This post is to share with you all the things I have been doing(hence the title) in the past week or so. Continuing from my previous post, I have been attending seminars throughout but the one at IISc on the Frontiers of Computer Science was a little different. Reasons:
1. I had teachers and friends accompanying me to learn and have fun(For once, I was attending the seminar with a group I know..)
2. The college decided to take me to this conference.
3. It meant a few days of bunking college with attendance(Unlike my previous seminars which always happened on holidays..)
The international conference was conducted on "Frontiers of Computer Science" at the J.N Tata Convention Center, IISc by Atria Institute of Technology in assosiation with the IIIT-B,ACM,VTU,CSI and ACT from 7th-9th August 2011. It was a large-scale event featuring Indian and International speakers and a few enthusiasts submitting their conference papers.
No doubt, there was a lot to learn and explore in this conference although,a few things that the keynote speakers said, bounced over my head. Nevertheless, a brief explanation of the 3-day seminar on the sessions I attended would go like this...
1. A tutorial on Advances in Multimedia Surveillance by Dr Pradeep Atrey:
Safety is important for all of us. Surveillance(setting up cameras) enhances security. Multimedia Surveillance makes use of cameras, microphones, motion sensors, RFIDs, night vision camera,IP camera etc to keep a watch at other people's activities for security. By using multimedia, we enhance efficiency,reliability and scalability at a lower amortized cost. Face detection,face recognition, blob detection and tracking were the areas focussed upon by Mr Pradeep aided by his partner Mr. Mukesh. The key point was achieving security at the cost of privacy loss. They concluded the talk with a solution of a security-privacy tradeoff where the criminals can be recognised by the behaviour and other attributes, thus ensuring privacy.
2. Mr Pradeep Atrey also gave us an idea on "How to write a Research Paper":
Research can either be a theoretical research(developing theorems,statistical methods etc) or appliction oriented research(to solve a particular problem).
a. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION - Identifying your problem, establishing the importance of the problem, scrutinizing the existing solutions to identify their flaws, developing your core idea and solution, summarizing main contributions of your work.
b.RELATED WORK - Discussing the related work and explaining the novelty and distinctness of proposed work.
c. PROBLEM FORMULATION/STATEMENT - Formally stating or defining your problem in mathematical form.
d.PROPOSED WORK/METHOD/SYSTEM/FRAMEWORK/ALGORITHM - Describing proposed work in detail using scientific tools and notations.
e.EXPERIMENTS,RESULTS AND ANALYSIS - Reporting experiments to substantiate your claims, establishing superiority of your work etc.
f.CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK - Stating the conclusions and summary work.
3.A tutorial on Cloud Computing by Mr. Subbakrishna(Excel-Soft Technologiees),Mr Janakiram(Amazon Web Services) and Mr Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu(Microsoft):
Cloud Computing is the next stage in Internet's evolution. Cloud essentially means the Internet. It focusses on hosting applications,making computations on the web etc. The aspects of Cloud Computing include foundation,network services,infrastructure,platform and applications. The terminologies include IaaS(Infrastructure as a Service),PaaS(Platform as a Service) and Saas(Software as a service). It stressed on technology development and R&D drivers like scalability,deployment flexibiltiy,development flexibility etc.
EC2 is a service which facilitates resizable computer capacity that auto-scales based on the workload.Ramaprasanna, a developer evangelist from Microsoft demonstrated using Visual Studio 2010 with Windows Azure to set up servers.He lightened things up by cracking a few jokes and interacting with audience.
4. Keynote talk on "Multimedia Data Mining" by Dr Mohan S Kankanhalli:
Multimedia Data Mining is the exploration and analysis by automatic or semi-automatic means of large quantities of audio,video,image and text data in order to discover meaningful patterns and rules.
The techniques assosiated with MDM are clustering,classification and sequence of pattern mining. MDM can be applied in search and retrieval,sports video analysis and surveillance data mining. He familiarized us with open issues of MDM like inaccuarate concept detection issue,dynamic temporal relationships,automatic attribute construction,media stream synchronization,synchronous cross modal mining etc.
5. FUTURE OF WORK by Mr C S Murali from CTS:
This particular session was one of my favourites. The talk was initially not on the schedule but was added later. And it was worth the accident!!
The topic concentrated on the confluence of technology,demographics and globalization which is changing the nature of organization and work itself.
The four forces changing the nature of organization and work are globalization,virtualization,millenials and cloud computing. The talk focussed on how the number of Internet users have increased exponentially,the explosion of virtualization at the organisation,process and technology levels,the changes in the work-life of employees,impact of social networking sites,how the millenials(those born between 1975 and 1995) are important and different in terms of being digital naives,fierce multi takers who crave collaboration,travel in-packs and don't care about status,how work has transformed from being a noun to being a verb,the coming of cloud and rising of the knowledge process.
6.Keynote talk on "Correct Design of Enbedded Systems" by Dr Wolfgang Kunz:
Embedded systems are specialized for certain applications in a particular technical environment. Dr Kunz discussed on the challenges of a embedded system design, the functional correctness of a systems on chip,the role of formal methods and the Electronic System level(ESL) based design. He stated on how the dependance on computer systems has soared quoting an example of a modern ES car that has 70 processors,10 million lines of code and 40% of the value.
Dr Peter Liggesmeyer,then, discussed the current trends and challenges in embedded sofware engineering and how we could develop a practical model based approach for system engineering.
7. Workshop on Analytics and Algorithms for Business Optimization by Dr Indrajit,Dr Y Narahari,Dr Vinayaka Pandit, Mr S V Subrahmanya and Mr T S Mohan:
The marriage of mathematics and computer science with business applications was explained. The talk was about integrating the aspects of Mathematics comprising of linear algebra,optimization,probablitly,statistics,simulation,machine learning,game theory, graph theory etc with aspects of business applications comprising of advertising,product marketing,e-commerce services like finance,health,education etc,carbon economincs,drug design,intelligent transportation etc. It was a good platform to identify problems and take it up as projects for us.
8. Keynote talk on "From Cycles to Solutions" by Dr. Vipin Chaudhary:
It was about redefining the possible. It focussed on the evolution of high performance computers, the cycles of HPC, the exploision of choices in this field etc.It left us pondering over the message that we have to think about complete solutions in terms of applications,application workflows and systems and how the primary concern is to think about the end user and the solutions rather than the computer scientists.
9.Presentations: Apart from the tutorials,keynotes and workshops, there were also presentaions being made by students and teachers who have writtien a research paper and aspiring to present it in a conference.
The three days hectic schedule was combined with great hospitality,yummy food,mind blowing cultural programme on Day 2, the walk with friends exploring the IISc campus,clicking tons of photographs and above all a great learning experience!!
That's not all that happened this week. The week also saw me bunking classess after classes for the all important "Sliver Jubilee Alumni Meet" to be scheduled on 15th August marking the institutes' 25 years completion. Being a chief member of the event management committee feels great. Right from chalking out the schedule,games to be played,discussions with the higher authorities,piling up volunteers,getting things done at the right time and above all the responsibilty of hosting a memorable meet feels great...A cherry on the pie came when someone jokingly tagged me as the unofficial college captain..With that contentment deep within, keeping fingers crossed for 15th August..Live streaming of the event on the website is being planned too!!!
Rest in Next...
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