s family of processors provided a massive boost system. But from a functionality standpoint, What were some of these products and in performance and scalability for servers. And Unite is an intriguing idea where every Web technologies? Here are some innovative new advances in Ultra Low Voltage processors user can connect with and serve data to others technologies and sectors that stood out in 2009. made it possible to build laptops that have good without the need of external servers and cloud- based systems. 2009 also saw the introduction HTML 5 - While it is not yet a full performance but also use little power. standard and has yet to be fully implemented of Google Wave, probably one of the most Search Engines Compete Anew - in any major Web browser or application, the misunderstood technology releases of the year. Google’s dominance of Web search saw a few next iteration of HTML is already having a big While many focused on the initial beta of Wave major new challenges in 2009. Wolfram Alpha, effect on the future of the Web. HTML 5 will and its focus on collaboration and task though not a traditional Web search engine in management, the truly interesting aspect of allow for much greater interactivity and that it searches a closed database of information, richness in Web applications, will allow Wave is its potential to be a platform for open offered an interesting look at a search engine and constant development of systems for browsers to handle video natively and will bring designed to provide actual answers to questions desktop like features to Web applications. collaboration and content delivery. rather than just provide lists of results. But the We’ve seen implementations of this biggest (and probably most surprising) challenge SSD in the Data Center - Solid-state forthcoming standard in Firefox, Google came from Microsoft’s Bing, which made drives are as common as anything in tech. From Chrome, Apple Safari and Opera. And one inroads against Google and offered a much more USB drives to cameras to MP3 players to tangible impact of the coming effect of HTML attractive and interactive search engine. While phones, you probably have multiple SSDs in 5 is Google’s recent decision to stop Google had long championed basic and simple your possession. And in recent years SSD has development of its technology, since as the preferred interface for search, Bing become a popular option in netbooks and other Gears features for offline support of Web showed that there is a place for attractive, small mobile devices. But their biggest impact applications are a core feature of HTML 5. interactive and dynamic search interfaces. could come in the biggest systems, as the use of Mobile Operating Systems - Not long SSDs in servers offers much greater performance New Ways to Collaborate - In 2008, and operations benefits. ago, mobile operating systems were seen as most of the attention when it came to weak, inflexible and closed systems. For collaboration focused on Web 2.0 technologies Courtesy : Jim Rapoza, developers, they were difficult to build for and such as social networks, wikis and Twitter. Plus, http://etech.eweek.com/ offered nearly impossible hurdles in order to get applications to users. And users often found them unfriendly and to have limited options Common Myths about Ubiquitous Computing for customization. The iPhone bucked these expectations by providing an excellent operating Ubiquitous computing is quite a broad system and a (more) open forum for creating the hidden computer idea. Ubiquitous vision. There is a danger that it becomes too and delivering applications. And then in 2009 computing is also about computing being encompassing. Here a few unrealistic expectations we saw the rise of Android based phones and localised within a context and being available about ubiquitous computing are discussed: new systems such as Palm WebOS, which have only when needed. Hence it is more appropriate to speak of context-aware ubiquity. shown that mobile operating systems can be There is a single definition which dynamic, flexible and more open to application accurately characterizes ubiquitous computing: Ubiquitous computing is boundless developers. rather there is a range of properties and types computing: this means that the virtual ICT world OS - People have long for ubiquitous computing which vary according can extend fully into the physical world and talked about the idea of the browser as the to the application. into the human environment, replacing human and physical world systems and their operating system. And with the release of an The ideal type of ubiquitous computing is interactions with computer interaction. But early developer version of the Google Chrome where all the properties of ubiquitous must be there limits to what computer systems can OS, we finally got a look at one. The main fully supported: it may not be required, useful achieve, at least in the short term, e.g., UbiCom interface for Chrome OS is the Chrome Web or usable in many cases in practice, to support systems are not (yet) capable of completely browser, and nearly all applications on Chrome the full set of these properties. OS are expected to be Web-based. While this supplanting human cognition and behaviour. Chrome OS is still in its early stages, I expect it Ubiquitous computing means making Hence, UbiCom must strike a careful balance to change before its release late next year. And computing services accessible everywhere: this between supporting being human and living in I also expect to see some of the ideas shown in is unnecessary, too costly and makes smart harmony and experiencing the physical world, Chrome OS spread to other systems and environments become too cluttered, overloading between being designed to give humans more hardware. the user with too many choices and contravening fulfilled control of the their environment and

8 IEEE-MAS Link Volume : 6 Issue : 12 December 2009 taking away the less fulfilling control of the transparent and open ICT systems. UbiCom of context aware systems are episodic, environment. also focuses on particular models of human and considering only the current physical physical world interaction involving context- environment state in order to determine their Ubiquitous computing is just about HCI: awareness of the physical world and human automatic interaction and decisions are also next actions. This is not effective in a partially and on supporting implicit human computing needed in order to reduce human task and observable and non-deterministic world. In interaction. cognition overload and to enable tasks to be addition, the physical world context needs to performed more safely, quicker, repeatedly and Ubiquitous computing is just mobile be considered as part of the user context. accurately. It is also less practical for humans wireless computing: The ability to carry around Ubiquitous computing is just distributed to interact with micro-sized devices in the same higher resourced, multi-functional wireless intelligence: action selection and many way as interacting with macro-sized devices. mobile devices is useful but is also limited. Too operations can become overly complex and Human interaction with compositions of many functions can cause clutter. Increasing computationally intractable, requiring numbers of functions can interfere with each multiple devices spatially distributed in shared substantial computation to enable intelligent physical spaces and time cannot be controlled other. It can be complex to make mobile devices deliberation to reach an outcome. Interaction is centrally in the same way that humans can strongly locally situated and adapt to the more effective and easier to compute and execute control a single device. physical world. Ubiquitous computing also if it has minimal intelligence, e.g., it is based concerns being situated and embedded in the Calm computing should be used as a upon reactive system design, rule-based physical world. model for all HCI. Calm computing is where behaviour as used in self-organising and self- the system is active, reducing some decision- Ubiquitous computing is just about smart creating systems. However, intelligence is very making by humans. There are many environments: while smarter physical world useful when systems have to deal with applications and situations, where human users interaction can be facilitated through embedding uncertainty and to handle autonomous systems should clearly lead and control the interaction. active computing in the real world, UbiCom that are themselves complex and intelligent. Calm computing needs to be selectively used. also involves interactions of smart, flexible, Degrees of calm computing are needed from mobile devices which are human-centred and Ubiquitous computing systems can weak to strong. which support personal and social interaction operate effectively in all kinds of environments: spaces. It is unrealistic to expect that ubiquitous Ubiquitous computing is just about computing systems can behave deterministically Ubiquitous computing need to be highly augmenting reality: UbiCom systems may not in non-deterministic, partially observable, etc., only enhance human–physical world interaction autonomous systems: systems’ autonomy is human and physical environments. Current but it may also change it in wider ways. It may often limited in practice as computers are not systems cannot reliably actively adapt to user even diminish reality in some ways in order to able to design themselves, to completely adapt contexts where users act in an ad hoc manner. A aid the user in focusing on particular contexts. to new environments and user requirements and weather context-aware system cannot reliably UbiCom is more about mediated reality. to maintain themselves in the face of changing requirements. and accurately predict which clothes users Ubiquitous computing is just distributed should wear when the weather itself is or virtual computing: UbiCom is more than Ubiquitous computing is just about unpredictable. being distributed in terms of interlinked, physical world context-awareness: many types

Kaizen The Five Foundation Elements of Kaizen 3. Standardization. 1. Teamwork. When should the Kaizen philosophy be What is Kaizen? applied? Although it is difficult to give generic 2. Personal discipline. The Kaizen method of continuous advice it is clear that it fits well in gradual, 3. Improved morale. incremental improvements is an originally incremental change situations that require long- Japanese management concept for gradual, 4. Quality circles. term change and in collective cultures. More continuous (incremental) change (improvement). 5. Suggestions for improvement. individual cultures that are more focused on short-term success are often more conducive to Kaizen is actually a way of life Out of this Foundation, three Key Factors concepts such as Business Process Reengineering. philosophy. It assumes that every aspect of in Kaizen arise our life deserves to be constantly improved. Kaizen Compared To Business Process 1. Elimination of waste The Kaizen philosophy lies behind many Reengineering Japanese management concepts such as: Total (muda) and inefficiency. When Kaizen is compared with the BPR Quality Control, Quality Control circles, small 2. The Kaizen five-S framework for good method it is clear the Kaizen philosophy is group activities, labor relations. housekeeping. more people-oriented, more easy to implement, Key elements of Kaizen are: quality, but requires long-term discipline and provides 1. Seiri - tidiness effort, involvement of all employees, willingness only a small pace of change. The Business to change, and communication. Japanese 2. Seiton - orderliness Process Reengineering approach on the other companies distinguish between: Innovation, a 3. Seiso - cleanliness hand is harder, technology-oriented, it enables radical change but it requires considerable change radical form of change, and Kaizen, a continuous 4. Seiketsu - standardized clean-up form of change. Kaizen means literally: change management skills. 5. Shitsuke - discipline (kai) to become good (zen). Source & Courtesy: http://ww.12manage.com/

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Effects of Climate Change Today endangered species, coral reefs, and polar animals. Warming has also caused changes in the timing of spring events and the Over 100 years ago, people worldwide melting sea ice is speeding up warming length of the growing season. began burning more coal and oil for homes, in the Arctic. factories, and transportation. Burning these fossil  Hurricanes have changed in  Glaciers and permafrost are fuels releases carbon dioxide and other frequency and strength. There is melting. Over the past 100 years, greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. These evidence that the number of mountain glaciers in all areas of the world added greenhouses gases have caused Earth to intense hurricanes has increased in the have decreased in size and so has the warm more quickly than it has in the past Atlantic since 1970. Scientists continue amount of permafrost in the Arctic. to study whether climate is the cause. How much warming has happened? Greenland’s ice sheet is melting faster too.  More frequent heat waves. It is likely Scientists from around the world with the Inter  Sea-surface temperatures are governmental Panel on Climate Change that heat waves have become more warming. Warmer waters in the shallow common in more areas of the world. (IPCC) tell us that during the past 100 years, oceans have contributed to the death of the world’s surface air temperature increased an about a quarter of the world’s coral reefs in  Warmer temperatures affect human average of 0.6° Celsius (1.1°F). This may not the last few decades. Many of the coral health. There have been more deaths due sound like very much change, but even one degree animals died after weakened by bleaching, to heat waves and more allergy attacks as can affect the Earth. Below are some effects of a process tied to warmed waters. the pollen season grows longer. There climate change that we see happening now have also been some changes in the ranges  Heavier rainfall cause flooding in of animals that carry disease like  Sea level is rising. During the 20th many regions. Warmer temperatures mosquitoes. century, sea level rose about 15 cm (6 have led to more intense rainfall events inches) due to melting glacier ice in some areas. This can cause flooding.  Seawater is becoming more and expansion of warmer seawater. acidic. Carbon dioxide dissolving into the Models predict that sea level may rise as  Extreme drought is increasing. Higher oceans is making seawater more acidic. much as 59 cm (23 inches) during the temperatures cause a higher rate There could be impacts on coral reefs and 21st Century, threatening coastal of evaporation and more droughts in other marine life. communities, wetlands, and coral reefs. some areas of the world. Source & Courtesy:  Arctic sea ice is melting. The summer  Ecosystems are changing. As http://www.windows.ucar.edu/windows.html thickness of sea ice is about half of what temperatures warm, species may either A user-friendly learning system covering the it was in 1950. Melting ice may lead move to a cooler habitat or die. Species Earth and Space sciences for use by the to changes in ocean circulation. Plus that are particularly vulnerable include general public.

Talk on on “Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 – Hope or Hype” technologies and Web 3.0 is more on machine based learning and will be the technology of the future. His interactive demo of the application Chairman, CSI Chennai Chapter introduced the of interactive web technology for a saree shop speaker Dr. K. Satya Sai Prakash. was well appreciated. The talk focussed on the fact that Mr. G. Ramachandran, Past Vice technology and business share an intriguing President, CSI presented a memento to Dr. Satya relationship and the speaker stressed that Sai Prakash and Mr. Ramesh Bashyam, MC Technology without business opportunity is Member, CSI Chennai Chapter proposed the redundant as well as Business without vote of thanks. technological advancement/adoption is void. He was of the opinion that academic intelligentsia, During the meeting, the students who had business acumen, and corporate creativity aims sponsored by CSI and participated in the at striking a balance point that enables SEARCC Software Contest held at Sri Lanka technological advances which create ample and won in the contest were felicitated along business opportunities. with the staff co-ordinator Mr. Kumar from Rajalakshmi Engineering College who had Dr. Sai, in his talk, stated that Web, a accompanied the students to Sri Lanka. Wg Cdr A talk on “Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 – Hope or killer application created on gigantic Internet (Retd) M. Murgesan, Regional Director, CSI Hype” by Dr. K. Satya Sai Prakash. MD, platform started as a fledgling HTML based gave an overview of the contest and the role of Amphisoft Technologies Pvt Ltd & Dean – SoC, information representation and with time CSI in nurturing the talent of students. Mr. H. SKR Engineering College was organised jointly evolved into a complex ‘web’ of activities, R Mohan, who was associated with the by IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter transactions, and exchange of services. He added SEARCC contest right from 1989 held at and the Chennai Chapter of Computer Society that careful and graded evaluation of this Singapore where our students won the first of India on Saturday, 14th Nov 2009. exponential growth gave us insights into Web prize recalled the experiences and fall and rise 1.0 … Web 2.0 … Web 3.0. He explained with Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS of our students over the two decades in this examples the various generations of Web welcomed the gathering and Mr. S. Ramasamy, contest.

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ICAET-10 NCISE-10 International Conference on National Conference on “Advances and Emerging Trends in Information and Software Engineering Computing Technologies” 26 – 27, February 2010 21 – 24, June 2010 Organized by Organised by IEEE Computer Society - Madras Chapter School of Computer Science & Engineering IEEE Computer Society Branch Chapter-AVIT SRM University Department of Information Technology Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology in association with Vinayaka Missions University University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA, Div II & Div IV, Computer Society of India In association with IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter Div II (Software) - Computer Society of India CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION CALL FOR PAPERS Programme Highlights: This two days national conference will have two Computer Science is an area that is characterized, by continued advances main theme tracks presenting papers and special lectures by eminent persons in existing technologies, pioneering trends and new theories at a rapid from industries and academia on various topics as detailed below: pace than most areas of science and technology. A conference is an ideal forum for researchers to exchange their findings and thoughts with their Theme 1: Information Engineering fellow researchers across the globe. The highlight of the conference will Information and Communication System; IT Applications in Pollution be keynote addresses and plenary lectures to be delivered by Control and Sensor Networks; Advanced Database Technologies; internationally renowned experts and very enriching tutorials. The Internet Information System; Information Security and Privacy; 3G/4G organizers intend the conference to be a platform for fruitful interaction Information Systems; Cloud Computing; Service Oriented Architectures; among the participants. Data Mining and Warehousing; Management Information Systems Research and review papers are solicited in the following areas. Theme 2: Software Engineering Grid Computing; Cloud Computing; Optical Computing; Autonomic Software Requirement Engineering; Software Metrics, Quality and Computing; Peer-to-Peer Computing; Location/Context Aware Reliability; Software Safety, Security and Dependability; Software Project Computing; Security - Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing; Bots, Web & Process Management; Software Testing, Verification & Validation; Crawlers and other agents in Computing; WiMax; SAAS; SAN and Software Performance Engineering; Formal methods in Software NAS; Semantic Web; Virtualization; Complex Events Processing; Natural Engineering; Model driven Software Architecture; Advanced Software Language Processing; Bio computing and Biometrics development models; People issues in Software Engineering The proceedings of the conference will be published in print form by a Call for Papers: Papers are invited relating to the above theme topics. leading publisher. Important Dates: Paper submission: 10th Jan 2010; Intimation of Pre conference tutorials will be conducted in the following areas. acceptance: 20th Jan 2010; Camera ready paper: 31st Jan 2010. Semantic Web; Cloud Computing; Bots and Web C crawlers; Biometrics; Registration Fee: Industrial Delegates: Rs. 1000/-; Academic Staff: Cyber Forensics Rs. 750/-; Students & Research Scholars: Rs. 600/-; IEEE/CSI Members: IMPORTANT DATES: Rs. 600/- Abstracts (300 words max.) due by: January 15, 2010; Full Papers due The registration fee is to be paid through Demand Draft drawn in favor by: February 15, 2010. Notification of Acceptance by: April 1, 2010; of “The Principal, AVIT”, payable at Chennai. The applicants should Camera ready paper is due on: May 1, 2010 send the filled in Registration form, DD, copy of ID card and a copy of IEEE/CSI membership card (if applicable) to the program chair on or REGISTRATION: before 10th Feb 2010. Members of Industry: Rs. 3000 (US $ 100); Address for Correspondence: Academicians: Rs. 1500 (US $ 50); Students: Rs. 750 (US $ 25) Dr. A. Anthony Irudhayaraj ADDRESS FOR COMMUNICATION: Program Chair - NCISE 2010 Dr. S. Chellaiah, Conference Chair ICAET-10 Department of Information Technology Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology SRM University Old Mahabalipuram Road, Chennai Paiyanoor – 603104, Tamil Nadu SRM Nagar, Kattankulathur Chennai 603203, India. Mobile: 09443884732, 09444812756 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.srmuniv.ac.in/events.php?page=icaet10 Website: www.avit.ac.in

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