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Event: 75-year celebration for Prof. Mathai Joseph, and talk by Pankaj Jalote on Research in Engineering

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ACM-India (Association for Computing Machinery) And CSI-Pune (Computer Society of India Pune Chapter) invites you for an event to felicitate Prof. Mathai Joseph on his 75th birthday. 16th June, 4pm, at Persistent Systems, SB Road.

With a distinguished career that spans industry (TRDDC) and academia (TIFR, University of Warwick), Mathai is among the few who have witnessed the story of the Indian software industry unfold.

On this occasion, there is also a talk by Pankaj Jalote, director of IIIT Delhi (earlier HoD CS at IIT-Kanpur).

A Career in Research in Engineering

Talk by Prof. Pankaj Jalote

There is sometimes a lack of clarity about what research is, how is engineering research different from engineering, and what does it mean to be an effective researcher. In this talk we will first discuss what research is, relationship between science and engineering research, difference between academic and industrial research, between applied and basic research, etc. Then we will discuss how research is evaluated and some aspects of building an effective engineering research career.

About the Speaker

Pankaj Jalote is the Director of IIIT-Delhi (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi). Earlier he has been an Assistant Professor at University of Maryland College Park, Chair Professor at IIT Delhi, and Head of Computer Science Department at IIT Kanpur. He has also been Vice President at Infosys for 2 years, Visiting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond for 1 year, and Interim Vice Chancellor of Delhi Technological University (DTU) for six months.

He has a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, MS from Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of five books, some of which have been translated in Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc, and the Indian edition of his text on Software Engineering was adjudged the bestselling book by the publisher. His main area of interest is Software Engineering. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Intl. Journal on Empirical Software Engineering, and IEEE Trans. on Services Computing. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE.

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Felicitation of Prof. Mathai Joseph

Prof. Mathai Joseph will be in conversation with Anand Deshpande, Persistent and Venkatesh R, TRDDC.

Registration and fees

The event is on Saturday, 16th June, at 4pm. At Dewang Mehta auditorium, Bhageerath, Persistent Systems, SB Road.

This event is free and open for everyone to attend. Please register using this link: https://goo.gl/forms/hUjFPA3nuWVDFQyb2

Global Innovation Challenges & its Impact on Academia & Industry – Dr. Shevgaonkar, VC UoP – July 9

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What: CSI Pune event on “Global Innovation Challenges and its Impact on Academia and Industry” with Dr. Shevgaonkar, VC, University of Pune
When: Friday 9th July, 2010, 6pm-8pm
Where: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems, SB Road, Pune
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required

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Global Innovation Challenges and its Impact on Academia and Industry

The Computer Society of India – Pune Chapter (CSI-Pune), the Software Exporters Association of Pune (SEAP), Persistent Systems and the Board of Studies of Computer Engineering, Pune University, present a lecture on the impact of global trends in technology on academia and Industry.

The keynote address is by Dr. Raghunath Shevgaonkar, the new Vice Chancellor of Pune University. Until recently Dr. Shevgaonkar was a Professor at IIT-Bombay. He played many roles there, including HoD of the Electrical Engineering Department, Dean of Resource Mobilization, and all of this was in addition to the research that resulted in over 130 conference publications and journals. He has also written two books. For more information about Dr. Shevgaonkar’s background, see his profile page on the IIT-Bombay website.

Given his background, I am hoping for good things from the lecture, and from him, for University of Pune.

Other people expected at this event are: Anand Deshpande, CEO of Persistent, M.D. Agarwal, VP, CSI and CIO BPCL, and Deepak Shikarpur.

Safe Surfing, Safe Parenting: Security Awareness lecture by Rohit Srivastwa – 26 June

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What: CSI Pune workshop on ‘Safe Surfing, Safe Parenting’ by Rohit Srivastwa
When: Saturday, 26th June, 3pm-6pm
Where: K.B. Joshi Hall, Cummins College of Engineering, Karve Nagar, Pune.
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all. Register here

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Safe Surfing, Safe Parenting

This workshop by security evangelist Rohit Srivastwa aims:

  • Create awareness among the society at large about the social threats hidden in uncontrolled access to internet
  • show how parents can inculcate safe internet habits in their children and how they can monitor for any unwanted activities by children.
  • show children as to how they should refrain from the internet sites which are tempting but not safe for their age / level of knowledge.

This event is sponsored by Symantec Corporation.

Update:
The slides used by Rohit are now available online:

Cyber Safe Parenting

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About the Speaker – Rohit Srivastwa

Rohit is a well known security evangelist, having an expertise in hacking, cyber crime investigation and IT infrastructure management.

He is actively involved in advising and assisting several military agencies, law enforcement personnel, media, corporate and Government bodies. He provides coaching and training to the Police department of Pune, Mauritius and Malaysia on the related subjects. He is also a visiting faculty at Asian School of Cyber Laws, Symbiosis and many other institutes.

Rohit is also the founder of ClubHack, a community to provide a platform to the security experts across the globe to come together, and to spread security awareness amongst laypeople.

Apart from ClubHack Rohit has been involved in many large scale projects in the field of IT infrastructure management & security. In his last assignment Rohit was Director Technology at Commonwealth Youth Games (2008) where he headed the technology division and delivered the complete technology of games. After that he was Director Technology and Network Operations for Commonwealth Games Delhi (2010).

Overview of HTML5: CSI Pune Lecture – May 31

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What: CSI Pune lecture on HTML5 by Swarraj Kulkarni, Principal Architect, Cognizant, Pune.
When: Monday May 31, 2010, 6pm-7:30pm
Where: 1st Floor Lecture Hall, I2IT (International Institute of Information Technology), Hinjewadi
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI members and students, Rs 100 for others. Register here and pay on the spot.

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HTML5

HTML5 is the next generation of HTML, to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in based Rich Internet Application (RIA) development technologies such as Adobe Flash, Silverlight, JavaFx, etc. The new version will have capabilities of HTML v4.0 plus additional features like DOM management, offline storage database, document editing, drag-drop, etc. This talk will be focused on salient features of HTML5 and how it will influence the next generation RIA development process.

This lecture is useful for all IT professionals and students especially for those, who are seeking to have deep penetration in web and internet related activities in years to come. HTML 5 is probably going to be tomorrow’s mainstream platform for web development – so this lecture is surely going to be an eye opener!

About the Speaker – Swarraj Kulkarni

Swarraj has more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry. At Cognizant, he is working as a Principal Architect for BFS-Technology Consulting Group. BFS (Banking & Financial Services) is at the centre of any activity whether it is a commercial or manufacturing. BFS has a very vast array of direct activities and derived activities. Multiple technologies get involved in these services. Being an Enterprise Architect, he focuses on multiple technologies, architecture patterns and enterprise adoption of upcoming technologies including Web 2.0, SOA, etc.

He has been closely following Web 2.0 in general and its adoption in enterprises to solve business problems.

CSI Pune Lecture: How to protect yourself from online fraud – 24th April

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What: CSI Pune lecture “Business in the Dark and how can we protect ourselves: Case of Online frauds” by
When: Saturday 24th April, 2010, 6pm
Where: 7th Floor, Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI members, Rs 100 for others. Register here

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Online Frauds – Details

Online frauds have increased multiple folds in couple years. It has become big headache for all viz. Banks, Law enforcement and we as end users. To protect ourselves we need to know how these fraudsters work. This session will cover these aspects and simple steps that we need take to reduce the probability of such frauds to succeed.

  1. What are frauds?
  2. How online frauds work?
  3. Phishing and Trojans
  4. Man in the Browser Attacks
  5. Future of frauds
  6. Let’s do our bit: How can we protect?

Who should attend

Any individual who is doing on-line transactions or interested in knowing how to protect oneself from cyber crimes, Students, Users, Security / network / data base administrators, auditors and fraud examiners, chief risk officers, Those seeking career in computer forensics and cyber crime investigation., Senior, Mid Level and Operational Management and staff, Professionals, Consultants

About the Speaker – Parag Deshpande

  • Parag is principal eGRC consultant with RSA Security a leading security company in the world.
  • He has over 14 years of experience during which he advised financial services, manufacturing, and telecom sector clients across the Globe including India, USA, Australia and UK.
  • He is Bachelor of Technology from Laxminrayan Institute of Technology, Nagpur and Masters is Business Administration from Symbiosis, Pune.
  • Exposure to business processes, technology architecture and IT risk management has made him leading consultant for Secure Business Enablement
  • He has handled various aspects of the services business, including consulting, delivery, practice management, presales and account management.
  • Apart from professional activities he is interested and does volunteering work to create awareness about Cyber Security Risks.

CSI Pune Seminar: Data Movement – Evolution & Challenges – Dec 21

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What: CSI Pune lecture on “Data Movement – Evolution and Challenges” By:Biswa Bhattacharya
When: Monday Dec 21st, 2009, 6pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI members and students, Rs 100 for others, Rs. 50 for SICSR staff. Register here and pay on the spot.

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Details

The following topics will be covered:

  • Data Warehouse – Introduction
  • Different approaches of Data Warehouse Architecture – Pros and Cons
    • Star
    • Snowflake
    • Hybrid
  • Data Warehouse Components
    • Staging
    • ETL (Extract Transform and Load)
    • Reports and Analytics
  • Data Warehouse Implementation â Approach
  • Best Practices and Lessons Learnt
  • Q&A

About the Speaker – Biswa Bhattacharya

Over Twenty years of expertise in Information Technology with proven success in creating strategy and developing cost effective, quality and scalable solutions, using Best Practice Methods and working with all levels within the client organization. Known as an Industry Thought Leader, he is instrumental in helping Senior Leadership successfully implement their corporate visions. His experience spans across strategy, management, architecture, infrastructure, product evaluation, modeling and design of multi-terabyte large and complex data and information management solutions. Biswa is an excellent listener and deep thinker with an expertise in understanding clientâs business problem and providing different solution approaches. In his own words, “every client has a unique problem so the challenge is to listen and ask questions and then provide the best possible set of solutions”. He is also an entrepreneur and is being invited as a judge, keynote speaker for several US Colleges, like Fox Business School etc. He is the Founder and CEO of www.acxius.com

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CSI Pune Lecture: The Evolution of the Open Source Movement – Sept 16th

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What: CSI Pune Lecture on the evolution of the open source movement by Atul Kahate
When: Wednesday, 16th September, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Where: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent, S.B. Road
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI members; Rs. 50 for students & Persistent employees; others Rs. 100. Register here

Details:
The evolution of the open source movement:
Open source software is getting very prominent in the last few years, and is increasingly seen as the future. To truly appreciate the power of this, we need to understand its background. How and where did this whole concept of open source evolve? What were closed systems like? It is a roller-coaster journey with plenty of amazing stories and anecdotes. Apart from this, what are the commercial, legal, and other angles of open source software? This session would cover all these aspects.
Coverage:

  • How and where did this whole concept of open source evolve? (Evolution of “closed” systems)
  • Milestones in closed systems history
  • UNIX, C, and the beginnings
  • Richard Stallman and the Open Source Movement
  • Linus Torvalds and Linux
  • The Browser War
  • What is Open Source – The Commercial, Legal, and the Business angle
  • Future of Open Source

About the Speaker – Atul Kahate

Atul Kahate has over 14 years of experience in Information Technology in India and abroad in various capacities. He has done his Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics and his Master of Business Administration in Computer Systems. He has authored 23 highly acclaimed books on technology and cricket published by Tata McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, and Rajhans Publications on various areas of Information Technology (including editions), titled Web Technologies – TCP/IP to Internet Application Architectures, Cryptography and Network Security, Fundamentals of Computers, Information Technology and Numerical Methods, Foundations of Information Technology, Operating Systems and Systems Programming, Operating Systems, Computer Communication Networks, Introduction to Database Management Systems, Object Oriented Analysis and Design, and Schaum’s Series Outlines – Programming in C++, XML and Related Technologies. Two of these are published as international editions worldwide by McGraw-Hill and also been translated into Chinese. He has also co-authored a book in Marathi titled IT t ch jayachay (I want to enter into IT). Several of his books are being used as course textbooks or sources of reference in a number of universities/colleges/IT companies all over the world.

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TechStart Internship Mela: Connect with 200 CS graduates for your projects – 18th July

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Last week we wrote about the hundreds of CS engineering graduates who are temporarily idle, and the techstart initiative where we are hoping to connect up companies, startups or individuals who can use these engineers for their projects. To facilitate this, an ‘Internship Mela’ will be held on Saturday, 18th July, from 2pm to 6pm, at the Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent, S.B. Road.

The basic idea behind the ‘Internship Mela’ is as follows:

  • All those who would like to find engineers for their projects are invited to attend
  • All engineers who are interested in getting internships will attend
  • From 2pm to 4pm: Each potential company/startup/mentor/guide gets to present to the engineers for 3 minutes. Give a quick introduction of yourself, your company, what projects you plan to do with the interns, what kind of skills you are looking for, and whether you will be paying a stipend or not, and your contact info.
  • From 4pm to 6pm: Open networking. The potential interns will walk up to the mentors that they are interested and discuss details and set up a follow up meeting.

The idea is that this is a marketplace designed to allow mentors to find students quickly.

To register as a company or individual offering internships, please follow these steps

  • Join the techstart mailing list (click on “Join this group” link on the right side of the page)
  • After joining, go to the TechStart Internship Mela Registration Page and add yourself to the list there. (Click on the “Edit this page” button, then add your info just above the last line in the list.)
  • Come to Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent, S.B. Road at 1:45pm on 18th July. Prepare a 3-minute talk that can help the potential interns decide whether they are interested in your project. Be as specific as possible. (Note: there will be no slides/projector)

Students interested in this program – just show up at the venue (see details above). No registration required. Bring multiple copies of your resume.

About TechStart

Anand Deshpande of Persistent started this initiative to help out the computer science engineering students who graduated in 2009, but had their job offers deferred or rescinded. The idea is to give the engineers some industry experience, and at the same time allow the industry to get some useful work done. See http://techstart.in/ for details. TechStart consists of many volunteers from across the industry, and a whole bunch of other Pune organizations (like CSI Pune, Pune Open Coffee Club) are also helping out.

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Why Analytics Matter in Business Intelligence – CSI Pune Lecture – 6th March

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Computer Society of India – Pune Chapter presents the 5th lecture in a series on Data warehousing. The first lecture gave an overview of BI and DW. The second lecture was about how these techniques are used by businesses. The third was about data management for business intelligence. The fourth lecture talked about technology trends in BI. This is the fifth in the series:

What: Why Analytics Matter in Business Intelligence by Ajit Ghanekar of SAS R&D India.

When: Friday March 6th, 2008, 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Where: Dewang Mehta Auditorium, Persistent Systems,402, Senapati Bapat Road, Pune
Entry: Free for CSI Members & Students, Rs. 100 for others. Rs. 50 for Persistent employees.  Register here.

Details – Technology trends in Business Intelligence

One of the areas which adds significant value to business is application of analytics to solving complex problems. These can be in the areas of scoring, risk management, fraud detection, forecasting and so on. The focus of this session will be to give an introduction to the role of statistical techniques in BI applications.

It is not necessary to have attended the previous lectures.

For more information about other tech events in Pune, see the PuneTech events calendar.

About the speaker – Ajit Ghanekar

Ajit is a Senior Software Specialist – Analytics at SAS Research & Development, India, and has 10 years of experience in developing various Analytical solutions in the areas like Statistical Inference, Modeling, Time Series in Banking and Pharma domains. Currently, he is engaged in SAS Credit Risk Management Solution.

Ajit has a Masters in Statistics from Pune University & PG Diploma in Banking and Finance from SIBM

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Business Intelligence Technology Trends: CSI Pune Lecture – 30 Jan

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Computer Society of India – Pune Chapter presents the 4th lecture in a series on Data warehousing. The first lecture gave an overview of BI and DW. The second lecture was about how these techniques are used by businesses. The third was about data management for business intelligence. This is the fourth in the series:

What: Technology trends in Business Intelligence by Prasad Kulkarni of SAS R&D India.
When: Friday January 30th, 2008, 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: Damle Hall, Damle Path, Behind Indsearch, Off Law College Road
Registration and Fees: Free for CSI Members & Students, Rs. 100 for others. Register here.

Details – Technology trends in Business Intelligence

This lecture will cover technological advances in BI domain. It will start with a discussion on general trends in BI and will relate them to technology. Primary focus is on different technologies used currently, their necessity and type of problem they are solving in the business intelligence domain. It will discuss areas like SOA (Service oriented architecture), SaaS (Software as a service), MDM (Master data management), Real time warehousing, Click stream data warehouses, Federated/integrated search, Web 2.0, Data visualization and so on. The participant will know how such technologies are solving problems specific to BI domain.

It is not necessary to have attended the previous lecture.

For more information about other lectures in this series, and in general other tech events in Pune, see the PuneTech events calendar.

About the speaker – Prasad Kulkarni

Prasad Kulkarni is working with SAS Research And Development India Pvt. Ltd for past 8 years as Associate Director – Platform Research and Development. He leads the core technology group at SAS R&D Pune. Prasad holds post graduation degree in computer management from University Of Pune and has 12 years of experience in the field of information technology. He has worked with product development setups in India. With SAS his focus areas are Metadata Management, Data Warehousing, Data visualization and Data access.

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