Saturday, February 20, 2010

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.

3 comments:

Vipin Kumar N said...

Sir the sessionswere very useful ..particularly the kick start into google utilities .Thanks 4 all theose valuable points .

Vipin Kumar N said...

Sir I will be gr8 ful to u if u could send the link of the link of the syllabus or send the syllabus of IR -VTU .
Thanks

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