50/- ` ISSN 0970-647X | Volume No. 36 | Issue No. 5 | August 2012 36 | Issue No. No. | Volume 0970-647X ISSN Cover Story Article Computing in Kolkata - Software Techniques Strolling Down Memory Lane 5 in Computer Graphic Technology 12 CIO Perspective Managing Technology » CIO Perspective Business Information Systems: Digital World Beckons IT Infrastructure and Services 29 Marketers!!! 32 www.csi-india.org www.csi-india.org CSI Communications | August 2012 | A Prof. S V Raghavan CSI Calendar Vice President & Chair, Conference Committee, CSI 2012 Date Event Details & Organizers Contact Information August 2012 Events 7-8 Aug. 2012 First Rajasthan State Student Convention Prof. Archana [email protected] Aishwarya Institute of Management & IT, Udaipur Mr. Akhil Pandey [email protected] 9-10 Aug. 2012 Regional Student Convention – Region 5 Prof. I K Ishthaq Ahamed [email protected] G. Pulla Reddy Engineering College, Kurnool, A.P Mr. T Sabapathy [email protected] 11 Aug. 2012 Workshop on Cloud Computing Prof. Keerthi Venkat ER Perumal Manimekali College of Engineering - Hosur [email protected] 13-14 Aug. 2012 Kerala State Student Convention Dr. Chitraprasad [email protected] TKM College of Engineering Mr. Muraleedharan Pillai [email protected] 13-14 Aug. 2012 Workshop on Personal eff ective skills Prof. Keerthi Venkat ER Perumal Manimekali College of Engineering-Hosur [email protected] 24-25 Aug. 2012 Regional Student Convention - Region 3 Prof. Tejpal Upadhyay Nirma University Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad [email protected] Dr. Rajveer S Shekhawat [email protected] 24-25 Aug. 2012 Sixth Tamilnadu State Student Convention Dr. C G Ravichandran [email protected] R.V.S College of Engineering, Dindigul, T.N Dr. M Sundaresan [email protected] 31 Aug.-1 Sept. Third International Conference on Transforming Healthcare with IT Dr. T V Gopal [email protected] 2012 CSI Division II (Software), Hyderabad www.transformhealth-it.org September 2012 Events 5-7 Sept. 2012 International Conference on Software Engineering ( CONSEG 2012) Dr. T V Gopal [email protected] CSI Division II ( Software), Indore www.conseg2012.org 6-7 Sept. 2012 Cloud Computing Prof. Rajapusha MVJCE, Bangalore (SBC), CSI Division V [email protected] 13-14 Sept. 2012 Global Science and Technology Forum Business Intelligent Summit and Awards Dr. T V Gopal [email protected] CSI Division II ( Software), Singapore www.globalstf.org/bi-summit 13-15 Sept. 2012 FDP on Intelligent Computing Prof. Ilango New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore [email protected] 19-20 Sept. 2012 Fourth e-Governance Knowledge Sharing Summit (KSS2012) Mr. A M Parial [email protected] Govt. of Chhattisgarh, in association with CSI-SIG-eGOV at Hotel V W Canyon Maj. Gen. (Retd) Dr R K Bagga Raipur [email protected] 27-29 Sept. 2012 Regional Student Convention - Region 6 Ms. Parminder Kaur [email protected] MGM's Jawaharlal Nehru Engineering College, N-6, CIDCO, Aurangabad Prof. S S Sane [email protected] October 2012 Events 12-13 Oct. 2012 26th Annual Karnataka Student Convention on Green Computing - Challenges & Change Prof. Sunita Sidganga Institute of Technology, Tumkur, Karnataka [email protected] 20 Oct. 2012 Communication Technologies & its impact on Next Generation Computing (CTNGC-2012) Prof. Umang [email protected] I.T.S - Management & IT Institute Mohan Nagar, Ghaziabad, U.P Prof. Ashish Seth [email protected] Prof. Alka Agrawal [email protected] November 2012 Events 29 Nov.-1 Dec. Third International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information D P Mukherjee/Debasish Jana/ 2012 Technology (EAIT 2012) Pinakpani Pal/R T Goswami CSI Kolkata Chapter Event at Kolkata URL: https://sites.google.com/site/csieait2012/ [email protected] December 2012 Events 1-2 Dec. 2012 47th Annual National Convention of CSI (CSI 2012) Subimal Kundu/D P Mukherjee/ CSI Kolkata Chapter Event at Kolkata, URL: http://csi-2012.org/ Phalguni Mukherjee/J K Mandal [email protected] 6-8 Dec. 2012 Second IEEE International Conference on PDG Computing [PDGC 2012] , Technically Dr. Nitin [email protected] CSI Special Interest Group on Cyber Forensics at Jaypee University of information Dr Vipin Tyagi [email protected] Technology, Waknaghat-Solan (HP) http://www.juit.ac.in/pdgc-2012/index1.php 14-16 Dec. 2012 International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD-2012) Mr. C G Sahasrabudhe SIGDATA, CSI, Pune Chapter and CSI Division II [email protected] CSI Communications Contents Volume No. 36 • Issue No. 5 • August 2012 Editorial Board Cover Sto ry Practitioner Workbench Computing in Kolkata - Strolling Programming.Tips() » Chief Editor 5 Down Memory Lane 27 Wallace Jacob Dr. R M Sonar Dr. Debasish Jana Programming.Learn (“Python”) » Editors 28 GUI Design with Python Dr. Debasish Jana Articles Umesh P Dr. Achuthsankar Nair Software Techniques in Computer Graphic Technology Resident Editor 12 V K Mohanan CIO Perspective Mrs. Jayshree Dhere Managing Technology » Challenges in Early days of Programming in 29 Business Information Systems: Advisors IBM 360 - An Introspection IT Infrastructure and Services Dr. T V Gopal 15 M Jayalakshmy Dr. R M Sonar Mr. H R Mohan FishNet: An Early Experience with Email Digital World Beckons Marketers!!! 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