Computer Science & Engineering

Alva’s Institute of Engineering and Technology conducted a two days National Level Workshop on “Blockchain Technologies” for for all external participants from various Departments, organized by Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Association with EMURGO Academics on 27^th Sep to 4^th Oct 2019.The workshop was inaugurated by the Principal Dr. Peter Fernandes, AIET, Dr. Praveen J Dean (Aca), Prof. Manjunath Kothari, H.O.D, Dept. CSE and all The HODs of various departments and all staff members and student volunteers were also present during the inauguration function and also total 52 participants had been attended in this workshop.

Why EMURGO?

• EMURGO Global is the official commercial and venture arm of the Cardano project, registered in Tokyo since June 2017 and in Singapore since May 2018. Being a pioneer in the space of Blockchain, EMURGO enables pragmatic solutions by leveraging “3rd Generation Blockchain Technology- Cardano”. We work closely in a unique affiliation with IOHK, to promote Cardano’s adoption and growth of its ecosystem, globally by building, investing, and advising projects and organizations that adopt Cardano’s decentralized blockchain ecosystem. With a strong presence in Singapore, New York, and Indonesia; we have now recently set foot in India.
• EMURGO Academy is a Global Blockchain Learning Solutions entity of EMURGO Global established in Jan 2019 to focus on incubation, Training and evangelising Blockchain to foster deep fundamental understanding of blockchain technology and thus establish an education program to drive practical usage of blockchain technology around the globe.

Workshop goals:

• Getting the participants familiar with the blockchain technology and understanding what makes it revolutionary.
• After the workshop, participants should be able recognize the advantages of the blockchain technology as well as its limitations.
• Besides that, they should be able to roughly asses how the blockchain technology might be implemented in their company/organization, what benefits it would bring, what challenges would arise and what resources would be needed for the implementation.

End of the session collected oral feedback from the Resource person and also from participants for the better enhancement of training programs in future.

Department of CSE organized Certification Program on “Apple iOS App Development using Swift C Language and XCode”. Mrs. Seema Nair, CEO, CalibreCode Solutions Pvt. Ltd was the Resource Person for the Certification Programme. The resource person Mrs. Seema Nair trained for 30 students of 4^th SEM BE CSE, AIET. Mr. Venkatesh Senior Associate Professor, Dept of CSE was the coordinator of this certification course.

The Certification Programme was conducted in 2 different slots First Phase was conducted 24^th February 2020 to 01^st March 2020 and Second Phase was planned during May 2020.

The students developed the features of Apple iOS App development like image display, and some animations with images, Databases using SQLite, Multi tab Communication, Drawing tables, Multi window communications Network Communications etc during the First Phase of Certification Programme. 

The following Apple iOS Apps are planned to develop during the Certification period.

8 days Certification Course on “Cyber Security” was organized from 18^th  February 2019 to 25^th  February 2019 by Department of CSE, Alva’s Institute of Engineering & Technology, Moodbidri, Karnataka with Technical Collaboration of Computer Society of India Student Chapter and Co-Sponsored by Dlithe Bangalore.

The formal inaugural function was graced by the presence of Managing Trustee Sri. Vivek Alva,  Principal Dr Peter Fernandes,  Head of the Department Dr. Manjunath Kotari,  Mr. Arun V Raj Purohith, CEO Dlithe Bangalore, Mr. Deepak Bhatt, Information Security Consultant & Trainer, Infosectrain and CSI Student Branch Counsellor Prof. Harish Kunder.

The Resource Person Mr. Deepak Bhatt had given following assignments along with the hands-on training:

• Students are asked to do a study on IPV4 addressing and to know how to set their kali Linux repository
• Introduction to Linux File System and Command Line 
• Different Phases of Hacking
• Information Discovery
• Scanning
• Gaining Access
• Using Various Methods of Password Cracking
• Hackathon

On the final day, the hackathon was conducted for all the participants. Following assignments were given.

• Windows XP hacking ( Get the password key from the SAM FOLDER, also get system access) – 10 min
• Windows 7 hacking ( Get the password key from the SAM FOLDER) – 20 min
• Troll 2 Machine Hacking ( Get the root access) – 20 min 
• Hackademic 1 hacking ( Get the root and key.txt file inside the root) – 30 min 

Mr Deepak (resource person) monitored and judged the students based on their successful completion and time taken to complete

Following were the winners

1. Priyanka, Sneha( Hacked Windows XP, Windows 7, Hacademics, Troll2 ( Reached half))
2. Jayaraj ,Druvil ( Hacked Windows XP, Windows 7, Hacademics, Troll2 ( Reached half))
3. Niharika, Rahul ( Hacked Windows XP, Windows 7, Hacademics )

About  70 CSE students were registered for the course and obtained a Certificate from the Dlithe Bangalore.

Department of CSE organized Certification Program on “Data Science and Big Data Analytics”. The Certification  Programme was held during 3^rd September 2018 – 8^th September 2018. The inauguration of the programme was held on 3^rd Sept 2018 at Engineering Seminar Hall. This Certification programme was held in association with ICT Academy Chennai and Dell-EMC, Bangalore. Mr Dineshkumar Gandhi, Sr. Technical Trainer, ICT Academy, Ms Fareha Hareem Sr. Trainer Dell-EMC and Mr Basavadarshan, ICT Academy Relationship Manager were present during the inauguration.  Mr Vivek Alva, Managing Trustee inaugurated the Certification programme along with Dr Manjunath Kotari, HOD CSE and Resource Persons of the Certification Programme. About 121 CSE students participated and 81 students successfully Completed DELL-EMC Certification Exam.

Department of CSE organized Certification Program on “Machine Learning using Python Programming”. The Certification Programme was held during 27^th August 2018 to 1^st September 2018. The inauguration of the programme was held on 27^th Sept 2018 at Engineering Seminar Hall. This Certification programme was held in association with Dlithe Software, Bangalore. Mr Arun Rajpurohit and Mr N.Sridhar Murthy Dlithe Software were the resource persons of the Certification Programme. About 81 CSE students were participated in this hands-on training session of Machine learning using Python.

Dlithe have assigned the mini projects to the students to practice Python programming, machine learning during their 7^th semester. This will help them to keep them abrupt with technology.  Students will also practice an agile way of working. Students have learnt using cloud code repositories such as “GIT HUB” and they will use it during project execution.

Dlithe will engage students on a fortnightly basis and do an on-premise review to check the progress. Students are also appraised with Internship report which they must follow and update regularly based on project progress.

The projects belong to the following area: Banking & Finance, Retail, Entertainment / Social Media, Academics, Agriculture

The objective of these project executions is built an application that can increase customer experience and optimize operational excellence.

Pre-Final Year: Below is the assignment to practice during their 5^th& 6^th Semester

• Make a web application to predict the customer eligibility for a loan by analyzing the previous data
• Implement the basic idea of a self-driving car using Open CV and Neural networks
• Create a web tool to predict the stock market by analyzing previous data
• Design a chat application to give a suggestion by analyzing the user previous messages
• Create a home security system by analyzing the patterns of a person moving in the home using OpenCV or sensors
• Build an application to predict diabetics by analyzing the test report of a patient
• Develop a system to unlock the door by using facial recognition and facial expression recognition

Department of CSE organized Certification Program on “Apple iOS App Development using Swift C Language and XCode”. The Certification  Programme was conducted in 2 different slots First Phase was conducted 10-07-2018 to 03-08-2018 and Second Phase was conducted during 24-09-2018 to 06-10-2018. Mrs Seema Nair, CEO, CalibreCode Solutions Pvt. Ltd was the Resource Person for the Certification Programme. The resource person Mrs Seema Nair trained around 25 students of 5^th SEM BE CSE, AIET. Mr. Venkatesh Senior Associate Professor, Dept of CSE was the coordinator of this internship program.

The students developed the features of Apple iOS App development like image display, and some animations with images, Databases using SQLite, Multi-tab Communication, Drawing tables, Multi-window communications Network Communications etc during the First Phase of Certification Programme. 

The following Apple iOS Apps were developed during the Certification period.

In the above-listed apps, the following apps were published in the Apple App Store and available to the public to freely download.

Department of CSE organized Certification Program on “Apple iOS App Development using Swift C Language and XCode”. The Certification Program was conducted in 2 different phases. First Phase was conducted 16-02-2019 to 23-02-2019 and Second Phase was conducted during 22-04-2019 to 24-04-2019. Mrs. Seema Nair, CEO, CalibreCode Solutions Pvt. Ltd was the Resource Person for the Certification Program. The resource person Mrs. Seema Nair trained around 36 students of 4th SEM BE CSE, AIET. Mr. Venkatesh Senior Associate Professor, Dept of CSE was the coordinator of this certification program.

Department of ISE also conducted the certification program in two phases for ISE branch students. The first phase is from 25-02-2019 to 04-03-2019. The second phase is from 25-04-2019 to 27-04-2019. The resource person Mrs. Seema Nair trained around 40 students of ISE branch. Mr. Manjunath H. R, Dept of ISE was the coordinator of this certification program.

The students were developed the features of Apple iOS App development like image display, and some animations with images, Databases using SQLite, Multi tab Communication, Drawing tables, Multi window communications Network Communications etc. during the First Phase of Certification Program. During the second phase of the program, Mrs. Seema Nair shows her interest on finishing the App designed by the students and get it to upload to the iOS Appstore.

This section describes about the various Apps developed by the students of CSE and ISE during the certification course time.

Mrs. Seema Nair prepared the six batches in CSE and six batches in ISE. Each batch containing six members. She distributed separate Apps for each batch. HOD CSE and HOD ISE assigned the faculty members of CSE and ISE as a guide for each batch.

The list of the Apps is shown in the table below:

In the above listed apps, the following apps were published in Apple App Store and available to public to freely download.

Department of CSE organized 45 days Certification Program on “Apple iOS App Development using Swift C Language and XCode”. The internship Program was conducted from 01-08-2017 to 03-02-2018 with intervals. The Certification Program was inaugurated by Mr. Divyang and Mr. Sudheep Jha, Monkfox, Bangalore. Dr. Manjunath Kotari, HOD CSE, AIET and Mr. Venkatesh Bhat Senior Associate Professor were present during the inauguration. The resource person Mr. Sudheep Jha and Mr. Divyang trained around 50 students of 6^th SEM BE CSE, AIET. Mr. Venkatesh Senior Associate Professor, Dept of CSE was the coordinator of this internship program.

The students learned various features of Apple iOS App development like image display, and some animations with images, Databases using SQLite, Multi-tab Communication, Drawing tables, Multi-window communications Network Communications etc….

The following Apple iOS Apps were developed during the internship period.

Department of CSE organized a 10 days Certification Programme on “Web Programming and Product Development” from 22^nd January 2018 to 03 February 2018. For the students of II Year CSE Students. Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao Kuthyaru, CEO, Sangamon Services Pvt Ltd, Mangalore was the chief resource person of this course. Dr. Manjunath Kotari, HOD, CSE, Mr. Venkatesh Bhat, Sr. Associate Professor, CSE Dept. were present during the course.

The course began with simple HTML program development including Style Sheets, Java Scripts, PHP, etc… Later, 9 teams of the students developed the following Projects under the guidance of Resource Person Mr. Chandrashekhar Rao Kuthyaru:

1) Vishal Nayak and team – Student Information System

2) Pratheeksha and team – Alva Hana 

3) Safnaaz and team – Edu-Santhe

4) Rachana and team – Summer Internship

5) Divyashree and team – Bus Information System

6) Thaizeera and team – TempKam – for temporary jobs

7) Manish and team – Chitra Santhe – Alva’s photo gallery

8) Rakesh and team – Alva’s Tech Forum

9) Harshitha and team – Alva’s Guest Album

Department of CSE organized a 5 days Certification Programme on “Core Java & Advanced Java” from 16^th to 20^th January 2018.  The inauguration of certification course was held on 16^th January 2018 in MBA Seminar Hall. Resource person Mr. Chandra Shekar Rao, Sangam One Connected Services, Bangalore, Dr. Manjunath Kotari, HOD CSE, Prof. Venkatesh, Dept of CSE were present during the inauguration.  The Certification course was started with a sample Java Program and students were made to make small projects every day.  The resource person explained all the concepts by using hands-on session. About 127 CSE 2^nd year students were participated and certified during this course. At the end of the course, the resource person evaluated a project for 100 marks and certificates were distributed accordingly.

The following projects were executed at the end of the certification programme.

1. Print Multiplication Tables from N1 to N2 after taking input from Console, input from the file.  Print to be sent to Output File

2. There are 100 prison cells in a row. All cells are locked Jailer is given permission to release any number of prisoners. In Round 1, Jailer opens all the doors.   In Round 2, he closes every alternate door (2, 4, 6…).  In Round 3, every third door (3, 6, 9 …) if Door is Open, he closes it.   If Door is closed, he opens it.  In Round 4, every fourth door (4, 8, 12…), if Door is open, he closes it.  If Door is closed, he opens it.  He does this for 100 Rounds.  At the end, who are the lucky prisoners?

3. Our College Clock is showing 9 am.  Compute the angle between the Hour hand and the Minute hand and add it to any Collection such as Map, TreeMap, SortedMap, HashMap or LinkedHashMap.  It should show Time: Angle in Degrees from 9:00 am to 8:55 pm with a spacing of 5 minutes.
4. There are 20+ trains departing from Mangalore Railway Station MAQ.  These train numbers are available in file trainMAQ.txt.  For each Train No, there is a separate text file containing Train No, Train Name, Frequency, Category of Train, Starting Time, Route, Kilometers, Stations en route etc. Eg. 12620.txt will contain details of Matsyagandha Express. You have to take input Train Number from Console and then display the Time Table of that train.  If Train is not running that day, it should give a message, ” No Train today.”.  Print all trains starting from MAQ between 5 am and 8 am.
5. Alva’s PU College has provided us with the Marks List of 26 students in a certain text file format. This contains Name. Gender, Roll No, English Marks, Maths Marks, Physics Marks, Chemistry Maths, Biology Maths, Class.  Please print the names of Toppers in each Subject and also the college Gold Medalist. There should be an automatic letter generated by the Principal congratulating the top rankers on their performance giving suitable details.   Input file attached.

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering had conducted a Four Days Certification Program on Software Testing from 28^th October to 31^st October 2017 for the third year CSE students of AIET. The resource person for the certification program was Mrs. Seema Nair, CEO, Calibre Code Solutions Private Limited, Bangalore.

During this course of program, Mrs. Seema Nair has covered many topics on software testing such as Testing web pages, finding bugs, off code usage in software testing, automating the web, testing ideas, recording and finding the bugs, coding the website and logging automatically, Selenium tool and its usage, creating the test cases, Framework and tools that are used in software testing,

Some hands-on training on testing various websites, debugging was also provided in these sessions. Each session in the program was very interactive and found to be interesting for the students. 

Certification Programmes for Students

Apart from the Placement Training to Pre-Final Years and Final Years, the Department of Computer Science & Engineering offering following certification programmes for the academic year 2017-18. The details of the courses conducted is available in Workshops & Training for Students link.

• Apple ioS App Development Course- 15 Days.
• Software Testing & Automation- 4 Days.
• Core Java & Advanced Java- 5 Days.
• Web Development Programming- 10 Days.

DATE & VENUE: 22nd August 2019, ENGINEERING SEMINAR HALL

Resource Person: Mr. Anup Justin, TechTalk Systems, R&D, Bengaluru

Mr. Anup Justin explained about the Ergonomics and its importance initially. It is the process of designing or arranging workplaces, products and systems so that they fit the people who use them. Most people have heard of ergonomics and think it is something to do with seating or with the design of car controls and instruments – and it is… but it is so much more. Ergonomics applies to the design of anything that involves people – workspaces, sports and leisure, health and safety. Ergonomics  is a branch of science that aims to learn about human abilities and limitations, and then apply this learning to improve people’s interaction with products, systems and environments. Ergonomics aims to improve workspaces and environments to minimise risk of injury or harm. So as technologies change, so too does the need to ensure that the tools we access for work, rest and play are designed for our body’s requirements. Ergonomics aims to create safe, comfortable and productive workspaces by bringing human abilities and limitations into the design of a workspace, including the individual’s body size, strength, skill, speed, sensory abilities (vision, hearing), and even attitudes.

He explained how ergonomics works. Ergonomics is a relatively new branch of science, but relies on research carried out in many other older, established scientific areas, such as engineering, physiology and psychology. To achieve best practice design, Ergonomists use the data and techniques of several disciplines:  anthropometry: body sizes, shapes; populations and variations biomechanics: muscles, levers, forces, strength. Environmental physics: noise, light, heat, cold, radiation, vibration body systems: hearing, vision, sensations.  Applied psychology: skill, learning, errors, differences. Social psychology: groups, communication, learning, behaviours.

He briefly explained about the design of ergonomics. Ergonomics is the science of refining the design of products to optimize them for human use. Computers and related products, such as computer desks and chairs, are frequently the focus of ergonomic design.

Finally he explained about the human factors involved in ergonomics. Human factors and ergonomics is concerned with the “fit” between the user, equipment, and environment or “fitting a job to a person”. It accounts for the user’s capabilities and limitations in seeking to ensure that tasks, functions, information, and the environment suit that user.

To assess the fit between a person and the used technology, human factors specialists or ergonomists consider the job (activity) being done and the demands on the user; the equipment used.

DATE & VENUE: 27^th August 2019, ENGINEERING SEMINAR HALL

Resource Person: Mr. Chandrasekhar Kutyar, SangamOne Infotech, Bengaluru.

Mr.Chandrasekhar Kutyar explained about the topic location intelligence using beacons for smart connected world. Beacons are small, wireless transmitters that use low-energy Bluetooth technology to send signals to other smart devices nearby. Put simply, they connect and transmit information to smart devices making location-based searching and interaction easier and more accurate.

He explained about what is beacons and how beacons technology works. All new technologies are becoming a part of our environment, but many of them remain unnoticed or incomprehensible. For many people, beacons are one of these mysterious items. Many IoT applications in large industries –such as retail and warehousing – use beacons everyday, but these small devices go unnoticed. Beacons are small, wireless sensors that are normally placed in a casing. The technology uses Bluetooth Low Energy (also called Bluetooth Smart or Bluetooth Version 4.0+) to broadcast radio signals or, simply put, to communicate with other smart devices.

He also explained that Beacon developers are still struggling with a number of unsolved issues, including designing better antenna shapes and increasing signal distance. Despite this, beacons are increasingly being implemented in many retail IoT solutions, and are projected to extend further into the industrial and healthcare spheres. Finally he also discussed about several beacon use cases.

DATE & VENUE:1^st September 2019, ENGINEERING SEMINAR HALL

Resource Person: Mr. Raviraj , Data Scientist, Swiss RE, Bengaluru

Mr. Raviraj explained about artificial intelligence and its applications. Initially he explained about the history of AI(Artificial Intelligence) .The history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) began in antiquity, with myths, stories and rumors of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen. The field of AI research was founded at a workshop held on the campus of Dartmouth College during the summer of 1956.

He then explained about what is AI and why AI .In today’s world, technology is growing very fast, and we are getting in touch with different new technologies day by day. Here, one of the booming technologies of computer science is Artificial Intelligence which is ready to create a new revolution in the world by making intelligent machines. The Artificial Intelligence is now all around us. It is currently working with a variety of subfields, ranging from general to specific, such as self-driving cars, playing chess, proving theorems, playing music, Painting, etc.AI is one of the fascinating and universal fields of Computer science which has a great scope in future. AI holds a tendency to cause a machine to work as a human. Artificial Intelligence is composed of two words Artificial and Intelligence, where Artificial defines “man-made,” and intelligence defines “thinking power”, hence AI means “a man-made thinking power.”

He also explained that With the help of AI, you can create such software or devices which can solve real-world problems very easily and with accuracy such as health issues, marketing, traffic issues, etc.With the help of AI, you can create your personal virtual Assistant, such as Cortana, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.With the help of AI, you can build such Robots which can work in an environment where survival of humans can be at risk.AI opens a path for other new technologies, new devices, and new Opportunities.Finally he explained about goals of AI such as Replicate human intelligenceCreating some system which can exhibit intelligent behavior, learn new things by itself, demonstrate, explain, and can advise to its user.

DATE & VENUE:14^TH  September 2019,  SEMINAR HALL(CIVIL BLOCK)

Resource Person: Mr. Hemanth Kumar, Senior Software Engineer,Thought focus,Bangalore

Mr. Hemanth kumar explained about how to face an interview confidently. People feel stressed as they hear about INTERVIEW. Most of them focus only on the questions to be answered in the Interview. But the interview is the test of not only knowledge but behaviour and honesty too. It does not matter where you went to school, the number of degrees you may hold, the experience you have or whom you know. It is important do the interview successfully. It is vital to approach interviews in the correct manner and with the right attitude, as that is the key to success.

He explained about some of the key aspects such as go prepared,on the day of interview and know what not to do.He explained that before Research the Company Do some homework, e.g. Find out about the company’s vision, goal, strategy, products, finances, departments, competitive advantages, competitors, the work culture and the management from the website. If the company does not have a web presence look them up at the library, call the Chambers of Commerce, and find out everything you can about them. Make sure you know as much about it as you can, so that you can impress your interviewers and show them how much you care. You should be familiar with whatever is mentioned in the CV. Read it thoroughly so that you’re not stumped by any question regarding your past employment and education.Come up with answers to common resume questions.

There are a few things you should avoid at all costs when you go into an interview. Many people don’t know that a few innocent comments can actually cause a big red flag to go up for the interviewer. Choose your words carefully and make sure you give an impression of being a respectful, hard worker who is truly excited about the position.

DATE & VENUE: 5^th October 2019, ENGINEERING SEMINAR HALL

Resource Person Mr.Amarnath V Meti, Software Manager, Infosys, Bengaluru.

Mr. Amarnath Meti briefly explained about the how the language has to be utilized in the project. C# is a versatile programming language used in many different ways. It powers many Windows and .NET apps for desktop, tablet, mobile, and web applications. Coders and programmers also use C# in cross-platform development, using Unity for games and using Xamarin for mobile apps. C# is a hybrid of C and C++, it is a Microsoft programming language developed to compete with Sun’s Java language. C# is an object-oriented programming language used with XML-based Web services on the .NET platform and designed for improving productivity in the development of Web applications.

Amarnath explained about the .net framework applications in briefly. A programming infrastructure created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and running applications and services that use .NET technologies, such as desktop applications and Web services. The .NET Framework contains three major parts: the Common Language Runtime. the Framework Class Library. ASP.NET. ASP.NET is an open-source server-side web application framework designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages developed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, applications and services. … The ASP.NET SOAP extension framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.

He explained about the benefits of .net. Less Coding and Increased Reuse of Code: This framework works on object-oriented programming which eliminates unnecessary codes and involves less coding for the developers, Deployment, Reliability, Security, Use across Platforms and Languages.

He then started explaining regarding the C#. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a UI framework that creates desktop client applications.WPF uses the Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) to provide a declarative model for application programming. Difference between WPF and Windows Forms. Windows Presentation Foundation (also known as WPF) is a graphical subsystem. It is used in order to render user interfaces in Windows based applications. … It is a feature of the Windows .NET Framework, and provides access to the native Microsoft Windows interface elements.

Finally he explained about XAML in C#. XAML is a descriptive programming language used in UWP, WPF, and Xamarin Forms to build user interfaces. Most of the time, you will be using a designer to create your XAML but you’re free to directly manipulate XAML by hand. XAML uses the XML format for elements and attributes.

DATE & VENUE: 15^th February 2020, ENGINEERING SEMINAR HALL

Resource Person: Dr. Annappa, Professor, Dept of CSE, NITK Suratkal

Dr.  Annappa explained about the Edge computing and its importance. Initially explained about Cloud computing.Cloud computing is perhaps the most flamboyant technological innovation of the 21st century. This is because it has seen the fastest adoption into the mainstream than any other technology in the domain. This adoption has been fueled mainly by the ever-increasing number of smartphones and mobile devices that can access the internet. Cloud computing is not just for organizations and businesses; it’s also useful for the average person as well. It enables us to run software programs without installing them on our computers; it enables us to store and access our multimedia content via the internet, it enables us to develop and test programs without necessarily having servers and so on.

He also explained about fog computing. Fog computing is the concept of a network fabric that stretches from the outer edges of where data is created to where it will eventually be stored, whether that’s in the cloud or in a customer’s data center.Fog is another layer of a distributed network environment and is closely associated with cloud computing and the internet of things (IoT). Public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud vendors can be thought of as a high-level, global endpoint for data; the edge of the network is where data from IoT devices is created.

He then explained about edge computing and its importance. Edge computing is a distributed computing model in which computing takes place near the physical location where data is being collected and analyzed, rather than on a centralized server or in the cloud. This new infrastructure involves sensors to collect data and edge servers to securely process data in real-time on site, while also connecting other devices, like laptops and smartphones, to the network. Edge computing is important because it creates new and improved ways for industrial and enterprise-level businesses to maximize operational efficiency, improve performance and safety, automate all core business processes, and ensure “always on” availability. It is a leading method to achieve the digital transformation of how you do business. Finally he explained about difference between edge and fog ,cloud vs fog.

DATE & VENUE: 25/08/2018 at Engineering Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mrs. Krishnaveni, Technical Architect, Infosys, Mangalore.

Krishnaveni briefly explained Cocoa applications are typically developed using the development tools provided by Apple, specifically Xcode (formerly Project Builder) and Interface Builder (now part of Xcode), using the languages Objective-C or Swift. For end-users, Cocoa applications are those written using the Cocoa programming environment.

Cocoa is Apple’s native object-oriented application programming interface (API) for its operating system macOS. For iOS, tvOS, and watchOS, a similar API exists, named Cocoa Touch, which includes gesture recognition, animation, and a different set of graphical control elements. It is used in applications for Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. Cocoa consists of the Foundation Kit, Application Kit, and Core Data frameworks, as included by the Cocoa.h header file, and the libraries and frameworks included by those, such as the C standard library and the Objective-C runtime.

She gave importance to Swift is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm, compiled programming language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and Linux. Swift is designed to work with Apple’s Cocoa and Cocoa Touch frameworks and the large body of existing Objective-C code written for Apple products. It is built with the open-source LLVM compiler framework and has been included in Xcode since version 6. On platforms other than Linux, it uses the Objective-C runtime library which allows C, Objective-C, C++ and Swift code to run within one program
She gave a brief explanation of how to develop the app using Swift and CoCoa and also gave a small demonstration by writing the code.

Core Animation: Helps to create rich user experiences by allowing for the smooth movement of visual elements.

Core Data: Provides an object-oriented data management solution and aids in defining an application’s data model in a logical and graphical way.

Finally, she gave suggestions on how to make use of the Swift programing language using which we can develop the app for the Apple iPhone.

DATE & VENUE: 03/09/2018 at MBA Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Dr. Shridhara K S, Professor, Dept. of CSE, UBDTCE(BOS), Davanagere.

Shridhara briefly explains the different topics of fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, data compression, machine learning. Fuzzy logic is an approach to computing based on “degrees of truth” rather than the usual “true or false” (1 or 0) Boolean logic on which the modern computer is based. A basic application might characterize various sub-ranges of a continuous variable. For instance, a temperature measurement for anti-lock brakes might have several separate membership functions defining particular temperature ranges needed to control the brakes properly. Each function maps the same temperature value to a truth value in the 0 to 1 range. These truth values can then be used to determine how the brakes should be controlled. A common algorithm is

1. For each truth value, cut the membership function at this value
2. Combine the resulting curves using the OR operator
3. Find the center-of-weight of the area under the curve
4. The x position of this center is then the final output.

He also told about Artificial Intelligence and it is a way of making a computer, a computer-controlled robot or a software think intelligently, in a similar manner the intelligent humans think Strong artificial intelligence or, True AI, may refer to Artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical machine that exhibits behavior at least as skillful and flexible as humans do, and the research program of building such artificial general intelligence.

He briefly told about Machine learning and it is a core sub-area of artificial intelligence; it enables computers to get into a mode of self-learning without being explicitly programmed. So, put simply, the iterative aspect of machine learning is the ability to adapt to new data independently. Machine Learning with Python. Machine learning is a branch in computer science that studies the design of algorithms that can learn. Typical tasks are concept learning, function learning, or “predictive modeling”, clustering and finding predictive patterns.

Finally, he gave an explanation of data compression. In signal processing, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction involves encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. Compression can be either lossy or lossless. Lossless compression reduces bits by identifying and eliminating statistical redundancy.

DATE & VENUE: 22/09/2018 at MBA Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mr.Gururaja Hegde, Co-Founder, Kambala Solutions Pvt. Limited, Mangalore.

Gururaja Hegde initially briefly explained about cloud computing and cloud computing, the word “cloud” (also phrased as “the cloud”) is used as a metaphor for “the Internet,” so the phrase cloud computing means a type of Internet-based computing, where different services —including servers, storage and applications — are delivered to an organization’s computer. Cloud computing networks are large groups of servers and cloud service providers that usually take advantage of low-cost computing technology, with specialized connections to spread data-processing chores across them. This shared IT infrastructure contains large pools of systems that are linked together. Virtualization techniques are often used to maximize the power of cloud computing.

After that he started explaining about cloud-based technologies Cloud computing networks are large groups of servers and cloud service providers that usually take advantage of low-cost computing technology, with specialized connections to spread data-processing chores across them. This shared IT infrastructure contains large pools of systems that are linked together. Virtualization techniques are often used to maximize the power of cloud computing.

Additionally, because the cloud is a hosted service and reduces the need for physical infrastructure it’s a much lower financial investment; with many cloud-based services designed as a ‘pay as you go model’. Effectively what was previously only available to large multinationals is now available to the smaller guys.

An industry that has embraced the cloud is the accommodation sector. Technology that was once only offered to the larger hotel chains is now obtainable by small and medium-sized properties. Hotels of all sizes are realizing the power of hosted solutions and how it helps to improve business efficiency. He gave a demo on a few projects on how this entire work can be done.

Finally, he gave an explanation between public cloud and private cloud. Cloud computing denotes a cloud computing platform that is outside of an organizations’ firewalls on shared systems. In this scenario, your cloud service provider is in control of the infrastructure. In contrast, a private cloud is the same platform; however, it is implemented within the corporate firewall, under the control of the organization’s IT department.

A private cloud is designed to offer the same features and benefits of public cloud systems but removes a number of objections to the cloud computing model including control over corporate and customer data, worries about security and issues connected to regulatory compliance.

DATE & VENUE: 09/10/2018 at Engineering Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mr. Sagar, Corporate Trainer, HPE, Mangalore.

Mr. Sagar explained about web application and A Web application (Web app) is an application program that is stored on a remote server and delivered over the Internet through a browser interface and web-based application is any program that is accessed over a network connection using HTTP, rather than existing within a device’s memory. Web-based applications often run inside a web browser.

Horde groupware is an open-sourceweb application. In computing, a web application or web app is a client–server computer program which the client (including the user interface and client-side logic) runs in a web browser. Common web applications include webmail, online retail sales, online auction.

Sagar explained about android app development and Android software development is the process by which new applications are created for devices running the Android operating system. Google states that,[3] “Android apps can be written using Kotlin, Java, and C++ languages” using the Android software development kit (SDK), while using other languages is also possible. All non-JVM languages, such as Go (JavaScript, C, C++ or assembly), need the help of JVM language code, that may be supplied by tools, likely with restricted API support. Some languages/programming tools allow cross-platform app support, i.e. for both Android and iOS. Third party tools, development environments and language support have also continued to evolve and expand since the initial SDK was released in 2008. In addition, with major business entities like Walmart, Amazon, Bank of America etc. eyeing to engage and sell through mobiles, mobile application development is witnessing a transformation.

Finally he briefly explained about python programming language. Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability, notably using significant whitespace. It provides constructs that enable clear programming on both small and large scales.

Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, functional and procedural, and has a large and comprehensive standard library.

Python interpreters are available for many operating systems. CPython, the reference implementation of Python, is open source software and has a community-based development model, as do nearly all of Python’s other implementations. Python and CPython are managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.

DATE & VENUE: 13/10/2018 at MBA Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Dr. Rajkumar R, Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE, VIT, Vellore.

Dr. Rajkumar explained Data analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets in order to draw conclusions about the information they contain, increasingly with the aid of specialized systems and software. Data analytics technologies and techniques are widely used in commercial industries to enable organizations to make more-informed business decisions and by scientists and researchers to verify or disprove scientific models, theories and hypotheses.

Data analytics refers to qualitative and quantitative techniques and processes used to enhance productivity and business gain. Data is extracted and categorized to identify and analyze behavioral data and patterns, and techniques vary according to organizational requirements. Modern data analysis tools empower users to retrieve, combine, interact with, explore, and visualize data from any combination of sources, providing them with greater insight into their business processes, their industries, and their customers.

He explained by taking the example of text mining. Text mining provides a means of analyzing documents, emails and other text-based content. Data analytics initiatives support a wide variety of business uses. For example, banks and credit card companies analyse withdrawal and spending patterns to prevent fraud and identity theft. He explained about 3 types of data analytics. 3 Types of Data Analytics: Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive. Jeff Bertolucci of Information Week has written a new article about what distinguishes the three types of Big Data analytics: descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive. Finally he explained about purpose of data analytics. he analytics process starts with data collection, in which data scientists identify the information they need for a particular analytics application and then work on their own or with data engineers and IT staffers to assemble it for use. Data from different source systems may need to be combined via data integration routines, transformed into a common format and loaded into an analytics system, such as a Hadoop cluster, NoSQL database or data warehouse.

Once the data that’s needed is in place, the next step is to find and fix data quality problems that could affect the accuracy of analytics applications. That includes running data profiling and data cleansing jobs to make sure that the information in a data set is consistent and that errors and duplicate entries are eliminated.

At that point, the data analytics work begins in earnest. A data scientist builds an analytical model, using predictive modelling tools or other analytics software and programming languages such as Python, Scala, R and SQL. The model is initially run against a partial data set to test its accuracy; typically, it’s then revised and tested again, a process known as “training” the model that continues until it functions as intended.

DATE & VENUE: 13th November 2018 at 11:00 AM in MBA Auditorium.

Resource Person: Vinutha Rao, Vice President, HCL, Bengaluru.

Vinutha explained how a career in information technology can take on many different forms. IT developers might create software programs or be involved in creating the digital infrastructure for a company. Many IT developers work as consultants and do projects for a variety of different organizations. In today’s information age, developers in any area of technology need to have an understanding of their market, and many developers specialize in a specific area. Every industry today is in some way affected by technology, and companies large and small need knowledgeable tech developers to help them build and maintain a useful infrastructure. Additionally, as technology grows and expands, each industry needs new software to help them keep up with a changing marketplace.

Vinutha Briefly described about IT jobs and careers in the IT industry increasingly require more training and skills. Soft skills such as time management, team building, communications skills, problem solving and customer service skills are all important IT skills you will need to advance your career. Whether your position is a manager, IT engineer, IT analyst, or any other IT job you should take your career development very your career and advance your career up the ladder. The most important part of career development is to understand you are in control of your career. It is not likely that someone is going to come in the door and offer you career advancement. Opportunities to advance your career do arise. When they do you need to make sure you have the skills needed to take advantage of them.

Retaining employees/reducing turnover: Through organizational commitment, career development opportunities help to retain employees and thus prevents turnover. … Productivity and Financial Returns: Employers can also increase productivity and financial returns by investing in their employees via career development. Finally she explained why career development is very important in IT industry like When employees are offered career progression opportunities, it makes them feel like they’re growing with the company and provides a sense of purpose, which in turn fosters loyalty. Career development gives employees something to look forward to. It also feeds the hunger to learn and grow, in life and at work.

DATE & VENUE: 15/02/2019 at MBA Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mr Prithvi G, Senior Engineer, Axiom Research Lab, Bengaluru.


Mr Prithvi G is a Senior Engineer in Axiom Research Lab which works for the TeamIndus Moon Mission & Systems Overview. He explained the mission of the institute and also how the company has established. The Google Lunar X Prize was a competition announced in 2007 that was open to privately funded ventures aimed at inspiring the development of low-cost robotic lunar exploration. The competing craft was required to travel more than 500 metres (1,600 ft) on the lunar surface and transmit high-resolution video and images once there. The TeamIndus’ lunar lander platform was code-named HHK1. The team planned a further modification of the HHK1 for other terrestrial and inter-stellar application after the Google Lunar X Prize competition had completed. For the competition, the HHK1 was to deploy the rovers and then operate as the main communication and control unit consisting of payload, propulsion, structural and other sub-systems.

Prithvi explained about the context with respect to the lunar landing, Mission Trajectory, Lunar Orbit Strategy and Lunar Descent. A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union’s Luna 2 mission.

As TeamIndus company is about to take students for internship Prithvi took the test for 47 students and among them, 6 students were shortlisted from the first round and they went for the second round.

DATE & VENUE: 11/03/2019 at Engineering Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mr Hemanth, Senior Software Engineer, Intel, Bengaluru.


Mr Hemanth Kumar is a Software Engineer in Intel Software. He explained about the Intel Distribution of Python, Intel Optimized Tensorflow, Intel optimized Caffe, Intel Media SDK, Intel OpenVINO toolkit.

He started explaining about Intel Distribution of Phyton, Intel® Distribution for Python* is a binary distribution of Python interpreter and commonly used packages for computation and data-intensive domains, such as scientific and engineering computing, big data, and data science. The product supports Python 2 and 3 for Windows, Linux, and macOS. The product simplifies Python installation by providing packages in a binary form so that everything is preconfigured and no compilation tools are needed, as well as contains all the dependencies for running on popular OS platforms. Python packages have been accelerated with Intel® Performance Libraries, including Intel® Math Kernel Library (Intel® MKL), Intel® Threading Building Blocks (Intel® TBB), Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives (Intel® IPP), and Intel® Data Analytics Acceleration Library (Intel® DAAL). The packages have been optimized to take advantage of parallelism through the use of threading, multiple nodes, and vectorization.

He also explained about the Artificial Intelligence in Intel. An AI accelerator is a class of microprocessor or computer system designed as hardware acceleration for artificial intelligence applications, especially artificial neural networks, machine vision and machine learning. Typical applications include algorithms for robotics, internet of things and other data-intensive or sensor-driven tasks. They are often manycore designs and generally focus on low-precision arithmetic, novel dataflow architectures or in-memory computing capability. A number of vendor-specific terms exist for devices in this category, and it is an emerging technology without a dominant design. AI accelerators can be found in many devices such as smartphones, tablets, and computers all around the world. I is bringing new ways to use massive amounts of data to solve problems in business and industry—and in high-performance computing (HPC). AI applications increasingly take on day-to-day use cases, HPC practitioners—like their commercial counterparts—are looking to move deep learning training off specialized laboratory hardware and software onto the familiar Intel®-based infrastructure already in place for handling a wide variety of HPC workloads.

To enable that workload flexibility, we optimized Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors for HPC and AI. We designed Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) fabric to provide high-performance communications across large clusters of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor-based systems. And we’ve optimized the most widely applied AI frameworks to take full advantage of processor optimizations and available cores.

Hemanth Kumar explained about Intel Caffe. Caffe supports many different types of deep learning architectures geared towards image classification and image segmentation. It supports CNN, RCNN, LSTM and fully connected neural network designs. Caffe supports GPU- and CPU-based acceleration computational kernel libraries such as NVIDIA cuDNN and Intel MKL and its applications are Caffe is being used in academic research projects, startup prototypes, and even large-scale industrial applications in vision, speech, and multimedia. Yahoo! has also integrated caffe with Apache Spark to create CaffeOnSpark, a distributed deep learning framework.

DATE & VENUE: 16/03/2019 at Engineering Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mr. Gautham Bhat, Senior Technical Staff Member and Associate Director with IBM GTS’s Lab, Bengaluru


Mr Gautham Bhat is a Senior Technical Staff member and Associate Director with IBMs GTS’s Lab. He explained how the Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology. Central to this revolution is the mass production and widespread use of digital logic circuits, and its derived technologies, including the computer, digital cellular phone, and the Internet These technological innovations have transformed traditional production and business techniques. Digital technology is a base two process. Digitized information is recorded in the binary code of combinations of the digits 0 and 1, also called bits, which represent words and images. Digital technology replaced analogue signals for many telecommunication forms, particularly cellular telephone and cable systems.

He explained about how long has the technology is been around. Acheulean stone technology 1.6 million years ago (hand axe) Fire creation and manipulation, used since the Paleolithic, possibly by Homo erectus. He explained about the different technologies in the current what industry is expecting like blockchain, artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, data analytics. AI has immense potential to ease and enrich human life. It can eliminate the need of human involvement in tasks that pose a threat to their life and safety. One of the most high-risk situations in Defense, Reconnaissance missions, would need not use human actors anymore soon enough when we develop sufficiently intelligent Autonomous Drones. Something as simple as a Google search employs Artificial Intelligence algorithms, to bring personalized search results to users. Autonomous Weapons and Autonomous Drones are being researched globally, to reduce risks to human lives in Defense and Reconnaissance.

He explained about block chains like Banking and technology are very closely associated and innovations have changed banking drastically over the period of time. The digital innovations in the banking sector started with the introduction of money that replaced the barter system and then the gradual replacement of wax seal with digital signatures. One such disruptive innovation which is changing the banking sector globally is Blockchain Technology (BCT). Blockchain is shared distributed ledger which stores business transaction to a permanent unbreakable chain which can be viewed by the parties in a transaction. Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt the financial business applications as it provides permanent and tamper-proof recording of transactions in a distributed network.

DATE & VENUE: 6^th May, AIET AUDITORIUM

Resource Person: Mr. Pradeep and Mr. Rohith, Senior Technical Staff members, TCS, Bengaluru.

The Initial Learning Program (ILP) is a fully-paid, comprehensive training program that includes a TCS orientation, Product Development Life Cycle training, Case Study Implementation and Project Integration courses, inter-cultural effectiveness workshops, and additional technical training specific to the needs.

 Mr. Pradeep explained about the how the academic institutes are key partners in TCS’ talent acquisition strategy, and we remain the preferred employer at leading engineering campuses across India. Campus Commune, our academic engagement portal that helps students collaborate with their peer groups globally, now has over one million members registered across 19 countries. We also use programming contests such as TESTimony, EngiNx, GameOn, and CodeVita to spot and hire top talent.

Mr. Rohith explained about the progressive working environment in the TCS. TCS is an equal opportunity employer, and subscribes to the Tata Code of Conduct in embracing diversity in race, nationality, religion, ancestry, marital status, gender, age, ethnic origin, physical ability, and sexual orientation. Today, we are one of the world’s largest employers of women. Progressive policies such as extended parental leave, a mentoring program for junior women employees, special leadership development programs for senior employees, a virtual support group on child psychology, and parenting workshops for working parents have gone toward making the workplace more employee-friendly.

Our Center of Excellence for Accessibility works on IT solutions for differently-abled individuals, aiding their integration into the workforce. TCS also runs multiple initiatives to help employees grow in their careers, such as CareerHub, a platform that provides them with mentoring services. We also run Inspire, a specialized program that provides fast-track career progression to high-potential employees. Periodic leadership reviews help us maintain a healthy succession pipeline.

Mr. Rohith explained about the different platforms in TCS like advanced drug development, Connected intelligence platform, ERP on clouds and HOBS.

Finally, they explained about Major objectives of orientation are to (1) gain employee commitment, (2) reduce his or her anxiety, (3) help him or her understand organization’s expectations, and (4) convey what he or she can expect from the job and the organization. It is commonly followed by training tailored to specific job positions.

DATE & VENUE: 15 September 2017 at 10:30AM in Engineering Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mr. Sanjay Hungund, Co-Founder, GITO.me, Bangalore

Gito.Me is a technological platform of CostPrize Online India Pvt Ltd. This Technology Product Company started in Q1 2012. The mission of the company is to bring deep technology innovation to the global retail community. Gito.me is an omni-channel technology platform owned and operated by CostPrize. is an advanced e-commerce enabling platform (www.Gito.me) that allows offline businesses to sell their merchandise online, under their own brands names, and manage their business across ALL business/sales channels and operating models easily. Using cloud-based technology, Gito.me solves deep problems in Omni-Channel (online, offline, mobile) and Hyper-local (hyper activity in local commerce) space. We have 1 patent granted by the Indian Patent Office with multiple candidates in the pipeline.

Software development is the process of computer programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications and frameworks resulting in a software product. Everybody would agree that the launch of a startup is extremely popular these days. Startups are created all the time while software development is in constant evolvement. Of course, creating a company from scratch is a quite challenging and uneasy task.

It is true that startups struggle to be successful. So what does it take to create a prosperous and outstanding project? Which characteristics do successful startups have? Among them, there are general and more specific features for those who perform software development.
Being passionate about your project

Although it may sound too naive and even too simple, it is where the entire process starts. Having a dream to develop a product and being passionate about it is the first step towards the creation of a successful and ambitious project, which is going to satisfy customers’ needs and bring considerable profits in the future.

DATE & VENUE: 15 September 2017 at 11:30 PM in Engineering Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mrs. Roopa Sanjay, Founder, GITO.me, Bangalore

Gito.Me is a technological platform of CostPrize Online India Pvt Ltd. This Technology Product Company started in Q1 2012. The mission of the company is to bring deep technology innovation to the global retail community. Gito.me is an omni-channel technology platform owned and operated by CostPrize. is an advanced e-commerce enabling platform (www.Gito.me) that allows offline businesses to sell their merchandise online, under their own brand’s names, and manage their business across ALL business/sales channels and operating models easily. Using cloud-based technology, Gito.me solves deep problems in Omni-Channel (online, offline, mobile) and Hyper-local (hyperactivity in local commerce) space. We have 1 patent granted by the Indian Patent Office with multiple candidates in the pipeline.

A project is defined as a planned set of tasks outside normal business operations with an established beginning and end date that is limited to a defined budget. Project management is the discipline of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria. A project is a temporary endeavor designed to produce a unique product, service or result with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverable) undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value. The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services. In practice, the management of such distinct production approaches requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies.

The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. The primary constraints are scope, time, quality and budget. The secondary and more ambitious.

DATE & VENUE: 15 September 2017 at 2:00 PM in Engineering Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mrs. Seema Nair, Senior Development Lead, QSG Technologies, Bangalore

A software development process or life cycle is a structure imposed on the development of a software product. There are several models for such processes, each describing approaches to a variety of tasks or activities that take place during the process. Software testing is a process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding the software bugs. It can also be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program or application or product. User Interface Design is its complement, the look and feel, the presentation and interactivity of a product. But like UX, it is easily and often confused by the industries that employ UI Designers.

The marketing of products or services using digital channels to reach consumers. The key objective is to promote brands through various forms of digital media. Digital marketing extends beyond internet marketing to include channels that do not require the use of the internet. Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a web search engine’s unpaid results—often referred to as “natural”, “organic”, or “earned” results. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, video search, academic search,[2] news search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. SEO differs from local search engine optimization in that the latter is focused on optimizing a business’s online presence so that its web pages will be displayed by search engines when a user enters a local search for its products or services.DevOps is the blending of tasks performed by a company’s application development and systems operations teams. In its most broad meaning, DevOps is an operational philosophy that promotes better communication between development and operations as more elements of operations become programmable. Cloud-computing, Agile development, and DevOps are interlocking parts of a strategy for transforming IT into a business adaptability enabler. If the cloud is an instrument, then DevOps is the musician that plays it.

DATE & VENUE: 5th October 2017 at 10:00AM in MBA Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mr. Ananda Padmanabha, Research Associate, Innovation Centre of BMS Innolabs, Bangalore

Mr. Ananda Padmanabha gave a brief introduction on Machine Learning. Machine Learning is a programming computer to learn from the past experience and engineering data. It is an automated detection of useful patterns in data and science of getting computers to perform without being explicitly programmed.

He addressed to the students about how machine leaning can be extended to any area such as anti-spam software to detect fraudulent usage of credit cards, obstacle detection system in vehicles, pattern recognition, web search, computational biology, robotics, info extraction, social network, debugging and medical diagnosis. Pattern recognition can be done for images, text, signature, voice and speech and face detection.

Now a day’s machine learning plays a major role in every field and also has a different classification on machine learning application like learning associations, supervised learning, regressions, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning.

He was explaining to students that in the field of machine learning there are different case studies will come into picture and among that the important field is Google translation, character recognition using machine learning.

For implementing the concepts in machine learning, ‘R’ language is an open source which is normally used and it is very easy to code. Apart from this even python language can also be used in machine learning.

Finally he gave the major difference between Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and also the challenges in machine learning. Machine Learning is not only for computer science, it can be applied in the field of automobile/mechanical engineering, medical/bio-medical, electronics and communications and agriculture.

DATE & VENUE: 6th October 2017 at 11:00 AM in MBA Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Dr. Shridevi Soma, Associate Professor, Dept of CSE, PDACE, Gulbarga.

Sridevi Soma gave a detailed explanation of Digital image processing. It is the use of computer algorithms to perform image processing on digital images. It allows a much wider range of algorithms to be applied to the input data and can avoid problems such as the build-up of noise and signal distortion during processing. It is the human vision- perceive and understanding/ interpretations

In Image processing, it is the analysis and manipulation of a digitized image, especially in order to improve its quality. Low-level image processing is the transformation of low contrast image to high contrast image. Among that there are two stages. 1st stage is getting an image i.e. image requisition and 2nd stage is preprocessing.

High-level image processing is understanding about knowledge based-imitate human cognition and make decisions about the information of the image.

She taught about Image processing and its related fields. They are signal processing, computer/ machine/ Robot vision, Biological vision as a major effort in the brain study, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition.

She explained the fundamental steps in digital image processing like Knowledge about a problem domain are coded into an image processing system in the form of a knowledge database. Elements of digital image processing systems: The basic operations performed in digital image processing systems include (1) acquisition, (2) storage, (3) processing, (4) communication and (5) display. There are different processes are there in DIP. 1) High- Acquisition, preprocessing- Intelligence 2) Medium- Extraction, edge joining 3) Low- Recognition- Intelligence

She gave an introduction to the signals ad function of DIP. Signal and function are having variables with a physical meaning. Scalar functions are sufficient to describe a monochromatic intensity image and vector functions represent color images.

Finally, she told about issues and challenges in DIP. Image filtering, image restoration, image registration, image fusion- fusing images for security, image segmentation- sub-images from main images, image classification- the level of understanding of image

DATE & VENUE: 14th October 2017 at 9:00 AM in MBA Seminar Hall

Vinay shastry gave brief explanation on Localization, which was normally thought to be synonymous with Translation in earlier days, has changed its limits with tremendous growth of Language Industry. It is not just customization of available features into other languages but is a complex process which may even lead to a complete redesign of logic, visual structure or presentation depending on the locale.

The IT Industry defines Localization to be “the adaptation of a product, application or document content to meet the language, cultural and other requirements of a specific target market (a locale)”. Several terms like L10n, M17n, G11n and I18n denote various processes of the Industry but sometimes, they overlap to create confusions and varying definitions. In a broader sense, Globalization includes all these processes.

A typical Internationalization involves:

• Designing and developing to ensure that L10n or I18n deployment is possible. Eg: Usage of Unicode, Concatenation of strings, avoiding code dependency of UI string values, etc.
• Enabling code to support the preferences of local, regional, language, or cultural entities. Eg: Date & time, local calendars, number formats, sorting and presentation of lists, handling of personal names and forms of address, etc.
• Support for possible features of L10n in future. Eg: Adding markup in DTD to support bidirectional text or language identification. Similarly, adding to CSS to support vertical text.
• Separating localizable elements from source code or content, so that they can be selected based on preferences.

AI in Language Industry

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all about using algorithmic technology to leverage all the available data. For Language Industry, AI is best embodied in Machine Learning (ML), a Software Engineering discipline. ML enables learning and recognition of linguistic patterns to successfully automate processes like speech recognition, machine translation and image recognition. Many open source kits use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to produce simple Chatbots, for example. With recent AI developments, especially in NLP and ML, Language Industry is emerging as a potential sector.

Japanese Localization – specialization

• Japan is the third big economy, lacking young resources
• Japanese are good at technology but poor at English
• So, a young engineer with Japanese and English skills is in great demand, all over the world!
• This bilingual market presents a wide range of opportunities for Japanese L10N professionals
• Japanese L10n is now a specialization demanded by many industries all over the world

Future of Localization

I18N significantly affects the ease of product localization and G11n will be the fundamental step in design process. With problems like Y2K in the past, Industry will not take up difficult and time consuming retro-fitting for global deployment.

• So, there is always a growing demand for L10n sector
• Even with great AI tools, Language Industry needs humans
• Designing Human – Machine interaction becomes inevitable

The future will be Human – Machine going hand in hand for globalization requirements.

DATE & VENUE: 14th October 2017 at 11:15 AM in MBA Seminar Hall
Resource Person: Mrs. Rajashree, Senior Quality Manager, Thomson Reuters, Mangalore

Rajashree gave a detailed explanation of testing tools. She started with a brief explanation of software testing. Software testing is a process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs. It can also be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a software program or application or product: Meets the business and technical requirements that guided its design and development. Two forms of testing are 1) Automation testing 2) Manual Testing. Under the automation testing, she explained the important concepts like the decision to automate testing, Test tool application, Automated testing introduction process, Text planning, Design and development, and execution.

She gave the pros and cons of manual testing and automation testing. Under the manual testing she explained important points like manual testing can be done by anyone, it is the very easiest way to improve quality, focusing on the customer’s workflow primarily, it may not identify all test cases, may not identify all defects and it is of lower product quality. Under the automation testing, she explains the important points like faster test cycles can be achieved, defects can be identified faster and finally, it is not cost-effective for less than 3 test cycles.

Automation testing tools are applicable for mobile App testing, HP load runner, HP win Runner. Selenium is a portable software-testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a playback (formerly also recording) tool for authoring tests without the need to learn a test scripting language (Selenium IDE). It also provides a test domain-specific language (Selenese) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. The three components of selenium are IDE, RC, GRID. Selenium IDE Complete List of Commands are addLocationStrategyAndWait, addScript, addScriptAndWait, addSelection.

She neatly explained the framework of selenium. Selenium Framework is a code structure that helps to make code maintenance easy. Without frameworks, we will place the “code” as well as “data” in the same place which is neither re-usable nor readable. Using Frameworks, produce beneficial outcomes like increased code re-usage, higher portability, reduced script maintenance cost, higher code readability, etc.

There is mainly three types of frameworks created by Selenium WebDriver to automate manual test cases. Data-Driven Test Framework, Keyword Driven Test Framework, Hybrid Test Framework. Although there are many benefits that can be achieved by using tools to support testing activities, there are also many risks that are associated with it when tool support for testing is introduced and used.

Finally, she gave disadvantages of using testing tools. In fact, it is the responsibility of the automation tester who needs to handle the tool in a proper way. Because a single mistake during the development of test cases can lead to a fatal situation for the application. It may crash the entire software application if not handled with proper care. So, we can say every advantage comes at the cost of responsibility and we have to accept it. Besides, it also hampers the industry by decreasing the need for man force and hence increasing unemployment. But again if we need quality then we can’t survive with unskilled labor. So we have to take this in a positive mood.

DATE & VENUE: 28 ^th October 2017 at 9:00 AM in MBA Seminar Hall

Resource Person Dr. N Jayashankar, Professor, School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT, Vellore, Tamilnadu

Dr. N Jayashankar gave a brief introduction on security issues in wired and wireless networks. Internet is a a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. He discussed about IPV4 and IPV6 address configuaration. Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth revision of the Internet Protocol and a widely used protocol in data communication over different kinds of networks. IPv4 is a connectionless protocol used in packet-switched layer networks, such as Ethernet. Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is an Internet Protocol (IP) used for carrying data in packets from a source to a destination over various networks. IPv6 is the enhanced version of IPv4 and can support very large numbers of nodes as compared to IPv4. Data communication are the exchange of data between two devices via some form of transmission medium.

He gave brief description of benefits of security issues like safe and stable data exchange environment, joint information protection system, data transmission in compliance with the IP data transmission protocol, quick network connection of new branches and partners, network monitoring and services quality control 24-hours a day.

He discussed about Adhoc On Demand Routing Protocol. An Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector (AODV) is a routing protocol designed for wireless and mobile ad hoc networks. This protocol establishes routes to destinations on demand and supports both unicast and multicast routing. By passing the hollow packets neighbour can identify neighbour nodes ( route discovery). He gave explanation on malicious nodes. If trust value of the Suspect node does not increase with time, the node is termed a Malicious node, and the route containing the Malicious node can’t be selected as a secure route by the source node for sending its packets.

He discussed on security attacks on protocol stacks. The sheer number of DoS attacks makes the study of this topic challenging. However, the OSI reference model can help sort it out. The OSI reference model details each stage of the process required to connect a computer to the network. Developers and manufacturers use the OSI model as a common denominator to improve network communications. He gave explanation on the types of attacks. They are black hole attack, worm whole attack, gray whole attack. He discussed about some of the network related projects such as detection of packet looping attacks, detection of misdirection attacks, detection of black hole attacks, voice based email for the blink, credit card reader with face recognition based on webcam, recognition of hand movement for paralytic.

DATE & VENUE: 19th February 2018, Engineering Seminar Hall

Resource Person: Mr. Krishna Raja H, Senior Program Manager, Oracle, Bengaluru

Krishna Raja gave a detailed explanation of Oracle fusion. He started with a brief explanation of Oracle fusion. Oracle Fusion Middleware is the digital business platform for the enterprise and the cloud. It enables enterprises to create and run agile, intelligent business applications while maximizing IT efficiency through full utilization of modern hardware and software architectures.
Over the past several years, there’s been a lot of talk regarding Oracle Fusion and many people struggle to understand what exactly this means. Essentially “Fusion” refers to Oracle’s Cloud infrastructure (“Fusion” Middleware) and the development of new applications specifically designed for the Cloud and subscription services. More recently, Oracle has focused communications on the business process value and business use of these applications and now refers to these applications and underlying technology simply as “Cloud”. For the purposes of this article, we’ll use the term “Fusion” to describe the underlying technology for those that care, and the term “Cloud” to describe business applications delivered by Oracle in a subscription service model.

He explained about oracle cloud fusion. Oracle Fusion services. The Fusion SaaS offerings can be divided into four primary service categories: Human Capital Management Service, Customer Relationship Management Service, Enterprise Resource Planning Service and Enterprise Performance Management Service.

He explained about fusion application in oracle. The Oracle Fusion service-oriented platform and applications suite joins next-generation enterprise technologies, applications, and services, including Oracle Fusion Applications and Oracle Fusion Middleware, to change the dynamics in the applications marketplace and revolutionize business.

He neatly explained the procurement in oracle fusion. Oracle Fusion Procurement is a modular suite of procurement applications designed to work as a complete procurement solution or as modular extensions to your existing procurement applications portfolio.

Finally, he gave the difference between the oracle fusion and oracle cloud. Oracle Fusion and Oracle Cloud are often used interchangeably and hence lead to initial confusion. However to simplify, Oracle Fusion is the name of the front end application which Oracle has created by combining the previous Oracle EBS, JD Edwards, Siebel and Peoplesoft. Hence the users basically see and perform transactions in Oracle Fusion Applications. Oracle Cloud on the other hand is where the Oracle Fusion Applications reside. Hence unlike the Oracle EBS On-Premise which used to be hosted on servers/data centers in client premises, the Oracle Fusion Applications for a client are stored in remote servers and hence the term ‘Cloud’. The client need not manage the database servers for Fusion Applications. They are managed by Oracle itself. Hope it clarifies

DATE & VENUE: 7^th March 2018, MBA Seminar Hall

Resource Person: Mr. Rajesh R Nambiar, Software developer, Salesforce, Bengaluru.

Salesforce.com, Incis an American cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though its revenue comes from a customer relationship management (CRM) product, Salesforce also sells commercial applications of social networking through acquisition and internal development.

Rajesh gave a detailed explanation of how the next generation professionals have to salesforce is the primary enterprise offering within the Salesforce platform. It provides companies with an interface for case management and task management, and a system for automatically routing and escalating important events. The Salesforce customer portal provides customers the ability to track their own cases, includes a social networking plug-in that enables the user to join the conversation about their company on social networking websites, provides analytical tools and other services including email alert, Google search, and access to customers’ entitlement and contracts.

Salesforce users can configure their CRM application. In the system, there are tabs such as “Contacts”, “Reports”, and “Accounts”. Each tab contains associated information. Configuration can be done on each tab by adding user-defined custom fields. Configuration can also be done at the “platform” level by adding configured applications to a Salesforce instance, which is adding sets of customized / novel tabs for specific vertical- or function-level (Finance, Human Resources, etc.) features. He explained about oracle cloud fusion. Oracle Fusion services. The Fusion SaaS offerings can be divided into four primary service categories: Human Capital Management Service, Customer Relationship Management Service, Enterprise Resource Planning Service and Enterprise Performance Management Service.

He explained about AppExchange and Webservices. web interface, Salesforce offers a SOAP/REST Web service API that enables integration with other systems.

He neatly explained about the Salesforce AppExchange is an online application marketplace for third-party applications that run on the Force.com platform. Applications are available for free, as well as via yearly or monthly subscription models. Applications available range from integrations with SharePoint to mobile approval management. It features 2,948 applications that have driven 3+ million installs. The “AppExchange” is also a place customers can search for cloud consulting partners to help them implement the technology in their own organization. Cloud consulting partners for Salesforce include large companies like IBM’s “Bluewolf” and Accenture as well as smaller ones like Cloudreach.

Finally, he gave a brief explanation of how the Amazon Great Indian Sale will happen and how the next generation students want to work even on the development side without coding. He gave us extra information on how to get into the industry with the proper knowledge of programming subjects.

DATE & VENUE: 06^th April 2018, Engineering Seminar Hall

Resource Person: Mr. Vipin Kumar, Project Manager, Infosys, Mangalore

Vipin Kumar gave a detailed explanation of the Novel algorithm for pattern matching. Modern network security applications, such as network-based intrusion detection systems (NIDS) and firewalls, routinely employ deep packet inspection to identify malicious traffic. In deep packet inspection, the contents of network traffic are matched against patterns of malicious traffic to identify attack-carrying packets. The pattern matching algorithms employed for deep packet inspection must be fast, as the algorithms are often implemented on middle-boxes residing on high-speed gigabits per second links. The majority of patterns employed in network security applications are regular languages. However, regular language-based patterns have limited expressive power and are not capable of describing some complex features in network payload. Back reference is an important feature provided by many patterns matching tools, e.g., PCRE, the regular expression libraries of Java, Perl, and Python. Backreferences are used to identify repeated patterns in input strings. Patterns containing back-references are non-regular languages. Very little work has been done to improve the time-efficiency of back reference-based pattern matching.
He explained the basic idea of the novel pattern approach is to transform a backreference problem to a conditional sub match problem and represent it with a Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA)-like machine subject to some constraints. Our experimental results show that our approach resists known algorithmic complexity attacks, and is faster than PCRE by up to three orders of magnitude for certain types of patterns.

He briefly explained about the novel approach for image compression. The development in communication and the use of multimedia applications has created a remarkable demand for robust ways to store and transmit large databases of images. The current communication system demands compression techniques to store and transmit data in the opposite manner. Compression schemes for images can be used to manage data of high sensitivity with less computational complexity.

He finally neatly suggested a novel algorithm for image compression and pattern matching called Difference Component Analysis (DCA). DCA extracts the most relevant image feature components that identify the image. The DCA is based on the premise that matching images have minimal difference components. The experiment on DCA is done using more than 1000 human face images. The results show that the image can be compressed to a single decimal value and uses less computational steps. The concept can be applied for pattern recognition encryption techniques.

DATE & VENUE: 20/4/2018 at AIET Auditorium

Resource Person: Mr. Rathinaraja Jeyaraj, Research Scholar, Dept of IT, NITK.

Rathinaraja briefly explains about the big data applications in industries. IG DATA is a term used for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it is difficult to process using traditional applications/tools. It is the data exceeding Terabytes in size. Because of the variety of data that it encompasses, big data always brings a number of challenges relating to its volume and complexity. He explains how Industry influencers, academicians, and other prominent stakeholders certainly agree that big data has become a big game-changer in most, if not all, types of modern industries over the last few years. As big data continues to permeate our day-to-day lives, there has been a significant shift of focus from the hype surrounding it to finding real value in its use.

While understanding the value of big data continues to remain a challenge, other practical challenges including funding and return on investment and skills continue to remain at the forefront for a number of different industries that are adopting big data. With that said, a Gartner Survey for 2015 shows that more than 75% of companies are investing or are planning to invest in big data in the next two years. These findings represent a significant increase from a similar survey done in 2012 which indicated that 58% of companies invested or were planning to invest in big data within the next 2 years.

He gave importance to that generally, most organizations have several goals for adopting big data projects. While the primary goal for most organizations is to enhance customer experience, other goals include cost reduction, better-targeted marketing and making existing processes more efficient. In recent times, data breaches have also made enhanced security an important goal that big data projects seek to incorporate.

Finally, he explained the tools used in big data. Here are the top tools used to store and analyze Big Data. We can categorize them into two (storage and Querying/Analysis).
Apache Hadoop, Microsoft HDInsight, NoSQL, Hive, Sqoop, PolyBase, Big data in EXCEL and Presto.