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Dr. S. Salivahanan H.R. Mohan [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mobile: 94441 89433 Dear Friends, When this issue of LINK reaches you, we Dear Friends, will be just few days ahead of the much eagerly HAPPY 125th Anniversary of IEEE! awaited celebrations of the 125th Anniversary of IEEE at the Madras Section. – a memorable event You are aware that IEEE Madras Section in which the IEEE President, Dr. John Vig and the is organizing IEEE’s 125th Year Celebrations at Anna University VC, Dr. Mannar Jawahar will be Madras Institute of Technology, Chrompet, addressing us. Two special invited lectures – Chennai on August 27, 2009 with the participation of Dr. John Vig, IEEE “Towards Technology Leadership in Wireless Communication” by Dr. President and Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice Chancellor, Anna University Ashok Jhunjhunwala of IIT Madras and “Technologies for Sustainable Chennai. All the IEEE Student Branch Counsellors, Student Volunteers Development” by Dr. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, IIT Kanpur & and other Members are invited to attend the celebrations and make it a Science City Madras followed by student centric programmes will keep historic event. us all fully engaged. If you have not registered to participate, pl. do so by filling up the online registration form at http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras/ IEEE completed its 125 years of “Engineering the Future” and serving the humanity. Keeping this in mind, IEEE Madras Section has LINK congratulates Mr. Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan, GOLD planned number of activities to celebrate IEEE’s 125th Anniversary in a member for receiving the IEEE Foundation funding of up to $13,420 for better and productive way. The highlights of day are ‘invited talks’ by the project “Novel Screening System for Development Disorders”. Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Professor, Department of Electrical Engg., IIT The reports of the following six events by the IEEE Computer Madras on “Towards Technology Leadership in Wireless Society appear in this issue of LINK: International Conference on Communication” and Dr. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, IIT Kanpur “Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems”; Workshops on “Green and Chairman, Science City Chennai on “Technologies for Sustainable ICT – make it FOSSible”, “Software Reliability & Testing” and Development”. Achievers are going to be awarded. The present & past “Technology Enhanced Learning Through Moodle”; a technical talk on Chairpersons of IEEE Madras Section, the Chairpersons of Society “Virtualization - Architecture, Infrastructure, Strategy” and a CIO event Chapters & WIE and GOLD affinity Groups and Execom Members of on “Emerging Logistics in India, Changing Infrastructure and Technology” the Section will also be felicitated. The students will get an opportunity Short reports on the FDP on “Time-Frequency Signal Analysis” to interact with the IEEE President Dr. John Vig and experts regarding held at IIT Madras, guest lectures at Sri Venkateswara College of Engg their future in different fields. An on-spot general knowledge quiz and St. Joseph’s College of Engg along with the website launch & lecture competition is being organized for student members of IEEE Madras at Sri Muthukumaran Inst. of Technology and the proceedings of the Section to tickle their cognition. Students will also present a cultural technical meeting on “Power Sector Reforms today” also appear in this program at the end of the ceremony. issue. We are sure that the review of the book “Successful Management Techniques” by Dr. G.V. Rao, Chairman, IEEE IAS, Madras Chapter The 125th Year anniversary gives an opportunity to honour the would interest many of our readers. IEEE members who made valuable contributions and support for the development of future technologies which will motivate the participation LINK congratulates Ms. K.N. Vaishnavee of St. Joseph College of in the IEEE activities in the future. Engg and Mr. R. Saranyaraj of Park College of Engg and Technology, the winners of Info Contest 0907 who will receive a prize of Rs. 500/= each Being the No.1 in IEEE Region 10 in terms of number of student sponsored by SRA Systems. branches and membership strength, the IEEE Madras Section is planning to celebrate IEEE’s 125th Anniversary in all its grandeur in Chennai. LINK is happy to record the visit of Ms. Angela Burgess, Executive Hence, we solicit the support and co-operation from all the IEEE members Director, IEEE Computer Society. She had addressed the delegates at the to get involved in these celebrations and take advantage of the opportunity NASSCOM meet at Chennai on the educational and testing activities of to be a part of something special. IEEE CS and also participated in the inauguration of the TIFAC Core centre on Machine Vision at Rajalakshmi Engg College. She was impressed with the activities being organized at the Section and Computer Society. Editorial Team We invite proposals for participating in the Digital Literacy Programme Mr. H.R. Mohan, Dr. S. Salivahanan, Dr. M. Ponnavaikko, which aims at empowering the rural women and youth. Reader’s attention Dr. P. Suresh Chander Pal, Mr. T.S. Rangarajan, Mrs. M. Ramalatha is drawn to the four forthcoming international conferences being held at Chennai for paper presentations and participation.
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International Conference on “INTELLIGENT AGENT & MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS” rather then challenging every aspect. Dr. S. Salivahanan, Shri H R Mohan, Dr. S. Arunachalam, and Shri S.Basker, General Manager, Vinayaka Missions University felicitated. The Meeting ended with vote of thanks proposed by Prof.P.T.Sivasankar, HOD, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering. During the conference, the keynote talks were delivered by distinguished keynote speakers, namely Professor Michael N. Huhns (USA), Dr. Onn Shehory (ISRAEL) and Dr. Ravi Gorthi (INDIA). Twelve technical sessions were organized on 23rd and 24th July 2009 and they included areas such as: Web Based Systems, E-Governance, E-Learning & E-Contents, Web Mining, Wireless Networks, Mobile Networks, Intelligent Image Processing, Soft Computing, he International Conference on Intelligent Hiranmay Ghosh, Principal Scientist, Security Systems, Optimization Techniques, TAgent & Multi-Agent Systems 2009 TCS Innovation Labs, Delhi, India. Social Computing, General Intelligent Systems (IAMA09) organized by the Department of and a Poster Presentation Session. Computer Science & Engineering, Aarupadai Autonomic Software Agents by Dr. T. Veedu Institute of Technology-Vinayaka Chithralekha, Reader, Department. of Realizing the importance and significance Missions University held at Chennai, India Banking Technology, Pondicherry of the development in the filed of Artificial during 22 – 24 July, 2009. The Conference University, Puducherry, India Intelligence, a panel discussion was also held was co-sponsored by IEEE Madras Section, Agent-Oriented Software Engineering by on “Scope and Challenges of Beginning an Asian IEEE Computer Society Madras Chapter, Dr. Onn Shehory, IBM Haifa Research Association of Artificial Intelligence” on the Computer Society of India Division II on Lab, Tel Aviv Site, Haifa University, Israel second day of the conference. The panel deliberated Software, Council of Scientific & Industrial on various aspects of AI and suggested the Research, Department of Information The conference was inaugurated on 22 formation of the Association at the National Level. Technology Govt of India and other small July 2009 evening at VIGYAN Auditorium SERC, CSIR Campus, Taramani, Chennai. Dr. For copies of the DVD proceedings at a industries located in and around Chennai. The nominal cost, please contact the Programme conference attracted about 225 delegates from N. R. Alamelu, Principal, Aarupadi Veedu Institute of Technology welcomed the Chair, Dr. Ponnusamy Ramalingam at all over the country both from Academia, [email protected] Industry and Research & Student Community. gathering. Dr. R. Ponnusamy, Organizing Secretary of the conference, briefed about the Report by Dr. R. Ponnusamy, AVIT In response to the call, a total number of theme of the conference, starting from the stage 298 papers were received for the conference. of conceiving the proposal up to the planning Congrats to Mr. Sampathkumar And they were peer reviewed by the members of the sessions. Dr. A. S. Ganesan, Pro- of International Program Committee. The Chancellor, Vinayaka Missions University, in LINK is pleased to inform the readers that the International Program Committee has envisaged his presidential address, elaborated on the IEEE Foundation had recently reviewed the a comprehensive technical program of 12 research activities of the Vinayaka Missions grant applications and made a decision to sessions covering a broad spectrum of topics University and the steps being taken to establish provide Mr. Sampathkumar Veeraraghavan in Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems a Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. from the Madras Section the IEEE Foundation and selected 116 papers out of which 82 papers The proceedings of the conference in IEEE DVD funding of up to $13,420 for his project “Novel were published in the IEEE DVD Conference form was released by the chief guest Shri. K. Screening System for Development Disorders” Proceedings. To encourage and honor the high Jayarama Krishnan, Vice-President, Global and the same will be paid in 2009. quality papers, special prize and certificate Alliance, TCS and the first copy was received IEEE TV has launched an exclusive video were awarded to the best 12 papers (one for by Dr. Salivahanan, Chairman, IEEE Madras program on the humanitarian activities titled” each session). Section. The conference souvenir was released Profiles in Volunteering: Veeraraghavan” and by Dr. Arunachalam Scientist and Advisor As part of the conference, the following the same can be viewed at http://www.ieee.org/ (MGT), SERC Chennai and first copy was pre-conference tutorials were arranged on the portal/site/ieeetv/menuitem.6ce799 received by Mr. H. R. Mohan Chairman, IEEE first day, 22 July 2009. f946c20d660374ca695bac26c8/index.jsp?& Computer Society & Software Division of pName=ieee.tv.viewer&path=membportieee_tv Agents and the Semantic Web by Prof. Computer Society of India . Shri K. Jayarama &file=CNT_profiles_Veera.xml&vid=111877& Michel N Huhns, Director, Center for Krishnan, in his inaugural and keynote address, play=true Information Technology, University of discussed the importance and significance of South Carolina, USA, Artificial Intelligence in day–to-day life. He LINK congrats Mr. Mr. Sampathkumar for Agent Based Systems for Human wanted researchers to accept the challenges and putting the IEEE Madras Section in the world Learning and Entertainment by Dr. work on solutions using Artificial Intelligence map of IEEE.
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Workshop on “Green ICT – make it FOSSible” Mr. H.R. Mohan, AVP (Systems), The Hindu, Chennai, Chairman, Software Division, CSI & IEEE Computer Society, Madras, in his talk on creating awareness of Green ICT said that in India awareness on green ICT is not very high but it is on the rise. He added that the government has taken major initiatives under climate control panel with eight national missions set up to monitor and facilitate sustainability of environment. He also added that the major corporate companies have come out with schemes to promote Green ICT and At the Inaugural session – Section of participants practicing green computing. Prof. D. Janakiraman, Dr. S. Santhakumar, Mr. S. Ramakrishnan and Mr. H.R. Mohan Some of the other sessions in the workshop included the following: Open source and Green ICT by Mr. Sreekanth Balakrishnan, workshop on “Green ICT – make it its impact on the environment. He also touched Technical Lead, Essentia Soft Solutions; Green FOSSible” was organised at IIT on the growing concerns by the world leaders A ICT solutions and FOSS: NIC experience by Madras in association with Centre for and the on going discussions on climate change. Mr. R. Ramesh, Technical Director, NIC, Development of Advanced Computing, He was of the opinion that the developed Chennai; Green ICT initiatives in corporate IT National Resource Centre for Free and Open nations are trying to impose restrictions on setup by Mr. N. Chandrasekaran, Special Source Software, National Informatics Centre, developing economies such as India and China Director – IT, Ashok Leyland, Chennai; IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter and to reduce the GHG emission which may Powering Green IT by Mr. Rajeev Agar, Channel CSI Div II on Software on 11th Jul 2009. The ultimately have a severe impact on their Manager (India), Raritan India & Middle East; workshop was aimed to create awareness on developmental activities. Green ICT and how FOSS could be used to and FOSS tools for Green ICT – demo of Power In the first technical session, Mr. M.R. achieve green computing and other related Top and Thin Clients by Mr. Bharathi Rajagopalan, Director, CDAC, Chennai spoke initiatives to the professional, student and Subramanian & Mr. P. Raman, ILUG-Chennai. on Open Source – a platform for innovation faculty members and facilitate them to practice Towards the end of the workshop, a panel and a public resource and the Indian scenario. in their establishments. About 150 participants discussion to brainstorm on Green ICT and FOSS He also gave an overview of the NRCFOSS set attended this workshop. up by CDAC along with Anna University which OSS community development in Asia in particular in India with a focus on Green ICT was Prof. D. Janakiraman, Dept. of CSE, IIT aims to contribute to the growth of FOSS in coordinated by Dr. P. Balasubramanian, Head, Madras welcomed the gathering and informed India through Research and Development, Open Technology Centre, NIC, Chennai. The the participants on the background on which Human Resource Development, Networking panel which included both working and practicing the workshop was orgnaised. Mr. H.R. and Entrepreneurship Development, as well as IT professionals and academicians as members Mohan, Chairman, CSI Div II and IEEE CS serve as the reference point for all FOSS related Madras, in his introductory remarks said that activities in the country including the creation concluded that the professional bodies should come together in promoting Green ICT by educating the topic, Green ICT is of global importance and maintenance of this national FOSS Portal. and all the nations are concerned on the global the industry users and students right from now Mr. V. Narayanan, Consultant, Center of warming issues due to green house gas (GHG) and help the country to maintain the GHG International Cooperation for Computerization, emissions. He then explained the structure of emission at a low level and ease global warming. Singapore, in his address said that the OSS Asia workshop sessions which aims to provide the Report by Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE initiative aims to share knowledge and IT participants a broader view of green computing CS & Div II, CSI resources, help peers and neighbours and and climate change. promote affordable computing. Further, he said Inaugurating the workshop, Dr. S. that open source ensures reuse of software and Forthcoming Events Santhakumar, Dean (Academic Courses), IIT open standards helps to achieve inter- National Workshop on “Globus Tool Kit Madras said that Green ICT is beyond reducing operability. Under AOSS scheme, training the & Research Directions in Computational power consumption and relates to production trainers programmes are held in Asia Pacific Grids”: 17-19, September 2009 at SSN of equipment using less toxic components and including in India with the support of CSI & College of Engineering. For details contact: reuse and recycle the end of life products to IEEE CS. In his role as the country co-ordinator Dr. Chitra Babu, Professor & Head, reduce their environmental impacts. He also for New Zealand for AOSS, he explained the Department of CSE. Email: elaborated on the initiatives taken by IIT green initiatives of both Australia and NZ. He [email protected] Madras in maintaining the campus green. also briefed on the Energy Standards Information System of APEC (APEC-ESIS) NACLIN 2009: 12th National Convention Mr. S. Ramakrishnan, Former Director whose objectives include the provision of on Knowledge, Library and Information General, CDAC, in his keynote address information about appliance and equipment Networking: 22-25 September 2009, explained about Green ICT concepts and energy standards and regulations and promote Chandigarh. E-mail: [email protected] highlighted on the various statistical information green ICT Web: www.naclin.org relating to GHG emission across the world and
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Workshop on “Software Reliability & Testing” Case Design” by Ms. T.M.S. Rekha, Asst. Manager, Testing Services, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai. Ms. Rekha charted the course of how testing is performed in the industry with a number of examples. Ms. B. Rajalakshmi, Senior Manager - Technology, Thinksoft Global Services, Chennai was the speaker of the second session of the day II. She gave an insight into the Banking and other Financial Domains. Her delivery was interspersed with lots of real life examples and testing scenarios. The final session of the day Dr. T.V. Gopal on “The Quality Imperative” Dignitaries at the Valedictory Session from left titled “Software Test Architecture & Live to right - Mr. I. Joe Louis Paul, Presentation of Test Automation Tools” was Mr. K. R. Jayakumar, Mr. H. R. Mohan, handled by Mr. K.R. Jayakumar, Director, Dr. J. Raja & Ms. S. Mohanavalli AmitySoft Technologies Pvt. Limited, Chennai. two day national level workshop on audience to various software reliability models Mr. Jayakumar and his team gave an illustrative ASoftware Reliability and Testing was and highlighted the important metrics for demo of various Test Automation Tools. st st organized during 31 July and 1 August 2009 Software Reliability. This was followed by an The two day workshop ended with the by the Department of Information Technology, interactive session on “The Quality Imperative” valedictory address by Mr. H.R. Mohan, SSNCE in association with IEEE Computer by Dr. T.V. Gopal, Professor, Dept of CSE, Chairman, IEEE Computer Society, Madras Society, Madras Chapter, DIV II on Software, College of Engineering, Anna University, Chapter and CSI Div II on Software and Computer Society of India, and Centre for Chennai. Dr. Gopal enthralled the audience with Associate Vice President (Systems), The Hindu. Reliability, Ministry of Communication and his anecdotes and at the same time explained Certificate of participation and a CD containing Information Technology. The workshop some deep concepts of software quality. In the the session presentations were given to all the attracted a participation of 40 delegates. The afternoon session, Mr. R. Aravindran, Practice participants. Excellent feedback was given by participants were from both academic Manager, Automation Centre of Excellence, the participants and they desired further institutions and industry and many of them Maveric Systems, Chennai emphasized on informal and egroup based interactions for were from outstation. setting the right expectations for Software Test keeping updated in this fast developing testing Automation. Mr. Aravindran was of the view On the first day, the workshop field. The entire workshop could be summed that the key to automate the testing process commenced with a session on “Software up as one of the participants put it – “A very was in finding the right set of test cases to Reliability Models & Metrics” by Mr. D. well tested and reliable project accomplished automate. Damodaran, Scientist ‘D’, Centre of Reliability, with zero defects”. Ministry of Communication and Information The day II commenced with a session on Report by Ms. S. Mohanavalli and Technology. Mr. Damodaran introduced the “Software Testing Principles, Strategies & Test Mr. I. Joe Louis Paul, Co-ordinators. Workshop on “Technology Enhanced Learning Through Moodle”
R. Pradeepkumar, CEO of Amphisoft could use it to exchange views and clear their Technologies Ltd, Coimbatore and his team. doubts anywhere and anytime. Other than the Nearly 60 staff from various colleges and teaching part, all the other activities like quiz, companies attended the two days workshop. test, attendance, information sharing, survey, Lecture and practice sessions made the feedback, etc can be done using Moodle. Using participants comfortable to tryout the software. this software, the student can learn anytime and also can get the notes, in case he/she missed The objective of the workshop was to any class. For the most part, Moodle makes impart enhanced learning through the software teaching interactive and reduces the manpower. Moodle, which helps the students and teachers As the classroom teaching involves a lot of to have better interaction. It has been developed teachers’ effort and at times students find it to improve the teaching and learning process difficult as well to cope with the teachers, interesting, as students of this era find the Moodle will be very useful if implemented in he “Enhanced Learning” workshop was conventional method of teaching boring. Theld at SKR Engineering College from 24th- colleges. 25th July 2009. It was organized by the School The software ‘Moodle’ is an open source, of computing of SKR Engineering College in user-friendly, interactive, dynamic and secure association with IEEE Computer Society software. It makes the evaluation of test papers Visit IEEE Computer Society Madras Madras Chapter, Computer Society of India and assignments easy for the teachers. For the Chapter at Div II on Software and Amphisoft Technologies students, with Moodle, we can create http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/ Pvt. Ltd. The workshop was presented by Dr. discussion forums and chat rooms, so that they
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C. Provide the answer. • In the third line, write your email id. C1. Name the slang term that describes using • In the fourth line, write your name. the Internet or ISP outages as an excuse • In the fifth line, write your college / IEEE MAS LINK for not completing a task organization name SRA Systems C2. Purchasing a domain name that is a • In the sixth line, write the answers to the five variation on a popular domain name with questions of Section A, separated by comma. the expectation that the site will get traffic Info Contest off of the original site because of a user’s • In the seventh line, write the answers to H.R. Mohan misspelling of the name is known as the five questions of Section B, separated Chairman, IEEE CS, Madras Chapter ——— by comma. Editor, IEEE MAS LINK • In the eighth line, write the answers to AVP (Systems), The Hindu, Chennai C3. Name the unit of measurement for the speed and movement direction of the five questions of Section C, separated This is the 16th edition in the series of a computer mouse by comma. Info Contest – a regular column in our newsletter C4. Name the algorithm used for • In the ninth line, write the answers to the IEEE MAS LINK. The content mix now includes circumventing the CSS, the copy five questions of Section D, separated some General Knowledge questions in addition protection used in DVDs, allowing the by comma. to IT related. This, we believe would provide decryption of the digital data an overall exposure and also facilitate more • In the tenth line, write the answers to the participation. As we are celebrating the IEEE’s C5. “Because you are worth more” is the five questions of Section E, separated 125th Anniversary, a set of questions relating tagline of the website ——— by comma. to IEEE appears in this edition of the contest. D. Provide the answer. As the evaluation of the entries is automated, pl. ensure the above guidelines are TWO lucky winners who answer to D1. Whose nickname is “The Haryana followed. maximum no. of questions and early (selected by Hurricane” lot if multiple entries qualify) will receive an award Email the answers to: D2. Name the third astronaut of Apollo 11 of Rs. 500/= each, sponsored by SRA Systems. [email protected] mission who did not set his foot on the moon Members are encouraged to participate The last date to receive the answers by email D3. NASA declared this small town in Bihar in the contest and win prizes. Answers are to as the ‘best spot’ to view the recent total is 5th Sep 2009. be sent by EMAIL ONLY. Please follow the solar eclipse. Name it Info Contest – 0907 : guidelines provided at the end of the questions. D4. Which jail in India has the dubious Answers & Winners Info Contest – 0908 distinction of the largest prison in the Answers: This contest has 25 questions in five sections Asia Pacific Performance, Protocol, Power, Processing,. — A, B, C, D & E — each having five questions. D5. “Knowledge is power.” Who said this Portable A. In the following acronyms / E. Fill in the blanks / Provide the answer. Bharti Airtel, Tata Docomo, Morro, Nandan abbreviations “I” stands for what. E1. After the world’s cheapest car, Tata Nilekani, india.gov.in Vista, Windows registry, True, #FFFFFF, A1. DIF Motors is set to launch the world’s first air fueled car named as ——— Ctrl +X / Shift + Del A2. SCSI 300, Thriller, Triveni, Spice Jet, Q & A E2. First Sunday of August is celebrated as A3. PING Madonna, false, Worli, Rand, Udaipur ——— A4. MICR Winners: E3. Swine Flu : H1N1 = Avian / Bird Flu : A5. CCITT ——— Ms. Vaishnavee K.N St. Joseph College of Engineering B. Fill in the blanks / Provide the answer. E4. The color of the blood of cockroach is Mem. No. : 90578790 ——— B1. AIEE and ——— merged to form the Email: [email protected] Institute of Electrical and Electronics E5. Maruti 800 : Harpal Singh = Nano : ——— Engineers (IEEE) Mr. R. Saranyaraj Guidelines to submit the answers to Park College of Engineering and B2. IEEE has 38 societies and ——— the Info Contest by email. Technology technical councils In the Subject, Mem. No. : 90590196 B3. Name the IEEE’s highest award which • Write the Contest No. (Info Contest – Email: [email protected] recognizes an individual for an exceptional 0908) in the subject line. contribution or extraordinary career in the Both the above will be IEEE fields of interest. In the body of the mail, awarded a prize of Rs. 500/= each. LINK acknowledges with thanks the sponsorship B4. Name the largest society of IEEE • In the first line, write the contest No: of the awards by SRA Systems Info Contest – 0908 B5. Name the IEEE’s digital library which (www.srasystems.com). provides full text access to its technical • In the second line, write your membership literature. no.
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Faculty Development Program on “Time-Frequency Signal Analysis” he IEEE Madras Section organized a TFaculty Development Program (FDP) on “Time-Frequency Signal Analysis” in association with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras, from 7th to 12th July 2009. This was the 12th FDP in a series of programs aimed at improving the quality of teaching in Engineering Colleges in Tamil Nadu. The program was attended by 25 participants from all over Tamil Nadu. The instructors for the program were Prof. M.J. Bastiaans, Department of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands and Prof. K.M.M. Prabhu, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras. Both faculty members are renowned academicians known for their research and teaching skills. Frequency signal analysis included Fourier Quadratic time-frequency distribution and The topics covered included signal transform, Need for time-frequency Cohen class (pseudo Wigner, Rihaczek). processing basics, such as Time sampling and distributions, Fractionalization of cyclic The program received excellent feedback aliasing, Band-pass signals and band-pass transformations, Short-time Fourier transform, from the participants, who in turn requested sampling, Quadrature signals, Computing the Wigner distribution function and its IEEE Madras Section to organize more such spectrum, Pitfalls in using the DFT, Frequency applications in optics, Gabor’s signal expansion, programs in the future. resolution and zero padding and Sliding Gabor transform, Discrete Gabor transform, spectrum analysis. The topics on Time- Wigner-Ville distribution, Zak transform,
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Additions to Section Library • CDROM Proceedings of the International Conference on Intellligent Agent & Multi Agent Systems (IAMA2009): Held at Chennai during 22- 24, Jul 2009. Organised by Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology, Vinayaka s a part of student branch activities during Naidu gave a deep insight into various types of Mission University and supported by Athe Silver Jubilee year of Sri Venkateswara robots and automated systems ranging from IEEE Madras Section, IEEE Computer College of Engineering, Sriperumbudur, the IEEE small scale to sophisticated ones. Some of his Society & CSI Div II on Software. student branch organized its first event for the own designs like the Artec Robotic Docking • Presentations (in CDROM) made during academic year 2009-10, which was a guest And Movement System which enables a the National Workshop on Software lecture on 23rd July 2009. Mr. Ramakrishna helicopter to land safely on a Patrol Vessel of Reliability & Testing organized during Naidu, founder of Artec Sriman Controls was the Coast Guard were explained. 31st July and 1st August 2009 by the Dept. the speaker who delivered a talk on “Latest of IT, SSNCE in association with IEEE After the lecture, the following office trends in Robotics”. Computer Society, CSI DIV II on Software bearers of IEEE-SVCE student branch for the and Centre for Reliability, MCIT. During the session, Mr. Ramakrishna academic year 2009-2010 were inducted.
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manufacturing Industry or a service sector. The Book Review: Successful Management Techniques author has highlighted that the feedback in an quality patience. This chapter is extremely useful organization is an essential aspect for the for the present day youngsters especially in the continuous progress I just would like to conclude age group of 18 to 25. We find youngsters to with my appreciation for the topic negative lack patience and if they and practice that lot of thinkers – progress blockers. The author says unpleasant things could be avoided. that as an entrepreneur only one kind of people scare him –hard core negative thinkers. He also The next chapter that I would like to talk emphasizes that an important duty of every about is “SPEAK NOT” and it starts with an administrator is more towards weeding of equation A = X+Y+Z. The A is Success. ‘X’ is negativity rather than increasing the positive work, ‘Y’ is sportive and ‘Z’ is to keep mum, attitude. from Albert Einstein. I feel that in this equation Z should have a higher weightage when compared The author has effectively given all the to Y. In this chapter the author very rightly tips to be an effective and efficient leader based says that no one should make long speeches on his own personal experiences. I would suggest like politicians. It is very true that nobody is that the author includes a chapter on professional interested in long speeches and advises. People and social ethics in the next edition of the book want to be very brief and to the point. The which will be very useful for the present author has quoted the examples of the speech generation. Author: Dr. G.V. Rao by Abraham Lincoln which is very apt. Lincoln’s It may be noted that the enterprising and Page: 236 Box Binding speech was less than five minutes but is considered friendly nature of Dr. Rao. Dr. Rao is 79 years Price Rs. 225/- to be one of the most powerful speeches in the young, not old – yes young, dynamic, humorous First Edition: 2009 history. The author has also narrated his own and very positive in his approach towards life. Published by: Rowsons Publications experience as the representative of a company It is these qualities that have made him a 260/1, Royapettah High Road with a dealer. He also emphasizes a fact that to successful entrepreneur and also prompted him Mylapore, Chennai – 600004 be brief means to be firm and also be assertive. to write number of books in different topics. Ph: 24980611 / 24980626 Those who practice patience usually speak less and these two qualities normally go together. To conclude, this book will be a valuable reading material for professionals in his book “Successful Management In the next chapter TALK Dr. Rao administration and marketing to achieve growth Techniques” is a compilation of the lifetime mentions about talking with knowledge so that T in their career and a worthwhile addition in all experiences of Dr. G.V. Rao for the past five the talk, the conversation is sensible. It is extremely institutional libraries. decades in different capacities - as an employee apt to have planned the two chapters “SPEAK - executive, heading an organization and an NOT” and “TALK” adjacent to each other. It would be of interest to know that the entrepreneur. There are number of books on author Dr. G.V.Rao is the chairman of IEEE In another chapter the author speaks the management techniques with case studies Industrial Applications Society, Madras about self-confidence. If we want others to accept for those who learn management as an academic Chapter. A copy of this book has also been us, we should learn to accept ourselves is the course. This book written by Dr. Rao is presented added in the IEEE Madras Section Library. from a completely different perspective, highlight statement of this chapter. Self-confidence teaching practical management techniques based improves courage, conviction and people with Review by: Dr. N.R. Alamelu, Principal, on his own personal real life experiences meant self-confidence always speak to the point. Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology for anybody a student, an employee, an The chapters on public relations and organizational head or an entrepreneur. feedback are very well written. Effective public Section Membership as on Out of the 26 chapters of his book relations will give you lot of contacts and rich 15th August 2009 “Successful Management Techniques” - I would experience with name and fame. The author says Life Fellow - 1 like to touch upon a few chapters which really that experience has taught him the importance impressed me as the head of an educational of forging relationship with fellowmen and to Fellow - 1 institution and as a teacher interacting with foster such relationship he is part of many clubs Life Senior - 5 about 400 faculty and 3000 + students. and associations. This is also very much essential Senior Member - 69 for the growth of every individual. Public Life Member - 3 The second chapter “Practice Patience” relations give you contacts with peers which in is the most vital quality for every individual at turn improve the self confidence. Member - 1418 every stage - student, parent, teacher, executive Associate - 78 The inclusion of a chapter on feedback is and so on. In this chapter the author has Affliate - 40 indicated several instances for being patient like very apt. Any system with feedback will have a Graduate Student Member - 759 relationships mother-in-law- daughter-in-law, better stability when compared to the system teacher- student, employer – employee. He has without feedback is the theory of engineering. Student Member - 4181 also quoted “Porumai Kadalinum Perithu”, This feedback mechanism is essential for any Total - 6,555 “Poruthar Boomi Alwar” to emphasize the organization be it an education institution, a
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Technical talk on “Virtualization - Architecture, transforming a traditional setup to virtual such as consolidating the demand, adopting a new Infrastructure, Strategy” hardware asset cycle, deploying stable software versions and avoiding unwarranted upgrades, Mr. Ramesh Bhashyam, member of the buying fully loaded virtual server, invest management committee of CSI Chennai Chapter suitably in simple, reliable and cost effective introduced the speaker. networks, implementing VOIP for Mr. Balakrishnan, in his talk, presented communications, deploying video conferencing the business view of virtualization rather than solutions, planning automated services delivery dealing with the technical aspects. He started – in effect, deploying IT-Business Convergence with differentiating consolidation and Model. virtualization which provides unbeatable Mr. Balakrishnan also cautioned on functionality benefits, solution to several issues in virtualization such as the cost of ‘situations’ permits higher levels of software licensing as the vendors do not consolidation, lowers space, cost, AC, power. recognize virtualization when computing the technical talk on “Virtualization - He was of the opinion that virtualization is a cost and an another major item of concern — A Architecture, Infrastructure, Strategy” by general purpose remedy for several IT problems single point of failure. Mr. V. Balakrishnan, Partner & CIO, Polaris which solves critical IT situations in terms of Software Lab Ltd was organized jointly by the Security; Compliance; Business Continuity; The presentation, attended by around 60 Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter Application Deployment Architecture; participants was highly interactive with and IEEE Computer Society Madras Chapter Bandwidth problems and Application Access experience sharing and clarifying a no. of on Saturday, 18th July 2009. Location problems. assumptions being made while virtualzing their environment. After the talk, Dr. C.R. Mr. H. R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE He highlighted that a mix of servers and Muthukrishnan, Past President of CSI Computer Society Madras while welcoming networks and components such as a robust presented a memento to the speaker Mr. the gathering, said that Virtualization which global network, virtual servers infrastructure, Balakrishnan. The meeting ended with the vote started as consolidation exercise in corporate enabling network controls, network security of thanks by Mr. S. Ramasamy, Chairman, CSI IT setups and data centers has gained lot of and security policies are needed to enable Chennai Chapter. attention now and is deployed for practicing virtualization. He talked about ROI and Green IT and reduce the operating expenses. virtualization and tipped on going about
CIO Event on “Emerging Logistics in India, Ravichandran, President of , TVS Logistics Services, Mr. Sudhir Goel, Chief Officer – Changing Infrastructure and Technology” Supply Chain Management of Acer India, Mr. Devraj Kumar, Head – Material Management EEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter & developments, discuss issues and challenges, of Nokia India and Mr. Paul Bradley, Member, Ithe CIO Forum of CSI Chennai joined with and evolve ways to boost the growth of this Global Advisory Board, Arshiya International sector. deliberated on various aspects of the The Economic Times in organizing CIO infrastructure issues and the importance of The event ELICIT 2009 addressed the event ELICIT 2009 event on “Emerging technology & development for the logistics Logistics in India, Changing Infrastructure and following issues: sector. Capt. Subhash Kumar, Chairman, Technology” on 16th Jul 2009. • The astounding potential of India’s Chennai Port Trust was the chief guest at this The logistics sector in the country is logistics sector session. highly fragmented and there is no apt data • How can we save the billions spent In the 2nd session on “FTWZ (Free Trade available on the market size. Hence quality and unnecessarily on the inefficiencies of the and Warehousing Zones) Perspective in the marketing are the prime focus of this sector. It logistics sector in India? Indian Context”, corporate perspectives were is estimated that the present $100 billion sector shared by Mr. Nijay N Nair, head of Strategic is projected to grow to $180 billion by 2012. • What kind of regulatory frameworks need Initiatives, Arshiya International and by Mr. B. After IT and Telecom, Logistics is the most to be in place for enhancing trade? Sriram, Associate Director, Tax & Regulatory promising and vibrant sector in the country and • How can we infuse superior technology Services, Ernst & Young. Mr. Michael the growth opportunities being immense. to empower efficiency management? Christensen, Global CEO of Arshiya ELICIT 2009, was the first interactive International provied his view points at the end • When will Free Trade Warehousing Zones platform of its kind that seeks to elicit opinions, of the panel. (FTWZs) take shape in India and bring ideas, views, from eminent professionals, with it global logistics standards? This event which was the first one in the practitioners and strategists from the logistics logistics sector held at Chennai was attended industry on various issues to make supply chain The event had two sessions. In the 1st by around 100 senior logistics & IT professional and logistics an efficient system. The event was session on “India’s Logistics Infrastructure & from corporate sector. aimed to highlight the latest trends and its Challenges” a panel consisting of Mr.
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Technical meeting on “Power Sector Reforms today” his experiences and on the various Electricity Regulations, which were brought in, for the today” by Dr. B. Jayaraman, Member, Tamil Nadu efficient governance, particularly in mitigating Electricity Regulatory Commission on 27th June the grievances of the consumers. He spoke on 2009. Dr. P. Suresh Chander Pal, Chair, Student tariff structure and also on the reforms, which Activity, IEEE Madras Section welcomed the are constantly engaging the attention of the Central gathering and said it was heartening to see the and State Regulatory Commissions for delivering sister institutions joining together for deliberating quality electricity at economical costs and for on the Power Reforms needed today in the utilizing electricity, efficiently and beneficially. present context of economic recession and power shortages. We need smart solutions for There was active interaction with the the changing needs and the power and energy participating students and members of all the related industries and other utilities are more institutions, besides the Chairpersons, Er. he IEEE Madras Section had organized a connected and the pace of engineering, operations Sundaramoorthy (IETE), Dr. N .R. Alamelu Tjoint meeting along with IETE Chennai Centre, and management is faster than ever before. (IEEE Communications), Er. Ellappan (IET) and IET Chennai Network and IEEE Communications others provided their considered views on this Society, Madras Chapter on “Power Sector Reforms Dr. Jayaraman spoke extensively, sharing socially relevant subject.
Website launch at Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Guest Lecture on “A Technology program and its initiatives were given by Mr. J. Dinesh Kumar (Chairman, IEEE student branch, Peek into Internet SMIT). Attacks” at St. Joseph’s The website designed by IEEE student College of Engineering members, based on the specifications were drafted by M. Karthik (Vice Chairman, IEEE he IEEE Student Branch of St. Joseph’s student branch, SMIT) was formally launched College of Engineering, Chennai by the chief guest. This website will have articles, T commemorated their first IEEE event in their reports on weekly activities & events. Also this college by organizing a guest lecture by Dr. Hari website will have tips & Q& A for civil services Narayanan on “A Peek into Internet Attacks” and other competitive examinations. he website http://smitieee.co.cc of the IEEE on 7th August, 2009. student branch of Sri Muthukumaran After the website launch, Mr. N. Sridhar T Dr. Hari Narayanan is a renowned person Institute of Technology, Chikkarayapuram delivered a talk on “Love India”, and provided a in the field of Computer Networks. He has (Near Mangadu), Chennai was launched at a positive note on the phenomenon behind India published a no. of papers and authored many function held at the college on 30th July 2009. and her astonishing treasury by illustrations. books in the same field. He introduced the Various ancient concepts and sculptures were The program was graced by the presence students to the basics of networking, the exposed to our IEEE members. Students were made by our principal, Mr. M. Sundar and HOD protocols TCP and UDP and then took the very much influenced by his talk which had a (EEE), Mr. A. Murugesan. Mr. N. Sridhar (founder students to the world of spoofing and sniffing. positive impact on them. of Yuvashakthi) was the chief guest to honour He threw light into the most common attack — the program. A brief introduction about our IEEE Report by M. Karthik, Vice Chairman Denial of Service (DoS) attack in the Internet world. Distinguished Guest Speaker Programme It was a very interactive session wherein the students came up with suggestions to Cluster Computing with Linux IEEE Computer Society and CSI Div II • overcome this deadly attack which has crashed Hacking Techniques in Wireless Networks on Software is pleased to announce that Dr. • many servers. Finally he ran through the tool Explaining System Security to Computer Prabhaker Mateti, Associate Professor, Dept. • Ethereal used for tracking the packets in a of Computer Science & Engineering, Wright Professionals network and for manipulating them. He State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA is visiting • A Laboratory Based Course on Internet persuaded the students to think and come up India during Dec 2009 and will be available to Security with more effective solutions to bypass the DoS Personal Security and Privacy on the Web run short courses and deliver guest lectures. • attack in future. After the lecture, there was a Some of his earlier talks and courses include: Proposals are invited from institutions lively question-answer session. The students interested in hosting him to conduct short courses were very much benefited out of this meeting. • Every Thing You Should Know About and deliver guest lectures. The hosting institutions Linux are expected to meet the cost of journey within • Building an Internet Firewall Based on India, accommodation and local hospitality Linux Visit our Website • Software without Security Holes For details and additional information, pl. www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras • Distributed Computing Principles and contact Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS Systems & CSI Div II at [email protected]
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ICOGCAC’09 International Conference on First International Conference on Millennium Developmental Goals: The Role of Global Computing and Communications Information and Communications Technologies 9 - 11, December 2009 27 - 29 December 2009, Chennai, India
Organized by Organized by Faculty of Computing Sciences R.M.K. & R.M.D. Engineering Colleges Hindustan University, Padur, Chennai, India In Association with Supported by IEEE Computer Society — Madras Chapter IEEE Computer Society — Madras Chapter Computer Society of India — Div II (Software) & IEEE Communications Society, Madras Chapter Chennai Chapter Computer Society of India — Div II & Div IV Call for Papers & Registration Call for Papers & Registration Important Deadlines for Paper Submission: Extended Important Dates: Full Paper Submission: 31st Aug 2009; Paper abstract (500 words) due by: July 31, 2009; Invitation to submit th Acceptance Notification: 26 Sep 2009; Camera-Ready Copy full paper: August 15, 2009; Full paper (6000 words) due by: nd Submission: 2 Nov 2009; Conference Dates: 09 -11.Dec 2009. September 15, 2009; Camera-ready manuscripts to be submitted by: For details, email at [email protected] OR visit the October 31, 2009. website at www.hindustanuniv.ac.in/ICOGCAC09 or contact Mail your abstracts to: [email protected] Also Visit our website: Dr. M.Roberts Masillamani, Conference Chair-ICOGCAC’09, www.rmkec.ac.in/mdgict or contact Dr. R. M. Suresh, Professor & Hindustan University, P.B No: 1, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Padur, Vice-Principal, R.M.D.Engineering College, Kavaraipettai-601206 at Chennai-603103 at [email protected] [email protected]
CONSEG 09 International Conference on International Conference on Software Engineering Wireless Communication and Sensor Computing January 02 - 04, 2010, Chennai, India December 17 - 19, 2009 at Chennai, India Organized by Organized by SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam – 603 110, Computer Society of India, Div II (Software) and Chennai Chapter Chennai, India In association with Supported by IEEE Madras Section IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Computer Society — Madras Chapter Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), Chennai Chapter IEEE Communications Society — Madras Chapter Bangalore Software Process Improvement Network (BSPIN) Indian Nuclear Society Cognizant technology Solutions, Chennai, Call for Papers & Registration HCL Technologies Ltd., Chennai and Infosys, Chennai Important Dates: Last date for paper submission : Aug 31, 2009; Confirmation of paper acceptance : Sep 30, 2009; Submission of Call for Papers & Registration camera ready copy : Oct 31, 2009 Important Dates: Paper submission due on: September 05, 2009; Correspondence: All Correspondence including paper submission Acceptance notification: October 05, 2009; Camera ready copy & should be by email and to be addressed to [email protected] Registration: November 30, 2009 OR [email protected] or contact Mr. Ramesh Gopalswamy Contact Details: Organizing Secretary, ICWCSC 2010, SSN College Chairman, PC ChairmanAuthor, Consultant & Adjunct Prof. at of Engineering, Old Mahabalipuram Road, Kalavakkam – 603 110, [email protected] Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Phone: +91-44-27475063/64/65. Web: www.csi-chennai.org/conseg09 Web: www.ssn.edu.in/icwcsc2010, Email: [email protected]
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