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Volume : 7 Issue : 1 January 2010 Price : Rs. 3.00

Chairman’s MessageDr. S. Salivahanan

salivahanans@hotmail.comsalivahanans@ssn.edu.in

Mobile: 94441 89433

From The Editor’s DeskH.R. Mohan

hrmohan@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

LINK wishes all its readers A HAPPY ANDPROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2010.

In the current issue of LINK, we havereported on events held at various student brancheswhich include guest lecture on “VLSI technology”and IPAAT-09 at K.S. Rangasamy College ofTechnology, guest lecture on “Power Quality

Improvement” and training programme on “LabVIEW” at Anand Instituteof Higher Technology, inauguration of the student activities at RMKCollege of Engineering and computer training for rural students stCoimbatore institute of Engineering and Information Technology.

WIE branch started recently at VIT University was active. Threeworkshops – Networking in Linux, Adobe Photoshop and Movie Makingheld during Sep-Oct 2009 are published in this issue.

AVIT conducted a Faculty Development programme on “GraphicalSystems Design Concepts” and a National Workshop on Next GenerationWireless Technologies - Long Term Evolution was held at MIT, AnnaUniversity. Short reports on these events appear in this issue of LINKalong with seven events organized by the IEEE Computer Society whichinclude: Computer Security Day celebrations, Talk on Mind ESP System,National Conf. on “Recent issues in Network Galaxy”, InternationalConf. on “Millennium Development Goals”, International Conf. on“Global Computing and Communications”, Seminar on “Higher educationand career opportunities in Software Engineering” and an InternationalConf. on Software Engineering.

An article by the student members Aishwarya, Krithika and HemaChandrasekar dealing with Cancer treatment and Info bits on “Predictionsfor the Internet in 2010” and “the Year in Robotics”, Tips on “How towin friends and influence people” and short notes on achievements ofour members included in the current issue would interest the readers.

The new combined and cost effective student membership offerfor the year 2010 in IEEE & IEEE CS with access rights to the IEEE CSDigital Library at just USD 40 per year is still open and we request thefaculty members to advice students suitably.

LINK congratulates Mr. S. Subramanian of BITS and Mr. VivekMuralidharan of Sri Muthukumaran Institute of Technology, the winnersof Info Contest - 0912 who will receive a prize of Rs. 500/= eachsponsored by SRA Systems.

LINK draws the attention of readers to conferences such as “Latestissues in Information Technology”, “VLSI, Embedded Systems, Signalprocessing and Communications”, “Advances and Emerging Trends inComputing Technologies” and “Information and Software Engineering”scheduled in the forthcoming months. Readers may pl. respond to thecall for papers as well as participate in them.

LINK requests contributions are sent by 8th of every month asper the guidelines for inclusion in the newsletter.

Dear Friends,

Wish you all a very happy andprosperous new year 2010.

We are extremely happy that IEEEMadras Section has done well with severalexcellent activities during the year 2009. The

credit goes to all the Execom Members and well wishers associated withthe Section.

The IEEE Region 10 has sanctioned a grant of US $ 200 to IEEEMadras Section to conduct the Teachers in Service Program (TISP) forschool teachers. We are happy to mention that IEEE Student Branch ofSSN College of Engineering came forward and organized a two dayworkshop on “Engineering Principles in Science and MathematicsClassrooms” for higher secondary school teachers of Chennai andKanchipuram Districts on 17, 18 December 2009. Twenty five schoolteachers attended the workshop. Mr. Aswhin Kumar Sahoo, IEEE StudentBranch Counsellor welcomed the gathering. Dr. Muthan, Professor,Department of ECE was the Chief Guest for the Inaugural function,presided over by me, and delivered a lecture on Macros to Micros. Dr.V. Rajini, Professor, Dept. of EEE, SSNCE delivered a lecture on“Understanding Engineering is simple”. Eminent Professors from thevarious disciplines delivered lectures on the workshop on the topicssuch as, Is Chemistry boring?, Learning Physics is Fun, Mathematics issimple, etc. All the lectures were well received and the feedback wasexcellent. Dr. K. Kasthuri, Dean, SSNCE distributed the certificates tothe participants. Ms. P. Kaythry, NSS Programme Officer proposedvote of thanks.

On behalf of IEEE Madras Section, I congratulate Mrs. M.Ramalatha, Treasurer of IEEE Section for having been identified for theLife Time Achiever Award by the Lions Club International for the workshe has done in Academics and for the upliftment of society.

IEEE Madras Section will be conducting a Faculty DevelopmentProgram on “Natural Computation in Engineering” on 6 and 7 February2010 at Velammal Engineering College, Chennai.

All the IEEE members are hereby requested to renew theirmemberships immediately for the year 2010. For further details, pleasevisit www.ieee.org.

Editorial TeamMr. H.R. Mohan, Dr. S. Salivahanan, Dr. M. Ponnavaikko,

Dr. P. Suresh Chander Pal, Mr. T.S. Rangarajan, Mrs. M. Ramalatha

IEEE Madras Section AGM will be held on Friday, 12th Feb 2010at Hotel Palmgrove at 5.30 p.m. Dinner will follow the AGM.Formal invite will be sent separately.

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Guest Lecture at K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology

The IEEE student branch ofK.S.Rangasamy College of Technology,Tiruchengodu organized a Guest Lecture on“RECENT ISSUES AND AWARENESS INVLSI TECHNOLOGY” on 5th Sep 09. Theprogramme began with the ceremonial tributeto the Almighty. Dr. N. Santhiyakumari, IEEE

student branch coordinator/Prof, ECE, KSRCTwelcomed the gathering. Dr. K. B. Jayanthi,Head/Prof, ECE, KSRCT felicitated the functionand presented a memento to the Guest. In hisaddress, Dr. K. Thyagarajah, Principal, KSRCTexplained the relevance of the topic andusefulness of IEEE membership. He also releasedthe I-PAAT logo and awarded the certificatesto the students won in the events organized byI-PAAT 09 as a part of IEEE student activities.

Mrs. M. Shenbagapriya, IEEE GraduateStudent Member, KSRCT introduced the ChiefGuest, Mr. V. Dineshkumar, Project LeaderD’GIPRO, Design Automation & MarketingPrivate Ltd., Bangalore, a renowned person inthe field of VLSI DESIGN. He has contributedin his work by releasing more than 10 chips.

Mr. Dineshkumar briefly outlined the VLSIDESIGN FLOW. He went on defining the IRdrop analysis, Physical verification, Placement& routing and Power minimization. The lecturewas attended by faculty members, PG studentsand final year students of ECE. The talk washighly interactive with questions raised by theparticipants and clarified as the presentationprogressed. It is an excellent opportunity to allto exchange information on the latestdevelopments in VLSI technology.

The function came to a formal closurewith Ms. S. Saranyadevi, IEEE Graduate StudentMember, thanking everyone who made theevent a grand success.

Report by: Dr.N.Santhiyakumari, Prof /ECE,ieeestudent@ksrct.ac.in

Guest Lecture at Anand Institute of HigherTechnology

The IEEE student branch of AIHTorganized a guest lecture for the third and finalyear EEE students on “Power QualityImprovement using Modern Converters” on30th Jul 2009. The programme started withlighting of kuthu vilakku by Dr.S. Arivalazhi,Director and welcome address was deliveredby Mr. Shridharan, Secretary. The chief guestwas introduced by Dr.T.A.Raghavendiran,Principal. The guest lecturer was given by Dr.Aravindhan, Professor, EEE, SSN college ofEngineering. He talked about the area of powersystem pollution and their solution techniquesby means of “Improved Power QualityConverters”. He stated that, the generation ofharmonics and reactive power flow in a powersystem is greatly influenced by the widespreaduse of power electronic converters in additionto other sources of harmonics and reactivepower. The design, development and successfulapplication of single-phase, power qualityimprovement converters in domestic,commercial and industrial environment has madepossible the design and development of three-

phase power quality improvement convertersand their widespread use in differentapplications. Also he dealt with acomprehensive review of three-phase powerquality improvement converter configurations,control approaches, performance on supply andload sides in terms of input power factor, THDand well-regulated, reduced-rippled DC output,power rating, cost and selection for specificapplications.

The IEEE student branch activities alsoincluded one more guest lecture for the finalyear EEE students in the title of “Recent trendsin High voltage Engineering” organized on 1stDec 2009. He talk covered on generation &measurement of high voltages and also dealt withthe protection of dielectics, transformers etc.The talk helped the students to improve theirknowledge in these areas & leads to motivate todo their project in the area of High voltagemeasurements.

Behind the success of this function, liethe hard work of all teaching and non teachingstaffs and young energetic IEEE students ofAnand Institute of Higher Technology.

Office bearers

Branch Mr.C.Ravichandran Sr.Lect/counselor EEEChairman Mr.R.Rajkumar Fourth

year ECE

Secretary Mr.Udaykiran Third yearEIE

LabVIEW TrainingProgram at AnandInstitute of HigherTechnology

The students of the Department ofElectronics and Instrumentation Engineering(EIE) participated in a LabVIEW trainingprogram held at Anand Institute of HigherTechnology, Chennai. Nearly 30 students andtwo staff members attended the five daystraining program which was conducted during14-18, Dec 2009 by Mr. J. Visweswaran ofNational Instruments. The students wereenlightened on various new concepts in the fieldof Virtual Instrumentation and showed greatinterest in learning them. A small felicitationfunction was held at the premises of the Dept.of EIE on 18th Dec 2009. Director (A&A) Dr.S. Arivazhagi and Principal Dr. T. A.Raghavendiran graced the occasion and spokeabout the emphasis and the need for more suchvalue added courses. Certificates weredistributed to all the participants of the trainingprogram. The students have also promised thatthey will use this technology to good effect inall their future endeavors.

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Inauguration of IEEE Student Branch Activities at RMK Engineering College

The academic activities of the IEEEstudents’ branch of RMK Engineering Collegewere inaugurated on the 12th of Dec 2009.

The occasion got under way with theprayer song. The IEEE student branchchairperson, Mr. Mehul Jain welcomed thegathering. The inauguration of the activities wasembarked in a traditional way by the lighting of

the kuthuvilakku. Dr. T. Thyagarajan, Dr P.Suresh Chander Pal and Shri H.R. Mohan alongwith  Dr.  Raja  Paul  Perinbam  and    Dr.  R.Sivakumar were present on the occasion.

While Dr. T. Thyagarajan listed out thebenefits of being an IEEE member, Dr. SureshChander Pal delivered a motivating speech andelaborated on the activities associated with IEEEand Shri H. R. Mohan briefed the gathering onvarious forthcoming events organized by theIEEE Madras Section and also informed thestudents to avail the combined membership offerof IEEE & IEEE CS with digital libraryaccess.             

Dr. R. Sivakumar expressed the vote ofthanks and the function concluded with thenational anthem.

The following were appointed as theOffice Bearers:

Chairperson : Mehul Jain Vice-Chairperson : A.Selva KumarTreasurer : M.Leela SaiSecretary : Bipin Kumar Badri

NarayananJoint Secretary :  R.Bharat MenonStudent BrachCouncilor : Dr R.SivakumarStudent BranchIncharge : T.Magesh

Various committees were also formedwith chairpersons identified for the same.

I-PAAT ’09: Technical Talk at K. S. RangasamyCollege of Technology

I-PAAT ‘09 was held on 18th Aug 2009at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology,Tiruchengode. I-PAAT means IEEEProfessional Association for the Advancementof Technology. IEEE student members of M.E.(VLSI Design) organized a “Technical Talk” asa part of I-PAAT compendium. It’s an intracollege competition. We have received 54 papersfrom all departments. The event was felicitatedby our IEEE student branch coordinator Dr. N.Santhiyakumari. After much deliberation 17delegates from various departments werescreened to attend their final touch stone. Thedelegates were very enthusiastic and Judgesfind a hard time in choosing the winner andevery delegate was uniquely good and worthfor the trophy. At the end of session a collectionof everlasting impression of IEEE studentmembers with the delegates was taken and theorganizing committee thanked all dignitaries andstudent members for contributing their valuabletime to this precious event. Students werebenefited from this activity and they reported

a complete positive feedback. We hope to carryout similar activities in an enhanced manner inthe near future.

The winners of the Technical talk were:

1. Arjun.H.Pandian and A.Mukilan (III-ECE) “Life Saving Embedded System”.

2. R.Satish Kumar and S.Ram Prasad (IV-EEE) “Ocean Thermal EnergyConversion”.

3. D.Sriram and P.Vishnu Kumar (III-EEE)“ Advance Mobility in Land SBC”.

Report by: Dr .N. Santhiyakumari, Prof/ECE,santhiyarajee@rediffmail.com

Computer Training for Rural Students at CoimbatoreInstitute of Engineering and Information Technology

IEEE Student Branch of CoimbatoreInstitute of Engineering and InformationTechnology have organized a 3 day computertraining programme for Narasipuram high schoolstudents from 29th to 31st December 2009.Mr. B. Saravanan, IEEE Student BranchCounselor inaugurated the training programme.Thirty students from Narasipuram high schoolpursuing 9th and 10th standard participated inthe programme. Three IEEE studentcoordinators nalmely, Veluprabhakaran P (IIIYear B.E – EEE), Sudharsan Raju S S (II YearB.E – ECE) and Bhuvaneshwari U (III YearB.Tech – IT) trained the students during these3 days.

On the first day, the students wereexposed to basics of computers, hardwarecomponents and different types of software.On the second day, the students were trainedon MS – WORD, MS-EXCEL. On the last day,training was given on MS – POWERPOINTand Internet. At the end of the programme, thestudents were given study materials for theirfuture reference.

Section Membership as on15th January 2010

Life Fellow - 1Fellow - 1Life Senior - 7Senior Member - 75Life Member - 4Member - 1667Associate - 102Affliate - 39Graduate Student Member - 920Student Member - 5530

Total - 8,346

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IEEE Computer Society events in Nov & Dec 2009The following events were organized by

the Madras Chapter of the IEEE ComputerSociety during Nov & Dec 2009

Computer Security DayCelebrations, presentation on “DefendingAgainst the New Threats with Cloud DeliveredSecurity” by Mr. N. Sridhar, Country Manager– Zscaler Inc. India and a presentation on“Latest e-Security Products & Services” andLive Demo on DLP, Encryption, Two FactorAuthentication, SSL VPN, etc.,” by Mr. R.Sankaranarayanan, Senior Regional Manager,Raksha Technologies Pvt Ltd, Chennai onSaturday, 28th Nov 2009.

A Talk on “Explode your mind withSilva Ultra Mind ESP” by Ms. Sai Nirmala,Founder, Tranquil Gardens was held onSaturday, 5th Dec 2009. The speaker in hertalk, explained how the Jose Silva Ultra MindESP System can help people use their mind ina more powerful way to create success both intheir professional as well as in personal life. Inaddition, the Talk also covered the theory of

mind based on decades of research by Jose Silva,live demo of how to reach deep levels ofmeditation with supreme ease, tips to useaffirmations to create immediate attitude shiftsand few techniques of creative visualization tomanifest dreams. It was a leaning experience tomembers about simple techniques which theycan use in their daily routine to help them achievetheir dreams.

A National Conference on RecentIssues in Network Galaxy 2009 RING – 09was held during 7 – 8, Dec 2009 at RMDEngineering College, Chennai. The event wassupported by Div II & Div IV, ComputerSociety of India, CSI Chennai Chapter, IEEEComputer Society, Madras Chapter, ISTEChennai Chapter and Institution of EngineersIndia, Chennai

An International Conference onGlobal Computing and Communicationswas organized during 9 – 11, Dec 2009 atHindustan University, Padur, Chennai, India.The event was supported by IEEE Computer

Society — Madras Chapter, IEEECommunications Society, Madras Chapter andComputer Society of India — Div II & Div IV

A seminar on “Higher education andcareer opportunities in SoftwareEngineering” by Prof. Mathew Bass, CarnegieMellon University, U.S.A. was organized on17th Dec 2009 This seminar is intended forthose who are in the final year, fresh graduates,and working professionals with about 2 yearsexperience. The seminar will address on issueslike current global job scenario for softwareengineers, challenges in software engineeringcareer, right and quality education to face suchchallenges, etc.

An International Conference on“Millennium Developmental Goals: TheRole of Information and Communicationsand Other Appropriate Technologies” washeld during 27 – 29, Dec 2009 at R.M.K. andR.M.D. Engineering Colleges in association withTata Consultancy Services, Anna University-Chennai, IEEE - Computer Society, MadrasChapter and CSI - Chennai Chapter & Div. IIon Software.

The “NETWORKING IN LINUX”workshop was held on 13th September 2009,during graVITas?09. A number of students fromVIT University as well as other Universitiesand Engineering Colleges all over India had takenpart in this workshop (69 Internal and 52External). Mr. Veerapuram Varadhan, SeniorConsultant, Novell was the guest speakerinvited. The session went on for 5 hours. Theworkshop was very informative. It was of greatuse to the beginners and also the students havingsome basic knowledge about networking. Thecomplete session was very interactive and was

WIE events at VIT Universitya hands-on session. In the first part of the sessionthe basics of networking and C programmingwere covered. The main topics covered throughhands-on were Unix in Networking,IPC(Sockets, Pipes), Threading and RPC.

The “ADOBE PHOTOSHOP”workshop was held on 29th & 30th September2009. A number of students had taken part inthis workshop. Nagarjuna Reddy Resu, a finalyear MS (Software Engineering) student hadtaken the session. The session went on for 2and a half hours on both the days. The workshopwas very informative. It was of great use to the

beginners. The complete session was veryinteractive and was a hands-on session. Studentscould learn to manipulate with the images. Ittaught them to play with the images and changethem the way they want.

The “MOVIE MAKING” workshopwas held on 30th October 2009. A number ofstudents had taken part in this workshop. RachitGupta, a final year BTech, CSE student hadtaken the session. The session went on for 2hours. The workshop was very informative. Thecomplete session was very interactive and wasa hands-on session. Students could learn to makea movie with the video and audio files providedto them.

Dr. R. M. Suresh, Vice-Principal & Head, CSE,RMD College of Engineering, Chennai receives

the best teacher award from Prof. N .R. Shetty, President, ISTE.

LINK congratulates Dr. R.M. Suresh, Professor& Head, Computer Science & Engineering andVice-Principal, RMD Engineering College forreceiving the national award for the BestEngineering College Teacher Award – AnnaUniversity National Award for the year 2009at a ISTE function held at NIT Surathkal on19th Dec 2009. An enthusiast in Open Source,he has organized a no. of events in OSS andalso in emerging areas in Computer Science.

Congratulations to Dr. R.M. Suresh Member AchievementsLINK is pleased to report thatDr. Rajkumar Kannan (Mem.No:  90284125),  AssociateProfessor and Chair, Departmentof Computer Science,  BishopHeber College (Autonomous),

Trichy has Visited National Institute ofInformatics, Tokyo Japan in June 2009 for aresearch cooperation in the area of SemanticDigital Libraries and his visit was funded byGovt. of Japan and attended the ApacheSoftware Foundation annual activities andevents at Oakland, CA, USA during October-Nov 2009 which was funded by Apache-USA.

Visit our Websitewww.ewh.ieee.org/r10/madras

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IEEE MAS LINKSRA Systems

Info ContestH.R. Mohan

Chairman, IEEE CS, Madras ChapterEditor, IEEE MAS LINK

AVP (Systems), The Hindu, Chennai

This is the 21st edition in the series ofInfo Contest – a regular column in our newsletterIEEE MAS LINK. The content mix nowincludes some General Knowledge questions inaddition to IT related. This, we believe wouldprovide an overall exposure and also facilitatemore participation.

TWO lucky winners who answer tomaximum no. of questions and early (selectedby lot if multiple entries qualify) will receive anaward of Rs. 500/= each, sponsored by SRASystems.

Members are encouraged to participatein the contest and win prizes. Answers are tobe sent by EMAIL ONLY. Please follow theguidelines provided at the end of the questions.

Info Contest – 0912

This contest has 25 questions in fivesections — A, B, C, D & E — each having fivequestions.

A. In the following acronyms/abbreviations “D” stands for what.

A1. CD

A2. CAD

A3. DAC

A4, DDOS

A5. EBCDIC

B. Provide / Select the answer.

B1. Which type of graphics cannot scale upto an arbitrary resolution? Raster / Vector

B2. Microsoft whose current headquarters isin Redmond was initially founded in. NewMexico / Bellevue

B3. Internet is based on which switchingtechnique? Packet / Circuit

B4. Name the systems programming languagerecently released by Google

B5. What does this emoticon indicate: 8-)

C. Provide the answer / Fill in the blanks.

C1. iGuide and ——— are the two potentialname candidates for an Apple tablet.

C2. Googlplex is a number. It is a 1 followedby ——— zeros

C3. ——— is Oxford Dictionary’s Word ofthe Year 2009

C4. “It’s Y!OU” is the ad campaign of———

C5. ——— is mostly used to create mostsemiconductors commercially.

D. Select the correct answer.

D1. Recently, the world’s fastest train servicecovering a distance of 1,068 kms at theaverage speed of 350 kms was launchedin China / Germany

D2. The name of the world’s tallest building.Burj Dubai / Burj Khalifa

D3. The car “Beetles” is from Chevrolet /Volkswagen

D4. Whose tagline is the “Banker to everyIndian”. SBI / PNB

D5. Kumbh Mela is held in rotation once in12 years in four locations. The three areHaridwar, Nashik, Allahabad. The fourthone is Ujjain / Benaras (Kasi)

E. Fill in the blanks / Provide the answer.

E1. “Make Every Day Exciting” is the taglineof the car maker ———

E2. “World Day for Water” is observed on———

E3. The Central Bank of India is ———

E4. When a discount of 12% is offered on thesale price fixed at 25% over the cost price,the actual profit will be ——— (in %)

E5. ——— is the author of the book “TheArgumentative Indian”

Guidelines to submit the answers to the InfoContest by email.

In the Subject,

Write the Contest No. (Info Contest –1001) in the subject line.

In the body of the mail,

In the first line, write the contest No:Info Contest – 1001

In the second line, write your membershipno.

In the third line, write your email id.

In the fourth line, write your name.

In the fifth line, write your college /organization name

In the sixth line, write the answers to thefive questions of Section A, separatedby comma.

In the seventh line, write the answers tothe five questions of Section B, separatedby comma.

In the eighth line, write the answers tothe five questions of Section C, separatedby comma.

In the ninth line, write the answers to thefive questions of Section D, separatedby comma.

In the tenth line, write the answers to thefive questions of Section E, separatedby comma.

As the evaluation of the entries isautomated, pl. ensure the above guidelinesare followed.

Email the answers to:hrmohan.infocontest@gmail.com

The last date to receive the answers by email is5th Feb 2010.

Info Contest – 0912Answers & Winners

Answers:

Line, Link, Lempel, Large, Language MichaelJackson, HP, Amazon.com, Numeric, PuruPratap SinghBack Rub, Rivers, Pranav Mistry, Finland,Forward SlashesIreland, US Dollar, Chennai, Omni, Hero HondaFedEx, Ping Pong, True, Copenhagen, 12

Winners:

S. SubramanianBirla Institute of Technologyand Science,Mem No.: 90533732Email: subramanian.s88@gmail.com

Vivek MuralidharanSri Muthukumaran Institute ofTechnologyMem No : 90621990Email: smartvivek.mm@gmail.com

Both the above will be awardeda prize of Rs. 500/= each. LINK acknowledgeswith thanks the sponsorship of the awards bySRA Systems (www.srasystems.com).

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CONSEG-09: International Conference on Software Engineering

International Conference on SoftwareEngineering-09 (CONSEG-09) organized byCSI, Division II (Software) and Chennai Chapterand supported by IEEE Computer Society,Madras Chapter, Software ProcessImprovement Network (SPIN), ChennaiChapter and Bangalore SPIN (BSPIN) was heldin Chennai from December 17th to 19th, 2009.About 150 people participated in the event.

There were two pre-conference tutorialsconducted on December 17th. These weredesigned to cover the entire spectrum ofSoftware Engineering Life Cycle activities. Thefirst tutorial, “Eliciting ArchitecturallySignificant Requirements”, presented by ProfMathew Bass of Carnegie Mellon University,covered the activities of requirements gatheringand architecture. The second tutorial, “End-to-end SDLC” with Agile Methodologies,presented by Baiju Joseph of Yahoo! andSrinivasan Desikan of HP covered how theseemingly different activities of developmentand testing get blended and shaped and mademore effective by the use of AgileMethodologies.

The conference was inaugurated by Mr.S. Mahalingam, Chief Financial Officer, TCSon 18th Dec. In his inaugural address, Mr.Mahalingam stressed the changing façade ofsoftware industry and the increasing importanceof software engineering in the new era of puttingmore business focus. He also recounted Prof.Mahabala’s contribution to the Indian ITindustry. In his welcome address, Mr. H.R.Mohan, Chairman, Div II, CSI and IEEE CSstated that CONSEG is being hosted at Chennaiafter a gap of 12 years. Mr. Ananth Krishnan,Chairman, OC gave an overview of CONSEG-09 and it was followed by the programmehighlights by Mr. Gopalaswamy Ramesh, theChairman, PC. Mr. S. Ramasamy, Chairman,CSI-Chennai while proposing the vote ofthanks, thanked the sponsors, speakers, authorsand the all who had supported the event.

The topics for keynote speeches covered

a broad range of Software Engineering. Prof.Bass’s talk covered “Software Architecture as aStrategic Asset”. The changing businessparadigms were reflected by the talks “What isnot commonly known about SaaS” (Softwareas a Service) by Venguswamy Ramaswamy ofTCS and “Cloud Computing and Hadoop” byChidambaran Kollengode of Yahoo Inc,Bangalore. Prof Gopal of Anna University tracedback the tumultuous history of SoftwareEngineering by his presentation “SoftwareEngineering – Forty Years and Wobbling”.

A panel discussion on “DevelopingAffordable Software Profitably” was chaired

by Prof. C. R. Muthukrishnan, and the panelhad representations from industry and academiacomprising of Dr. Sashikant Albal of SSN Schoolof Advanced Software Engineering, Mr.Chandrakumar Raman of HP (and President,SPIN, Chennai), Mr. Kishore Padmanabhan ofTCS and Mr. N. Chandrasekhar of AshokLeyland.

A highlight on the first day was afelicitation for Prof. H. N. Mahabala, doyen ofComputer Science education and IT Industry inIndia for over four decades, who turned 75 inDecember 2009. Several of his old students andthose closely associated with him in CSI andIIT including Mr. Mahalingam, Mr. Ananth

Krishnan and Mr. Kishore Padmanabhan ofTCS, Mr. C. Mohan of IBM, USA, Mr. H. R.Mohan of The Hindu, Mr GopalaswamyRamesh of IIIT-B, Madras and CSI – Prof. C.R. Muthukrishnan, Dr. Kamala Kirthivasan, Mr.S. Srinivasan, Major General.Balasubrahmaniam, Mr P. Unnikrishnan, Mr.G. Ramachandran and a number of othersrecounted fond memories of their associationwith Prof. Mahabala.

Fitting to his passion for education, ProfMahabala initiated a lead discussion on“Rethinking About Computer ScienceCurriculum – Long Overdue” through abackground paper published in CSIC Nov 09.On the second day of the conference, 19th Dec,we had a special session devoted entirely toComputer Science and Software Engineeringeducation. The first keynote on “InstructionalDesign for Scaling and Quality”, presented byProf. N. J. Rao of IIIT, Bangalore addressedissues regarding principles of instructional designand evaluation methods. Prof. Mahabala thenpresented his views on what was needed torevamp CS education in India. This wasfollowed by a presentation by Christer

Norstrom and Sasikumar Punnekkat fromMalardalen University, Sweden about theirexperiments in “Designing an IndustrialSoftware Engineering Program” , incollaboration with TCS. The session concludedwith interactive discussion from the conferencedelegates. These discussions and therecommendations thereof will be summarizedand published in a separate article later.

The keynote lectures on the second dayincluded one by A. Kumaran of MicrosoftResearch who gave a talk “Water, WaterEverywhere: Data Driven ComputationalLinguistics” on a topic of great importance toIndia. Dr Anders Wall of ABB, Sweden

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highlighted the challenges of sustaining largesystems in his talk “Managing SustainableSoftware Systems.”

In addition to the keynote lectures, wealso had sessions for contributed papers and astudent paper. The Call for Papers received anoverwhelming response. 130 papers werereceived from close to 20 countries. Out ofthese, eight papers were selected forpresentation. The papers covered areas like

project management, requirements engineering,ontology, metrics, agile development, regressiontesting and test case mutation. The authors ofthe selected conference papers againrepresented Canada, France, China, Tunisia andIndia. There were presentations from TCS andInfosys on the current technology trends.

During the Valedictory session, theparticipants provided an excellent feedback onthe quality of the presentations and the overall

organization of the conference. It was proposedto form an egroup to facilitate exchange of viewsand experience sharing in the area of softwareengineering. The conference proceedings, aselect keynote talks and tutorial presentationsare available at the conf. website at http://www.csi-chennai.org/conseg09/

Report by Gopalaswamy Ramesh, IIITB andH.R. Mohan, Chair Div II, CSI & IEEE CS

The principles recommended are:1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain.

Instead of condemning people, lets tryto understand them, a lot more profitableand intriguing than criticism: and it breedssympathy, tolerance and kindness.

2. Give honest and sincere appreciation. Be“hearty in your approbation and lavishin your praise and people will cherishyour words and treasure them and repeatthem over a lifetime-repeat them yearsafter you had forgotten them.”

3. Arouse in the other person an eager want.“Self expression is the dominantnecessity of human nature. When we havea brilliant idea, instead of making othersthink it is our, let them stir the ideathemselves, they will the regard it as theirown and they will like it, and maybe eata couple helpings of it.”

4. Become genuinely interested in otherpeople. If you want others to like you, ifyou want to develop real friendships, ifyou want to help others, at the same timeas you help yourself, keep this principlein mind.

5. Smile. Your smile is a messenger of yourgoodwill. Your smile brightens the livesof all who see it. To someone who hasseen a dozen people frown, scowl or turntheir faces away, your smile is like thesun breaking through the clouds.

6. Remember that a person’s name is to thatperson the sweetest and most importantsound in any language. The informationwe are imparting or the request we aremaking, takes on a special importancewhen we approach the situation with thename of the individual.

7. Be a good listener. Encourage others totalk about themselves. Remember thatthe people you are talking to are ahundred times more interested inthemselves and their wants and problems

How To Win Friends and Influence Peoplethan they are in you and your problems.

8. Talk in terms of the other person’sinterest. Talking in terms of the otherperson’s interest pays off for both parties.

9. Make the other person feel important -and do in sincerely. Talk to people aboutthemselves and they will listen for hours

10. The only way to get the best of;anargument is to avoid it.

11. Show respect for the other person’sopinions. Never say “you’re wrong.”Don’t argue, instead use diplomacy.

12. If you are wrong, admit it quickly andemphatically. Remember the old proverb,“by fighting you never get enough, but byyielding, you get more than you expected.”

13. Begin in a friendly way. Remember whatLincoln said: A drop of honey catchesmore flies than a gallon of gall.”

14. Get the other person saying “yes,yes”immediately.

15. Let the other person do a great deal oftalking.

16. Let the other person feel that the idea ishis or hers.

17. Try honestly to see things from the otherperson’s point of view. An increasedtendency to think always in terms of theother person’s point of view and seethings from that person’s angle as well asyour own.-if you get only that one thingfrom this book, it may easily proved to beone of the stepping-stones of your career.

18. Be sympathetic with the other person’sideas and desires.

19. Appeal to their nobler motives. Makepeople feel that you consider themhonest, upright and fair.

20. Dramatize your ideas.21. Throw down a challenge. Every successful

person wants a chance of self expression,

the chance to prove one’s worth.22. Begin with praise and honest

appreciation.23. Call attention to peoples mistakes

indirectly.24. Talk about your own mistakes, before

criticizing the other person.25. Ask questions, instead of giving direct

orders.26. Let the other person save face.27. Praise the slightest improvement and

praise every improvement. Be “heartyin your approbation; and lavish in yourpraise.”

28. Give the other person a fine reputationto live up to.

29. Use encouragement. Make the fault seemeasy to correct.

30. Make the other person happy about doingthe thing you suggest. Experience’s ofmost people show that you are morelikely to change attitudes this way.Excerpts from the book “How To Win

Friends and Influence People” by DaleCarnegie. The book is all about buildingrelationships. With good relationships; personaland business success are easy.

ICAET-10: International Conference onAdvances And Emerging Trends InComputing Technologies: 21 – 24, June2010 at Chennai, India, Organised by Schoolof Computer Science & Engineering, SRMUniversity in association with Universityof Arkansas, Little Rock, USA, Div II & DivIV, Computer Society of India, IEEEComputer Society, Madras Chapter. Contact:Dr. S. Chellaiah, Conference Chair ICAET-10 at icaet10@srmuniv.ac.in OR Mr. H.R.Mohan, Chair, Div II athrmohan@gmail.com Website: http://w w w . s r m u n i v . a c . i n /events.php?page=icaet10

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K.S. Aishwaryaa, Kirthika.S,Hema Chandrasekar

ABSTRACT:

The practice of medicine has seen anaccelerated incorporation of technicalinnovations. Nanotechnology is a hybrid science,which manipulates atoms individually andplaces them in a pattern to produce a desiredstructure. The Nano particles seek to increasethe effectiveness of cancer treatment whiledecreasing side effects. Prepared from abiocompatible, biodegradable polymer, theNanoparticles protect a cancer drug from harshconditions in the human body. They also helpdeliver drugs to the right location in the body,and allow for their release in a controlled mannerto maintain an adequate drug dose for extendedperiods. In addition, modifying the surface ofthese Nanoparticles delivery systems canpermit drugs to circulate in the blood longer,and can target specific tissues of the body. Asthe existing techniques are not up to ourrequirements, we would like to design a Nandevice that would be effective in cancerprevention, early detection and diagnosis. Thistechnique uses adoptive therapy, immunetherapy and a lot. Thus detecting and treatingthe malignant tumors in an efficient and costeffective way.

INTRODUCTION:

What is cancer?

Cancer is the general name for over 100medical conditions involving uncontrolled anddangerous cell growth. Scientists suggest thatsome cancer is caused by genetic factors, whileother forms are caused by environmentalconditions.

Treatments available and their hazards:

Treatment for cancer ranges from roundsof powerful chemicals to focused burst ofradiation to complete surgical removal of thetumor and surrounding tissue. Each treatmenttype brings a certain level of risk and pain to thepatient, but cancerous cells left untreated willalmost inevitably choke off vital organs andcirculation. Chemotherapy introduces strongmedicines, which target fast-growing cells, butthis also includes normal events such as hairgrowth and digestion. Radiation treatments useheat energy to literally burn off malignant cells,but healthy tissue is also damaged. Surgicalremoval can lead to a permanent recovery, but

The Dance of Molecules undetected malignant cells may have alreadymetastasized to other organs.

Curing cancer has been a major goal ofmedical researchers for decades, butdevelopment of new treatments takes time andmoney. Already there are many forms of cancer,which are no longer considered untreatable.Some cancers, such as leukemia (blood cancer),can actually stop growing as suddenly as theystarted. This is called remission, and is oftenseen as a tremendous blessing for patients whohave fought their conditions for years. Sciencemay yet find the root causes of all cancers anddevelop safer methods for shutting them downbefore they have a chance to grow or spread. Acell in the kidney, although it contains the samegenetic information as a brain cell, performs acompletely separate role. Cancer happens whena tiny part of the cell’s mechanism goes wrong.

HAZARDS:

Destroys red blood cells, causing anemia

Destroys both the cancer-producing cellsand the healthy, infection-fighting cells,decreasing the body’s ability to fight offinfection.

A margin of healthy tissue is oftenresected to make sure all cancerous tissueis removed during surgery.

Chemotherapy introduces strongmedicines, which target fast-growingcells, but this also includes normal eventssuch as hair growth and digestion.

NANOMEDICINE:

Of all the beneficiaries of this scientificrevolution, the biological and medical scienceswill reap many of the earliest fruits of thisresearch. Biological molecules by virtue of theirsize may be classified as nanostructures. Theinteraction among the complex mechanisms oflife may be seen as simply chemistry, or asspecialized interactions between nanostructures.Molecular nanotechnology has been defined asthe three-dimensional positional control ofmolecular structure to create materials anddevices to molecular precision. The human bodyis comprised of molecules; hence the availabilityof molecular nanotechnology will permitdramatic progress in human medical services.More than just an extension of “molecularmedicine,” nanomedicine will employ molecularmachine systems to address medical problems,and will use molecular knowledge to maintainand improve human health at the molecular scale.Nanomedicine will have extraordinary and far-

reaching implications for the medical profession,for the definition of disease, for the diagnosisand treatment of medical conditions includingaging, and ultimately for the improvement andextension of natural human biological structureand function.

“Nanomedicine is the preservation andimprovement of human health using moleculartools and molecular knowledge of the humanbody.”

PROPOSED SYSTEM:

Prevent the disease:

As we know a person can developmalignant tumor when he is exposed toradiations from radioactive metals.Nanoparticles could be used to avoid theseradiations by injecting them into our body thuspreventing cancerous growth. A nanoparticle isa microscopic particle whose size is measuredin nanometers (nm). It is defined as a particlewith at least one dimension <200nm.

There are specific nano particles whichavoid these radiations; these could be injectedinto the body of the scientists who areperforming research with radioactive metals.This would be an effective preventive measure.

Treating the disease:

US Researchers Say Changing the Shapeof Gold Nano Spheres Can Improve theEffectiveness of Non-Invasive CancerTreatments.

PROOF:

A team of investigators at Rice Universityhave also found that elongated nanostructureshave a unique set of optical properties that couldbe useful in various cancer research applications.

Using our immune system:

An important aspect of dealing withcancer is supporting the immune system. Afterall, for most of your life the immune systemhas successfully dealt with cancer cells. It mustbecome worn out, ineffective and unable to dealwith the cancer cells before cancer takes holdand thrives. So it may be quite important tostrengthen the immune system so that it canbetter fight cancer. Especially if you are gettingmedical treatments that wipe out the immunesystem, and make the body more acidic to boot.

Our Nanodevice could be effective incancer prevention, early detection anddiagnosis.

It will insert nano particles into each

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10 Fool-proof predictions for the Internetin 2020

Network World offers 10 “surefire bets”about what the Internet will look like in 10 years.They include:

As computer scientists work to improvethe Internet’s design, the global networkis expected to change dramatically overthe next 10 years. The Internet currentlyhas about 1.7 billion users, but the U.S.National Science Foundation (NSF)expects the Internet will have nearly 5billion users by 2020.

The Internet also will be moregeographically dispersed in 10 years,spreading to more developing regions.

Ten years from now, the Internet will be anetwork of things, not computers. Today,the Internet has approximately 575million host computers, but the NSFexpects infrastructure sensors alone tosurpass the number of host computersby several orders of magnitude.

The Internet also will carry more content.Cisco estimates that global Internet trafficwill increase to about 44 exabytes permonth by 2012.

In 2020, the Internet will be wireless. Inthe second quarter of 2009, the numberof mobile subscribers hit 257 million,representing an 85 percent increase year-

Infobits over year for high-speed data networkingtechnologies. By 2014, approximately2.5 billion people will subscribe to someform of mobile broadband, according toInforma.

More services will use cloud computing.The NSF is encouraging researchers todevelop better ways to map users andinformation in a cloud-computinginfrastructure.

Ten years from now, the Internet alsowill be greener. Future Internetarchitecture needs to be more energyefficient, as the amount of energy usedby the Internet doubled between 2000and 2006, according to the LawrenceBerkeley National Laboratory.

Network management will be moreautomated in 2020. The NSF isresearching new network managementtools for the future Internet, includingautomated reboot systems, self-diagnosisprotocols, finer-grained data collection,and better event tracking.

The Internet will not rely on constantconnectivity. Researchers are studyingcommunication techniques that canhandle delays or easily forwardinformation to different users.

The Internet will attract more hackers,and computer scientists will work tomake it more secure.

Read the full article at: http://

www.networkworld.com/news/2010/010410-outlook-vision-predictions.html

The Year in Robotics

In 2009, researchers developed newrobots that can perform a variety of tasks,including medical rehabilitation, militaryoperations, and mimicking social skills. Manyresearchers think giving robots social skills willhelp them assist people in homes, schools, andhospitals. A Carnegie Mellon University groupcreated a robot that knows when to speak basedon eye contact, while University of Californiaresearchers built a machine-learning program thatallows a robotic head to develop more accuratefacial expressions. A group of Swiss inventorscreated generations of robots that evolved todeceive each other when exposed to limitedresources. University of Calgary researchersmodified a Roomba to move away from a userwhen it detects high stress levels. Many robotswere developed to help improve rehabilitationby monitoring and adjusting a patient’smovement. This year also saw greatdevelopment in robotic grasping technology.Columbia University researchers were able tomake more efficient robotic hands by limitingtheir dexterity to be similar to that of a humanhand. The U.S. Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency developed the Chembot, whichcan squeeze under doors and other smallopenings.

Read the full article at: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24231/?a=f

patient’s lymphocytes to make themcapable of recognizing the tumor cells.

“It gives the cells a new property thatthey’ve never had before”.

It tries to harness the body’s built-indisease-fighting cells against canceroustumors, an approach called immunotherapy.

The body’s immune system is designedto repel invaders, and cancer typicallydoesn’t raise an alert because theproliferating cells within each tumor arethe body’s own.

This Nanodevice detects the cancersensitive cells and boosts their number,thus increasing the number of tumorfighting cells. This technique is called as“adoptive therapy”.

As the number of cancer sensitive cellsincrease they would destroy any

cancerous growth at its origin.

Advantages:

“With the nanospheres we’re usingvisible lasers, but most of the solid canceris under the tissues and visible lightdoesn’t go but a few millimeters deep.

By using the nanorods we can tune themto react to the infrared lasers, which canpenetrate the tumor without beingabsorbed by the tissues

There will be no harm to the normal cellsas no toxic drugs are being injected intothe body.

As no foreign organisms are injected todestroy the cancerous cells, they will notbe further activated.

Numbers of infection fighting cells areincreased leading to a higher immunity

power throughout the body.

It is a cost effective way.

Fast growing cells like hair cells anddigestive cells are not killed unlike thecase of chemotherapy treatment.

Reference:

www.CNN.com www.news.mongabay.com www.usnews.com www.nano.gov w w w . e n . w i k i p e d i a . o r g / w i k i /

nanotechnology www.ernano.org w w w . h o w s t u f f w o r k s . c o m /

nanotechnology.htm www.baltimoresun.com/news www.cancer.gov

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IEEE Madras Section organized a FacultyDevelopment Program on Graphical SystemsDesign Concepts using LABVIEW was heldduring December 18-19, 2009 at Aarupadai VeeduInstitute of Technology, Paiyanoor.

FDP on Graphical Systems Design Concepts heldat AVIT Dr. S Salivahanan, Chairman, IEEE Madras

Section and Principal SSN College of Engineeringinaugurated the program. He stressed uponvarious activities of IEEE Madras Section forthe faculty members of Engineering Colleges.

Dr. N R Alamelu, Principal, AVITdelivered the Presidential address. Mr. DVijendra Babu, Head, ECE Department, AVITwelcomed the gathering. Mr. P Subramanian,Assistant Professor, ECE Department, AVITdelivered the vote of thanks.

Prof K Jayaraman, School of ElectricalSciences, VIT was the resource person for thefirst day. Professor Jayaraman elaborated onthe following topics in four sessions.

Evolving Technologies and its impact of

Engineering & Technology teaching andlearning process

Software Defined Radio

Wireless Networks and MobileComputing

Graphical Systems Design and its impacton AAA & DDD

DSP in Communication Engineering

The second day was devoted for on handson training in LABVIEW, handled by Mr.Visweswaran of National Instruments. Thetraining included application of LABVIEW invarious fields including Electrical, Electronics,Instrumentation and Communication.

The program was attended by 20 facultymembers.

National Workshop on Next Generation WirelessTechnologies - Long Term Evolution

Madras Institute of Technology, AnnaUniversity Campus in association with theInstitute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers(IEEE), Madras Section successfully organizeda two day National workshop on Next GenerationWireless Technologies-Long Term Evolution on4th and 5th of Dec 2009. The workshop washeld at the MIT Campus at Chromepet, Chennai.

The inaugural function on 4th Dec waspresided by Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar, ViceChancellor, Anna University who delivered thepresidential address. The conf. was formallyinaugurated by Dr. K. Giridhar, Professor, IIT-M.

Dr. K. Bhoopathy Bagan, the Head of theDepartment of Electronics, MIT, welcomed thegathering. Dr. A. Joseph Stanley, the Dean, MITdelivered a special address at the occasion. Dr.T. Thyagarajan, the Head of the Department ofE&I, MIT and Secretary, IEEE Madras Sectionprovided a brief outline about IEEE activities.

Dr. K. Giridhar talked about the two

IMT-A technologies and the Indian user’sperspective towards the development of NGWT.

Dr. M. S. Sricharan, the Consultant,Wipro Technologies, gave an introduction tothe 3G Partnership Project (3GPP) and thefuture roadmap of the 3GPP standardscomprising of LTE and LTE-A.

Dr. V. Vaidehi, the Professor inElectronics, MIT and Coordinator of theworkshop, dealt with release 99 of the 3GPPstandards i.e. UMTS (Universal MobileTelecommunications Systems).

Mrs. P.T. V. Bhuvaneswari, SeniorLecturer in Electronics, MIT, gave a shortintroduction to Wireless Sensor Networks.

Mr. V. V. Pathy, the BusinessDevelopment Manager of Agilent Technologiesprovided the LTE context and briefed theSystem architecture evolution.

Dr. S. Srikanth, AU-KBC Research

Centre, MIT, explained how OFDMA, MIMOand SC-FDMA form the key radio layertechnologies for 4G.

Dr. J. Jackson Juliet Roy, Specialist(Wireless Domain) at Tata Elxsi Limited,handled an interactive session on LTE Networkand Protocol Architecture.

Mr. Chethan Kumar, Project Leader (LTEUE stack development) at L&T Infotech, spokeabout the LTE network architecture, call searchand selection, network attach, call setup andUL/DL data transfer.

Finally, Mr. A. Ganesan, DGM (Retd.)of BSNL and Chairman of IETE, presented astrong statistical comparison between LTE andWiMAX.

On 5th Dec, the Valedictory function wasdignified by Dr. S. Shanmugavel, Registrar ofAnna University, Chennai, who delivered thepresidential address followed by the valedictoryaddress by Mr. Shashidhara Dongre, L&TInfotech.

NCISE-10: 2nd National Conference onInformation and Software Engineering:26 – 27, February 2010 at Chennai. Organizedby Department of Information Technology,Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology,Vinayaka Missions University In associationwith Div II (Software) - Computer Societyof India, IEEE Computer Society - MadrasChapter, IEEE Computer Society BranchChapter-AVIT. Contact: Dr. A. AnthonyIrudhayaraj, Program Chair - NCISE -10 atncise2010@gmail.com OR Mr. H.R. Mohan,Chair, Div II at hrmohan@gmail.comWebsite: www.avit.ac.in

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NCVESCOM - 20103rd National Conference on

VLSI, Embedded Systems, Image & Signal Processingand Communication Technologies

2-3, April 2010, Chennai

Organized byDept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering

Aarupadai Veedu Institute of TechnologyVinayaka Missions University

In association withIEEE Communications Society, Madras Section

IEEE Computer Society, Madras ChapterComputer Society of India, Div II & IV

WIE Affinity Group, IEEE Madras SectionIETE, Chennai Centre

Broadcast Engineering Society (India), Chennai Chapter

CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

Programme Highlights: The two days National Conference willhave three main tracks for paper presentation and special lectures byeminent persons from industries and academia on themes such as:VLSI & Embedded Systems; Image & Signal Processing andCommunication Technologies and Systems

Call for Papers: Papers are invited relating to the above theme topics.

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Proceedings: All the accepted and registered papers will be includedin the Conference proceedings with ISBN Number. At least one authorof each accepted paper must register for the conference.

Registration Fee: To be paid as Demand draft in favour of “ThePrincipal, AVIT” and payable at Chennai

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Address for Correspondence: Mr. R. Vijaya Arjunan, OrganizingSecretary - NCVESCOM 2010, Dept. of ECE, Aarupadai VeeduInstitute of Technology, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Paiyanoor – 603104.

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Venue

Department of EEEVelammal Engineering College, Chennai.

Course Coordinators

Dr. N. Kumarappan, Prof. of EEAnnamalai University

Dr. P Chidambaram, Prof. of EEEVelammal Engineering College

Dr. Christopher A Rajan,Asso. Prof., Dept. of EEE

Pondycherry Engineering College

Course Content

Neural ComputationEvolutionary Computation

Swarm IntelligenceArtificial Immune Systems

Ant Colony SearchFuzzy Logic

Demo will be presented on few techniques

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National Level Technical Symposium onSignal processing, Communication & Networking

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