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Cover Story DIGITAL INDIA: “A Program to Transform India into a Digitally Empowered Society and Knowledge Economy” 7

ArticleThe Man who Invented the Relational Data Model – A Tribute to Dr. E.F. Codd 16

Innovations in IndiaNew Paradigms - How to Make an Enterprise’s Intellectual Property Sustainable 23

Technical TrendsQuicker Method for User Friendliness to Improve Smart Phone Applications 11

Research FrontDigitization of the Election Process of Indian Democracy 14


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CSI Report 26

Innovative Activity under Digital India by CSIProf. M. N. Hoda and Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra

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Call for State & Regional CSI Student CoordinatorsSanjay Mohapatra

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CSI Report 38

CSI Report 39

CSI News 41

CSI News 46

Cover Story

7 DIGITAL INDIA: “A Program to Transform

India into a Digitally Empowered Society

and Knowledge Economy”

Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Rashid Sheikh

and Trupti Agrawal

9 Digital Gujarat

S J Haider

Technical Trends

11 Quicker Method for User Friendliness to

Improve Smart Phone Applications

Anil Kumar Dubey, Ashish Guwalani and Rakesh Rathi

Research Front

14 Digitization of the Election Process of

Indian Democracy

Chander Shekhar, Shiv Kumar

and Rajendra Kumar Agrawal

Articles

16 The Man who Invented the Relational

Data Model – A Tribute to Dr. E.F. Codd

K V N Rajesh and K V N Ramesh

18 Bridging Digital Divide through Digital

India Initiative

Shailesh Kumar Shrivastava and

Amar Nath Pandey

21 Case Study of Digital Literacy

Program: Microsoft Innovation

Center-Sri Aurobindo Institute of

Technology Indore

Durgesh Kumar Mishra and Rashid Sheikh

Practitioner Workbench

22 Programming.Tips() »

Orphan Process in Parent Child

Relationship

Swapnil M Parikh

Innovations in India

23 New Paradigms - How to Make an

Enterprise’s Intellectual Property

Sustainable

Taruna Gupta

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It gives me immense pleasure to greet you and convey my best wishes to all the distinguished fellows, members of the managing committee of the chapters, corporate members, members from academic institutes and young student members of CSI in the Golden Jubilee Year of CSI.

As 29th President of the premier professional society of India, it is my responsibility to follow the imprints of respected past presidents of CSI including Late Prof. Narasimhan, Maj. Gen. Balasubramaniam, Dr. F C Kohli, Prof. P V S Rao, Dr. H N Mahbala, Shri Hemant Sonawala, Brig. SVS Chowdhry, Dr.S Ramani and Prof. C R Muthukrishnan. It is a challenging task however I am confi dent that with the whole hearted support of my Executive Committee Colleagues, Chapter OBs and Member of CSI, I will be able to take CSI at a greater heights.

The new Executive Committee of CSI has taken charge from 1st April,2015, after the joint meeting of the Executive Committee at CSI HQ, Mumbai. The previous year was a year full of events including various International Conferences, 49th Annual National Convention, Regional and Divisional Conferences at various chapters, National Students Convention, Regional and State Students Conventions including Golden Jubilee Celebrations by chapters and Student Branches. These events are reported time regularly in CSI Commuincations and on CSI Website.

You will be happy to know that members of the Executive Committee (2015-16/17) are from various sectors like industry, banking & fi nance and academic, having long term association with CSI and rich experience in their fi elds. Their aspiration is to serve CSI and desire to take CSI to its highest level of pride.

There are 100,000 + members including student members in CSI. It is a major responsibility of Executive Committee of CSI, Managing Committee of Chapters and Student Branch Coordinators to serve them by conducting high level conferences, seminars and workshops. CSI has also to serve the society at large following the motto of CSI “Steering IT for Masses through Innovation”

CSI is also promoting research and innovations in fi eld of IT and allied fi elds, considering the fact that research and innovations plays signifi cant role in the development of the multi disciplinary approach leading towards overall development of the society and country at large. There are various schemes are available at CSI for promotion of research and innovations. I am sure interested members will take advantage of such schemes.

In one of the articles published in Times of India “Opening the Flood Gates “by Shri Ravi Shankar Prasasd, Hon’ble Union Minister of Communications and Information Technology, he is optimistic that Digital

India would deliver a real improvement in the quality of life of every citizen. This fl agship programme of Central Government has a potential to bridge the gap between the digital haves and have not’s, between the poor and the effl uent, rural and urban, literate and illiterate, employed and unemployed and between the empowered and the disempowered.

I fi rmly believe that CSI , being the oldest and largest society of IT professionals, scientists, leading academicians, researchers and students , can contribute much in the fl agship programme ‘Digital India’ of Government of India by various initiatives.

There are many challenges ahead for CSI. We need to strengthen CSI HQ and CSI Education Directorate. We are in process of enhancing our services to members and stakeholders with support of Offi ce Bearers and Executive Committee Members. You may send me your suggestions including your thoughts how you can contribute in the development of CSI.

With best wishes,

Bipin V Mehta

President’s Message Prof. Bipin Mehta

From : President’s Desk:: [email protected] : President's MessageDate : 1st April 2015

Dear Members


EditorialProf. AK NayakChief Editor

Dear Fellow CSI Members,

For the last three decades, India is committed to the task

of promoting the spread of Information & Communication

Technology. The key role of ICT as an important element of

national development is also well recognized. The ICT system

needs to be infused with new vitality if it has to play a crucial &

benefi cial role in advancing the well being of all sections of our

society. The nation continues to be fi rm in supporting ICT in all

facets. It recognizes ICT’s central role in raising the quality of life

of the people of the country, particularly the vulnerable section of

society including rural masses and women community in creating

wealth for all, in making India globally competitive, in utilizing

natural resources in a sustainable manner, in protecting the

environment and ensuring the national security.

ICT has enabled citizen participation in governance through more

eff ective interaction between the government and the citizens

making a closer partnership between the two. But undoubtedly,

there is a massive digital divide in the country based on income,

education, residence and use of ICT which are correlated

with economies, political and cultural power. To overcome the

problem, the eff ective solutions should be found out for using ICT

for inclusive growth, promoting gender inclusivity and ensuring

balanced regional growth.

Now world is in the midst of a knowledge revolution, complemented

by opening up of entirely new vistas in communication

technologies and recent development in the fi eld of information

and communication technology (ICT). Since ICT is meant for

everyone and doesn’t discriminate between rural and urban, man

and woman, both can take the equal benefi ts off ered by it. It has

the potential to reach and empower women and encourage them

to participate in economic and social progress and help them make

informed decisions about issues that aff ect them. The government

has attempted to involve, encourage and empower the citizens

of the country in the decision making process to ensure their

participation at local and district levels of governance.

Digital India is an initiative of Government of India under the

leadership of our visionary Prime Minister for transforming India

into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy.

The objective of the project is to integrate the government

departments and the people of India by ensuring the government

services are made available to citizens electronically by reducing

paperwork with the plans to connect rural areas with high speed

internet networks. The three core components of this project that

are: digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen, delivering

services digitally in governance & service on demand and digital

empowerment of citizens with digital literacy; deserve full support

from the people of the society at a large. The Govt. of India

organisation Bharat Broadband Network Limited which executes

the National Optical Fibre Network Project shall be the custodian

of digital India project and it has ordered United Telecoms Ltd. to

connect 250000 villages in the fi rst phase and it is expected to be

completed by 2017.

With the eff ective activation & inclusion of nine pillars of digital

India such as broadband highways for all, universal access to

phones, Public Internet Access Programme, e-Governance as

the tool for reforming government through technology, electronic

delivery of services, Information for all, electronic manufacturing,

Information Technology for Job creation and early harvest

Programmes like wi-fi - for all Universities, secured email within

government etc.; shall refl ect its impact by 2019 such as broad

band in 2.5 lakh Villages, universal phone connectivity, zero

Import of IT equipments by 2020, 4 lakhs public internet access

points and job creation (1.7 crore direct & 8.5 crores indirectly)

and projecting India as a leader in IT use in services like health,

education, banking, agriculture, water resources, etc.

In the light of the implementation of this noble project into action,

Computer Society of India brings out the April – 2015 issue of CSI

communication (The Knowledge Digest for IT Community) with

the theme “Digital India” which is very much relevant and timely

in the present context. This issue contains the various sections

like cover story, the technical trends, research front, Practitioner

Workbench and related articles etc. along with other regular

features like case studies, cross words, CSI reports and news from

divisions, chapters and student branches, calendar of events along

with the contact details of EXECOM and Nomination Committee

of 2015 –16/17. This issue also contains a special article on Dr. E.F.

Codd, the father of relational Data Model as a tribute to him on the

occasion of his 12th death anniversary on 18th April 2015.

This issue is coming with the new publication committee which

took over CSI communications from 1st April 2015 and it will be

the fi rst issue under the same committee. The new editorial team

is yet to be constituted. This process is under way to have a very

dynamic and vibrant editorial team for maintaining the technical

excellence in the contents of the magazine and to carry the same

to the scale of height. Within the short span of time, tremendous

eff orts has been put in compiling this issue to publish it timely. I

take this opportunity to give the credit of successfully bringing

out his issue to my newly constituted publication committee

particularly to Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, the guest editor of

this issue who continuously with consultation and help of Prof.

M.N. Hoda brought the issue into the shape I am also thankful

to the secretary and executive secretary of CSI for the support

in providing the relevant information where ever it was required.

Finally I am thankful to the entire EXECOM of CSI and looking

forward to my fellow members for their continuous support and

guidance.

On behalf of the publication committee I wish to express my

sincere gratitude to all Authors who contributed signifi cantly for

enrichment of this issue. I hereby place on record my appreciation

to our panel of experts and referees who have supported in

reviewing the articles and other technical matters.

Finally we look forward to receive the feedback, contribution,

criticism, suggestions and reply from our esteemed members &

readers in [email protected].

Prof. A.K. Nayak

Chief Editor


IntroductionThe “Digital India” initiative aims at

availing digitizing of various individual

projects of all central government

and ministries like education, health

services and other services, that can be

delivered to citizens using Information

and Communication Technology (ICT) by

joining all the areas of India including the

Gram Panchayats at high speed internet

through broadband connectivity, in order

to focus on the e-governance till 2019.

It can also be viewed as the next step of

already running National e-Governance

Plan. In this program government will

prefer to adopt Public Private Partnerships

(PPP) wherever feasible for execution of

this initiative.

For the smooth execution of this

program, government will enhance

National Informatics Centre which

is responsible to carry IT projects in

government departments. For faster

design, develop and implement various

e-Governance projects, in at least 10 key

ministries positions of Chief Information

Offi cers (CIO) will be created and

necessary senior positions within the

department will be created by Department

of Electronics and IT (DeitY) for managing

the initiative.

It is rightly said by the hon’ble Prime

Minister of India, Narendra Modi that

Information Technology plays important

role to make India a digital country, in

his words “India Today(IT) + Information

Technology(IT) = India Tomorrow(IT)”.

ComponentsKey components of Digital India are: Digital

Infrastructure as a Utility to Every Citizen,

Digital Governance & Services on Demand,

and Digital Empowerment of Citizens (By

various digital literacy programs).These

visions are supported by the nine pillars of

this program, shown in Fig.1:

Execution BodyThis initiative will be executed by the

DeitY, and is been implemented in phases

from the year 2014 till 2019. It would

also provide a “cradle to grave digital

identity” that is “unique, lifelong and

online”.[2] The draft of Internet of Things

(IoT) Policy of India should be read

along with Digital India initiative for the

better understanding.[3] The monitoring

committee is the highest level committee

of this initiative chaired by the hon’ble

Prime Minister. Other committees under

this monitoring committee are illustrated

in Fig.2:

Estimated Costs Overall Costs of Digital India initiative

is approx Rs. 1.13 lakh crore for ongoing

schemes as well as new schemes and

activities. To jointly explore opportunities

for collaboration on implementing this

ambitious initiative, India and the United

States have already agreed for the same.[4]

Programs InvolvedDigital India is in the progress mode

from the month of November 2014. It

will be analyzed by the Apex Committee;

media reports have already hinted

development of policies for Digital India

very soon. If correctly implemented,

Digital India initiative will soon change

the delivery way of public services in

India. The program will be executed in

order to provide digital literacy to rural

citizens, providing digital lockers and

various other services. Various programs

and/or services based on PPP of Digital

India program are:

• National Digital Literacy Mission (NDLM)

The key to Digital India program is Digital

Literacy. It ensures digital literacy to

disadvantaged community by “reaching

out the unreached”. The digital literacy

program is in progress through NDLM

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Cover Story

Durgesh Kumar Mishra*, Rashid Sheikh** and Trupti Agrawal*** *Professor (CSE) and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore MP** Associate Professor, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore***Asst. Prof., Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore(CSE Dept.)

Fig.2: Insti tuti onal Mechanism of Nati onal Level [1]

Fig.1: Nine Pillars of Digital India [1]


which makes rural citizens digitally

literate by various training and building

programs.[5]

• Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF)

DEF with aim to ‘Inform, Communicate

and Empower,’ started its journey in

December, 2002. It is registered as not-

for-profi t under the Societies Registration

Act XXI of 1860. It fi nds feasible ICT

solutions in under-served and unreached

regions and communities.[6] It has reached

over 22 States and 8 countries, since

2003. The various projects carried out by

DEF are:

o CWIRC (Chanderi Weavers ICT

Resource Centre)

o Digital Panchayat

o Soochna Seva

o EMSME (Digital Empowerment

Foundation for Micro, Medium and

Small Enterprises)

o ENGO (web service package design)

o Social Media for Democracy

o WforC (Wireless for Community)

o Mobile for Good

o DKC (Digital Knowledge Centre)

o Green Prakriya

o ICT4D

o CIRC (Community Information

Resource Centre)

o GyanPedia

o Neerjaal

o Internet Rights

o The E-Heritage Project

• Digitization of cable TVAs part of Digital India initiative,

the Ministry of Information and

Broadcasting (MIB) has taken initiative

of converting the TV broadcasting from

analog to digital in various phases in

India. By the end of 2015 overall Indian

television will be digitized proving good

audio/video quality to each customer

even in the rural area. [7]

• Digital Locker or DigiLocker (Beta version)

Ministry of Communications and

Information Technology as part of

Digital India initiative has developed

DigiLocker to provide each citizen

a personal storage dedicated to the

individual so that e-documents as well

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) link

of e-documents issued by various issuer

departments. The e-documents can also

be signed by using e-sign facility of the

DigiLocker. The DigiLocker will also be

linked with the Aadhar number of the

same.[8]

• National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN)

NOFN project will provide a way to

implement various services, such as

e-health, e-education and e-governance

etc.by establishing broadband

connectivity on optical fi bre to 2,50,000

village panchayats across India.The

Network thus forms the core of PM Modi’s

ambitious ‘Digital India’ project. Bharat

Sanchar Nigam Ltd.(BSNL) is working in

diff erent phases for same.[9]

Estimated OutcomesDigital India initiative will provide

broadband in 2.5 lakh villages, universal

phone connectivity with the help of

NOFN, Net Zero Imports by 2019.

Also, 400,000 Public Internet Access

Points as well Wi-Fi in 2.5 lakh schools,

all universities; Public Wi-Fi hotspots

for citizens will be provided. 1.7 Cr IT,

Telecom and Electronics Jobs will be

created by training citizens as well 8.5

indirect jobs. E-Governance & eServices

will be provided across government. IT

use in services like health, education, and

banking will make India a leader country.

Citizens will be digitally empowered by

using public cloud and internet access.

The Digital India once implemented

will be executed eff ectively as there are

already 173 million mobile Internet users

in India in December, 2014 and Internet

users in India is expected to reach 213

million by June 2015, as per a report

Mobile Internet in India 2014 released by

IAMAI and IMRB International launched

at an event.

ChallengesDigital India initiation also face some

challenges like: Privacy Protection[10], Data

Protection[11], Cyber Law[12], Telegraph[13],

E-Governance[14] and E-Commerce [15] Etc.

Recently, ninth India Digital Summit was

been hosted by the Internet and Mobile

Association of India (IAMAI) in New

Delhi on Jan.2015 to discuss the plans

of Digital India Initiative.[16] There the

increment in mobile wallets in India for

payment and e-commerce infrastructure

was been discussed by a panel, as over

60% of Indian citizens still deal in cash

and don’t have bank accounts, so in order

to establish digital transaction mobile

wallets are very essential.

Rajan Anandan, Managing Director

at Google India, said: “Enabling

content consumption in local Indian

languages can greatly push the Internet

consumption up.”

Bipin Preet Singh, Founder and

CEO at MobiKwik, said “Consumers

can overcome the trust factor in online

payments,”

Aloke Bajpai, Co-founder and CEO of

meta search site ixigo.com, said: “While

the growth in desktop is almost zero, it’s

terrifi c on mobile,” “It is not only mobile

fi rst anymore but mobile only soon. Will

have to see whether to work any further

on evolving our desktop experience.”

Dhruv Shringi, CEO of Yatra.com,

said: “The next thing to aim for travel

companies is personalisation of travel

purchases such as hotels and holiday

packages as also using predictive

computing to understand and predict

consumer behaviour and reacting to it.”

ConclusionThe Digital India program is just the

beginning of a digital revolution, once

implemented properly it will open various

new opportunities for the citizens. It is

one of the highly ambitious programs

of Indian government, and is directly

monitored by Hon’ble Prime Minister of

India. The program is a multi-ministry

program, with the involvement of central

cabinet ministers, state governments etc.

Various grand companies like Microsoft,

Google and Fujitsu will also agreed be

partner and help the success of Digital

India initiative. [17, 18, 19]

While there are many obstacles in the

path of Digital India program, one major of

which is electricity. But this problem will

soon be solved as there will be pressure

on local leaders to get electricity in their

village when Digital India program will be

running in the nearby villages. Also, it will

open gates for employment as Telecom

Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said while

addressing students at Shri Ram College

of Commerce: “IT gives employment to

about 30 lakh people. Once Digital India

becomes reality, we can give jobs to fi ve

crore plus people.”[20]

References[1] http://deity.gov.in/sites/upload_

fi les/dit/fi les/Digital%20India.pdf.

[2] http://indianexpress.com/article/

india/india-others/cabinet-clears-digital-india-programme/


[3] “Draft Internet of Things (IoT) Policy of India”. Department Of Electronics And Information Technology. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2014.

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Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, received his PhD in Computer Engineering from DAVV Indore. Presently working as Professor (CSE)

and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore MP. He has published more than 90

papers in referred journal and conferences.

Rashid Sheikh completed his B. E. from SGSITS, Indore in 1994 and M. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from

RGPV, Bhopal. Presently he is Associate Professor at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore. He has published

several research papers in national and international journals and conferences. His area of research is information and

network security.

Trupti Agrawal received her Bachelor of Engineering degree in CSE dept.,from RGPV and M.Tech in Computer

Network, from Oriental University, Indore. She is currently Asst. Prof. at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology,

Indore(CSE Dept.). She has published 2 research papers in International journals and 2 research papers in national

conferences. She is doing research in cloud computing and computer networks.Abo

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Gujarat has been a frontline State in

the Country in the implementation of

eGovernance projects. The State has been a

leader in setting up core ICT infrastructure

like State Wide Area Network (SWAN),

State Data Centre (SDC) and eGRAM -

Common Service Centres (CSCs) as well

as in using advanced technologies like GIS

and mobility solutions, to provide smart

Governance to its citizens and businesses.

Nothing bears a more eloquent

testimony to this fact than the staggering

number of e-transactions (close to 125

crores) which have been registered on

e-Taal (e-Transactions Aggregation and

Analysis Layer) Portal, National e-Services

Dashboard (NeSD) since January 2013.

This accounts for over 26% of the total

transactions in the State Project Category.

The adoption of innovative, constructive and

result-oriented policies and the burgeoning

use of ICT as facilitator of Good Governance

have tremendously benefi tted the masses

resulting in signifi cant e-transactions as

recorded on e-Taal Portal.

Gujarat has successfully implemented

State-wide Public Services Programmes

such as SWAGAT, Public Distribution

System, Mutation linked with Registration,

ATVT (Apano Taluka Vibrant Taluka),

eNagar, eMamta, etc. On the one hand, this

has helped the Government to improve the

quality, effi ciency and transparency in the

delivery of services and on the other hand

facilitated the citizens to avail themselves

of the services in their own taluka or village.

State Wide Attention on Grievances

by Application of Technology (SWAGAT)

is a State-wide Online Grievance Redressal

Programme that off ers citizens an eff ective

platform to air their grievances related to

the functioning of the offi cial machinery

directly to Hon’ble Chief Minister through

online portal and video conference facility.

Presently, SWAGAT covers all Taluaks

and 60 million citizens of the State. Of the

applications received, nearly 93% have been

resolved since the implementation of this

initiative.

Under the Targeted Public Distribution

System, Gujarat has been able to link the

complete supply chain, that is, dispatch

of food grains from the godown to the

time until the citizen avails himself his

entitlement from the Fair Price Shop (FPS).

Here, the use of m-Governance has led

to the empowerment of the citizens who

are now kept updated from the time of

allocation of their monthly quotas to the

time when the FPS owners lift the foodgrains

from the godown.

Apno Taluko Vibrant Taluko (ATVT)

empowers all the Talukas in the State

to deliver services to citizens in a time-

bound manner eff ectively through the

ICT enablement of Taluka machinery.

ATVT has enabled the decentralization of

administration up to Taluka level and made

it more speedy, eff ective, transparent and

citizen-centric.

Internet has been a key to various

successful e-Governance initiatives which

have favourably impinged upon the lives of

each and every section of the society and

specially the marginalized. In Gujarat, we

have been able to bridge the urban-rural

digital divide through our 13,685 e-Gram

Centres where we have provided internet

through VSAT network which is used to

provide a basket of services to the rural

citizens near their door-steps in the far-fl ung

areas of the State. The facilities at the eGram

Centres are also being used for imparting

various skill development, educational and

training programmes for the empowerment

of the citizens.Satellite Communication (SATCOM)

is being used as a key tool to impart distant interactive educational and skill development training. Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG) is the State-level Nodal Agency in Gujarat which implements the dissemination of educational and developmental programmes through satellite communication to lakhs of people through nearly 50,000 Direct-to-Home (DTH) sets spread over the entire State. BISAG is gradually augmenting its outreach with the operationalization of 16 additional channels.

In Gujarat, we have been using Geo-Informatics

based eGovernance to provide decision

support system to the sectoral stakeholders

through large-scale (village level) geo-

spatial databases and supporting analytical

tools. These comprehensive databases

are being used by the Government for

rational, quicker and more transparent

decision-making in an institutionalized

manner. Thus through Geo-Informatics-

based eGovernance, convergence of various

programmes is being achieved where time,

cost and eff orts are optimized.

Good Governance is the foundation of a

functional democracy and is largely realised

employing e-Governance. Rapid advances

in ICT have made e-Governance the most

potent tool for attaining the vision of Good

Governance. The Government of Gujarat has

been incessantly endeavouring to achieve

the Vision of “Maximum Governance,

Minimum Government” to the fullest

possible extent with the help of Information

and Communication Technology (ICT).

In order to, inter-alia contribute

towards the realization of the vision of

‘Digital India’ programme of Government of

India, the State Government had declared a

dedicated eGovernance Policy. The Policy is

aimed at broad-basing and institutionalizing

‘Digital Gujarat’ to provide transparent,

aff ordable and effi cient public services on

the principle of ‘Minimum Government,

Maximum Governance’.

Over the last decade or so, the State

Government has proactively formulated

and successfully implemented a number

of e-Governance Projects which have

S J HaiderSecretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat

Digital Gujarat

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Hon. Chief Minister Smt. Anandiben Patel and other dignitaries for the celebrati on of Good Governance Day by Government of

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eff ectively attempted to promote

transparency, effi ciency,

accessibility, etc. in public

service delivery and marginalize/

eliminate the scope of corruption,

malpractices and irregularities

in a systemic way. Unlike the

adoption of cosmetic approach

which only provides symptomatic

treatment to individual cases,

these eff orts strike at the root of

corruption and are a long-lasting structured

and institutionalized remedy to the problem.

In Gujarat we now intend to extend

eGovernance to its next level and enable

socio-economic empowerment of the

women, the youth & the marginalized

through Digital and Financial Inclusion with

use of next generation technologies like

m-Governance, Cloud Computing, Business

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Shri S. J. Haider, IAS is presently working as Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of Gujarat

Department of Science and Technology (DST) was established by the Government of Gujarat in 2002 to help realize Gujarat’s goals of

sustainable development and inclusive growth through well-planned strategies and initiatives. DST plays a pivotal role in the promotion of

Science & Technology in the State. The Department has wide ranging activities from facilitating high-end research, providing services for

simplifi ed governance, promoting investments in emerging technology areas, aiding development for appropriate skills and implementing key

policies and initiatives to boosting, supporting and facilitating innovation and development. As of now, DST is looking after the following areas

of technology in the State: Information & Communication Technology including e-Governance, Biotechnology, Science & Technology, Remote

Sensing and Space Application, Seismology

DST has constituted six organizations to help the Department in these focus areas, viz., Gujarat Informatics Ltd. (GIL), Bhaskaracharya Institute

for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG), Gujarat State Bio Technology Mission (GSBTM), Institute of Seismological Research

(ISR), Gujarat Council on Science and Technology (GUJCOST) and Gujarat Council of Science City.

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Hon. Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, delivering his digiti zed message to the parti cipants of 18th Nati onal Conference on

eGovernance hosted by Government of Gujarat

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IntroductionThe interfacing technologies have

motivated the behavior of people and

change their living style. Mobile is the

prompt entity for human life and the

applicant user can’t live without it[1].

The rapidly developing world of the

multi-touch and surface computing

has produced some new possibilities

in the interaction between user and

technology[2]. Some advance gestures

available in the market as stylus, gear

and eye sensors etc. has provided more

facilitated environment for interaction

with a system. In the current world time

is the most critical thing for human so

everyone wants to communicate with

system in the quickest manner without

incurring the valuable time. To manage

this few of the GUI, applications are

innovated by the researcher or industry

and has been launched them time to

time according to their versions. All

of them are targeted to facilitate the

simplest manner of interaction to the

technology in a shorter time period.

Through the discovery of the Elograph,

by Elographics, Inc, touch screen

technology entered the public eye in

1971 [3, 4].

From last two decades Interactive

surface and multi-touch are an established

area for HCI research. Surface interface

is the most valuable technology in the

era of smart phones. Surface interface

provides the natural way to interact with

the applications of smart phones. User

realizes the actual phenomenon during

the touch and tap method of accessing

smart phones. Several ways are produced

during this process to understand the

technological applications of surface

interface that changes the revolutions of

interaction.

Lilian Genaro Motti[5] has provided

the study report & comparative of

researcher to compute the experience

of diff erent age of people for diverse

technique uses indirect inputs i.e., touch

panel, mouse, keyboard and wireless pen.[5]

In previous days windowing

environment were focused to interact

a single user with the system, but the

current innovation facilitate multiple users

to interact with the smart phones i.e. multi

touch devices. As the science-oriented

producer 3M Touch Systems puts it, multi-

touch refers to a touch system’s capable

for concurrently detect and determinate a

minimum of 3+ touch points”[6].

Contextual Surface

Smart phones now come with additional

features conventionally related to PDAs

such as Internet access, video, and

multiple application programs, and PDAs

are beginning to incorporate telephony

functionality.

Within these markets diff erent software platforms are varying for market share, the most prominent being Microsoft CE, Palm OS and Symbian OS. The lack of a common platform poses difficulties to deliver large-scale solutions and has led researchers to call for more standardization[9].

Related Work A lot of studies report is investigated

for diff erent interaction techniques

& input devices using touch screen.

New technologies are developed to

improve & enhance the exchange of

information and communication to

everyone. Consequently, novel interaction

techniques have been created to enlarge

the possibilities for human computer

interaction via new user interfaces & input

techniques[9].

The advance era into computing

and technological improvement with I/O

Quicker Method for User Friendliness to Improve Smart Phone Applications

Technical Trends

Anil Kumar Dubey*, Ashish Guwalani** and Rakesh Rathi****Ph.D. Research Scholar (CSE) Career Point University, Kota Rajasthan**M.Tech Scholar (CSE) Jagannath University, Jaipur Rajasthan***Assistant Professor & Head (CS& IT) Government Engineering College, Ajmer Rajasthan

Abstract – The current scenario of research promoted towards the smarter techniques that has been deployed into touchable devices for user

applications. People have acquired the newest technology for reducing the time duration that has been occupied by any application process of

touchable devices like smart phone, mobile phone etc. Author has deployed their quicker method for touchable devices especially for surface

interface to control the maximum required time in the operations. This approach is designed according to user’s opinion and usability engineering.

The deployed model, using such approach is more appropriate in the scientifi c age of automation techniques and the usability of quicker method

has improved the production of items (touchable devices) as users are more likely to interact with them.

Keywords - Smart phone; Surface interface; Multi Touch; Time; Quicker Method.

Fig.1: Surface interface [3]

Fig. 3: Contextual surface[8]

Fig. 2: Operati on of surface interacti on[7]


application, network connectivity have

shifted their concerned from PCs and

focused on mobile devices. According to

market analysis, it predicts that in year 2015

there will be 1.5 billion smart phones and

640 million tablets in use worldwide [10]. In

today’s society, the physically interaction

of peoples with electronic devices is

varying day to day. This change has led

to enormous advances, including the

design and development of touch screen

(touchable devices) technology[3].

Touch screens are most extensively

adopted interactive panel for portable

devices such as tablets, smart phones and

navigation systems. The touch screens

are separated from the display panel.

The categorization of touch screens

might be possible through used sensing

method and infrared based touch sensing

techniques. Properties used for separation

via sensing methods are resistive[11],

capacitive[12], acoustic- wave[13]. Except

that, the capacitive based method is

gradually more popular due to their

durability, sensitivity, and ability to detect

multi-touches.

In regards to improve the

performance of used technology &

decreasing the error rates, tactile

feedback is more useful techniques as

proved by several studies [14-16].

Problem DiscussionProblem Defi nition

The traditional process to operate any

contextual applications into touchable

devices acquired maximum amount of

time to perform the task. Author has taken

the objective to reduce the unwanted time

taken by touchable devices during the

completion of contextual operations.

Research Methodology

The research methodology are followed

the qualitative approach for time

reduction during the process of contextual

applications in touchable devices. The

novel technique has been proposed to

reduce the time taken into a specifi c

task (copy/cut and paste the data) of

traditional surface interface.

Quicker Prototype ModelBefore the implementation of any product

the design procedure must be performed.

Each and every implementation requires

the initial and deep designing considering

the prototype model of product.

The prototype classifi es the actual

conditions of designed module before

their implementations. On the basis of

previous related work we summarize

the problem encountered in contextual

applications of smart phone, i.e. effi ciency

in use and manual procedure for cut copy

paste procedures. The above problems

motivated us to propose the new method

to monitor the occurrence. We have used

android tools to deploy a prototype model

for solving the above problem.

Quicker Prototype

We have designed a new contextual

design using android code for reducing

the time taken for cut copy and paste

operation on the content stored in the

smart phone. Initially the smart phone

user will select the content for cut and

copy from their source location as given in

the screenshots of this application.

As we can seen in the above

screenshot a folder named with Columbia

has been selected and dragged into cut

icon which is situated at the bottom of the

screen so by this design we can perform

cut operation of content by the easiest

and quicker method.

Similarly we can perform copy

operation over the content of smart phone.

For copy operation we have to drag the

fi le into the copy icon which is situated at

right bottom position of the screen. Now

search the destination from your smart

phone where the users want to paste the

cut and copied content or data.

The process incurs less time in

comparison to currently used conventional

application used for cut/copy and paste in

smart phones.

ApplicationsLast few decades have marked signifi cant

improvements in the technological era.

People interaction with technology has

also undergone major enhancement with

the advent of touch screen, a user is able

to manipulate the digital environment

via only the touch of fi nger or another

alternative devices on the screen[3]. The

upgraded surface interface content is

much more eff ective in use. The smart

method of cut copy and paste make

the applications of smart phone more

Fig. 4: Initi al positi on of opened applicati on

Fig. 6: Copy the content

Fig. 5: Cut the content


fl exible. Users can easily adopt the newly

proposed quicker method for applications

in operating the apps.

ConclusionWe have focused the eff ective surface

interface for users to make the user

friendly mobile applications. As most of

the user desire the quicker method for

operating the task into their touchable

devices i.e. copy and paste, that required

the maximum amount of time to process

these operations. Authors target to

minimize the users valuable time from

touchable devices that is used during the

process of copy and paste. In previous

system user manually search content and

select them one by one for cut and copy

which incurs valuable time. We minimized

such type of manual procedure and

proposed a smart method for cut or copy

and paste the appropriate content to its

required destination.

Future WorkThe proposal is more eff ective for

users that impacted the smart phone

production industry to deploy the

production of surface interface (smart

phones) according to the proposed model

, because it have considered the usability

engineering era of application to surface

interface. Big industries and organizations

(Smart Phone designer, Mobile phone

designer) are invited to release the fund

for deployment of Smartphone according

to the proposal that is more interactive to

the users few of the others future scopes

expected in this domain

• Quicker method impacted the user

interaction and applications for

maximum usability..

• Change or upgrade the technological

era of user applications as Traditional

contextual operations.

• User friendly context increase the

effi ciency of use.

• User interaction enhanced the

production of smart phones.

Acknowledgment The authors are thankful to INDIACOM 2015

that allows us to submit the extended version

of our paper titled: Surface Interface for

User Friendliness: Quicker Method & Smart

Procedure for Enhancing Mobile Phone

Applications. Authors are also thankful to

the researcher working in this era.

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Rohit Saxena, Khushbu Gulabani,

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& Smart Procedure for Enhancing

Mobile Phone Applications”,

INDIACom-2015; ISSN 0973-7529;

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Cause and control the radiation

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Fig. 7: Paste the copied data


Our country India being the largest

democracy of the world conducts

the free and fair elections at regular

intervals since independence as per

the Indian Constitution, Electoral Laws

and System. After taking into account

the Constitutional and legal provisions,

the Election Commission of India

make comprehensive preparations for

conduct of Parliamentary and Assembly

elections and State Election Commission

of the concerned state take care for

conduct of Urban Body and Rural Body

elections. In 2014 the Elections were

held to constitute the 16th Lok Sabha,

Assemblies of Maharashtra and Haryana

states. Likewise assembly elections for

Jharkhand, J&K S and Delhi states as per

schedule were held.

The Election Commission of India is

responsible for planning and executing a

whole amount of complex operations that

go into the conduct of elections. Since free,

fare, fearless and participative election

involves complex planning, detailed

analysis and series of consultations with

all stakeholders. Election Commission

evolved a detailed framework for smooth

delivery of General Elections.

In the General Parliamentary/

Assembly Elections – 2014, Election

Commission of India used Information

Technology in a big way for providing

easier access to electors for service

delivery, greater transparency, information

dissemination and better election

management. India is the world’s largest

democracy, Election to the world’s largest

democracy pose immense challenges with

respect to collection of huge data from the

geographically spread fi eld, Processing,

presentation, and dissemination

throughout the world in real time.

Election Commission of India and

National Informatics Centre worked

together from district level, state level to

National level. The major activities that are

carried out at district level are deployment

of polling personals using on computerised

random process, preparation of route

chart, randomization of Electronic Voting

Machine (EVM) before sending to polling

station, Electoral Rolls Management, SMS

based G2C Service, SMS based Poll Day

Monitoring, Compilation of booth wise voter

turn out statistics, Processing of counting

results data at the day of counting, pre

election data processing, Public Grievance

Monitoring etc. That all activities are carried

out with the technical support of District

Informatics Offi cer of NIC. At national level,

to provide real time information on election

results all over the world on 16/5/2014 for

parliamentary elections and on 19/10/2014

for assembly elections for Maharashtra

and Haryana States proved to be a big hit

across the world. During parliamentary

election total 467 million hits were recorded

with peak of 13357 hits/ second. The

whole system worked with a great success

without any technological glitches in spite

of such high demand on the infrastructure

resources has set an example of large scale

of appraisal.

The General Assembly Election to

constitute the House of Assemblies of

Maharashtra and Haryana was held in

phases in the month of Sept. and Oct-

2014. Counting of the votes polled was

held on 19th Oct. 2014 simultaneously

at all counting centres of both the states.

The results of counting were captured with

the valuable eff orts of Returning Offi cers

(ROs) and technical offi cers i.e. District

Informatics Offi cers (DIOs) of NIC from all

the counting centres of both the states. The

information was disseminated in real time

to public all over world through url http://

eciresults.nic.in. The data fl ow diagram is

as below in fi g. 1.1.

The comprehensive Information made

available to public are:

1. -All India party wise result status

along with vote share.

2. -State wise, party wise result status

along with vote share.

3. -Constituency wise all candidate’s

votes details

4. -State wise, constituency wise

leading candidate, leading party,

trailing candidate, trailing party,

margin of votes, result status

The copy sample web page is as

Fig. 1.2

The results delivery architecture was

designed in High Availability (HA) mode

keeping in view of the high computational

requirements. High end servers were

deployed at supercomputing level. In

Parliamentary/Assembly elections all

the concerned Counting centres where

ResearchFront

Chander Shekhar*, Shiv Kumar* and Rajendra Kumar Agrawal**National Informatics Centre, A Block, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi

Fig. 1.1

www.csi-india.org


all the 543 Parliamentary/Assembly

constituencies counting are carried out

throughout the country are connected

directly to NIC Data Centre Shastri Park

using web service for

sending the round wise

result on counting data

in real time. Counting

is carried out assembly

segment wise, and

the setup has been so

prepared to take the

load of 5000 concurrent

live connections from

counting centres. All

committed transactions

are mirrored to Disaster

Recovery site at

Hyderabad. Partial

data is replicated to

ECI, Nirvachan

Sadan, New

Delhi. HTML

pages are

generated to

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was used for smooth delivery of

election results.

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primary site and NDC, Hyderabad, Andhra

Pradesh acts as DR Site. The primary site

(NDC, Shastri Park) is confi gured as tier

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of 99.982%. The tasks performed to

achieve the set goals of the project

includes Virtualization of Servers,

Setup of DR/Mirror Site, Replication to

ECI, NLB Confi guration, Pre counting

data availability, Live data fetching

from counting centres, Business Logic

Implementation, Web page generation,

Emailing trends/results to given emails

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The Man who Invented the Relational Data Model – A Tribute to Dr. E.F. Codd

K V N Rajesh* and K V N Ramesh***Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology, Vignan’s Institute of Information Technology, Visakhapatnam

**Project Manager, Tech Mahindra, Visakhapatnam

Dr. E.F. Codd is a luminary who made great

contributions in the fi eld of computing and

database technologies. It is twelve years

that Dr. E.F. Codd died and forty fi ve years

that he proposed his relational data model,

but this brain child of his is all the more

relevant today too. People would probably

still be using systems based on Codd’s

relational model hundred years from now.

This article is written as a tribute to and in

remembrance of Dr. E.F. Codd whose twelfth

death anniversary falls on 18th April.

The contribution Of Dr. E.F. Codd

to the database fi eld is so profound that

the timeline of databases and digital

information storage can be easily divided

as Before and After Codd. His invention

of the relational model is one of the main

contributors to the information revolution

that we see now and can be easily

compared to that of the contribution of

steam engine to the Industrial Revolution.

Much of the structured data stored

now is in the form of tables with rows and

columns courtesy the relational model

invented by E.F.Codd. The size of just the

RDBMS products market is $30 billion as

in 2013. If we consider the other RDBMS

dependent services and technologies like

IT consulting and Data Warehousing, the

market size would be even more. This whole

industry owes its existence to the relational

data model invented by E.F.Codd.

It is not an exaggeration to say that

there are few people on this planet who

have not been touched by the invention

of E.F.Codd. Bank accounts, Hospital

management systems, fi nancial systems,

billing systems and many other forms of

information technology systems which

involve storage of data or usage of stored

data, rely mostly on the relational databases.

These in turn rely on the relational data

model invented by Dr. E.F.Codd.

Edgar Frank “Ted”.Codd (E.F.Codd)

was born on 23rd August 1923. He was

born in Isle of Portland. It is an island in

Dorset which is a county in the South West

England on the English Channel coast. His

father was a leather manufacturer. His

mother was a school teacher. He was the

youngest child among the seven siblings.

He had his school education in the Poole

Grammar school, Poole, England. He

initially went to Exeter College, University of

Oxford on a scholarship to study chemistry.

His education was interrupted when he

voluntarily joined in 1942 the Royal Air Force

Coastal command during the World War II.

He served as a pilot fl ying the Sunderalnds in

the squadrons which were hunting German

U-boats. After the war, he returned back to

complete his B.A and M.A in Mathematics

from University of Oxford during the period

1946-1948. He then emigrated to the

United States of America in 1948 at the

age of 25. He worked for a short period

as a salesman at the Macy’s department

stores. He then worked as a mathematics

lecturer in the University of Tennessee. In

1949, he joined the IBM. He worked on the

Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator

(SSEC) as a programming mathematician.

SSEC was an electromechanical computer

which was made of vacuum tubes and

electromechanical relays and was the

fi rst machine to combine electronic

computation with stored program. During

the period of Second Red Scare (1947 to

1957) popularly known as McCarthyism,

he left the USA in 1953 angered by Senator

Joseph McCarthy’s witch-hunt of people

who were believed to have communist

ties or sympathies. He went to Ottawa,

Canada and ran a computing center for

the Computing Devices of Canada Limited.

He returned back to the USA after the Red

Scare died down. He re-joined IBM where

he participated in development of several

important IBM products like IBM 701 (IBM’s

fi rst commercial computer) and IBM 7030

(IBM’s fi rst transistorized supercomputer).

IBM 7030 was the outcome of the Project

Stretch at the IBM campus at Poughkeepsie,

New York. As a part of the project Stretch,

E.F.Codd led the development of world’s

fi rst Multiprogramming system whose main

aim was to keep components of computer

systems in productive use most of the time.

This involved nonlocal concurrency which

provides for simultaneous execution of

instructions which may belong to entirely

separate and unrelated programs.

He then joined the University of

Michigan in Ann Arbor and did his M.Sc

and Ph.D in the department of Computer

and Communication Sciences on an IBM

scholarship. His doctoral thesis was on

the topic of cellular automata which were

originally conceived by Von Neumann

as ideal structures for modeling self-

reproducing “machines”. Von Neumann

approach consisted of cellular array using

29-states per cell and a 5-cell neighborhood.

As a part of his doctoral research, E.F.Codd

tried to reduce the complexity of the von

Neumann’s machine. He showed that it

was possible to make a self-reproducing

machine with eight states per cell and

rotation symmetry. Codd’s construction was

infl uenced by careful consideration of the

physiology of the nervous system in animals.

His Doctoral advisor was John Henry

Holland who was a professor of psychology

and professor of electrical and computer

science at the University of Michigan. In

1968, E.F.Codd reported this doctoral work in

a book titled “Cellular Automata” published

by Academic Press. His approach to cellular

automata continues to infl uence Artifi cial

Life research to this day.

His greatest and most famous

contribution was yet to come. He joined

back IBM in 1968 after completing his Ph.D.

While working at IBM Research Laboratory,

San Jose, California, he turned his attention

to the management of large commercial

databases. He introduced the relational

data model to the world in his classic paper

titled “A Relational Model of Data for Large

Shared Data Banks” which was published

in June, 1970 in the communications of the

ACM journal. The relational model consists

of building databases using tables consisting

of rows and columns. The main purpose of

the relational model was to protect the

database users from having to know how

the data is organized in the machine. Though

this way of organizing is so obvious now,

this was revolutionary idea at that time and

brought a great change in the way the data is

organized. A whole industry of RDBMS got

created as a result of this model of E.F.Codd.

E.F.Codd’s relational model is widely

recognized as one of the most important

technical innovations of the 20th century.

It is indeed a surprise that his relational

model did not initially fi nd good audience

and reception at IBM where he developed

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this model. This was due to the large and

powerful support for the traditional database

system at that time in IBM. Meanwhile,

other new Silicon Valley companies like

Relational Software, Inc. and Relational

Technology, Inc implemented Codd’s ideas

and released relational database products

ahead of IBM. Relational Software, Inc later

became the famous Oracle Corporation

and Relational Technology, Inc later

became the Ingres Corporation. Later, the

relational model caught the attention of

the IBM chairman Frank Cary in a meeting

of a high-level IBM technical committee.

Finally, in 1981, SQL/DS (Structured Query

Language/Data System) was released as

IBM’s fi rst commercial relational database

management system. Later in 1983, DB2 for

MVS was released.

With the success of the relational

model in the early 1980s, most the database

vendors of the time started repackaging

their existing database products with

a relational touch. Seeing his vision of

relational databases being diluted, Codd

came up with a set of thirteen rules to defi ne

what is required of a database management

system for it to be considered relational.

These are famously known as Codd’s 12

rules since they start numbering from

zero to twelve. He published these rules

in two articles titled “Is Your DBMS Really

Relational?” and “Does Your DBMS Run by

the Rules?” in Oct 14 and Oct 21 editions of

Computerworld, a popular weekly. These

rules written by Codd were to discourage

database products with relational interfaces

being branded and marketed as Relational

Database management systems.

In 1983, Codd suff ered a serious injury

from a fall. He resigned from IBM after

his recovery. In 1985, he cofounded and

established two lecturing and consulting

companies named “The Relational Institute”

and “The Codd and Date Consulting Group”

along with his longtime IBM collaborator

Chris Date and Sharon Weinberg. These

companies specialized in all aspects of

relational database management systems

and relational database design.

1n 1993, E.F.Codd coined the term

On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) in

a white paper titled “Providing OLAP to

user-analysts: An IT mandate” which he co-

authored with S.B.Codd and C.T.Salley. This

paper was commissioned by Arbor Software.

This paper included 12 rules for OLAP and

generated considerable controversy at that

time since it was vendor sponsored and the

rules had explicit reference to Essbase which

was a product of Arbor Software.

For extraordinary contributions

over his career, he received a number of

recognitions. The most important of it is

the 1981 ACM Turing Award presented

to him on 09 November 1981 by the

ACM president Peter Denning at the

ACM Annual Conference in Los Angeles,

California. He was selected for the Turing

Award by the ACM Award Committee

for his “fundamental and continuing

contributions to the theory and practice of

database management systems.

Other honors received by him are the

elected Fellow of the British Computer

Society, IBM Fellow, the elected ACM

Fellow, the elected member of national

academy of engineering and the elected

member of American Academy of Arts and

Sciences. He received the IEEE Computer

Society Pioneer Award in 1996 for the

invention of the fi rst abstract model for

database management. He also received

the fi rst annual achievement award from

international DB2 users group and annual

achievement award from DAMA in 2001.

On personal front, he was divorced

from his fi rst wife, Elizabeth in 1978.

He married his IBM colleague Sharon

Weinberg after 12 years of courtship.

He had a daughter Katherine and sons

Ronald, Frank and David.

E.F. Codd died at an age of 79 on 18

April 2003 at his home in Willliams Island,

Florida, due to heart failure.

Dr. E.F. Codd was a stalwart who

never tried to develop a personality cult

for himself. That should not stop the IT

community from further recognizing his

genius in manner befi tting his contributions.

Few people in the fi eld of computing and

information technology can match him

in the terms of the contributions made in

this fi eld. The IT community should come

forward to propose and celebrate his

Birthday as International Database Day.

SIGMOD which is a special interest group

on Management of data of Association for

Computing Machinery (ACM) had renamed

the “SIGMOD Innovations Award” in 2004

as the “SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations

Award” in honor of Dr. E.F. Codd. The stature

of this award may need to be increased or

another Annual prize called Codd Prize

needs to be created on the lines of Nobel

prize, Fields Medal and Turing Award to be

given to people who make lasting and major

contributions in the database fi eld.

References [1] Codd, E F (1970). A relational model

of data for large shared data banks.

Communications of the ACM, 13(6),

377-387.

[2] S Sumathi, S Esakkirajan (2007).

Fundamentals of Relational Database

Management Systems. Springer.

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winners/codd_1000892.cfm

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com/2003/04/23/business/edgar-

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databases.html

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EBchecked/topic/914158/Edgar-

Frank-Codd

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edu/~christos/classics/codd.pdf

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edu/~perrizo/classes/765/codd

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awards/pioneer

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Mr. K V N Rajesh has obtained his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological

University in 2005. He obtained his M.Tech in Computer Science and Technology from Andhra University in 2010. He

is working as Senior Assistant Professor in department of information technology at Vignan’s institute of information

technology, Visakhapatnam since 2005. He is a member of Computer Society of India. His research interests include

Business Intelligence, Location Intelligence and Big Data and he has published papers in the respective areas. He can be

reached at [email protected].

Mr. K V N Ramesh is a M.E in Structural Engineering from Andhra University. He has 14 years of experience in IT industry

with expertise in the area of Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. He has worked on UNIX, Oracle, Sybase, Business

Objects and OBIEE during these years. He is an Oracle certifi ed professional in Oracle DW and OBIEE. He is currently

working as Project Manager at Tech Mahindra, Visakhapatnam. He can be reached at [email protected]

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Article Durgesh Kumar Mishra* and Rashid Sheikh***Professor (CSE) and Director, Microsoft Innovation Center, SAIT, Indore**Associate Professor (CSE) and Manager, Microsoft Innovation Center, SAIT, Indore

In this electronic era the knowledge of the

computer becomes essential part for day-to-

day activity. For successful implementation

of use of computer in delivery of knowledge

of the digital technology is required. For

the growth of India there is a need to uplift

the digital literacy rate as presently vast

classes of people are deprived from the

technology. There is gap in the literacy

rate best on the income, region, race, and

gender. This “Digital Divide” is a matter of

great concern. Microsoft Innovation Center

at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology

(MIC SAIT) together with the Next

generation foundation, a Non-Government

Organization, and Computer Society of India

took this opportunity to digitally literate

students, school teachers, working and non-

working women, handicaps, and other elder

people.

With an objective to spread

the awareness of Information and

Communications Technology (ICT) among

common people of India, we used the

“Microsoft Digital Literacy” contents to

train these people with evaluations, and

certifi cations. The program helps understand

basic working with computer to new users

as well as existing users. Computer Society

of India student chapter at SAIT-MIC

involved its student members to digitally

train their family members, neighbors, and

other under-privileged students.

The courses helps learn the essential

skills to begin computing with confi dence, be

more productive at home and at work, stay

safe online, use technology to complement

lifestyle, and consider careers where skills

can be put to work. Five course modules

are provided by Microsoft on the Web:

Computer Basics; Internet, Cloud Services,

and WWW; Productivity Programs;

Computer Security and Privacy; and Digital

Lifestyle. At MIC SAIT we successfully

trained and provided certifi cates to 1942

persons and program is still on-going.

You can visit following link for course

material:

h t t p s : //w w w. m i c r o s o f t . c o m /

about/corporatecitizenship/citizenship/

giving/programs/up/digitalliteracy/eng/

curriculum4.mspx

You can use the link for taking the

test:

http://www.microsoft.com/about/

corporatecitizenship/citizenship/giving/

programs/up/digitall iteracy/ASMT/

Instructions.aspx?lang=eng&aid=as26a

For online course material with

Microsoft email account you can visit

following link:

https://dsaksharta.in

It will also fulfi ll the target of the

Digital India as set by the Prime Minister of

India, Shri Narendra Modi. Hon. Speaker of

Loksabha, Smt. Sumitra Mahajan has also

gave consent orally to spread program

nation-wide.

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Case Study of Digital Literacy Program: Microsoft Innovation Center-Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology Indore

School teachers Digital Literacy program at MIC SAIT Bsc (Nursing students)

Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, received his PhD in Computer Engineering from DAVV Indore. Presently working as

Professor (CSE) and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore MP. He has

published more than 90 papers in referred journal and conferences.

Rashid Sheikh completed his B. E. from SGSITS, Indore in 1994 and M. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from

RGPV, Bhopal. Presently he is Associate Professor at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore. He has published

several research papers in national and international journals and conferences. His area of research is information and

network security.

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Programming.Tips() »Orphan Process in Parent Child RelationshipA Process is program in execution. In UNIX Operating System,

starting from booting only process creation takes place.

At booting time, a special process called the "swapper" or

"scheduler" is created. The scheduler in turn creates three

child processes: 1) Process Dispatcher (init process) 2)

vhand 3) bdflush with Process ID 1, 2, 3 respectively. fork is a

system call which creates a child process. So we have parent

child relationship in UNIX. Parent and Child Processes can be

identified by their process id. getpid system call gives process

id of currently running process. getppid gives parent process

id of currently running process. What happens when parent

process terminates before child process? Such processes are

called as orphan processes.

#include<stdio.h>

int main()

{

int pid;

printf("\nBefore executing fork (creating child process)...\n");

pid = fork();

if (pid==-1)

printf("fork failed...\n");

else if(pid==0)

{

printf("Child process executes (before sleep)...\n");

printf("Child pid(value rerurned by fork) = %d\n", pid);

printf("Child's Process ID = %d\n", getpid());

printf("Child's Parent Process ID = %d\n", getppid());

sleep (20);

printf("Child process executes (after sleep)...\n");

printf("Child's Process ID = %d\n", getpid());

printf("Child's Parent Process ID = %d (init)\n", getppid());

printf("Child process terminates...\n\n");

}

else

{

printf("Parent process executes...\n");

printf("Parent pid(value returned by fork) = %d\n",pid);

printf("Parent's Process ID = %d\n", getpid());

printf("Parent's Parent Process ID = %d\n", getppid());

printf("Parent process terminates... \n\n");

}

return 0;

}

In the above program using fork system call child process has been

created. If fork is unable to create child process then it returns

'-1'. Here we have assumed that child process executes fi rst. The

output of the program is shown below.

Output:Before executing fork (creating child process)...Child process executes (before sleep)...Child pid(value rerurned by fork) = 0Child's Process ID = 7828Child's Parent Process ID = 7827Parent process executes...Parent pid(value returned by fork) = 7828Parent's Process ID = 7827Parent's Parent Process ID = 2420Parent process terminates...Child process executes (after sleep)...Child's Process ID = 7828Child's Parent Process ID = 1(init)Child process terminates...

Orphan Process is a process whose parent has terminated but its

own execution is still remaining. In this case, Child Process will

be adopted by the process dispatcher (init) itself so new parent

process id will be 1...

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Practitioner Workbench

Swapnil M ParikhHead (2nd Shift)and Assistant Professor, CSE Department, Babaria Institute of Technology, Varnama, Vadodara

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Prof. Swapnil M Parikh is working as a Head (2nd Shift) and Assistant Professor in CSE Department at Babaria

Institute of Technology, Varnam. He has experience of 7 years and 8 months in research and academia. His area of

research is Cloud Computing and Parallel Processing.


Innovations in India

Taruna GuptaCorporate IPR Group, TCS

New Paradigms - How to Make an Enterprise’s Intellectual Property Sustainable Most large organisations today have a formal program to manage their intellectual property (hereafter referred to as IP). However, there are possible key challenges that an organisation may face to ensure that an enterprise’s IP is indeed sustainable for the long term and yields signifi cant returns in terms of growing valuation and subsequent monetisation through direct or indirect licensing. Interlinking a well-managed, strategically-designed and optimally-aggregated IP portfolio to customer-centric off erings, products or solutions is important to ensure reduced IP and business risk, increased valuation and monetisation of IP, business assets and sustainable IP-backed business.

A strong IP portfolio may comprise defi ned patent clusters, aggregated on the basis of domain or technology, such that it ultimately benefi ts the enterprise’s business and enables it to have a leading competitive edge in the marketplace. TCS has come up with an innovative, robust and sustainable IP portfolio management system, model and processs for an enterprise to achieve this. These help to ensure sustainable linkages between the IP portfolio of an enterprise and the market focus or business off erings as shown in Fig 1.

It follows a bottom-up approach and includes sustainability at the following three levels:

IP sustainability module to handle sustainability at the atomic (patent) level and enable mapping of the IP to an off ering in the Sustainable Enterprise Off ering (SEO) module.

Landscape Analytics module confi gured to create well-defi ned IP landscapes at the next level.

Portfolio Optimization module to create an overall optimised enterprise IP portfolio at the highest level.

It can be expected that an individual patent is sustainable based on its novelty and inventive step. As more and more patents are added to a portfolio, they also need to be assessed as contributing to the sustainability of the portfolio to which they are being added. This is done by applying a set of parameters to determine strength, spread, duplicity (if any) and diff erence of the new patent’s claims when compared to the enterprise’s existing patents and the key player’s patents, both individually aggregated in a time sequential manner. It is to be noted here that strength of a portfolio denotes how a new patent’s claims help to create new or incremental protection for the portfolio and the spread of a portfolio denotes the widening of the same, thus creating a stretch in the technology landscape.

The IP sustainability module applies advanced patent claim analytics (as shown in Fig. 2) to the above assessment in an innovative way to generate a comparative matrix (vis-a-vis an enterprise’s patents), a competitive matrix and a topology matrix (vis-a-vis key player’s patents) and a diff erence matrix dataset (to determine the competitive advantage of the new IP), in line with a Collaborative Invention Mining (CIM) matrix structure to deliver against the stated objective. This is made possible by using a combination of a patents repository, a CIM dictionary, a claims parsing algorithm library, a claims parsing pattern library, a claims parsing ranking algorithm library and an evolutionary genetic algorithm-based technique to generate a digital IP genome for each patent being added to a portfolio. Diff erent components of this system and process work together to carry out eff ective computation of the digitised elements of the new IP to conclude on its maturisation and eff ective contribution to a sustainable portfolio. To ensure that the changing or evolving data set is taken into consideration

at all times (both of the enterprise IP as well as key player’s IP), additional techniques related to ‘automation in discovery’ are applied.

At the next level, the Landscape Analytics module may generate patent maps (indicating growth and synergy), active key player-based maps and other trends, by applying advanced patent analytics and a set of stratifi cation rules to generate new intermediate data structures or data patterns. This can be done on the basis of strength and spread of comparison and competitive matrices, by clubbing information from individual subject areas based on synergy factors - International Patent Classifi cation (IPC) /Cooperative Patent Classifi cation (CPC), related or similar keywords, citation maps and so on) and resulting in an intermediate structure (landscape).

At a more advanced level, the Portfolio Optimization module will help to create an overall optimised enterprise IP portfolio – one that maximises value and minimises risk by applying the Identify-Analyse-Position methodology. This involves taking in the input data set such as patent clusters with their associated matrices, associated valuation for the resultant claim set, patent maps and so on, and then using a set of optimisation parameters – synergy, growth, strategic alignment, valuation, and gain and risk parameters for further computation and results.

Reference[1] – TCS Patent Published Application

– US20140279690 A1 - ‘Managing

Sustainable Intellectual Property

Portfolio of an Enterprise’ - Santosh

Kumar Mohanty, Shampa Sarkar,

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Fig. 1: TCS Sustainable IP Portf olio (SIP) Model for an Enterprise

Fig. 2: Advanced Claim Analyti cs to Determine Sustainable IP

Taruna Gupta is a senior member of the Corporate IPR Group at TCS. In her current role, she is responsible for driving Copyright initiatives across TCS, also to drive IP creation strategy and execution for several TCS units. This involves working with the various TCS units to promote, protect and profi t from TCS IP in the form of business aligned patent portfolios, IP led solutions, copyrights and trademarks. Prior to this role, she led Presales for TCS Life Sciences & Healthcare, Energy & Resources, and for a large global banking customer relationship. In her earlier roles, she headed the TCS Knowledge Management Practice, and has led Program Management for many large projects.

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Brain Teaser Dr. Durgesh Kumar MishraChairman Division IV Communications, Professor (CSE) and Director Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore

Crossword »Test your knowledge on Digital IndiaSolution to the crossword with name of fi rst all correct solution providers(s) will be appear in the next issue. Send your answer to CSI

Communications at email address [email protected] with subject: Crossword Solution – CSIC April Issue.

CLUES

6. A secret word, phrase, or sequence of characters that must be presented in order to gain access

8. A server is a system (software and suitable computer hardware) that responds to requests across a computer network to provide, or help to provide, a network service

9. Relating to high-bandwidth data transmission11. The process of converting information into digital form13. A new online medium for course delivery and learning which enables learners

to participate in a course with content and interactive tools for learning.14. To gain access to (a computer fi le or network) illegally or without

authorization17. A place or situation that permits or encourages the formation and

development of new idea19. Synonym used for the Internet20. A number sent on mobile for making the transaction 3D secure21. A mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically

having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded apps.

ACROSS1. A public area where a short-range wireless transmitter provides high-

speed access to the Internet3. The mode of governing through ICT4. A sequence of data elements made available over time to the end user7. A self-confi guring wireless network between objects10. A range of radio frequencies assigned by a regulatory agency for use by a

given group or organization12. Having an unknown or unacknowledged name15. A software utility that enables text messages to be sent and received over

digital cellular telephone networks16. A local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit

and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet.18. A system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and

present all types of geographical data.19. The collection of data and services available through the Internet on

utility basis22. The measurement of physical characteristics, such as fi ngerprints, DNA,

or retinal patterns, for use in verifying the identity of individuals23. A specially designed Web page which brings information together from

diverse sources in a uniform way. Usually, each information source gets its dedicated area on the page for displaying information; often, the user can confi gure which ones to display.

24. Simulating a hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or network resources.

25. The process by which the identity of citizen is verifi ed for any online transaction

26. A social utility that connects people with friends and others

DOWN2. The act of stealing content or idea from original work and publishing in one’s

name.5. A government of India initiative to deliver services electronically.

A Success Story of e-Governance in Indian State: MPOnline

MPOnline is a joint venture of Madhya Pradesh (MP) government and Tata Consultancy Services Ltd which was set up in July 2006 to impart online services to all corners of society. It runs a unique portal to serve various government departments and make their services available to citizens and other organization on the Internet. It has more than 1000 KIOSKs running in 51 districts of MP in over 350 tehsils delivering services successfully to its citizens and diff erent organizations. The services provided by MPOnline ranges from admission to various boards, online assessment for recruitment, counseling for admission to various colleges, bill payment, reservation for forest excursion booking, donation to religious services, and admission to various universities. The portal is expanding its services day-by-day. Recently the portal started PAN card application fi lling which facilitates an individual to get the card with ease. The venture is a recipient of many prestigious awards like Manthan Award South Asia and Asia Pacifi c 2012, SKOCH Digital Inclusion National Award 2012, SKOCH Digital Inclusion National Award 2011, Golden Peacock Award 2010, National Editors Choice 2010, and Nihilent e- Governance 2009-2010.

(For more details please visit: http://www.mponline.gov.in/Portal/AboutMPOnline.aspx)

Prof. Rashid Sheikh, SAIT, Indore


Members of Joint Execom Meeting held at CSI-HQ Mumbai Offi ce on 28th – 29th March 2015


The regional round of Computer Society of India Young IT

Professional Award for region – III was organized by CSI

Ahmedabad Chapter at Seminar Hall, Chapter Offi ce, Centur

Building, Vijay Cross Roads, Ahmedabad on Wednesday, 18th

March, 2015 at 4:30pm onwards.

The YITP Award is not just a competition but it provides an

excellent platform to the young IT professionals, researchers

and organizations to develop innovative ideas for solving real

life problems using either personally or by team work.

The event was graced by panel of judges from Industry,

Academia and Research organizations, are Shri Ashish

Shrivastav, System Dynamics (Software) Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad,

Dr. Savita Gandhi, Professor & Head, Dept. of Computer

Science, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad

Dr J. Ravishankar, Head – HRDD/PPG, Space Application

Center(ISRO), Ahmedabad, GujaratThe event received four nominations from individual and organizations of diff erent domain, are

1. Mr. Gaurang Panchal, Assistant Professor, CHARUSAT University, Changa, Gujarat

2. Team YUDIZ Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (Mr. Pankit Chapla, Br. Pratik Patel & Mr. Dhaval Patel) Ahmedabad, Gujarat

3. Mr. Rajkumar Popat, SAANVI Life Care Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad4. Dr. Viral Nagori, Assistant Professor, GLS Institute of Computer

Technology, Ahmedabad

To start with the event, Shri Bharat Patel, Convener, YITP-2014 and Past Chairman, CSI Ahmedabad welcomed all the judges for the event and he briefed about the event to the participants. Judges conveyed the rules and regulations of the competitions to all the participants and invited the participants for the

presentation of their work.

(Proceeding of the event and judges during the presentation)

Report on Regional Round of CSI Young IT Professional Award (YITP-2014) – Region III CSI Ahmedabad Chapter

(Participants presenting their work)


CSI-AC has organized the Regional Round of 4th National Project Contest at Chapter Offi ce, Vijay CrossRoads, Navarangpura Ahmedabad on 1st March, 2015 at 9:00 am.There were 11 Teams registered for the event.5 Teams from Madhya Pradesh,2 Teams from Rajasthan and4 Teams from Gujarat.The projects were judged byDr Jyoti Pareek, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Gujarat University,Ahmedabad, GujaratMr Nitin Bawse, CEO, Verve Systems Pvt. Ltd., Ahmedabad, GujaratMr Rakesh Patel, Founder & CEO, Space-O Technologies, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Report of Regional Round of 4th National Project Contest

Winner:

Ms Trishla Shah, M.Tech. Student, Institute of Technology, Nirma

University, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Project Title: An LFSR based Cryptographically Secured Key

Stream Generator to raise Security of Network.


Report: 5th Edition of CSI Excellence in IT Awards 2014The fi nal evaluat ion round of the CSI- Excellence in IT Awards, one of the most coveted and prestigious awards of the IT fraternity was

conducted in association alongwith event partner i3RGlobal on 20th February 2015 at Mumbai followed by the awards night.

This year we had an overwhelming response from industry across all verticals. As India’s premier industry association, it was

encouraging to know and understand the eff orts taken in implementing state of the art technology by Indian organisations. More than

65 nominations were received. Indeed it was a tough call for the jury, who had to pick the best from the nominations submitted.

The esteemed Jury panel comprised of Mr S. Karode–Past

Hon. Secretary - CSI , Mr. M D Agarwal - Ex-CIO BPCL, Senior

Consultant – TCS and Mr V L Mehta- CIO, MIEL Securities,

Mr. Monish Darda - CTO, Icertis, Mr. Aditya Abhyankar- Dean

Technology, Pune University, Mr. Prashant Deshpande- CEO,

Expert Global, Mr. ArunKadekodi- CEO, Soft Corner, Prof.

Pradeep Pendse- Dean – IT & Business Design, Welingkar

Institute of Management, Mr. Sanjay Prasad,- CTO’s Offi ce,

TCS, Mr. Anand Joglekar- CEO, Ameya Software, Mr. Arvind

Benegal- VP - Technology Practices, Persistent Systems Ltd

and Mr. Mohan Datar- Ex - IT Director MSEB,

Mr. Salil Warrior Director, i3R Global welcomed the

dignitaries Prof S V Raghavan – Chair Awards Committee,

Mr. H R Mohan – President CSI, Mr. Shekhar Sahasrabudhe

– Convenor CSI Excellence in IT Awards Mr. S Karode – Chief

of Jury Excellence in IT Awards, and Mr. Ranga Rajagopal –

Treasurer CSI, Co-convenor Excellence in IT Awards.

Mr H R Mohan - President CSI gave the welcome

address highlighting the vision of CSI and the signifi cance of

having such excellence based awards for the industry. Prof

S V Raghavan honored the jury members with a token of

appreciation for their great support throughout the evaluation

process. Mr. Shekhar Sahasrabudhe provided an overview of

the event and expressed his happiness to be associated as a

Convenerfor this year’s edition. Mr. S Karode elaborated on

the evaluation process and the parameters used to examine

the nominations received.

The fi nal round witnessed cut throat competition

between 47 fi nalists spread in four categories namely BFSI,

Telecom, IT/ITeS, Education/e-Learning & Healthcare and

Manufacturing & Infrastructure. From each category, a

Winner, Runner up & Special Mention were awarded. The

Winners received a cheque of Rs. 1, 00,000 with a certifi cate and trophy; the Runner Up and Special Mention were recognized and

given trophies and certifi cates.

The projects that took away the credits in each category were:

Category Winner Runner up Special Mention

BFSI The ShamraoVithal Co-operative

Bank Limited

Tata Consultancy Services State Bank of India

Telecom IT/ITeS IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Limited Persistent Systems Ltd Vodafone India Ltd

Education/e-learning & Healthcare

Tirubaa Technologies Pvt Ltd Tata Consultancy Services Electronics Corporation of

India Limited

Manufacturing & Infrastructure

Bharat Petroleum Corporation

Limited

Hindalco Industries Ltd Biomatiques Identifi caton

Solutions Pvt Ltd

Mr.Ranga Rajagopal delivered the Vote of Thanks. He summed up the event by thanking all the stakes for their valuable support and

presence. The event was support by Biomatiques as Exhibit Partners and Deloitte as Knowledge partners and supported by HQ team

comprising Ms. Suchit Gogwekar, Ms Nourine Bhimani and others.

CSI Report


India has more than 6,50,000 villages, in which more than half of its population live in rural areas and off -the-map villages. Most of them are remote and too isolated from the mainstream to get benefi tted from the country’s impressive economic progress. Though, the country is moving forward on the world map and considered as the world’s second fastest-growing mobile market, but it is lagging behind when it comes to internet connectivity, in the rural areas of the country. Connecting the community and its members to the world, through the Internet and other digital technologies, is becoming increasingly essential for the overall development and social progress, in recent years. Under the present circumstances, social inclusion and technology led inclusive growth will only help us to realize the vision; India 2020. The ambitious Digital India drive undertaken by the Government of India is an important step in that direction. However, the citizens, in the length and breadth of the country, are not digitally empowered enough to participate in it and derive the maximum benefi ts out of such a great initiative. Just developing digital infrastructure and bringing governance and services on demand in digital mode will not be suffi cient unless the citizens are also digitally empowered. For this, capacity building initiatives, to create digitally / IT ready citizens, particularly for the downtrodden sections of the society, need to be undertaken very seriously. Digital Literacy and IT related people awareness programmes, in a mission driven manner, in the length and breadth of the country, particularly for the unreached and downtrodden sections of the society, including house wives, should be conducted in a big way, not only to digitally empower them but also to connect them with the mainstream and empower them to participate in the process of making the Digital India, a reality.

Digital Literacy Programme is a dynamic and integrated platform of digital literacy awareness, education and citizens’ empowerment that will help rural communities to take lead in the global digital economy and help them in maintaining the competitiveness and also shape a technologically empowered society enabling them to derive the maximum benefi ts from government schemes and services.

The motto of CSI, which is the oldest and largest body of IT professionals in the country, is IT for Masses, which aims to digitally empower the citizens of the country. In order to realize this motto, variety of the programmes and initiatives are undertaken, from time to time, by diff erent Divisions, Chapters, Students’

Branches, etc. which are the arms of the society. In this sequel, Division – I has collaborated with the CSI Students’ Branch of Bharati Vidyapeeth’s Institute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi to conduct Digital Literacy Programmes for the people from rural areas of Delhi and adjoining states. Around 40 such programmes have already been successfully conducted by BVICAM, New Delhi, since last 10 years and trained over 2400 citizens, free of cost. The programmes were technically supervised by CSI and fi nancially sponsored and

conducted by BVICAM, New Delhi. The duration of such programmes ranges from 01 day to 02 weeks, covering concepts like Computer and ICT Fundamentals, MS-Offi ce, Internet, Search Engines, Uses of Internet for Exploring the Information or Services on the Internet, etc. Now, Division – I plans to repeat the success stories of

Delhi and conduct the similar programmes in diff erent parts of the country.

Division – IV has collaborated with the CSI Students’ Branch of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology (SAIT) jointly with Microsoft Innovation Center, Indore, and is actively engaged in conducting such Digital Litracy programme with the support of Microsoft for providing on line and off line Course material and certifi cation program. As a part of this, Over 5000 people have already been trained by Division – IV in diff erent rural areas of the Madhya Pradesh, Rajastan and Andhra Pradesh.

Innovative Activity under Digital India by CSIReport by Division – I and Division – IV on “Digital Literacy Programme”

Prof. M. N. Hoda, Chairman, Division – I, CSI

Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra, Chairman, Division – IV, CSI

Digital Literacy Programme at Gaurav Vaibhav Higher Secondary School Indore.


In Andhra Pradesh, Prof. P. Trimurthy Ex-Presedent CSI provides support for the activity in association with Sri-Ji High School, Ongole, and KL University Andhra Pradesh. This activity were also conceded for under privileged school students in Madhay Pradesh, Rajasthan Now similar activity is planned for Gujarat state and rest part of the country. This programme is supervised by CSI and supported by Next Generation Foundation.

nDig ital Literacy programme at Sriji High School, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh


Call for State & Regional CSI Student CoordinatorsComputer Society of India, with 500+ Student Branches across India with close to one lakh members invites

applications from Life Members of CSI interested in serving as Regional and State Student coordinators.

The Student Coordinators should be able to contribute to the growth of CSI Student Branches and to

increasing activity towards spreading of IT Education in diff erent academic institutions. The Regional Student Coordinators (RSCs) will work closely with the Regional Vice Presidents and CSI Education Directorate for leading,

coordinating and managing student activities in the seven regions in the country. RSCs will be supported by the State Student Coordinators (SSCs) in each of the states which constitute the Regions. Details of the Regions and constituent

states are given below in this advertisement.

The applicants must be dynamic with experience of serving the student community and with ability to organize Student

Conventions. CSI has ambitious plans of growth and intends to conduct programs in line with the national IT policy of the

Government of India so as to prepare the student community to contribute towards nation building.

The student coordinators at the Regional and State level must be Life Members of CSI with experience of serving CSI at the

Chapter level and should be ready to devote time to carry out the tasks for the benefi t of CSI Student Branches. Preference

will be given to applicants who have organized Institutional / State level / Regional / National events and are working in an

academic institution.

Interested candidates are requested to send their detailed CV over email by April 30, 2015 to Hony. Secretary, CSI at

[email protected] with a copy to Vice President, CSI at [email protected] mentioning details of the position applied for in the subject line of the mail.

The following is the list of Regions and States for which Student Coordinators are invited:

Region States

Region 1 Delhi, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab & Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand

Region 2 Assam, Bihar, West Bengal

Region 3 Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

Region 4 Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha

Region 5 Andhra Pradesh, Telengana, Karnataka

Region 6 Goa, Maharashtra

Region 7 Kerala, Tamil Nadu 1 & Puducherry, Tamil Nadu2

Sanjay MohapatraHon. Secretary


INDIACom – 2015 11th – 13th March, 2014

Report of the Conference

The 09th edition of INDIACom i.e. INDIACom - 2015, 2nd 2015

International Conference on “Computing for Sustainable Global Development” was organized by Bharati Vidyapeeth

Institute of Computer Applications and Management

(BVICAM), New Delhi during 11th – 13th March, 2015. The

conference was technically sponsored by IEEE Delhi Section

and was patronized by CSI Region – I and CSI Divisions – I, II,

III, IV & V. IETE Delhi Centre, IET (UK) Delhi Local Networks

and ISTE Delhi Section were also supporting and promoting

the event.

The inauguration of the three days conference was

done on 11th March, 2015. Dr. Anurag Mishra, Conference

Chair, welcomed the audience and all the dignitaries.

Prof. M. N. Hoda, Director, BVICAM, New Delhi & General

Chair, INDIACom-2015 briefed the audience about the

history of past 09 editions of INDIACom, since its inception

in the year 2007 and presented a brief report of INDIACom

- 2015. Shri R. K. Vyas, RVP (Region-1), CSI, acknowledged

the presence of all the dignitaries and talked about how CSI

has been associated with INDIACom since its inception

and is open to honest feedback for further improvement.

Prof. Mini Thomas, Chairman, IEEE Delhi Section, appreciated

the huge success of the event and also acknowledged the

contributions of BVICAM, New Delhi towards the activities

of IEEE Delhi Section. Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Co-Chair

Innovation Working Group, Asia, was the key note speaker.

He discussed, at length, diff erent dimensions of sustainable

computing, particularly issues related to carbon footprints,

healthcare and their related future innovations. Dr. Omkar Rai, Director General, STPI, Ministry of Communications and

IT, Govt. of India, was the Chief Guest. During his inaugural

address, he shared his thoughts upon the Digital India initiatives

and the Make in India Campaign initiated by the Government

of India along with appreciating India’s growth as the largest

outstanding hub for research and development. The Inaugural

Session was presided over by Mr. Stefanus Botes, Minister

Counsellor for Economics, South African High Commission, who

introduced the audience with the growing business and tourism

relationship between India and South Africa and encouraged

new investments in his country and the scope of Business

Partnership with India. The Inaugural Session was chaired by

Prof. K. K. Aggarwal, Former founder Vice Chancellor, GGSIP

University, New Delhi, Past President and Fellow of CSI, who

expressed his appreciation to see the event growing immensely

over the years. He shared his views on the importance of

computing in a students’ life and that the education system

should be open to accept students’ alternatives of solutions to

encourage logical thinking. He also expressed his concern on

how the focus is always laid upon the fi nances involved in the

introduced innovation related projects rather than analyzing

their cost benefi ts and savings in the future. The amount

and quality of shared ideas and life stories kept the audience

hooked and inspired at the same time. The pre-conference hard

copy of the proceedings for INDIACom-2015; in two volumes;

were released by the dignitaries during the inaugural session.

Dignitaries also released the soft copy of the conference

proceedings. Also, an

advanced version of the

Conference Management

Portal, developed in-

house by the students of

BVICAM, New Delhi under

the supervision of the

faculty, was released along

with Mobile Applications

for INDIACom - 2015 for

Windows, Android and

iOS platforms. During

inaugural session, members

of National ExecCom,

Computer Society of

India (CSI); Prof. Anirban Basu, Vice President-cum-

President Elect, Shri R. K. Vyas, Treasurer, Shri Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony.

Secretary, Prof. A. K. Saini, (INDIACom – 2015: Inaugural Session is in progress)


Prof. A. K. Nayak, Prof. M. N. Hoda, Prof. Durgesh K. Mishra,

Shri Shiv Kumar were felicitated. Mrs. Anukiran Jain, Convener

of the Local Organizing presented vote of thanks. The inaugural

session concluded on the Cultural Evening having series of nerve

breaking cultural items performed by the students of BVICAM,

New Delhi. The session was anchored and co-ordinated by

Mrs. Parul Arora, Asstt. Professor, BVICAM, New Delhi.

INDIACom – 2015 attracted over 1500 papers from

all over the world, in both regular and special sessions.

Out of this, 1360 papers were considered worth reviewing,

remaining papers were rejected out-rightly. Based upon the

review reports, 508 papers were accepted to be presented

in 39 different technical sessions under 08 parallel tracks,

having four tracks (1, 2, 3 & 4) of regular papers and four

tracks (5, 6, 7 & 8) of special sessions. Turnitin was used to

check the plagiarism of the papers, exhaustively. Professors

/ Researchers, from different parts of the world, collaborated

together and convened Special Sessions in the conference,

All the 508 papers have been published as a Pre-Conference

Proceedings on DVD having ISBN and ISSN serials. A further

shortlisted set of 289 papers, out of 508 accepted papers,

have been published in the Hardcopy of the Pre-Conference

Proceedings in two volumes; one each for Regular and Special

Sessions, having ISBN and ISSN serials, which was released

during the inauguration. Track # 1 was on Sustainable

Computing; Track # 2 dealt with High Performance

Computing; Track # 3 for High Speed Networking and

Information Security; Track # 4 on Software Engineering and

Emerging Technologies. Track # 5 was for Digital Life; Track

# 6 was for Next Generation Computing; Track # 7 was for

Next Generation Networking while as Track # 8 was devoted

to Emerging Technologies. A total of 471 papers out of 508

accepted papers were presented in 39 technical sessions

under 08 parallel tracks over 03 days of the conference.

Proceedings of the papers, which were presented during the

conference, will be published and indexed by IEEE Xplore.

A Panel discussion was organized on the evening of 12th

March, 2015 based on the theme “Digital India”; an initiative

undertaken by the Government of India, which includes creation

of digital infrastructure, delivering services digitally and digital

literacy. The Panel Discussion was moderated by Mr. Ibrahim Ahmad, Group Editor, Cyber Media, Gurgaon. Other panelists

for the session were, Mr. Shiv Kumar, Technical Director, NIC,

MC&IT, Govt. of India, Justice Talwant Singh, District and

Sessions Judge, Govt. of NCT of Delhi, Mr. V. K. Gupta, IET (UK)

and Mr. Viksit Nijhawan, AVP (Engineering), Aricent, Gurgaon.

The Panel Discussion was chaired by Mr. Sanjay Mohapatra, Hony. Secretary, Computer Society of India.

Over 900 guests from diff erent parts of the country and

abroad, including 110 session chairs and invited speakers

participated in 03 days of the conference. Paper presentations,

key note addresses, invited talks showcased the solid research

base built by the experts and participants. The skill with which

the event was executed, welcomed positive feedback from

all visiting dignitaries. Diff erent tracks of the events were co-

ordinated by the faculty members, Dr. Anupam Baliyan, Mrs.

Anukiran Jain, Mrs. Shalini Singh, Mrs. Parul Arora, Dr. Shivendra

Goel, Mr. Vishal Jain, Mr. Nitish Pathak, Mrs. Ritika Wason, Mrs.

Vaishali Joshi, Mrs. Narinder Kaur Seera, Mr. Vinod Kr. Chauhan,

Mr. Imran Khan and Mr. Manish.

Finally, on the last day of the conference, 13th March, 2015;

the Valedictory Session was concluded on Kavi Sammelan,

which was enjoyed by all the guests and students of BVICAM,

New Delhi.

(INDIACom – 2015: Memento presentati on is in progress)


First Prize - Dr. G Suvarna Kumar

Dr. Suvarna Kumar did his Ph.D in

Computer Science and Engineering

from JNT Kakinada University in 2013

in the subject of Signal Processing -

Image and Audio Processing Using

Machine Learning techniques. He

did M Tech (CS) with Artifi cial

Intelligence and Robotics

specialization with Distinction and

second rank from Andhra University

in 2008. With an experience

spanning over 12 years, he has major

interests in the domains of Machine Learning and Computer

Networks. He visited MEXICO and USA in 2013 as member of the

Group Study Exchange Program of Rotary International. Supported

by DST, he presented his research work at Singapore in 2011. He is

an Educator for Microsoft Applications developed for engineering

students. He has presented papers at 5 international conferences

and has publications in 15 international journals.

Dr. G Suvarna Kumar won the CSI Best Ph.D Thesis Award for

his work “Towards Quality Improvement in Learning Environment

Using an Intelligent Novel Adaptive Framework”. The pursuit of

excellence in innovative education necessitates a vital role of

instructors and learners in enhancing teaching-learning outcomes.

The thesis proposes two signifi cant frameworks; the fi rst to

automate the attendance system for learners in a class, and the

second to consolidate the feedback assessments of the instructor’s

delivery eff ectiveness with the utilization of the resources. The

fi rst framework deploys face recognition techniques with a novel

heuristic approach to identify learners. The other framework

“Intelligent Adaptive Feedback-Assessment” provides relative

feedback assessment of the instructors by correlating diff erent

learning styles of students. Computer vision and speech analysis

are utilized to extract features and assess the performance.

Second Prize - Dr. L Latha

Dr. L. Latha was the recipient of the

award “Active Participation - Women

Members” of CSI in 2011 for

organizing the CSI National Student

Convention. Her research domains

include Multimodal biometrics,

Network security and Digital Image

Processing. She has published 15

papers in international journals and

presented 35 papers in international

and national conferences and has

won the ‘Best paper award’ thrice;

she is a reviewer of research articles in international journals. Her

career includes an year’s stint of research at Fluid Control

Research Institute, Palghat, followed by over 18 years of experience.

She developed the “Multimodal biometric authentication system

for secure access control applications using palmprint and

fi ngerprint” as a sponsored project.

Dr. L Latha won the CSI Best Ph.D Thesis Second Prize

for the project “Highly Reliable Biometric Methods for Person

Authentication in Access Control Applications”. Biometric

systems analyze the physiological and behavioral characteristics

for personal identifi cation. Initially, the project proposes

procedural enhancements for feature extraction in unimodal

biometric authentication systems based on iris, retina and ear.

Secondly, diff erent score normalization and fusion schemes have

been attempted, with multiple snapshots, units, and biometrics.

Five diff erent multimodal biometric systems were developed

based on the fusion of various combinations of the fi ve traits - iris,

retina, ear, palm print and fi ngerprint. As Biometrics is becoming

increasingly inevitable in all security and automation applications,

continuing development, its scope and performance need

consistent upgradation in all future missions.

Third Prize - Dr. Kuldeep Yadav

Dr. Kuldeep Yadav, a Research

Scientist in Distributed Computing

group in Xerox Research Centre

(XRCI), India, has research interests

in mobile sensing, usability evaluation

of mobile systems, and designing

mobile systems for developing

countries. An alumnus of IIT, Delhi,

he was a recipient of the prestigious

Microsoft Research Ph.D Fellowship

in 2011. He received the Google

sponsored best presentation award

in Ph.D Forum at MobiSys’12 and the fi rst runner up award in Ph.D

research session at Microsoft Research Tech Vista. He has a large

number of presentations and publications to his credit.

The work on “Geo-localization and Location-aware

Opportunistic Communication for Mobile Phone” fetched the

CSI Best Ph.D Thesis Third Prize to Dr. Kuldeep. App stores,

such as Google Play, have millions of applications for download,

many of them dependent on user’s location and other contextual

information. But the signal, infrastructure and other parameters

have limited the performance in several countries. The research

work aims to aims at overcoming the limitations with systems and

services for smartphones and feature phones with no additional

infrastructure or energy requirements. Adequate user location is

obtained without the need for expensive sensors. The resultant

user location can be either raw geo-coordinates, or high-level

information of places and routes. Robust algorithms are proposed

for computing user location, while creating profound system

knowledge to package them as a platform, for direct use by third-

party application developers using open APIs.

Hearty Congratulations !!The Winners of the CSI Best PhD Thesis Awards 2014


3rd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ONINNOVATIONS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING (ICICSE-2015)

Organized by

GURU NANAK INSTITUTIONS

IN COLLABORATION WITH COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA,DIVISION IV AND HYDERABAD CHAPTER

7th & 8th August, 2015Theme: Innovations in Computer Science & Engineering (ICICSE)

The aim of the International Conference on Innovations in Computer Science & Engineering (ICICSE) is to provide

an opportunity for researchers, scientists, technocrats, academicians and engineers to exchange their innovative

ideas and new research fi ndings in the fi eld of Computer Science & Engineering and related disciplines as on

today. The conference will provide an interactive platform for the participants, professionals from the academia

and industry. It would facilitate scientifi c research from academic and scientifi c institutions, defense and industry

segments across India and globe to share their research expertise, experiment breakthroughs or vision/trends in

the following broad areas but not limited to: Research and review papers are invited for presentation.

☛ Data Warehousing & Mining, Machine Learning and Neural Networks, Human Computer Interaction.

☛ Image Processing, Software Engineering, Big Data Analytics, Cloud Computing

☛ Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing, Advanced Data Structures & Algorithms

☛ Networks and Information Security, Grid Computing

☛ Pervasive Computing, Distributed Operating Systems

☛ Artifi cial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Brain Computing, Network on Cheap

☛ Global Information Systems.

Selected papers will be published in the Jrl. of Computer Science & Engineering being brought out by GNI.

Important Dates:

Paper submission: June 2nd, 2015

Acceptance notifi cation for papers: June 16th, 2015

Last date of registration: July 2nd, 2015

Final Submission-Camera ready paper July 13th, 2015

Website: For details please browse www.icicse2015.orgVenue: Guru Nanak Institutions Technical Campus, Ibrahimpatnam, Hyderabad

For details contact :

Dr. H. S. Saini Dr. D. D. Sarma [email protected] [email protected]


Student Essay Contest Harnessing the Power of ICT for our New InitiativesMr. Ramesh Gopalaswamy ([email protected])

and

Mr. H.R. Mohan ([email protected])

Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter, in association

with the IEEE Computer Society, Madras and IEEE Professional

Communication Society, Madras conducted an Essay Contest

in two streams: Stream 1: Open to School Students (from 8th

Standard to Plus 2); and Stream 2: Open to College/Polytechnic

Students (UG/PG students of all disciplines).

The participants had the option of submitting an essay on

“ICT for Digital India” or “ICT for Make in India” or “ICT for Clean

India” by 31st Jan 2015.

Submitted essays were evaluated on criteria such as

originality, novelty, applicability, potential value of the proposed

idea(s) and clarity and style of presentation by a panel consisting

of Mr. Ramesh Gopalaswamy (Author, Consultant and Guest

Faculty, IIT Madras), Mr. Pramod Mooriath (President, Qatalys

Software Tech & Chair, CSI Chennai), Ms. Latha Ramesh (VP-

Academic Engagement & Service Delivery, Classle Knowledge

Pvt Ltd & Past Chair, CSI Chennai) and Mr. K. Adhivarahan (ICT

Consultant & Past Chair, CSI Chennai).

It was indeed very refreshing and encouraging to see the

response of the students. More than 200 essays were received

from various parts of India. In this article, we share some of the

highlights of these essays. All the prize winning essays which

are referred in this article are hosted at the website at http://

goo.gl/FziCmK

On the topic of Digital India, some essays had

sectorial focus. There were applications for travel planning

[alag19940818], use of ICT for road safety [dany19930820],

digitization to make sure buses stop at designated bus stops

[a real problem indeed!], use of

Aadhaar numbers for an easy and

foolproof way of getting birth / death

certificates and other Government

services [amar19941014] and also

for “Smart Travel Card” systems

[para19920912] an e-Attendance

system to ensure students are not only

physically but also mentally present

in a class room. [Amit19940508].

The essay [jana19951127] presented

an interesting concept of “Demat”

for academic certificates. The essay

[Manj19940611] covered a very

wide variety of possibilities including

politically sensitive areas like

fisherman safety. Similarly the essay

[saravana19930929] also covered

a wide ground including healthcare,

disaster management, e-Governance,

etc. There was also an interesting system to connect common

man to the Government called “Online Common Panchayats

And Palikas Information System” [neel19941007].

[prin19950403] touches areas like digitization of elections

and digitization of law and order. [sand19940508] brought

out an innovative idea of “Biometric Voting Machines” to

replace the current Electronic Voting Machines to minimize

fraud and impersonation. The essay [srej19940727] went

into the architectural details of various current success

stories like e-Choupal. The essay [swet19950907] touched

upon the important aspect of educating people about digital

technologies. Very innovative methods of modernizing

education using ICT were brought out in [vini19940901].

For “Make in India” initiative, there were some good

suggestions too, belying the myth that students do not know

much about manufacturing. An example was [chit19930531]

which outlined the use of ICT for the entire product life

cycle starting from investments through planning, product

design, production, human resources and marketing. Some

of the essays transcended just the technology borders

in formulating solutions. For example, [dami19930930]

proposed an application of the Crowd Funding model to

secure investments for “Make in India”. Another essay

[resh19940913] focused on the importance of ICT for

agriculture by discussing the application of robotics to

agriculture like SLUGBOT, ACROBATS, etc. Realizing the

importance of ICT in defense, [sind19960608] stresses


the role of “Make in India” for Defense Manufacturing. The

importance of promoting entrepreneurship for the success of

“Make in India” initiative was brought out in [sona19940709].

The essay [mana19921126] brought out the importance of

ICT for Make in India and its relevance to the common man,

the aam aadmi.

In terms of “Clean India” too, there were several

interesting essays. One of the essays [ashw19920604]

made a very poignant and thought provoking observation

that the number of mobile phones in India may exceed the

number of toilets! This essay went on to propose novel

methods of harnessing ICT to promote awareness and an

attitudinal change in the minds of people about cleanliness.

One of the most talked about technologies today is the

use of drones. The essay [gaya19950228] suggested some

innovative methods of using drones to address one of the

most common problems we encounter – that of open pits

and drains. Another essay [ram19871213] went beyond the

traditional “ICT” to even take concepts from Chemistry to

real life problems in areas in Chennai like Perungudi Dump

Yard. The essay [shiv19950721] touched upon a very real

problem for Chennaiites – namely cleaning of the Cooum

River! The fact that there are already laudable initiatives like

the m-bin initiative in Andhra Pradesh which significantly

increased the productivity of the people working in sanitation

was brought out in [ramv19990617]. The role of leveraging

the appeal of film stars and cricketers through ICT media

was brought out in [sona19940215]. The fact that “Clean

India” transcends all religion was amply brought out by using

quotations from Gita, Quran and Bible by [thaf19930429].

The use of ICT for the full cycle of waste management

was discussed in [swat19930910].One of the essays

[vipi19951120] went into a fair amount of implementation

details of how to implement an important aspect of Clean

Toilets. At the end of the day, cleanliness is a habit. This

was nicely brought out by [gane19970607]. “Clean India”

goes beyond just sanitation. It covers problems faced by the

current generation like e-Waste. The essay [priy19950917]

presents the importance of e-Waste management for

Clean India.

Some of the essays also showed creativity and ingenuity

in the presentation styles which augur well for the long term

future. For example, [chan19931008] coined nice and catchy

acronyms for several initiatives – like DIC for Digital India

Classrooms, a model for hybrid learning, combining MOOCs

with traditional class rooms. The essay [jaya19951003] also

used relevant quotes from Mahatma Gandhi “Sanitation

is more important than independence” to drive home the

point of cleanliness. One student [MONI19940808] even

coined a nice poem to bring out the importance of Clean

India! After all, in the modern world, style is as importance

as substance!

This spark of creativity and humour is aptly brought out in

the conclusion of the essay [shub19930629]. “To conclude this

article in a lighter vein, in one of the famous cartoons of Dennis

the Menace, the irrepressible boy tells his father with logic

beyond his years: “Dad, if everything is made in China, then God

must be living in China”. When the Prime Minister’s vision of

“Come, Make in India” is realised, and India becomes an enviable

manufacturing hub of the world, Dennis may perhaps fi nd God

shifting his residence to India!”

It is proposed that the enthusiasm of the students be

recognized appropriately and some of their well thought out

suggestions and ideas presented in these prize winning essays

will be taken up for exploring the feasibility of implementation

through governmental agencies.

The essay contest was sponsored by Dynamic Group,

Anjana Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd, HP Networking,

Cognitive Platform Solutions (CPS) Pvt Ltd, Orbit

Innovations and CloudReign Technologies. Prof. San

Murugesan (Adjunct Professor, University of Western

Sydney, Australia) and Mr. S. Ramasamy (GM, Great Lakes

Institute of Management & Past RVP-VII and Past Chair,

CSI Chennai) extended support in the successful conduct

of this essay contest. Mr. H.R. Mohan (Former Associate

Vice President (Systems), The Hindu and President, CSI)

was the convener of this contest.

On 30th March 2015, in a function organized at the CSI

Education Directorate at Chennai, the Chennai based contest

winners in each stream were awarded the following prizes &

certifi cates:

• One 1st Prize: Rs. 10000/-

• Two 2nd Prizes: Rs. 5000/- of each

• Four 3rd Prizes: Rs. 2500/- of each

• Consolation Prizes: Rs. 1000/- each

Certifi cate of appreciation: For short listed essays based on

a certain cut-off score over and the above prize winning essays.

Mr. S. Arjun, a student of class 9 from Chennai, who had

received the ‘National Child Award for Exceptional Achievements

(for Computer Technology) 2014” from the President of India

was also felicitated and awarded a cash prize of Rs. 5000/- and

a certifi cate of appreciation.

Mr. S. Mahalingam, Past President of CSI and Director

and Former Executive Vice President & CFO, TCS was

the chief guest at this felicitation function. Mr. Prakash

Damodaran IAS, first IT Secretary to the Government of Tamil

Nadu and Director, UTI Infrastructure Tech Services Ltd was

the guest of honour. Both of them wished and encouraged the

prize winners and highlighted the opportunities in the areas

of information and communication technologies which are

playing a major role in or day to day life.

Mr. H.R. Mohan, President, CSI & Chairman, IEEE CS &

PCS welcomed the prize winners and the parents and teachers

accompanied the winners. He then outlined the genesis of

this essay contest and explained the process adopted for the

evaluation. Mr. Mohan briefly explained about the Computer

Society of India and its services to the student community

and elaborated the various benefits of the membership in

CSI. He also highlighted about the recently launched initiative

of CSI which offers institutional membership to the schools


facilities a host of benefits including the computer clubs

in the school, mentoring the students by the senior CSI

members, faculty development programmes for the teachers,

sensitizing the students on cyber security and e-Waste,

career counselling, contests in programming, applications

& websites development, project expos etc., and urged the

schools to join CSI as institutional members and requested

the parents and teacher to publicize this initiative among

their contacts.

The judges, Ms. Latha Ramesh and Mr. K. Adhivarahan

shared their views and appreciated the contest participants for

their ideas presented in the essays. Mr. Pramod Mooriath, the

chairman of CSI Chennai Chapter thanked the sponsors of the

contest, the parents, teachers and the students for making this

contest a meaningful and useful exercise.

For the details of the prize winners and the pictures

taken at the prize distribution function, pl. visit the website at

http://goo.gl/FziCmK


CONSEG – The International Conference on Software

Engineering is the premier software engineering conference,

providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators

to discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and

concerns in the fi eld of software engineering.

The goal of this year conf. CONSEG-2015 is to provide a

forum for discussion and exploration of software engineering

challenges in the SMAC (Social Networks, Mobile, Analytics

and Cloud) context. The objective of this conference is to

promote interactions and synergy among researchers and

developers who deal with the challenges of developing and

deploying eff ective analyses of social and mobile data, towards

shared understanding of the implications of SMAC for software

engineering.

The theme of CONSEG 2015 is “Software Engineering in

SMAC (Social Networks, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud)”

SMAC is the newest challenges of software engineering.

Enterprises are increasingly basing decisions on advanced

analytics, and using analytics to interact more eff ectively with

their customers (eg. to determine suitable promotions to off er

them). Social network data is ever more prevalent and important,

and mobile devices are key both for information gathering (eg.

location) and communication (eg. off ering a promotion to a

customer who is nearby). Business innovations arise frequently,

and lead to the need for rapid development of customized

analytics and analytics-based applications. These are often

hosted on clouds, leading to the quartet known as SMAC: Social,

Mobile, Analytics and Cloud.

Computer Society of India – Coimbatore Chapter in

association with Division II (Software) and Division III

(Applications) organized CONSEG-2015, the International

Conference on Software Engineering during 6-7, March 2015 at

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore.

Most of the delegates were professionals associated with

Information Systems department and EDP units of various

industries in and around Coimbatore.

On 6th March, 2015 (Friday), Mr. H.R. Mohan, President

of CSI, inaugurated the conference highlighting the Software

Engineering trends

and challenges in the

context of SMAC which

plays a major role both

in development and

deployment. Prof. R.

Nadarajan, Chair, Div

II and the convenor of

the conf. provided an

overview of the conf.

prorgamme. Dr. M.

Sundaresan, the Chapter

Chairman welcomed

the gathering and

Mr. Ranga Rajagopal,

Patron, CSI Coimbatore

and national Treasurer,

CSI elaborated on the

chapter activities and informed the gathering on the hosting

of CSI-2016, the 51st annual convention of CSI at Coimbatore.

Mr. S. Arumugam, the Chapter Vice Chairman thanked the

participants and the invited speakers.

CONSEG-2015 programme included the following invited talks.

• “Role of Open Source in Teaching Software Engineering” by Dr. D. Janakiram, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Madras.

• • “Building Digital Applications” by Mr. V. Srinivasa Rao, CEO

and Chief Digital Consultant, BT & BT, Hyderabad.• “Driving Innovation on SMAC” by Mr. Manikandan

Thangarathnam, Director-Software Development, Amazon, Chennai.

• “Role of Software Testing in SDLC and Software Testing Tools” by Mr. Vivek Pai, Senior Manager-Health Care, Deloitte, Bangalore.

• “Work Flow Automation” by Dr. R. Ramaseshan, Venture Leader, Automatika, Cognizant, Chennai.

• “Software Architecture” by S. G. Ganesh, consultant and author from Bangalore.

• “Agile Methodologies” by Mr. S. Govindarajan, General Manager, ThoughtWorks, Chennai.

• “Role of Software Engineering in the world of SMAC” by Mr. Rajavel Sekaran, Program Director-Strategy, IBM, Bangalore.

• “Mobile Commerce and Trends” by Mr. U.N. Murali Krishna, Vice-President, Skava Systems, Coimbatore.

• “Soft Data Analytics” by Dr. P. Radha Krishna, Principal Research Scientist, Infosys, Hyderabad.

• “SMAC and beyond and its infl uence on the society” by Dr. Vivek Nirkhe, Program Manager, Microsoft, USA.

At the feedback session, the delegates numbering over 120 including 50 students, expressed that this conference was very useful for them to learn the latest technologies and also appreciated the effi cient time management adopted in this conference. Mr. R. Murali, Secretary, CSI-Coimbatore Chapter,

delivered the vote of thanks at the end of the day.

CSI Division II and Division III ReportCONSEG – 2015: International Conference on Software Engineering


The National Conference on Cyber Space Security, NCCSS2015

was held on the 13th and 14th of March 2015 at Hotel Atria,

Palace Road, Bangalore with the theme “Secured Cyberspace for

Digital India”. This was organized by Computer Society of India,

Bangalore Chapter along with the CSI - Special Interest Group on

Information Security SIG-IS.

The conference was well attended by the Industry,

Academia, Ministry of Defense, DRDO, State Police Department

and Staff of State Govt. About 100 delegates from leading IT

industries and Defence Organizations attended this National

Conference participating in technical discussions on both days.

Main Sponsors for the Event are: Check Point, QOS Systems

Pvt Ltd, Bharat Electronics Limited, C-DAC, KBITS and DRDO.

Dr. K.D. Nayak, DS & DG (MED, CoS & CS), DRDO was

the chief guest and inaugurated this two days conference. Shri.

Pronab Mohanty IGP-CID Bangalore police was the guest of

honor. Mr. H.R. Mohan, President of CSI, addressed the gathering

on the importance of Cyber Security and the role of CSI. He

congratulated the SIG-IS for having planned this conference

when Cyber Security would be playing an important role

particularly during the “Digital India” initiative which is aiming

to bring more than 500 million people online. Mr. Kapil Awasti

of M/s. Checkpoint, the principal sponsor was also a guest at

the inaugural session. Dr. Chakravarthy, Convener, CSI-SIG-IS,

Mr. Bindhumadhava, Imm. Past Chairman, Mr. Chander Mannar,

Chairman, CSI Bangalore & Ms. Bhnaumathi, Vice Chair, CSI

Bangalore were among the other dignitaries present at the

inaugural.

Mr. Chander P Mannar, Chairman CSI-BC welcomed the

gathering. Mr. Bindhumadhava event chairman of NCCSS-2015

spoke on the Cyber Threats and the work that CSI has done so far.

He mentioned that this is the Fourth Cyber Security Conference

through CSI and explained the two days program in store for the

delegates, wherein the best speakers had been brought in. He

added that the Key note address will be given by Kapil Avasti,

Check point and by Ms. Hemavathy of CRL BEL.

Each one of the key note addresses dwelt on specifi c

topics. Dr. Chakravarthy highlighted the activities of Special

interest Group on Information Security (SIG-IS). He particularly

thanked the support given by CSI Headquarters, Execom and

in particular the President of CSI. The SIG-IS has been holding

the two prestigious conferences of CSI with the help of CSI

Bangalore Chapter – “IT For Defense” and NCCSS. In fact these

conferences are held in high esteem by CSI and by

top offi cials of Ministry of Defense, PSU, DRDO

and academia. He also suggested the following

important recommendations for consideration at

the national level by Government of India, DietY.

• We do not have an organization like NIST

in India while the defense has its own cyber

policy committee CPC. There should be at the

national level an independent organization to draft

standards for Cyber Security in space.

• The Organization should also come up with

criteria for evaluation of diff erent types of secrecy

system and the methodology of grading them for

transmission of secret top secret messages.

Ms. Bhanumahti, Vice Chair, CSI-BC, in her

vote of thanks thanked the Chief Guest, Guest of Honor, all

speakers and participants for attending the conference.

Dr. K.D. Nayak, in his inaugural address spoke on the

aspects of the Cyber Security which enhances the idea of Digital

India. Shri. Pronab Mohanty, IGP-CID outlined the involvement

of Cyberspace in their works and also the need for a Digital

India campaign. He went on to mention that as cyber-attacks

are increasingly being mounted through cyber media and

infect computers operating at diff erent levels, harming people

and economics. This may be the reason wherein the need for a

secure cyberspace is increasing.

Mr. Ramandeep Singh, one of the keynote speakers

from Checkpoint highlighted how Checkpoint plays a role the

fi eld of cyber space and elaborated on their solutions. Ms. M

Hemavathy, the other keynote speaker from BEL touched upon

the aspects of “Security Testing for Defence Network”.

On the day one of the conf., the fi rst session was started

with a presentation by Dr. Nagraj Kulkarni on “Big Data Role

in Cyber Security”. It was followed by session by Dr. Srinivasa

providing an insight on Cloud Security. A later session on day

one concentrated on the various crimes and legal systems in the

fi eld of cyberspace by Mr. M.T. Nanaiah, Senior Advocate.

The second day sessions were started off with an address

by Dr. N Rajesh Pillai, DRDO on “Make in India” for Cyber

Security. Other speakers of the day two sessions, provided an

in depth knowledge of some of the cyber space applications in

Smart Cities and in Mobile Internet and Banking. Mr. Haribabu

of CDAC concluded the technical sessions, speaking on “Cyber

Security for Internet of Everything”.

In the Panel Discussion, followed the lunch, the panelists

Mr. Narasimha Rao and Dr. Mohammed Misbahuddin discussed

the Role of E-Aadhar for Secure Digital India.

During the feedback session, the delegates highly

appreciated the program and applauded CSI for arranging such

a wonderful and informative conference. CSI-BC acknowledges that NCCSS-2015 would not have

been successful without the support and generous sponsorships

and the help of staff members of CSI-BC. The pictures of the conf. NCSS-2015 taken on day one and

day two can be seen at http://goo.gl/h8RtOl and http://goo.gl/

X35ZyV respectively.

NCCSS-2015: National Conference on Cyber Space Security


“OxyTech2K15”, a national-level student’s convention and

techno-cultural fest, was organized by the students of MCA

and ISE Departments of The Oxford College of Engineering

under the aegis of the Student Branches of Computer Society

of India (CSI) & IEEE This fest, offered an awesome platform

for the students to showcase their innovative talents.

Oxy-Tech 2K15 started with the ceremonious inaugural

function presided by the honourable Chief Guest Sri. H.R.

Mohan, President, CSI & Chair, IEEE CS, Madras and Former

Associate Vice President (Systems), The Hindu. The Guest of

Honour was Sri. Sundar Ramakrishnan, Director of Engineering,

CISCO Systems, Bangalore.

The fest was an amalgamation of technical and cultural

events such as – ‘Web Weaver’, ‘Code Warriors’, ‘Online

Treasure Hunt’, ‘Brain Scratch – IT Quiz’,

‘Innovative App Challenge’, ‘Kurukshetra

– NFS & CS’, ‘Just a Minute’, ‘East meets

West – Group Dance’, ‘Take One –

Documentary Movie’ and ‘Gully Cricket’.

The alluring events magnetized

students from all over India. A total of

742 students from across 43 colleges

participated.

‘Innovative App Challenge’ was

introduced for the fi rst time. The

judging panel was astonished by the

performance of students. ‘Web Weaver’,

‘Code Warriors’ showcased the fi nest

techies. Participants of ‘Brain Scratch –

IT Quiz’, ‘Take One’ and ‘Just a Minute’ enthralled the audience

with their amazing knowledge and creativity.

The energy packed performance of participants, in ‘East

meets West’, electrifi ed the viewers. ‘Gully Cricket’ was fl ooded

with enthusiastic participants.

Student Coordinator Aaditya, said, “Expertise planning

and dedicated execution of volunteers made the fest a

grand sensation. We thank our Founder Chairman Sri. S.

Narasa Raju and Executive Director Sri. S.N.V.L. Narasimha

Raju for being our pillar of support. We thank Dr. M.S.

Shashidhara, HoD-MCA and Dr. D. Jayaramaiah, HoD-ISE

for their able guidance and untiring efforts in successful

completion of this fest.

OxyTech 2K15 – National Level Student’s Convention and Techno-Cultural Fest


CSI Report

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A Seminar “ICT in Healthcare” in Association with CSI Division III & Division IV A seminar “ICT in Health care” in association with CSI division III & division IV under CSI student branch activity was organized at

Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore on 27 Mar 2015. Senior

Doctors of Oncology department, dentistry and radio diagnosis

delivered lectures on use of technology and software in treatment

planning and execution of life threatening diseases like cancer.

Dr. Virendra Bhandari (Professor-Radiation Oncology IGRT,

IMRT and Brachytherapy Specialist) emphasized on technological

changes and improvements in treatment planning like faster,

more accurate and advanced techniques. Dr. Tushar Phulambrikar

(Professor and Head, Sri Aurobindo College of Dentistry Indore)

discussed “The role of Computer technology in Dental imaging”.

Dr. Yajush Jain talked about aspects of Tele Radiology which

helps the doctor to communicate the cases even if they located

at distant locations. In the beginning the guests were welcomed

by Dr. C.K. Jain (Academic Advisor), Dr. D.K. Mishra (HOD – CSE)

and Prof. Rashid Sheikh. Program conduction was done by Mrs.

Sarika Jain Bhatti and Mr. Prasanna Kapse.

Recent Trends in Network Security (RTNS-2015)Computer Application Department of Bhopal School of Social

Sciences(BSSS) ,Bhopal in association with Computer Society

of India (DIV-IV) organized University Grant Commission

sponsored(UGC) two-day national Seminar on “Recent Trends in Network Security” with an aim to aware the participants on

the types of threats and the recent trends in Network Security.

Eminent scientist, engineers, researchers, research scholars

from prominent institutions were invited to share their practical

knowledge and input on the recent trends in network security.

The seminar was inaugurated by the chief guest Mr. Amit

Kumar Mishra – Advisor to Urban Development Government

of M.P., Invited special guest Mr. Satnam Sethi CEO MPOnline,

Keynote speaker Dr. Vipin Tyagi – Associate Professor JP University

of Engineering and Technology Guna, College Principal Fr.

Dr. Joseph P.P., College Director Fr. Dr. Johnney P.J., Vice Principal

Sr. Dr. Lissy Jose.

The invited talks were delivered by Dr. Vipin Tyagi Dr. Durgesh

Mishra, Prof. & Head, CSE, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology,

Indore,Dr. M.A. Rizvi, Associate Professor, NITTR, Bhopal, Mr. Basant

Tiwari, Associate Professor, BIRT, Bhopal, Prof. Astitva Bhargav, NLIU

Bhopal, Dr. R. S. Thakur, Associate Professor, MANIT, Bhopal.

Conference “Tec’afe - 2K15” @ Garden City College, BangaloreThe 2nd National Conference “Tec’afe 2K15 – “Convergence in

Operational and Computational Technology” held on 18 March

2015. Participants from various parts of the country were part of the

conference. Tec’afe 2015 took its new wings by being in association

with Computer Society of India (CSI) and Bangalore University

(BU). The Conference was declared “OPEN” by Dr. B.L. Muralidhara.

The Conference Proceeding with the ISBN No: 978–81-207-97147

was released during the inaugural function by Mr. Pratap Hegde &

Dr. Durgesh Mishra Chairman Division IV Communication.

CSI Division IV – Communications Report Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra

Seminar on ICT in Healthcare at SAIT, Indore

Recent trends in Network Security at Bhopal

Co nferece Tec’afe 2K15


CSI Report

Report on CSI ContestsThird National Alan Turing Computer Science Quiz 2015

Computer Society of India, jointly with Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune organized the third National Alan Turing Computer Science Quiz 2015 exclusively for CSI Student Volunteers. This initiative is yet another CSI venture off ered to the student community. This is a team based competition consisting of two students each. The fi rst two rounds of this quiz are online. A total of 760 teams registered for the quiz program. The top six teams were invited for the Final on stage round which was hosted at ASM’s Institute of Business Management and Research, Pune on 14-3-2015. Prof. K Nirmalacoordinated this event. The Quiz was inaugurated by Mr. Anand Joglekar, Chairman, CSI Pune Chapter. The Quiz Master for this event was Mr. Deven Nilesh Deshpande, Software Engineer, L &T Infotech, Pune. The team from RMK Engineering College, Chennai consisting of Mr. M Mukesh & Mr. A Sivasubramanyam bagged the fi rst prize. Ankit Dubey & Bhavin G Kotak, Silicon Insitute of Technology, Bhubneshwar & Sagar Wadhwani & Pallav Kabra, Shri. Vaishnav Institute of Technology & Science (SVITS), Indore were the fi rst and second Runner-up teams. Dr. Deepak Shikarpur, Past Chairman, CSI Pune Chapter & Dr. R Venkateshwaran Senior Vice President, Persistent Systems were the Chief Guests. Cash Awards and Certifi cates were presented to the winning teams.

CSI Discover Thinking Third National Programming Contest 2015Computer Society of India and Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune

organized the third National Programming Contest 2015 exclusively for the CSI Student Volunteers. This is an individual event to showcase the programming abilities of the student in

C++ and Java languages. A total of 2157 CSI student volunteers registered for this contest. The fi rst two rounds tests were online and the next round was held over skype. The top six students were called for the Final, through online, supervised round hosted at Amity Institute of Information Technology (AIIT) on 21-2-2015. The event was coordinated by Prof. Laxmi Ahuja, Associate professor, AIIT & Prof. Sunil Kumar Khatri, Director, AIIT and Vice Chairman & Chairman–Elect, CSI Noida Chapter. The First Prize was won by Rachit Nagdev, Birla Institute of Tech, Mesra (Jaipur Campus) and the fi rst and second runner up prizes were bagged by Hardik Agrawal, Fr. Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engg, Bandra, Mumbai and Sanjay Rawat, Army Institute of Tech, Pune. Mr. Anuj Agarwal, Chairman, CSI Noida Chapter was the Chief Guest for this event. M/s Reliscore, Pune were the technology partners for the event. Both these events were coordinated by Mr. Navin and Mr. Amit with support from Mr. Dilip of CSI Headquarters.

CSI Discover Thinking Fourth National Student Project Contest 2015

The National Student Project Contest is an academic initiative from Computer Society of India with the partnership of Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune with the objective of preparing the students for a competitive information technology career, by encouraging students nationally to design innovative projects and to improve their skill set to become market ready. It provides an opportunity to demonstrate the projects with a strong social relevance. Regional rounds were held at 5 places across the country. The top two teams from each region were called for the Final round which was held at Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai on 14-3-2015. Prof. P Kumar, Immediate Past Chairman, CSI Chennai Chapter coordinated this event. Mr. Arvind Benegal, Vice President Technology, Persistent Systems Ltd, Pune, Mr. Pramod Mooriath, Chairman, CSI Chennai Chapter & Mr. Rajan T Joseph, Director (Education) CSI Education Directorate were the Panel of Judges. The First Prize was bagged by Ms. Trishla Shah, Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad while the First and Second Runners up were Mr. Saad Memon, Padmashree Dr. D Y Patil Inst of Engineering and Management and Research, Pune and team comprising Mr. Vishal Pundalik Patil & Mr Nihil Satish Varma, Sandip Institute of Tech and Research Centre, Nashik

The Regional Level Project Contests were Coordinated and Evaluated by :

1. Mr. Saurabh Agrawal, Chairman, CSI Ghaziabad &

Dr. Dilkeshwar Pandey, ABES Institute of Technology,


Ghazibad, (Region I)

2. Prof. Nilesh K Modi, Chairman CSI Ahmedabad Chapter &

Dr. Nisarg Pathak, State Student Coordinator, Gujarat State

(Region III)

3. Prof. K.Ramchand, ASN Women’s Engineering College,

Tenali, Guntur & Prof. Praveen Krishna, KL University,

Koneru (Region V)

4. Dr. Akhil Khare and Prof. Santoshkumar V Chobe,

Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Institute of Engineering and

Technology, Pune (Region VI)

5. Prof. K Ramalakshmi, Asst. Prof., Karunya University,

Coimbatore (Region VII)

CSI Discover Thinking Quiz for Young LearnersThis quiz is being conducted by CSI for the 5th consecutive year.

The event was held at more number of chapters this year and had

encouraging response. The chapters which conducted the prelims

included Ghaziabad, Noida, Ahmedabad, Koneru, Pune, Goa,

Chennai, Hosur and Kochi. This amazing quiz for School Children

from Class 6th to Class 9th aims at encouraging young learners to

discover science, and ICT. The top t wo teams from each chapter /

region were called for the Final Quiz Contest which was held at

K L University, Koneru on 21-2-2015. Prof. A V Praveen Krishna of

KL University coordinated this event.

First Prize was won by Firdous Fatma & Y.Chinmayee,

Sri Prakash Vidya Niketan, Paykaroapeta, Andhra Pradesh. The

First Runner-up was Adithyan Unni & Athul Unnikrishnanan,

Bhavans Vidya Mandir,Kochi, Kerala and the Second Runner-up

was Aadi Bhure & Chinmay Mandke, New India School, Pune.

For all these contests, CSI presented Cash Awards of

Rs.15,000, 10,000 and 5,000 along with Certifi cates and Trophies

to the Top 3 winners. All the Chapter and Regional level rounds

were also supported through technical and fi nancial assistance

by CSI. CSI expresses its sincere appreciation and thanks to the

sponsors, the participants, the host institutions as well as Prof. P Thrimurthy, Mr. Shekhar Sahasrabudhe, Mr. Ranga Rajagopal, Ms. Mini Ulanat, Mr. Rajan T Joseph, Mr. S Ramasamy, Mr. M Gnanasekaran, all RVPs and chapter offi ce bearers for their

support in conducting these events. n


REPORT ON THE CSI- DELHI CHAPTER ACTIVITY HELD ON 16TH February 2015, AT INDIA INTERNATIONAL CENTER, LODHI ROAD, NEW DELHI

Under golden jubilee celebration Delhi chapter of computer society of India organized a Panel Discussion on “MAKE IN INDIA” in the evening on Monday the 16th February,2015 at IIC, New Delhi.

Dr. Ajay Kumar, I A S, Jt. Secretary and Director General, NIC was the Chief Guest and Prof. (Dr) D P Agarwal, Former, Chairman, UPSC, was the Panelist. The event was presided over by Shri H R Mohan, President, Computer Society of India.

Shri V K Gupta, Honorary Secretary while introducing the subject of the discussion described it as C 2 M and then requested the Chairman to welcome the dignitaries.

Shri S D Sharma, chairman in his welcome address said that Make in India is a very old idea and was developed in villages. Villages wanted to be self suffi cient which has now come to macro concept. India want to become self suffi cient by producing everything they have and doing itself, due to advent of technology and change in energy. Mantra power is the rule of Make in India.

Col. Kewal Kohli, Anchor of the session showed his pleasureness to work as an anchor person in the discussion of role of Computer Society of India as how it can make success. He then gave a brief introduction of the Chief Guest, Panelists and the President of CSI.

Shri H.R Mohan in his presidential address said that India has a tremdus power in Make in India. It has become a talk of the world, which has proved in the past and need initiating in changing the scenario. It is said by Chinese that we have missed the bus but we are catching up. He touched upon the 50th year celebrations as the Golden Jublee Celebration taking place in Delhi. CSI as a small step taken in Make In India initiatives in ICT, Digital India, Make-in India, and Clean India. It has a major role to play in taking all the sincere eff orts in making successful Make-in India.

Shri Ajay Kumar in his key-note address stated that in China, there is a saying that the time to plant a tree was 20year ago but the best time is today. He showed importance of doing

so as the economy growth. Young countries demand is going very fast, solar power of 20 G Watt increasing to 100 G watts, internet connection from 250 million to 1000 million and so on. He stressed that in view to meet the growing demand going very high there was a challenge in policies made, changing fast, and hardware & software amalgamation of these two. Opportunity is high in Make in India by way of strengthing IT. India has the largest base of young engineers. So we should focus on innovation in make in India. IP creation, P & D with CSI as a partner, venture of Capitalist, Electronic for development Fund, Incubators, Standard Culture in Make in India cannot succeed without these standards and CSI must participate in these areas.

Prof. D. P Agarwal in his address impressed upon the basic means to make in India , development of economy in past 15 year, knowledge society, education paradigm, power of IT manufacturing process, quality of life, supply chain, new product development, venture functioning IT revolution, electronic development zones, culture of research & development in Industries, Global Technologies nuclear energy technologies , chip story, clean energy, power in textile technology, clean building, new technologies brought in India, use technology in India and Make in India, infrastructure in building, development, productivity effi ciency through IT support, data information technology, local taxes, skill development power, vender development, supply chain management and future with IT.

Col Kewal Kohli, the Anchor stressed upon IP generation and new starts up in IT fi elds.

Dr. M. N Hoda thanked all the dignities and the august audience. He showed his gratitude for excellent presentations and participants’ interaction, challenges highlighting by our panelists. Young entrepreneurs starting their own venture is our power, which is creating history in CSI fraternity. n


CSI News

From CSI Chapters »Please check detailed news at:

http://www.csi-india.org/web/guest/csic-chapters-sbs-news

SPEAKER(S) TOPIC AND GIST

NOIDA (REGION I)

Ms. Preeti Das, India Head (Services Business),

Microsoft & Former CEO Birlasoft Pvt Ltd., Dr. K M Soni,

Dy Director, Amity School of Engineering & Technology,

Ms. Nitasha Hasteer, Acting HoD (IT), Amity School of

Engineering & Technology

March 25, 2015: “Expert Talk on "New Generation Technologies : A Paradigm Shift”The lecture exposed the students to the technologies prevalent in the current industry scenario and requirement of the industry in days ahead. The lecture also focused on the expectations industry has from young engineers. The students interacted with the speaker about the innovations going on in the industry

Students and faculty along with the resource person

From Student Branches »(REGION - III) (REGION -III )

PARUL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, VADODARA MATRUSHRI L J GANDHI (BAKORVALA) BCA COLLEGE, MODASA

18-2-2015 - Participants with SBC, M. Pritesh Upadhyaya & Ms Nidhi

Sharma during COMPETITION RIVALRY ON C++19-2-2015 - BCA College, Modasa and GLS MCA College , Ahmadabad

was jointly organized Computer Awareness Program for villagers

(REGION-III) (REGION-III)GLS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER APPLICATION, AHMEDABAD GLS INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, AHMEDABAD

26 & 27-2-2015 - on Content Management System (CMS) Joomla 7-2-2015 - Ms. Tripti Dodiya, Prof. R P Soni, Shri Devang Nanavati,

Prof. Bipin Mehta, Dr. B H Joshi and Dr. B H Trivedi during inauguration of

State Level Student Convention

(REGION-IV) (REGION-V)HI-TECH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KHORDHA THE OXFORD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, BANGALORE

20-2-2015 - Dr. A K Nayak, Chairman, Div III & Dr. RN Satpathy, RSC-IV

during BBSR Seminar on ICT for women empowerment

11 & 12-3-2015 – Mr. HR Mohan, President releasing the SpritM Magazine

during National Level Students Convention & Techno-Cultural Fest


(REGION-V) (REGION-V)GUDLAVALLERU ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GUDLAVALLERU ANIL NEERUKONDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCES (ANITS),

VISAKHAPATNAM

2 & 3-1-2015 - Sri Satya Gopal during two day workshop on HADOOP 23-1-2015 – CURSORS 2K15 Tech Fest was inaugurated by Dr. Atul Negi,

University of Hyderabad

(REGION-V) (REGION-V)B M S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & MANAGEMENT, BANGALORE ANURAG GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS, HYDERABAD

14-2-2015 - National Conference on Recent Trends in Information

Technology (NCRTIT-2015)

24-1-2015 – Mr. Pavan Kumar Reddy during the event on HTML5.O

(REGION-V) (REGION-VI)CMR TECHNICAL CAMPUS, HYDERABAD K K WAGH INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION & RESEARCH, NASHIK

28-2-2015 – Mr. Laxmi Shiva Rama Krishna during Guest Lecture on

Hadoop Distribute File System

12-2-2015 - Mrs. Tejaswini during Expert Talk on Web application - Client

side and Server side Architecture

(REGION-VI) (REGION-VI)KAVIKULGURU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE (KITS), NAGPUR P E S COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AURANGABAD

12-2-2015 – Dr. Kishor K Bhoyar during Student Branch Inauguration 13-2-2015 - Dr. A P Wadekar, Principal addressing during workshop on

Development of Soft Skills

(REGION-VI) (REGION-VI)PROF. RAM MEGHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & RESEARCH, AMRAVATI KJ SOMAIYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, MUMBAI

17 & 18-1-2015 – Workshop on Android Application Development 19-1-2015 - VFX seminar in progress


(REGION-VI) (REGION-VI)SHRI RAMDEOBABA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, NAGPUR S N J B’S KBJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING , NASHIK

21-2-2015 - National Conference on Research in Cloud & Cyber Security 1-2-2015 - Tree Planting during Academic Competition on Vedanta

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)JEPPIAAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CHENNAI SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

5 & 6-2-2015 – Mr. Subramaniam, Dr. Marie Wilson and Dr. Kannan

during the workshop on R-Programming Language for Data Analysis &

Visulaization

9-3-2015 - Two days workshop on Adobe Photoshop

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, TIRUNELVELI KSR INSTITUTE FOR ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

27-2-2015 – Prof. Amudhavanan, Dr. Velayutham, Mr. Jeyasekar Mani,

Mr. Harbajan singh & Dr. Ramar during National level Technical Symposium

13 & 14-2-2015 – Mr. Bhaskaran, Director BILVAA Learning, Chennai

during Regional Level Convention.

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)NATIONAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KOVILPATTI SASTRA UNIVERSITY, KUMBAKONAM

23-2-2015 – Prof. Prashant R Nair, RSC-VII, CSI during National

Conference on Computing and Applications NACCA’15

17-2-2015 – during workshop on SHORT FILM MAKING


(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)AMRITA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ,KOCHI JAMAL MOHAMED COLLEGE, TIRUCHIRAPPALLI

30 & 31-1-2015 – during workshop on Data Analysis Using Weka &

Bioinformatics Solutions Using R

10-1-2015 - Dr. MA Maluk Mohamed releasing the souvenir during the

inauguration of Inter-collegiate Under Graduate Technical Symposium -

VARIT 2K15

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)SHREE VENKATESHWARA HI-TECH ENGINEERING COLLEGE, GOBI VALLIAMMAI ENGINEERING COLLEGE, KATTANKULATHUR

19-2-2015 - Workshop on BIGDATA ANALYTICS 14-2-2015 – Mr. Loganathan, ArcusInfotech Pvt Ltd during Guest lecture

on Software Testing

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)VIT STUDENT BRANCH, VELLORE ADHIYAMAAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, HOSUR

23-1-2015 - workshop on Git Version Control 20-2-2015 – Prof. Sakthivel during one day National Level Workshop on

PHP Scripting Language

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)DHANALAKSHMI SRINIVASAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI TOC H INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, ARAKKUNNAM

5-3-2015 – Student Branch Inaugurated by Prof. Bipin V Mehta, Vice

President, CSI & Mr. Rajan T Joseph, Director (Education), CSI

26 & 27-2-2015 - Dr. K C C Nair, Prof. Santhosh Kumar & Mr. Arvind

Sanjeev addressing the gathering during TECH FOSS 2K15


(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)NEHRU COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & RESEARCH CENTRE, THRISSUR KARPAGAM COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, COIMBATORE

28 & 29-1-2015 - Guests during inauguration ceremony on National

Conference on Research Methodologies & Eff ective Documentation

using LaTex

6-2-2015 - Prof. Gowrisankar, Dr. Sivaganesan & Mr. Pravin Renold during

one day Workshop on Hands on Training on Wireless Sensor Networks

using Cooja Simulator

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)ER PERUMAL MANIMEKALAI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, HOSUR SKR ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI

9 & 10-3-2015 – Mr. Vasu, & Dr. Chitra, Principal during two days

workshop on Big Data Analytics with Hadoop Mapreduce

28-2-2015 – Dr. Suguna, Dean of CSE awarding cash prize to a winner

during National level Technical Symposium on SKRIPTOS

(REGION-VII) (REGION-VII)S A ENGINEERING COLLEGE, CHENNAI SCAD COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECH, CHERANMAHADEVI

12-3-2015 – Dr. Viji Rajesh, Dr. Sasilatha, Mr. Kathiresan,

Dr. Suyambazhahan, & Prof. Geetha, during CSI Awareness Programme

7-3-2015 - National Level Technical Symposium

WORKSHOP ON ROUTER CONFIGURATION AND NETWORK MANAGEMENT AT SRINIVAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY-MANGALORE

CSI student chapter of Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangalore

(Member No: I01574) has organised a one day workshop on 27th March

2015 on the topic “Router Confi guration and Network Management “for

the benefi t of students. Mr. Umesh Damle, Program Manager, ITTC ,

Mangalore was the resource person. About 100 students of CSI chapter

took part in the Workshop. The whole event was coordinated by Prof.

Mohan, Student Branch Coordinator.

Please send your student branch news to Education Director at [email protected]. News sent to any other email id will not be considered.

Please send only 1 photo per event, not more.


Mathura Chapter: Golden Jubilee Celebration of CSI (March 27, 2015)Computer society of India has completed 50 years of its

establishments. On the occasion of the golden Jubilee celebration

of CSI a Debate Competition on “Social Networking Platform – A

Boon or Curse for Society” was organized by Computer Society

of India – Mathura Chapter with the fi nancial assistance of CSI

HQ. Prof. D.S.Chauhan, Vice Chancellor, GLA University, Prof.

A.M. Agarwal, Pro. Vice Chancellor, GLA University, Mr. A.K.

Singh, Registrar GLA Univeristy, Dr. Anoop Gupta, Director IAH,

Prof A.S.Jalal, Head- CEA dept & Secretary of CSI– Mathura

Chapter, Dr. Dilip Kumar Sharma, Vice Chairman CSI- Mathura

Chapter, Mr. Nitin Tyagi Treasurer, CSI-Mathura Chapter, Prof.

Ashish Sharma , Prof. T.N Sharma and Prof. Charul Bhatnagar

were present during inauguration of the event. The event was

started with a cake cutting ceremony. Prof A. S. Jalal, Secretary

of CSI – Mathura Chapter welcomed everyone on the behalf of

the Dept. of CEA, GLA University & CSI Mathura Chapter and

acquainted the audience with the mission and objective of the

CSI. Dr. Dilip Kumar Sharma, Vice Chairman, CSI - Mathura

Chapter addressed the audience by giving detailed overview

of CSI through presentation. He has also discussed about the

benefi ts to become the member of CSI. Prof A.M. Agarwal

motivated students for active participation in such events.

Prof. D.S. Chauhan addressed the audience and motivated the

students to constantly gain the knowledge.

Students of Computer Science & Engineering and of other

department participated in the debate competition and present

excellent views on “Social Networking Platform -A Boon or

Curse for Society”. The judges of this debates competition were

Prof. T.N Sharma, Head-EC Dept. and Prof. Charul Bhatnagar,

CEA Dept and Dr. Rachna Rastogi, English Dept. The winners of

the competition were Mohit Tripathi, who secured 1st position,

Kartikey Pandey & Prachi Vijh stood 1st and 2nd runner up

respectively for the event.

Mementos were presented to the all the members of CSI,

Guests, winners of event by Prof. A. S. Jalal and Dr. Dilip Kumar

Sharma.

Lastly the event ended with vote of thanks presented by Ms.

Deepali Singh Panwar to all the members of CSI and management

of GLA University for organizing such an event which are very

useful in the overall growth of students as well as faculty members.

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Cake cutting ceremony of Golden Jubilee Celebration of CSI by

Mathura Chapter.

CSI News

From CSI Chapters »


Felicitation Programme Report from CSI Indore ChapterCSI Indore Chapter –Falicitated Master Prateet Mishra of Ryan

International School Indore for

securing 4th position in Student

Essay Contest up to Class 8th level

on ICT in Digital India organized

by Computer Society of India,

Chennai Chapter, in association

with the IEEE Computer Society,

Chennai, and IEEE Professional

Communication Society. It was

an essay contest on the role of

Information and Communication

Techn ology (ICT) in India, for

school students. Through this

contest, student’s thoughts,

innovative ideas and solutions on

how ICT could support and help

these initiatives on Digital India

were presented.

Essays were assessed by a

panel of experts on criteria such as

originality, novelty, applicability, potential value of the proposed

idea(s) and clarity and style

of presentation. Master

Prateet Mishra received

cash prize of 1000 rupees

and certifi cate of award. CSI

Indore proudly Falicitated

Prateet’s achievement with

a vision to promote such

activities at school level

said Dr. Priyesh Kanungo,

Chairmen CSI Indore

Chapter. Students gain a

sense of empowerment

from learning to control the

computer and to use it in

ways they associate with

the real world said Dr. Kamal

Sethi, Vice Chairmen CSI

Indore Chapter.n

Mr. Prashant Lakkadwala, Past chairmen CSI Indore Chapter,

Mr. Anil Gupta CSI Indore Chapter and Mr. Vijendra Mishra

Treasurer CSI Indore chapter also appreciated the eff orts of young

kid and said CSI Indore chapter will also take initiative to provide

such platform for school students of city and state.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS

CSI Executive Committee 2015-2016/2017

Immd Past President (2015-16)

Mr. H R Mohan40B/41, Phase 5, 15th Cross

St, Wood Creek County,

Ganapathipuram Extn, St. Thomas

Mount Post, Chennai 600016

Email : [email protected]

Phone : 044-22313738 (R)

Mobile : +91 98414 32179

President (2015-16)

Prof. Bipin V. MehtaDirector, School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University,

AG Teachers College Campus, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 3800009


Phone : (079)-2656-8750

Region-III (2015-17)

Dr. Vipin Tyagi Dept of CSE

Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology

Raghogarh, Guna - MP 473226

Phone : 07544 - 267310-14 ext.134

(M) : 09826268087

Region-IV (2014-16)

Mr. Hari Shankar MishraCommand Care, Opp.

Loreto Convent School,

A.G. Offi ce Road,

Doranda, Ranchi – 834002, Jharkhand

Phone : 0651-2411318 (R)

Mobile : 9431361450


Region-I (2015-17)

Mr. Shiv KumarQtr #9, Block-’G’, Type-4/Spl., 2nd

Floor,

Andrews Ganj Ext. New Delhi – 110049

Phone : 9818168337 (M)


Region-II (2014-16)

Mr Devaprasanna Sinha73B Ekdalia Road,

Kolkata - 700 019

Phone : (033)24408849

Mobile : 91 9830129551

Email : devaprasannasinha@rediff mail.com

Hon. Secretary (2014-16)

Mr. Sanjay MohapatraDuplex 26, Plot 1565 (p), Sector-VI,

CDA, Cuttack-14, Orissa.

(M) : 91-9861010656

email: [email protected]

Vice President (2015-16)

Dr Anirban BasuFlat #309, Ansal Forte, 16/2A Rupena

Agrahara, Hosur Road, Bangalore

560068.

Email : [email protected] /

[email protected]

Phone : 080 25731706

(M): 9448121434

Hon. Treasurer (2015-17)

Mr. R.K.Vyas70, Sanskant Nagar Society , Plot No-3

Sector -14, Rohini, Delhi -110085


Phone : 011-27866259 (R),

(M) : 09810592760


REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS

NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE (2015-2016)

DIVISION CHAIRPERSONS

Region-V (2015-17)

Mr. Raju L kanchibhotlaAashirvad, 42/260/1/2, Shramik nagar,

Moulali Hyderabad-500046, India

(M) : 91 9000555202, 94 40 32914192

email : [email protected]

Dr. Anil Kumar SainiB-77 CC. Colony, Rana Pratap Bagh,

Delhi - 110007

Phone : 011-27410592 (R) 011-25302608 (O)

9811165001 (M)

Email : [email protected],

aksaini@rediff mail.com

Region-VII (2015-17)

K.Govinda A.P(SG),SCSE,VIT University, Vellore – 14 Mobile : 9894597112 Email : [email protected]

Prof. (Dr.) U.K. Singh Director General, Indian Institute of Business Management, Budh Marg, Patna

Phone : 0612-3269705 / 9835020036, (M) : 9386598580


Region-VI (2014-16)

Dr. Shirish S. SaneDattaprasad, Plot No. 19, Kulkarni Colony,

Sadhu Waswani Road, Nashik 422 002

Phone : 0253-2313607(R)

Mobile : 09890014942


Mr Rajeev Kumar SinghAssistant General Manager, Casting Group

RDCIS, SAIL, Shyamali, Ranchi, Jharkhand-834002

Mobile : 8986880324


Division-I: (2015-17)

Prof. M N HodaDirector, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of

Computer Applications and Management

(BVICAM), A-4, Paschim Vihar, Rohtak

Road, New Delhi – 110063. Phone: 011-

25275055 (M) : 09212022066

email : [email protected]

Division-II: (2014-16)

Dr. R NadarajanProfessor and Head, Department of Applied

Mathematics and Computational Sciences, PSG

College of Technology, Coimbatore - 641 004

Phone : (O) 2572177

Mobile : 9952427229


Division-III: (2015-17)

Mr. Mankikar Ravikiran Jer Villa 3rd Road,TPS 3 Santacruz East

Mumbai 400 055

Mobile : 9820329854


Division-IV: (2014-16)

Dr. Durgesh Kumar MishraDirector, Microsoft Innovation Center, Sri

Aurobindo Institute of Technology Indore, MP

H-123-B, Vigyan Nagar, Annapurna Road, Indore

Mobile : 9826047547


Division-V: (2015-17)

Dr. Suresh Chandra SatapathyFlat no: E204 Vasanth Vihar Apartment Kommadi

(way to Gayatri Engg College) Vishakapatnam

Mobile : 90002-49712



CSI Calendar 2015

Anirban BasuVice President, CSI & Chairman, Conf. Committee Email: [email protected]

Date Event Details & Organizers Contact Information

April 2015 events

3-4 April 2015 National Conference on Creativity and Innovations in Technology Development (NCCITD’15) at Udaipur. Organized by CSI Udaipur Chapter, Division IV, ACM Udaipur Chapter and S S College of Engineering, Udaipur. www.csi-udaipur.org

Amit [email protected]. Jaydeep [email protected]

10 April 2015 Fifth National Conference on Computational Intelligence, Security and Systems (NAC-CISS’15) is organized by Sona College of Technology in association with IEEE Madras Section, IEEE Computer Society, Computer Society of India and ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu to be held on 10th April, 2015. Website: www.sonatech.ac.in/nac-ciss15

Dr. M [email protected]@sonatech.ac.in

24-25 April 2015 AICON’15 “All India Conference On “Sustainable product in Computer Science & Engineering Chhatrapati Shivaji Institute of Technology Durg(C.G) association with Computer Society of India Division IV and CSI Region IV.

Mr. Prashant [email protected]. Dipti [email protected]

May 2015 events

7-9 May 2015 International Workshop on Intelligent Approaches for Object Oriented Modeling in Component Based Software Engineering (IAOOM-2015) to be organized at Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology, Guna (MP) http://www.juet.ac.in

Dr. Shishir [email protected]

15–17 May 2015 International Conference on Emerging Trend in Network and Computer Communication (ETNCC2015) at Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Informatics Polytechnic of Namibia in Association with Computer Society of India Division IV. http://etncc2015.org/

Prof. Dharm [email protected]

30-31 May 2015 Two Day National Conference on ICT Applications “CONICTA-2015” at IIBM Auditorium, Patna organized by CSI Patna Chapter in association with Division III ad Division IV of Computer Society of India.

Prof. A K Nayakaknayak@iibm,inDr. Durgesh Kumar [email protected]

July 2015 events

3-4 July 2015 International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development, organized by CSI Division IV, Ahmedabad Chapter, ASSOCHAM Gujarat Chapter and Sabar Institute of Technology for Girls, Gujarat At Ahmedabad http://www.ict4sd.in

Amit Joshi [email protected]. Nisarg [email protected]

24-25 July 2015 International Conference on ICT in Health Care and E-Governance, at Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology, Indore in association with Computer Society of India Division III, Division IV, Indore Chapter, ACM Udaipur Chapter. www.csi-udaipur.org/icthc-2015/

Dr. Durgesh Kumar [email protected]. AK [email protected]. Amit [email protected]

Aug 2015 event

7-8 Aug 2015 3rd International Conference on Innovations In Computer Science & Engineering (ICICSE-2015) Organized by Guru Nanak Institution, Hyderabad in association with Computer Society of India Division IV and Hyderabad Chapter. www.icicse2015.org

Dr. H S Saini [email protected]. D D [email protected]


Sept 2015 event

10-12 Sep 2015 International Conference on Computer Communication and Control (IC4-2015) at Medicaps Group of Institutions, Indore in association with Computer Society of India Division IV, CSI Indore Chapter and IEEE MP subsection.

Dr. Promod NairMitm,[email protected]. Pankaj [email protected]

Oct 2015 events

9–10 Oct 2015 International Congress on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT-2015) at Udaipur, organized by CSI Udaipur Chapter, CSI Division IV, SIG-WNs, SIG-e-Agriculture and ACM Udaipur Chapter. www.csi-udaipur.org/icict-2015

Dr. Y C [email protected] Amit [email protected]

16-17 Oct 2015 6th Edition of the International Conference on Transforming Healthcare with IT at Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore, India. http://transformhealth-it.org/

Mr. Suresh KotchatillConference coordinator [email protected]


COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIADIVISION – III (APPLICATIONS) REPORT

A state level seminar on “Cloud Based ICT: An Emerging trend in Education System” was organized by the Department of Computer

Applications, Magadh Mahila College in collaboration with division-III (Applications) and patna chapter of Computer Society of

India on 21st Feb, 2015.

The conference was inaugurated by Prof. A.K. Nayak, Director, IIBM & National Chairman Division –III (Applications), CSI & Prof.

U.K. Singh Pro. Chancellor of The global Open University, Nagaland participated as the chief guest. The function was presided by

Prof.(Dr.) R. K. Verma, the Pro Vice Chancellor of Patna University.

The Principal of the college Dr. Dolly Sinha delivered the welcome address and felicitated the guests. Mr. Bhaskar Jyoti Ghosh,

Project Leader, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad presented the key note address. Sri Sailesh Srivastava, Technical Director, NIC,

Patna, explained the use and importance of Cloud Computing through mobile devices. Md. Shams Raza, PIC, XICS, IGNOU and

chairman, CSI Patna Chapter spoke about the emerging trends of ICT in 21st century. The invited speaker Er. Sanjay Jhunjhunwala,

Director, Kaapro Management Solutions Pvt. Ltd., discussed about the importance of Cloud Based Education System. Dr. Mamta

Deepak, Assosiate Professor & Coordinator of BCA department proposed the vote of thanks. Er. Manju Juhjhunwala, Guest Faculty,

Department of Computer Application coordinated the seminar.

Prof. A.K. NayakChairman, Division III

Computer Society of India

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