Reports for the year 2006

Ankura 2005 - Report

NISB(NIE IEEE STUDENT BRANCH) had its annual technical fest “ANKURA” for the year 2005 in the month of may from 7th to the 9th. The chief guest for the event was Mr. Rajani Kanth Katragadda, Associate Vice President, Infosys Technologies Ltd. He gave a very inspirational talk emphasizing the need for events such as “ANKURA” which can help in the overall development of the student’s character. The inauguration was followed by a National level Paper Presentation Contest ‘PRINCIPIA INVENTIA’ . The first prize was secured by Devadutta D Ghat from MSRIT , Bangalore on the topic SWIPE: Estimating the angular, linear and instantaneous velocity of a rotating pulley using a microcontroller. In the afternoon session, there was a talk on ‘WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES’ by one of the alumni of NIE Ms. SEEMA RAO from IBM. She is currently working on the development of IBM’s Web Sphere Embedded Suite for pervasive devices. In the evening, there were the preliminary rounds of ‘XOR.C.ist’ C PROGRAMMING and ‘LAKSHYA’, Gaming Contest. The second day was flagged of by the prelims of ‘QUID AGIS HOMME’-General Quiz and ‘ADHYANA’ the management event. This was followed by a talk on ‘THE DARK SIDE OF SECURITY’ by KALYAN VERMA . Kalyan was working in Yahoo! for more then 3 years and has received the Global Yahoo! Super Star award for his work in the security space. The talk mainly focused on the cryptographic methods employed and their pros and cons. The loopholes present in INDIA’s e-commerce sites were highlighted by a live demonstration of purchasing gizmos without even having to pay a buck. In the afternoon session, there was a talk by one of INDIA’s leading innovators and whom many consider the father of Linux in India Mr. ATUL CHITNIS from EXOCORE CONSULTING on ‘LINUX ON DESKTOP’. The talk focused on the point that innovations can happen only during the student days and the need for the students to come out with something new, innovative beneficial to larger sections of the society. The third day consisted mainly of the finals of all the competitions. ANKURA received excellent response from the student community, industry and the college Management. The main sponsors were IBM and INFOSYS.

ADROIT -2006 REPORT

ADROIT-2005 was conducted on the 2nd and 3rd of DECEMBER 2005.The idea of the event was to conduct a non-technical event for this term. It was designed to cater to the needs of the members from the 2nd and 3rd year. The Schedule for the event was as follows.

1st day:

1. Aptitude Test.

2. Software Programming Contest(C Programming).

3. Crossword.

2nd day:

1. General Quiz.

2. Gaming Competation.

We had about 100 students who participated in the event. Overall, the event was a grand success. The Event, gave the students an opportunity to hone their leadership and event organization skill, apart from exhibiting their technical skills.

Linux Technical Group - Seminars

1. "Linux for Newbies"

Speakers: Mr. Supratik Hegde (MCA)

A talk was conducted which aimed at creation of awareness among the freshers and second year students who are new to Linux. A talk was given by Mr. Supratik Hegde about the open source concept (GPL), it's advantages and importance in the global scenario, cost factors and commercial prospects. Different Distributions of Linux, their features, system requirements and other prerequisites were also some of the points discussed during the talk. A multimedia presentation that enthralled everybody was also a main feature of the seminar. A detailed procedure on the Installation of Linux was demonstrated practically on a PC already having another OS. Many questions pertaining to Linux were asked by the audience and was satisfactorily clarified by the speakers.