April 2013 to March2014

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1 April 2013 to March2014 Lecture on Past, Present and Future of Internet Dr. R. Venkateswaran addressing students during the lecture Mr. C G Sahasrabudhe talked about professional activities of CSI A lecture on Past, Present and Future of Internet by Dr. R. Venkateswaran, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Persistent Systems Limited, Pune was organized by AESICS-CSI Student Branch on 3rd April, Mr. C G Sahasrabudhe, Regional Vice President, CSI & Consultant, Persistent Systems Limited, Pune was the guest of honour. Dr. Venkateswaran started the lecture with brief history and challenges with today s internet. He discussed various research problems and future directions for research which will shape the future of internet. Interesting case studies on Big Data Analytics and research projects were also discussed. The expert lecture was followed by interesting question answering session. Prof. Bipin Mehta, Director, AES Institute of Computer Studies thanked both the speakers and participants.

2 Workshop on Java Technologies A workshop on Java Technologies was organized by AESICS-CSI Student Branch on 31st August, The workshop was organized to provide hands-on exposure to project development and professional coding techniques using Java platform. The workshop provided exposure to various topics required for developing client server Java applications like Java GUI development using Swing, Java database connectivity with various databases and Graphical report design and development using Jasper Reports. The speakers in the workshop were Mr. Dinesh Kakani, Software Engineer, eclinicalworks Pvt. Ltd, Mr. Aditya Patel, Asst. Professor, AES Institute of Computer Studies and Mr. Jaideep Raulji, Faculty member, AES Institute of Computer Studies. The workshop received good response and participation by around 60 student members and was followed by interesting question and answering session.

3 Seminar on Java Eco-System and Recent Changes A Seminar by Java User Group (Oracle) in association with AESICS-CSI Student branch was organized on 7th September, The speakers of the Seminar were Mr. Surlak Patel, Head of Business & Technology Consulting, IndiaNIC Infotech Ltd and Mr. Ketan Parmar, Tech Lead, IndiaNIC Infotech Ltd. The seminar provided a platform to Java user community for knowledge sharing and discussion of new features and development in Java Eco-System, technologies and related areas useful to the industry. The seminar covered the features, APIs, application servers, frameworks, tools and new developments in Java SE, Java EE and Java ME platforms. The seminar was attended by around 30 Java Professionals from IT Industry and 60 CSI student members from AESICS.

4 Talk on Entrepreneurship and Innovation A Talk on Entrepreneurship and Innovation by Mr. Nirmit Parikh, Fellow, Venture Studio, Ahmedabad University and Founder, Incone Technologies was organized by AESICSCSI Student Branch on 16th September, The talk encouraged students to think innovatively and develop novel products and solutions for solving industry and societal problems. Mr. Parikh started his session by explaining how students can showcase their new ideas and receive funding and support from people called angel investors for converting ideas into reality. He explained his innovative ideas which resulted into technology startup companies - Artificial Intelligence Based Dam Automation and Flood Forecasting System and Cruxbot - tool for information summarization. Mr. Parikh talked on various current and emerging trends in computing and encouraged students to identify new areas of necessity where innovative applications can be developed. The talk was followed by interesting question and answering session and was attended by around 150 MCA students and faculty members. Vote of thanks was proposed by Mr. Aditya Patel, Asst. Professor, AESICS and AESICS-CSI Student Branch Counselor.

5 Expert talk on Research Trends in Management of Data Dr. Sudipto Das, Researcher in Extreme Computing Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA and Dr. Pamela Bhattacharya, Member of Windows Reliability Group, Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA delivered expert talk on Research Trends in Management of Data was organized by AESICS-CSI Student Branch on 21st December, The expert talk provided new ideas and directions for research and innovative projects in database management related areas. Dr. Sudipto Das shared his research experience on scalable, distributed, and multitenant DBMS for cloud platforms. He discussed the need and the mechanisms for multitenant and cloud enabled databases required by scalable and highly concurrent applications. He also discussed the various new research directions and problems related to database research.

6 Prof. Bipin V Mehta, Director, School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University encouraged faculty and student members to work on innovative applications related to new trends in management of data. projects and

7 Dr. Pamela Bhattacharya talked on her research on Quantitative Decision-making in Software Engineering and his job role in Windows Reliability, Security and Privacy team at Microsoft, Redmond, USA. The talk was attended by around 150 students and faculty members of MCA and BCA programme.

8 Workshop on Mobile App Development Using Android: Workshop on Mobile App Development Using Android was organized by School of Computer Studies in Association with AESICS-CSI Student Branch on 4th January 2014 for the students of Computer Science / IT, who had prior knowledge of Object Oriented Concepts. The faculty for the workshop was Mrs. Hemal Desai, Sr. Lecturer, School of Computer Studies. During the workshop the students were introduced to various versions, features and architecture of Android. They were explained in detail about the different components of Android like Activities, Services, Content Providers and Broadcast Receivers. Students were elucidated about the importance of organizing resources and were taught how these resources could be accessed. They were also given hands on practice for creating Android app, adding Activities, moving between two activities, using intent, changing the theme of the activities, incorporating layouts and different view controls and making the app interactive through basic event handling.

9 On 20th February, 2014, First Annual Lecture of School of Computer Studies. The speaker was Shri. S Mahalingam, Former CFO and Executive Director, TCS and Fellow & Past President, CSI. The topic of the annual lecture was Making of a Computer Professional in the Rapidly Changing Technology World. Prof. Bipin V Mehta, Director, School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University delivered the welcome address and gave brief overview of about School of Computer Studies and MCA Programme. Shri B M Shah, Registrar, Ahmedabad University and Director, Ahmedabad Education Society (AES) briefed the audience about Ahmedabad University (AU), annual lecture series and new initiatives by AU. During the annual lecture, Shri. Mahalingam shared his rich IT industry experience since its early formative years in 1970 s and 1980 s and provided useful insights on building a successful professional career in the global IT industry. Shri. S Mahalingam, Former CFO and Executive Shri Bipin Mehta, Director, School of Computer Director, TCS and Fellow & Past President, CSI Studies, Shri. S Mahalingam and Shri B M Shah, Registrar, Ahmedabad University.

10 49th CSI Foundation Day Celebration On 6th March, 2014, 49th CSI Foundation Day was celebrated at AESICS- CSI Student Branch. On this occasion, a lecture on SQA - Current trends and Career opportunities in IT industry by Shri Amal Derasary,VP, V&V Services, Gateway Technolabs Pvt. Ltd. was organised. He shared his ideas on roles and responsibilities in an organization in general and in software quality assurance.

11 Workshop on jquery and jqueryui On 7th March 2014, a workshop on jquery and jqueryui was organised by Mrs. Trushali Jambudi, Faculty, School of Computer Studies. The objective of the workshop was to teach the students how to create interactive and animated web page content by using jquery. Participants were given hands-on exposure for the features covered in the workshop. 47 students from MCA and BCA participated in this workshop.