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Sanitation Hackathon – Pune Dec 1-2
The Sanitation Hackathon challenges programmers to develop innovative software solutions that address real-world problems in sanitation. In December 1-2 2012, technologists will team up with sanitation subject experts in an intensive marathon to find innovative solutions to challenges facing the sanitation sector. The event, organized by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program in partnership [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Butler Lampson – Systems, Security, Verification and more – Nov 24
In 1992, Butler Lampson received the Turing award in for his contributions to the development of distributed, personal computing environments and the technology for their implementation: workstations, networks, operating systems, programming systems, displays, security and document publishing. On Saturday, 24th November, Neeran Karnik, Senior Architect at BMC Software, will give a talk about Butler Lampson’s [...]
BioCrats – Life Sciences & Software Conference – 7 Dec
BioCrats is a Persistent Systems’ initiative with an aim to build a vibrant scientific community in the field of life sciences by connecting, sharing and moving on basis of exchanging ideas. ‘BioCrats Connect’ Convention is a half day interactive session, bringing together leading industrialists, scholars and academicians. It’s a platform to interact and discuss science, [...]
PuneConnect 2012 application date extended to 19 Nov
Since this is Diwali Week, and people are on vacation, we have received a number of requests to extend the deadline for submission. The deadline has now been extended until end of day, Monday, 19th November. For details of how and what to submit, see the Submit A Proposal page at PuneConnect.com. For more information [...]
PuneConnect 2012: An event to connect Pune Startups to Enterprises – 1 Dec
After the huge success of PuneConnect 2011, we are back again with PuneConnect 2012, a mega event for Pune startups to showcase their products and services to the world at large, and specifically to larger companies in Pune. PuneConnect 2012 will be on 1st December 2012, and the idea behind the event is to allow [...]
Panel Discussion: Should all Programmers Learn Functional Programming – Oct 6
Should all Programmers Learn Functional Programming? The pros and cons of this question that will be tackled in a panel discussion this Saturday. This panel discussion is a part of the Turing Awards lecture series that happens at Persistent’s Dewang Mehta Auditorium at 2pm on the first Saturday of every month this year. The panel [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Robin Milner and Polymorphic Type Inference in Programming Langauges – Oct 6
Robin Milner received the Turing award in 1991 for three major contributions to computer science: In the area of automated theorem proving – He developed LCF, the first theoretically sound yet practical tool for machine assisted proof construction In the area of programming language design – He developed ML, the first language to use polymorphic [...]
vodQA Pune testing/QA event – 13th Oct
vodQA Pune, to be held on October 13th in Pune, is an event for software testing and QA professionals. In this edition of vodQA, the focus is on testing beyond the usual. The discussions will range from functional and cross-functional areas like Security, Usability, Scalability and Performance, to understanding testing practices within industries such as [...]
India’s Top IT Conference comes to Pune – NASSCOM Emergeout Conclave Pune – 12 Oct
(NASSCOM’s EmergeOut Conclave is one of the top conferences in the country for software companies, and for the first time this year it is coming to Pune. Although PuneTech normally does not promote paid events, we make exceptions for exceptional events, and this is one of them, and also because there is a 35% discount [...]
Showcase your App at NASSCOM Emerge AppFame Contest – Oct 12 Pune
Do you have a cool app that is making life of a customer easier, helping them save time and be more productive? Do you have an app which is enabling people to connect them to their family and friends – easily, and in a fun way to help them come closer? Is it desirable, usable [...]