Virtual Global Conference on Technologies for Blended and Distributed Education

The Christ University, Bangalore has organised a three day Virtual Global Conference on Technologies for Blended and Distributed Education, 18-20 August, 2010. This conference is featuring presentations from more than 18 invited experts from across the continents. One of very useful feature is that many of invited speakers presented their lecture on " Virtual Live" mode- meaning presentations were done by their place of work and participants here could see their presentations and interact in live mode. Experts from countries such as South Korea, United states, Germany. In the after I made a presentation on Web Tools for Blended Education. There are some more interesting session in the next two days

Cloud Computing Workshop at NIT K Surathkal 12-18 July, 2010

The Computer science engineering department of NITK, Surathkal conducted a  AICTE STTP workshop on Cloud Computing and Virtualization during 12-18 July 2010. Faculty from engineering institutions attended the same. The workshop featured invited lectures from experts invited from academia and industry. Some of the companies that sent experts included HP, Infosys, CISCO,Wipro, and EMC. Institutions from which presenters came included NITK, Acharya Institute, Nitte. Ravindra Dastiop, SDMCET, Dharwad presented a lecture on Cloud Applications.

Information Retrieval program at Srinivas Institute of Technology, Mangalore

Srinivas institute of Technology, Mangalore conducted a two day faculty development program on Information Retrieval during 19-20 Feb, 2010. It was intended for the faculty who are teaching the course by the same title prescribed as an elective under the VTU for VIII semester ISE branch. Faculty from 9 institutions attended the program. The event started with a keynote address by Mr. Srishal Chari in which he stressed about the growing complexity of business and information systems and challenge in developing them. Ravindra Dastikop, Faculty from SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad conducted a session on Information Retrieval: An academic perspective. The post lunch session was on Information Retrieval using DW concepts by Mr. Jitendra Sahu.

The second day began with a session on Parallel and Distributed IR by Prof. Roshan Fernandes, NMANIT, NITTE , Mangalore. The second session was on Integrating Structured Data and Text by Ravindra Dastikop. The last session was by Prof. Damien Antony of St. Joseph Engineering college, Managalore, in which he discussed about IR for web. The function ended with a formal valedictory in which positive feedback was given by participants. Principal Dr. Mayya attended the event. Prof. Shivakumar, HOD, ISE department coordinated the entire program.

It was encouraging to note that there in increasing number of initiatives are being taken by institutes in conducting such events.