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Department of Computer Science and Automation at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is organizing Open Day on March 4th and 5th, 2011. This event is open to everyone. It is a great opportunity for professors, lecturers, teachers and students of various academic institutions including schools and colleges around Bangalore and the general public to participate in this event.
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Department of Computer Science and Automation is showcasing its work as follows.
- Posters outside every laboratory describing the work done in the laboratory and achievements.
- Project and tool demonstrations, audio-visual presentations in every laboratory.
- Technical lectures by eminent personalities in the field of Computer Science.
- An audio-visual presentation of departmental history, people and research work.
- A stall on open source software.
- A programming contest, a puzzle solving competition and a technical quiz for the enthusiastic visitors.
- Information brochures and posters detailing research work and degree courses in the department.
Sponsors:
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S C H E D U L E
Venue: CSA Department, IISc.
In addition to the above events, each lab exhibits its project demonstrations and poster presentations, which
would be happening in parallel. It would be a great opportunity for the visitors to get a glimpse of
the world class research done at the Department of Computer Science and Automation.
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Event | In-charge |
Ideas | Deepak G |
Programming contest | Ratul Ray |
Technical Quiz | Dyut Kumar Sil |
Puzzle Solving | Sourav Medya |
Online Treasure Hunt | Nilavalagan I |
Sudoku | Anirudh Kushwah |
CSA posters | Anirudh Kushwah |
Posters on pinup boards | Abhijeet Khopkar |
Technical lectures | Saumitra Shahapure |
T-shirts | Afzalul Haque Ansari |
Open source stall | Mudireddy Jagadesh |
Counseling and General Queries | Govind Sharma |
Publicity | DVS Kiran |
Website | Premm Raj H |
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P O S T E R S
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P H O T O S
Coming soon.
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T E C H N I C A L T A L K S
CSA Open Day features technical talks by eminent personalities in the field of Computer Science.
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Dr. Vijay Chandru, Chairman, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Strand Life Sciences.
Title of the talk: Computational Biology: Some challenges and opportunities.
Time: 11:00 -- 12:00
Date: 4th March
Venue: Room 117
Abstract:
This talk will touch on four themes that relate to challenges in computational biology.
- Data Intensity in Scientific Discovery: the case study of biology. Data is doubling about every 6 months in the life sciences. Computational choke points are starting to show up all over the place. The fourth paradigm of science is particularly striking in genomics.
- "Translational Bioinformatics" – the challenge of translating research data to clinical decision support or the so-called “Bench to Bedside” translation. Bioinformatics has been developed in service of research biologists for several decades now and the advances in understanding of disease biology (eg: sub-typing of cancers); patient profiling and personalized medicine (through pharmacogenomics) are available. How does this translate to the clinic?
- "Virtualization" – the engineering paradigm of using models and simulation to explore design options needs to be applied in the life sciences. There have been a number of initiatives to leverage our improved understanding of systems biology pathways (network dynamics in biological systems) to begin this process of virtualization that could profoundly affect how we discover, develop and deliver therapeutics. Virtual cells, Virtual organ systems, virtual patients are all fast stepping into reality from the realm of fantasy.
- "We must learn to program cells with the same facility with which we program computers." Eric Lander in Nature (10 February 2011) "Initial impact of the sequencing of the human genome". What does this mean?
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Biography:
Dr. Vijay Chandru received his PhD, in 1982, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Decision Sciences. He has served as Professor in Purdue University during 1982-1992. Chandru has co-authored the book titled "Optimization Methods for Logical Inference". From 1992-2005, he served on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science. A Fellow of the Indian Academies of Science and Engineering, he has been a Research Affiliate of the Lab for Information and Decision Systems at MIT since 2003. He is one of the inventors of Simputer and co-Founder, Chairman & CEO of Strand Life Sciences. Chandru has received the Dewang Mehta Award from MCIT (2001) and the President's Medal of INFORMS (2006). He was named a Technology Pioneer of the World Economic Forum in 2006 for his work with Strand Life Sciences and biotechnology. He also received the Biospectrum Biotech Entrepreneur of 2007. He is the serving (2009-2012) Hon. President of the Association for Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE), the apex body of the Indian biotech industry.
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Dr. Sriram Rajamani, Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India.
Title of the talk: Programming Research.
Time: 1400 -- 15:00
Date: 4th March
Venue: Room 117
Abstract:
Most of you probably have some exposure to writing computer programs. Programming and software development is a huge industry in India, and probably several of your friends and relatives probably are professional software developers. In this talk I will explain why the topic of programming is an important subject of research and scientific enquiry. I will pose some important research questions such as: How do you write correct programs? How do you write programs that run fast on modern multicore processors? How do you debug a large program?
I will present some research projects at MSR India that aim to address some issues in these questions. I will also suggest some problems if you want to do research in this area.
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Biography:
Dr. Sriram Rajamani holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Currently, he is the assistant managing director of Microsoft Research India. He is also the leader of Rigorous Software Engineering (RSE) group in MSR. His research interests are in programming languages, program analysis and software engineering.
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Dr. Bharath Kumar, Founder of Dhiti.
Title of the talk: Presenting Dhiti: A content discovery engine.
Time: 11:00 -- 12:00
Date: 5th March
Venue: Room 117
Abstract:
Search - as you know it - is about putting keywords into a search engine, and then clicking on the results. What if your query is not a set of keywords, but a page, a document, your social circle? What if your query is you? What if the primary form of interacting with results is not "clicking" on them, but exploring among them? What if you can draw facts from across results, and gather patterns among them?
Dhiti is a content discovery engine aimed at helping you discover facts, drill down and navigate among them - from any context on the web.
In this talk, the motivation and underpinnings of the Dhiti content discovery engine will be explained, and some compelling products built on top of it will be showcased.
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Biography:
Dr. Bharath Kumar obtained his PhD in Computer Science from IISc in 2006. He has worked at Google, HiveFire, CastBridge Inc. before founding Dhiti in 2009. His research interest encompass Information Retrieval, Information Analytics, Text Mining, Building large scale systems to support IR.
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Prof. Anurag Kumar, Professor, ECE Department & Chairman, Electrical Sciences Division, IISc, Bangalore.
Title of the talk: Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks: Pervasive Systems for Measurement and Inference.
Time: 14:00 -- 15:00
Date: 5th March
Venue: Room 117
Abstract:
There are many applications that require decision making based on dense sensing. Examples are: intrusion detection in large secure spaces such as border areas or sensitive buildings, environment sensing for agriculture and energy-efficient buildings, process monitoring in large industrial installations, detection of incipient fires in forests, and monitoring large structures such as bridges, commercial aircraft, ships, and large buildings. Since the mid-1990s researchers have been investigating the use of ad hoc wireless networks of smart sensor devices for such applications. A smart wireless sensor node (often called a mote) comprises one or more miniature sensors, a low power microprocessor, a simple digital radio transceiver, and a small battery, all in a compact package. It is expected that such devices will become so power efficient that, in conjunction with energy efficient algorithms, their batteries could last for years. In a typical application, such devices would be deployed in the 100s or 1000s. On being initialised, the devices would discover each other, and then self-organise into a multihop wireless (packet) network. They would then begin to sense the environment, and use various distributed algorithms to schedule packet transmissions between themselves, and carry out various communication and computation tasks in support of applications such as those described earlier. Thus, these systems can be viewed as easily deployable, self-configuring, embedded distributed smart instrumentation.
These systems can be seen to depend on the following key technical elements
- Efficient and low power sensors and electronic devices
- Support software (i.e., operating systems and compilers) that is simple (yet provides the required primitives), compact, energy efficient and power aware
- Distributed and energy efficient algorithms for self-organisation, scheduling of packet transmissions, locationing, time-synchronisation, sensor data processing (such as quantisation, data compression, detection, estimation, identification, classification, and tracking), and system security
In this talk we will begin with a perspective on the area, and some of the potential applications. Then we will provide an overview of some of the algorithmic challenges that we have encountered in two recent projects: intrusion detection in secure spaces, and wireless mesh networks for interconnecting sensors in industrial installations. In particular, we will discuss algorithms for wireless mesh network design with quality-of-service objectives, distributed detection, and alarm forwarding. These examples will illustrate how a variety of systems analysis and design techniques need to be brought to bear on wireless sensor network design. Wireless mesh network design requires stochastic modeling of random access wireless mesh networks, and the design of optimal graphs under various constraints. Energy efficient packet forwarding is a distributed optimal control problem. Distributed event detection requires the solution of various distributed change detection problems.
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Biography:
Anurag Kumar obtained his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur (where he was awarded the President's Gold Medal) and the PhD degree from Cornell University, both in Electrical Engineering. He was then with Bell Laboratories, in New Jersey, for over 6 years. Since 1988 he has been with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in the Dept. of Electrical Communication Engineering, where he is now a Professor, and is also the Chair of the Electrical Sciences Division. From 1988 to 2003 he was the Coordinator at IISc of the Education and Research Network Project (ERNET), India's first wide-area packet switching network. His area of research is communication networking, specifically, modeling, analysis, control and optimisation problems arising in communication networks and distributed systems. Recently his research has focused primarily on wireless networking. He has been elected Fellow of the IEEE, the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), and the Indian Academy of Science (IASc). He received the IISc Alumni Award for Excellence in Engineering Research for 2008. He has been awarded DST's J.C. Bose National Fellowship for the period 2011-2016. He was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Networking, and of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is a coauthor of the postgraduate text-books ``Communication Networking: An Analytical Approach,'' (published in 2004) and "Wireless Networking" (published in March 2008), both by Kumar, Manjunath and Kuri, and published by Morgan-Kaufman/Elsevier.
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O P E N S O U R C E S T A L L
CSA Open Day features an Open Source Stall, in collaboration with Free Software Movement Karnataka.
Overview of Open Stall:
Free Software in Academics has proven itself to be an undisputed requirement in today's technology driven society, with most of the Foriegn and National universities inculcating the culture of using Free and Open Source Software in Academics and Research.
CSA in collaboration with Free Software Movement Karnataka at bringing out the various facets of Free Software in Academics and extents of applicability in Research to facilitate and enable the research pursuers to utilize the abundant resources available in the Free and Open Source Software world.
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Talks:
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Programming and debugging using GCC/GDB based IDE's
Time: 09:00 -- 09:45
Date: 5th March
Venue: Room 254
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Application development for Android.
Time: 09:45 -- 10:45
Date: 5th March
Venue: Room 254
- Saket Srivastav, Oracle, Linux for You
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Spin your own GNU/Linux Distro
Time: 12:00 -- 13:00
Date: 5th March
Venue: Room 254
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B I T S N B Y T E S
Ultimate Coding Challenge
Date: 4th March Time: 12:00 -- 13:30
Venue: Room 254
The joy of solving problems and making the computer do exactly what
you want it to do is unparalleled.
If you love programming and like to solve complex algorithmic
problems, then this is the event for you.
Rules:
- Each participating team shall consist of a maximum of 2 members.
- The event consists of two rounds. The first round will be qualification round, followed by the second round, which is the final.
Qualification Round:
- This will be a written round.
- Questions will be based on C language.
- Questions will be of MCQ/Objective type.
- This round will be of 45 minutes duration.
- About 8 teams will be selected for the Final round.
Finals:
- This is a coding round.
- Problem set will be declared after the qualifying round results are out.
- Finalists have to submit their solutions before 12pm, 5th March.
- Finalists will have access to systems for the entire duration of this round of the event.
- They are also free to use their own computing resources.
- Submission can be done online.
- Physical presence of finalists is not compulsory for this round.
- Details of evaluation and mode of submission will be given just before the final begins.
Questions:
Prelims
Finals
Contacts:
Ratul Ray(ratulray@csa)
Prithayan Barua(prithayan@csa)
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R E C K O N I N G 2 0 1 1
Technical quiz contest to unleash your knowledge in computer science and basic mathematics.
Date: 4th March Time: 09:00 -- 10:00
Venue: Room 254
For all the quiz enthusiasts, we are organizing "RECKONING 2011" a technical quiz contest. The contest will involve questions related to computer science field and some basic mathematics related to computer science.
Rules & Guidelines:
- There will be two rounds.
- Preliminary Round: It will involve a written quiz. It will involve 20-25 simple MCQ. 2 points for correct, -1 points for wrong answer. 45 minutes duration. Top 5-8 (depending upon no. of team registered) teams from this round will qualify for the final round.
- Final Round: This will be an oral quizzing round for the teams clearing the preliminary round.
- Final round consists of the following:
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Question-Answer round: Each team will be asked 3 questions in round robin fashion (1 question in each slot).
10 points for correct, 0 points for wrong answer. If any team don't answer correctly, the question will go to the
next team as bonus question (5 points for correct, 0 points for wrong answer)
Time : 30-40 mins
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Audio-Visual round: Each team will obtained 2 question based on some audio-visual clip. 10 points for correct, 0 points for wrong answer. If any team don't answer correctly, the question will go to the next team as bonus question (5 points for correct, 0 points for wrong answer)
Time : 25-35 mins
- Random round: 2 questions per team, 15 points for correct, no negative points.
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Each team will be asked to pick(randomly) a token containing a positive integer.
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Each team will be asked a question depending upon the number they got.
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This will be done twice.
Time : 10-15 mins
- Team Composition: This is a team event with a maximum of two participants in each team. Team members need not be from the same organization.
Contacts:
Dyut Kumar Sil (email: dyutkumar@csa.iisc.ernet.in)
Kamala R (email: kamala.r@csa.iisc.ernet.in)
Ashutosh Kumar Verma (email: ashutosh_verma@csa.iisc.ernet.in)
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A S H O W C A S E O F S T A R T U P S
Date: March 5, 2011 Time: 14:00 -- 16:00
Venue: CSA GARDEN
Overview of the event:
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In the recent two years, several startups have been initiated by CSA alumni.
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This event features poster presentations by the CSA alumni who have championed
these startups.
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M I N D - K L I C K
High and low, deep and wise; your thoughts, your prize
Date: 4th March Time: 13:00 -- 14:30
Venue: Room 254
MIND-KLICK is a problem solving contest that involves mathematical and logical puzzles. If you love to solve puzzles then come,enjoy and have fun with us.
Rules & Guidelines:
- Maximum 2 participants per team.
- There will be two rounds: Prelims and Finals. Both the rounds will be written.
- Qualification Round(Prelims) will be of 45-50min duration
- Selected teams shall participate in the final round.
- Final round will be of 2 hours
Contacts:
Sourav Medya(souravmedya@csa)
Omesh Pandita(pandita.omesh@csa)
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O N L I N E T R E A S U R E H U N T
Pirates of DigiWorld
Date: 4th March Time: 10:00 -- 11:00
Venue: Room 254
Are you familiar with 'hacking', 'cipher','googling',..? If YES, then here is an opportunity for you to show your skills. Phrackerz is all about competing with best minds, trying to break into the secure boundaries defined by systems.
Rules & Guidelines:
- One per Team.
- Event will consists of two rounds.
- First round is a written round which will span for 45 minutes. The participant will be given with a set of questions which will test their basic hacking skills.
- Second round is for the qualified participants. The participant will be provided a system and will be presented with a set of challenging hacking problems. This round will span for 2 hrs(approx).
Contacts:
Nilavalagan I - nilavalagan@csa.iisc.ernet.in
Sharad Nandanwar - sharadnandanwar@csa.iisc.ernet.in
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S U D O K U
Rules & Guidelines:
- Starts At 11.00 Am to 5.00 pm.
- Two / Three Rounds Per Hour (10 min Each).
- Results after half an hour of the round.
Contacts:
Anirudh Kushwah
Anirban Sinha
Vishvadeep Gothi
Nikhil Malukani
Sunil Meena
Naresh Mehra
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All about Stud-Dees in Come-pYouth-Err-Signs
Dive into the pool of CoMpUtEr ScIeNcE & AuToMaTiOn
and know what's in store for you!
Date: 4th and 5th March. Time: 09:00 -- 18:00 hrs.
“What more do I need to learn about computers ? After all, I'm a Computer Science Graduate !!!”
“Why go for masters when the placement cell of my college works so 'hard' to get me a job ?”
“How can I customize my subjects to get a mouth-watering course in Computer Science ?”
“Why not stick to my job ? What if I don't get a better one after higher studies ?”
“What good is it anyway to be a math-worm when I'm a programming guy ?”
“What is all this fuss about research ? Is it all about getting a better job ?”
“I'm an MBA guy. Bachelor's was just another 'step'.”
“Is Computer Science just about programming ?”
“What are these technical talks all about ?”
“What do they mean by 'self-study' ?”
“I wonder what is taught at CSA.”
“I'm confused.”
Overview of the event:
Most of us have such doubts poking through our brains during the last undergraduate years. On one hand is the option of entering into academics, while on the other hand, is a job-oriented career. We are a group of students who are keen to help solve such queries.
This would be a desk consisting of students from M.E., M.Sc. and PhD, where you can pose general informal questions regarding any particular subject or course, related to Computer Science. In addition, any query related to career, course selection, self-studies, programming, GATE, etc. would be handled. People curious to know the content of subjects taught in a graduate/research course in computer science are welcome. Many of us are not aware of the necessity of mathematics in understanding the core concepts of a subject / research area. These topics would be discussed to the most extent possible. In general, the life during a masters/doctoral course may be described.
We don't want to be too philosophical, but, on the contrary, realistic. We want to acquaint the student with the taste of the “platter” he/she is going to be served in such an institution.
Contacts:
Govind Sharma -- govindjsk@csa.iisc.ernet.in
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O P P O R T U N I T I E S A T C S A
Department of Computer Science and Automation is a pioneering academic centre for higher education,
research, and innovation in key areas of computer science. The driving mission for the department is
to advance the frontiers of research in computer science and automation and impart world-class
training in computer science to students.
There are several ways in which one can become a part of the vibrant community of the CSA Department.
This interactive session would give you an overview of all these opportunities.
CSA faculty would help you shape your future to take a dip into the ocean of knowledge represented by
Indian Institute of Science.
You can get your career related queries answered in the session.
Specifically, this talk would focus on ME, MSc and PhD programs of the department and their prerequisites.
It would also highlight Internships, Project Assistantships, Research Assistantships, and other academic ways
to be associated with CSA.
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F E E D B A C K
Coming soon.
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W I N N E R S
Hearty congratulations to all the winners.
Event | Winner | First Runner-up | Second Runner-up |
Bits N Bytes -- Programming Contest | Ameen Mohammed -- MSRIT
& Sai Prajeeth -- MSRIT | Sankaranayanan M -- PESSE
& Vivek Murali -- PESSE | Prabhat Chandra Roy -- TNIE, Mysore
& Parth Yadav -- TNIE, Mysore |
Online Treasure hunt | Vipin Nair -- NIT Calicut | Prashanthi Pai -- PESSE | Sankaranarayanan -- PESSE |
Reckoning (Tech quiz) | Vikram Kamath & Amal Antony -- PESSE | Ganapathy & Basavaraj T | Chidananda Sridhar & Abhilash K R -- BIT |
Mind-Klick (Puzzle solving) | Celia D'Souza & Steven D'Souza -- IISc | Arjun Shetty & K. Vijayanth Reddy -- IISc | Bharath B.S & Arjun Bhardwaj -- RVCE |
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