BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ISIM - ECPv5.6.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:ISIM X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.isim.ac.in X-WR-CALDESC:Events for ISIM BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20100101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111215 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111216 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T062454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T062454Z UID:461-1323907200-1323993599@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Special Lecture (18) Industrial Internet by Dr.Abhinanda Sarkar\, Principal Scientist\, Software & Analytics\, GE John F Welch Technology Centre\, Bangalore. DESCRIPTION:International School of information Management (ISiM) organised a Special Lecture (18) on “Industrial Internet” by Dr.Abhinanda Sarkar\, Principal Scientist\, Software & Analytics\, GE John F Welch Technology Centre\, Bangalore\, on 15th December\, 2011 at 11:00 am @ International School of information Management (ISiM)\, Manasagangotri\, Mysore. \nBrief Report:\nDr.Abhinanda Sarkar addressing students at International School of Information Management (ISiM)\, in the course of his Special Lecture on “Industrial Internet” said connecting communication devices and other gadgets that are used for domestic and manufacturing purposes\, would bring in revolutionary changes is the way things have been working so far. He said connecting the service industry\, advertising\, supply chain\, internet and almost all industries on a single platform can be beneficial to consumers as well as serve business interests. He talked about how a service engineer for your washing machine company could show up at your door step and say “Your washing machine called me up” and I am here to service. This would enhance safety and improve efficiency.\nDrawing an analogy\, Dr.Sarkar said industrial internet is Facebook for jet engines\, real-time status updates that help aircraft technicians maintain the log chart with more precision\, thus delivering better service to passengers ensuring care traffic control\, which reduces waiting times and fastens passenger movement a lot than before. Today it is possible to get real time flight data including the condition of the different components of the aeroplane to monitor the flight details and help diagnose problems if any.\nHis talk was full of examples from diverse domains including Health care\, vehicular traffic management & safety and others. \nWhile the Internet in the last 20 years has connected the entire world by connecting the communication devices such as the computers\, mobiles and others\, the Industrial Internet is about the next stage of Internet. The Industrial Internet is all about connecting millions of the machines that help to move\, cure\, power and build the world we live in. The Industrial Internet is Facebook for jet engines: real-time status updates that help aircraft technician’s do maintenance more efficiently\, which keeps passengers on the move. Its “care traffic control:” algorithms that smooth operations in ERs so patient wait times are shorter. And its rail Movement Planner: software that crunches data from locomotives on the move to increase average network speed by 2 to 4 miles per hour\, which saves approximately $200 million in capital and expenses per year. The Industrial Internet is all of these innovative solutions and so many more\, saving customers money and connecting our world. GE’s software engineers are working on developing and more from a B to B perspective\, on “Industrial Internet” to make our lives much better by connecting various machines that are part of our daily lives. \nSpeaker Bio:\n \nDr.Abhinanda Sarkar is currently Principal Scientist\, Software Sciences and Analytics\, in GE Global Research and is based in the GE John F Welch Technology Center in Bangalore. In this role\, Abhinanda works with GE research and engineering teams as they design software and solutions built around data mining\, modeling\, and optimization. He is also Manager of the Edison Engineering Development Program for high-potential engineering talent. Earlier in GE\, Abhinanda has served as a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has led and contributed to services technologies for GE Energy and GE Capital focused mostly on risk management and reliability. In a research career with GE\, IBM\, and MIT\, Abhinanda’s publications and patents have been in applying statistical and probabilistic methods to areas such as wind energy forecasting\, bond market analytics\, biomedical text mining\, content-based image retrieval\, wireless network interference\, gravitational wave detection\, etc. \nDr.Sarkar received his B. Stat and M. Stat degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and his PhD in Statistics (with a minor in Economics) from Stanford University\, USA. He taught Applied Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, USA\, for several years while pursuing research interests in time-frequency methods in stock prices and mutual fund ranking dynamics. He has also been visiting faculty at Stanford and ISI. While at IBM Research\, he received invention achievement awards for his work on pricing of e-commerce services. URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/special-lecture-18-industrial-internet-by-dr-abhinanda-sarkar-principal-scientist-software-analytics-ge-john-f-welch-technology-centre-bangalore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111130 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111201 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T072543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T081700Z UID:469-1322611200-1322697599@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Special Lecture (17) Individual Differences in Phishing Susceptibility: An Integrated Information Processing Model by Dr. Arun Vishwanath\, Director of Graduate Studies\, Associate Professor\, Department of Communication\, Adjunct Associate Professor\, Management Science & Systems\, State University of New York at Buffalo\, USA. DESCRIPTION:Special Lecture Abstract:\nDr. Arun Vishwanath besides explaining the nuances of Phishing also presented an integrated information processing model related to phishing susceptibility. In the light of his extensive research work on the topic\, he helped the audience understand the different methods\, approaches that can be used to mitigate the damage phishing can cause. Based on his research he presented an integrated information processing model of phishing susceptibility grounded in prior research in information processing and interpersonal deception. The model is refined and validated on a sample of intended victims of an actual phishing attack. The data provides strong support for the model’s theoretical structure and causative sequence\, explaining close to fifty percent of the variance in individual phishing susceptibility. The results indicate that most phishing emails are peripherally processed and individuals make decisions based on simple cues embedded in the email. Interestingly\, urgency cues in the email stimulated increased information processing thereby short circuiting the resources available for attending to other cues that could potentially help detect the deception. \nThe findings of the phishing study suggest that habitual patterns of media use combined with high levels of email load have a strong and significant influence on individuals’ likelihood to be phished. Consistent with social cognitive theory\, computer self-efficacy was found to significantly influence elaboration\, but its influence was mitigated by domain specific-knowledge. The presentation covers the model\, its tests\, the findings of the study\, as well as the ways in which individuals can reduce their susceptibility to phishing based deception. \nHaving given an overview of the study carried out in the US context\, he also asked the participating students to leverage and extend similar study in the Indian context. \nSpeaker Profile:\nArun Vishwanath\, Ph.D.\, MBA\, is Associate Professor of Communication and the Director of the Graduate Program at the University at Buffalo. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management Science & Systems. His research focuses on cognitive\, affective\, and behavioural consequences of information on technology adopting units ranging from individual consumers and households to cultures and health care organizations. His research takes a systems theoretic approach and focuses on the dynamic\, embedded nature of decision-making within interdependent system domains and the role of information in shaping the present and future states of such systems. URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/special-lecture-17-individual-differences-in-phishing-susceptibility-an-integrated-information-processing-model-by-dr-arun-vishwanath-director-of-graduate-studies-associate-professor/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110924 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110926 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T082136Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T082136Z UID:476-1316822400-1316995199@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:InfoVision 2011 DESCRIPTION:Venue: Infosys\, Bangalore \nClick here to know more URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/infovision-2011/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110604 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110605 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T091539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T091539Z UID:485-1307145600-1307231999@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Special Lecture (16) : User Experience Design for Enterprise Software By Dr. Todd Barlow Director of Usability and User Interface Design\, USA DESCRIPTION:The talk on “User Experience Design for enterprise software By Dr. Todd Barlow of SAS began with an welcome and introduction note by Prof. Shalini Urs\, Executive Director of the International School of Information Management ( ISiM)\, University of Mysore. There was very good response with many professionals from Infosys and other industries also participating in addition to the students of ISIM and the campus. \nDr. Barlow with his more than 2 decades of expertise in Interface design began his talk by focusing on the challenges and complexity of design issues in our every day devices such as faucets to Mobile phones. Starting from giving a all encompassing definition of UI (User Interface) Design\, he went about elaborating on the relevance of US across the different functions of a company from Sales to customer support services. Given that the criterion of success for Enterprise Software is sales\, and is sold to very large organizations\, and the purchase decisions are made by a higher level decision maker in the company and the feedback is from the end user\, it is a tough challenge to meet all expectations. Most UI Technologies such as Flex\, WPF\, JSF\, JQuery\, iOS are missing in functionality necessary for Enterprise Software\, every enterprise software company needs a UI team in the development process. In his talk Dr. Barlow highlighted the fact that UI team is invariably a very multidisciplinary one with people from computer science to psychology being part of the team.\nThe talk highlighted on the issues of deployment of field personnel as proxies in the usability evaluation and the role of usability experts and domain experts in carrying out usability evaluation. Drawing examples of case studies of Usability inspection of mobile application for : Medical personnel in a hospital ; Parking officers ; Political advisors and others\, the challenges of managing diverse applications and different expectations \, Dr. Barlow engaged the audience in thinking about usability. He also showcased many examples of intentionally bad UI designs such as in case of “Craigslist” and “Ryanair”. The talk also covered the area of diagrammatically opposite reviews of the same product and gave excerpts of the reviews for UI of Microsoft Mobile Phones. \nDr. Barlow also talked about the kinds of problems his UI team at SAS chooses to solve for their customers. They involve complex analytics\, large amounts of data\, large numbers of users\, or some combination of those three and about how usability fits into product development that follows the pattern of the S curve where in the number of users increase with time\, and with more users how they have to be more concerned with the quality of the user experience. The majority of these users are less interested in how something works. They will trust SAS software to deliver valid\, useful information and they simply want the software to work with as little fuss as possible. Dr. Barlow concluded by summarizing how presentation is the key and successful presentation layer has to be Aesthetically pleasing; Appropriate for the Audience for enterprise software\, the Technology\, and the Brand; should be Functional including legibility and accessibility .With the emergence of Software as Service (SAAS) paradigm and the agile approach to software design becoming well accepted\, and games and mobiles becoming the most popular. UI design field has some new challenges to confront. \nSpeaker Profile:\nTodd Barlow is Director of Usability and User Interface Design at SAS. He is responsible for the usability of SAS software\, establishing usability engineering practices\, and defining the role of usability in development processes. He is also an adjunct faculty member in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in human-computer interaction. Prior to working at SAS\, he worked as a consultant designing and evaluating interfaces for consumer electronics\, weapon systems\, and telecommunication software. He holds a B.S.I.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology\, a B.A. from the University of Maryland\, an M.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute\, and a Ph.D. in psychology from North Carolina State University. URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/special-lecture-16-user-experience-design-for-enterprise-software-by-dr-todd-barlow-director-of-usability-and-user-interface-design-usa/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110520T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110520T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T114438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T114751Z UID:491-1305903600-1305909000@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:ISiM – Special Lecture - 15 DESCRIPTION:Topic : Relevance of Information Management in Industry\nSpeaker : Ms.Jagadamba Krovvidi\, Principal Technology Architect\nInfosys Technologies Limited\, Hyderabad.\nVenue : International School of Information Management (ISiM)\, University of Mysore. \nLecture focused on:\n\nData: An Enterprise asset\nData Transformation cycle: From Data to Information to knowledge\nWhat is Enterprise Data Management?\nData Governance driven Enterprise\nData Management Organizations: Governance\, Stewardship\, Services\nData Warehousing and Business Intelligence Management in Enterprise\n\nThe lecture stressed on importance of ‘Data Management’. By using different analogies the significance of ‘Information Management’ in current scenario was made clear. The topics involved the distinct aspects of ‘Data Management’ such as planning\, governance and controlling data. The lecture emphasized on Data mining and data warehousing making performance more elite in the applied fields and the growth of same is still rapid. ERP\, CRM\, etc are the peripheral factors assisting data management and proper use of the same can enhance performance. Eventually the lecture ended with a note that “Data Management is nothing but taking data as input and getting knowledge as output.” \nSpeaker Profile:\nMs.Jagadamba Krovvidi\, Principal Technology Architect\, Infosys Technologies Limited\, Hyderabad\nFunctional Expertise: Information Management including Business Intelligence and Data Management \nMs.Jagadamba Krovvidi has 14 years of professional experience in technology consulting and solutions implementations\, in areas of Data Management\, Master Data Management\, Performance Management\, Analytics and other aspects of DW/BI. Currently associated with Software Engineering and Technology Labs (SETLabs) for defining strategies\, transforming businesses and redesigning processes for specific requirements in the Information Management area. She has broad experience across all the aspects of the SDLC of Data Management and Business Intelligence. \nProject Highlights & Value Delivered to Clients\n\nAs part of her current role at SETLabs\, current responsibilities include analysis of trends and emerging technologies in Information Management and strategy consulting\nVast experience in identifying gaps and thus creating IP and Thought leadership around data management and business intelligence with customers as part of co-creation\nExperience in conducting Business level workshops to conceptualize the KPI reporting strategy\, GAP Analysis and defining Roadmap for overall Information Management including Data Management Maturity assessments and recommendations\nWorked in many BI Strategic engagements across various domains including telecom\, banking\, manufacturing and Insurance\nWorked on Business Processes Automation via BI solutions\, ETL Automation\, and Production Rollout with least monitoring\nIn depth Technology experience with Business Objects\, Data Services\, Cognos8\, Micro Strategy\, Informatica\, Hyperion Essbase\, Teradata\, Oracle and MS SQL Server\nConsulting experience on Data Management – Maturity assessment\, Data Quality\, Profiling\, MDM and Data Governance\nPublished conference papers for Premium conferences like COMAD\n\nAcademic Background\nShe has an MS in Computer Science from Texas University\, USA and a Bachelors from Osmania University AP\, India URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/isim-special-lecture-15/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20110419T090000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20110427T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T115028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T115028Z UID:493-1303203600-1303923600@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Java Workshop - Level 1 DESCRIPTION:ISiM in association with Infosys – Education and Research Division\, Mysore had organized four days hands on workshop. It was a wonderful opportunity for students to learn the fundamentals of Java programming with trainers from the industry having wide experience and architectural expertise. \nMr.Umesh from Infosys Education and Research Division\, Mysore provided the hands-on training with his colleague Mr.Madan. He has done his MS(CS) from University of Mysore\, M.Phil(CS) from Tamilnadu and also has done MBA. His professional experience includes one year at Wipro InfoTech and he has been at Infosys for the past six years. \nThis Java workshop included theory and hands-on lab sessions. The objective of the training was to train the students with industry standards of programming in Java. The course objective was to empower students with concepts of Java Enterprise Edition\, Object oriented programming\, Classes\, Exception handling\, Libraries\, Collection framework\, Java beans\, Reflection API\, Annotations\, Project Quality Metrics\, Quality Analyst for Java and Eclipse IDE. \nDate and Time : 19th\, 20th\, 26th and 27th April\, 2011 from 9am – 5pm URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/java-workshop-level-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110416 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110417 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T120412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T120412Z UID:499-1302912000-1302998399@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:The Challenge - Think\, Explore and Evolve [T2E] - one day workshop Organised by ISiM in association with IBM and CSI DESCRIPTION:International School of information Management (ISiM) in collaboration with Computer Society of India and IBM India\, hosted a one full day workshop on “T2E – Think \, Explore and Evolve Challenge” @ ISiM campus on 16th April\, 2011\, 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM for the students and academia. \nMr. T.N Seetaramu Hon Secretary CSI Bangalore Chapter was present on the occasion from CSI Bangalore\, to oversee the workshop`s activity. A team headed by Mr. DATTATREYA S VELLAL\, Technical Experts Council – Member and Chaired by Ms. Shailaja Mallya from IBM India coordinated in conducting the workshop. An overview about cutting edge technologies such as plug-in development\, WEB 2.0\, And DB Management was presented to the participants. \nThe objective was to introduce these technologies to the students with hands-on Lab sessions that would help students in getting across the ideas of managing data base and developing plug-ins. A session on WEB 2.0 was held in the view that it is more than a set of ‘cool’ and new technologies and services. Topics such as direct or indirect reflections of the power of the network; the strange effects and topologies at the micro and macro level that a billion Internet users produce were also discussed. \nCertificates were distributed to the participants at the end of the program. \nA T2E contest will be held at RV College of Engineering on 07th May\, 2011. Those who attended the workshop are eligible to participate in the contest. An individual or up to maximum of 3 in a team can take part in the contest. \nIBM encourages University innovation through a variety of outreach initiatives that range from technology education\, student projects to curriculum enhancement and collaborative research. This is supported by vibrant and sustained interaction with students and academia using IBM academia collaboration platform\, where academia\, students and IBMers come together to discuss\, share\, build knowledge and future directions leading to innovations for future – a true environment for Social Computing. URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/the-challenge-think-explore-and-evolve-t2e-one-day-workshop-organised-by-isim-in-association-with-ibm-and-csi/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110411 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110412 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T122149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T122149Z UID:506-1302480000-1302566399@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:First Graduation Day Celebrations @ ISiM DESCRIPTION:The International School of Information Management (ISiM)\, University of Mysore\, celebrated its first “Graduation Day”\, on Monday\, the 11th of April\, 2011. \nExecutive Director of ISiM\, Prof. Shalini R. Urs\, welcomed the gathering\, and rightfully pointed out that Graduation Day represents a transformation in the lives of the graduates\, who now step into much greater responsibilities in life. \nDr. P. Anandan\, Managing Director\, Microsoft Research India\, Bangalore\, was the commencement speaker. In his speech\, he highlighted the various kinds of transformation that we\, Indians\, have seen over the ages\, and that the only reason why we keep innovating\, is that we don’t stop aspiring. He stressed upon the fact that we should always aspire to greater heights\, and work hard towards achieving them. His main advice to the graduates was that aspirations should be the driving force in their lives\, and that they should not be limited by success. \nAlso speaking on the occasion was the Chief Guest for the ceremony\, Shri M. N. Vidyashankar\, Principal Secretary\, e-Governance\, IT\, BT and ST\, Government of Karnataka\, who rightfully said that constant innovation is the only way for organizations to sustain in the current global scenario. He also said that one of the main hurdles in the path of constant innovation was the non-acceptance of technology by members of the general public. Shri Vidyashankar highlighted an example each for the success of using technology at their department and for the failure of an innovative education system due to the non-acceptance of technology. He also threw light on the fact that though Indians have significantly contributed to the research and innovation successes at Silicon Valley (California)\, they have not played such a major role in research activities in India\, and advised the students to work towards a career of innovation. \nVice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore\, Prof. V. G. Talawar\, also addressed the gathering\, and supported the remarks made by the other dignitaries\, and advised the graduates and the students present to choose a path of wisdom and innovation. \nThe dignitaries distributed the degree certificates to the graduates. On the occasion\, two graduates\, Mr. Nabhajit Ray (M.Tech Class of 2009) and Mr. Nikesh N (M.Tech Class of 2010)\, were awarded the “Parvathamma Subbaraya Gold Medal“\, instituted with munificent grants from Dr. Chudamani\, an alumnus of the University of Mysore and currently\, the Deputy Librarian at the Indian Institute of Science\, Bangalore. \nDignitaries with Gold Medal Winners \n \nGold Medal Winners Mr.Nabhajit Ray and Mr.Nikesh N URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/first-graduation-day-celebrations-isim/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110219 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110220 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T125428Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T085513Z UID:516-1298073600-1298159999@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Special Lecture (14) on: Open Video Project : Research and Practice By Mr. Gary Marchionini\, PhD School of Information and Library Science Chapel Hill\, NC DESCRIPTION:Prof. Gary Marchionini is Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina where he serves as Dean of the school. He formerly taught courses in human-information interaction\, interface design and testing\, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at SILS. His research areas include Information interaction\, human-computer interaction\, human-centred computing\, information retrieval\, digital libraries\, information architecture\, digital government\, cyberspace identity\, information policy. \nHe delivered a lecture at the International School of Information Management (ISiM)\, University of Mysore\, Mysore\, about the Open Video Project\, whose purpose is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video\, multimedia retrieval\, digital library\, and other research communities. Prof. Gary Marchionini described digital video as “crafted expression”\, which has certain emotional characteristics associated with it when a person records it. He highlighted the fact that the main objective of this project was to make the files available\, and not streams. The reason for this was that files can be reused\, where as streams can’t. However\, he also mentioned about certain tools that were in the recent times available\, which allowed the conversion of a video stream into a file that can be downloaded. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems\, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation\, summarization\, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries. The availability of a common “open” video repository across the world for researchers means that it will serve as a test collection that enables systems to be compared\, in a manner similar to standard corpuses for text retrieval. \nThe Open Video Project is sponsored by and developed at the Interaction design laboratory at the School of Information and Library Sciences\, University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. Prof. Gary Marchionini is the supervisor of the project. This project began in 1998\, with development of a basic framework and digitization of video content\, which were contributed by some organizations such as NASA and by other universities such as Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The first phase of the project was mainly about coding the video files with Metadata\, and making them available online for the researchers. \nMore information about the project can be obtained at: http://www.open-video.org/ \nProf. Shalini R. Urs\, the Executive Director of ISiM\, welcomed the gathering and also delivered the vote of thanks. URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/special-lecture-14-on-open-video-project-research-and-practice-by-mr-gary-marchionini-phd-school-of-information-and-library-science-chapel-hill-nc/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20101227T093000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20101227T093000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T132016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T132016Z UID:526-1293442200-1293442200@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Special Lecture (13) : Talk on Copyrights By Mr. Jared Margolis (BA\, LLB\, BCL) Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong\, Advocate of the Paris Bar 27th of December\, 2010\, ISiM\, Mysore DESCRIPTION:A talk on Copyrights was organized @ ISiM\, University of Mysore by Mr. Jared Margolis\, BA\, LLB\, BCL\, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong\, Advocate of the Paris Bar on 27-12-2010\, 9:30 am. \nThe talk dealt on:\n\nClassic definition of copyright and its need\nWhat does copyright protect?\nDifference between Intellectual property and physical property\nWhat do we mean by Patent\, Trademark etc.\nEvolution of copyrights act and the challenges faced with changing Technology.\nCommon copyright violations.\nDiscussion of British Copyright system & French Copyright system.\n\nShown below are some images from the event\n\n\n\n\nMs. Waltraut Ritter and Mr. Jarod Margolis at ISiM\, Mysore \n\n\n\n\n\nMs. Waltraut Ritter introducing Mr. Jarod Margolis and the topic\, before the talk on Copyrights\, at ISiM\, Mysore \n\n\n\n\n\nMr. Jarod Margolis discussing the issue of Copyrights\, at ISiM\, Mysore \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMr. Jarod Margolis interacting with the attendees of the talk\, at ISiM\, Mysore URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/special-lecture-13-talk-on-copyrights-by-mr-jared-margolis-ba-llb-bcl-solicitor-of-the-supreme-court-of-hong-kong-advocate-of-the-paris-bar-27th-of-december-2010-isim-mysore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101126 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101127 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210518T140643Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210518T140643Z UID:534-1290729600-1290815999@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Special Lecture (12) : Leadership\, Ethics & Persuasive Communication By Dr. Matthew Frank Barney Infosys\, Mysore DESCRIPTION:In his role\, he is responsible for all the leadership processes supporting the selection\, development and succession planning of the senior-most leaders of Infosys worldwide. \nInfosys has over 100\,000 employees in 20 countries around the world\, and is based in Bangalore\, India. Dr. Barney lives and works in Mysore\, India and previously held senior and global roles at The Scientific Leader\, Virtual MindWorks\, Sutter Health\, Merck\, Motorola\, AT&T and Lucent Technologies. \nHe has authored two books\, three patents and presented dozens of papers and presentations throughout Asia\, Europe\, and the Americas. He is a Motorola Master Black Belt and is a Certified Risk Manager by the Institute for Professional Education. He holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; and a Masters and Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from the University of Tulsa. \nHe delivered a talk on “Leadership\, Ethics & Persuasive Communication“\, at ISiM\, Mysore\, on the 26th of November\, 2010. \nFor more information\, please contact:\nMr. Athif Mohammed\nPhone: +91 – 9886772356\nEmail: office@isim.ac.in URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/special-lecture-12-leadership-ethics-persuasive-communication-by-dr-matthew-frank-barney-infosys-mysore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101113 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101114 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T075332Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T075332Z UID:536-1289606400-1289692799@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Cloud Computing Workshop Organized by VMWare in association with Computer Society of India\, Bangalore Chapter and ISiM\, Mysore. Saturday\, 13th of November\, 2010\, ISiM\, Mysore DESCRIPTION:Information technology is changing rapidly\, and now forms an invisible layer that increasingly touches every aspect of our lives. Cloud computing is an emerging new IT delivery model which can significantly change the way IT resources are used. \nInternational School of information Management (ISiM) in collaboration with Computer Society of India and the Cloud Computing leader VMware\, are hosting a one full day workshop on “Cloud & You – A New frontier in Computing” @ ISiM campus on 13th Nov 2010\, 10:00 am- 5:30pm for the students and academia. The ISiM student chapter of CSI will be inaugurated by Dr. T.N Nagabhushan\, Head of Department of Information Science & Engineering\, SJCE\, Mysore. \nThe workshop aims to creating awareness and interest for the next generation computing framework and equip the students for an exciting career in the cloud computing area. The delegates will get hands on experience in using cloud infrastructure. The session will include using a set of physical resources\, create organizations\, data centres and deploy applications in the data centres to demonstrate multi tenancy and usage of elastic resources. The objective is to drive up system utilization and use of virtual infrastructure without performance degradation. VMware virtualization solutions save you valuable time\, money and resources\, so you can focus on IT innovation rather than IT maintenance. \nISiM\, is collaborating with CSI & VMware in working towards facilitating research\, knowledge sharing\, learning and career enhancement for all categories of IT professionals\, while simultaneously inspiring and nurturing new entrants into the industry and helping them to integrate into the IT community. This one day workshop is indented to apprise students the massive scalability & the superior user experience cloud computing can provide. \nFor more information\, please contact:\nMr. Athif Mohammed\nPhone: +91 – 9886772356\nEmail: office@isim.ac.in URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/cloud-computing-workshop-organized-by-vmware-in-association-with-computer-society-of-india-bangalore-chapter-and-isim-mysore-saturday-13th-of-november-2010-isim-mysore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20101028T150000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20101028T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T083414Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T083414Z UID:548-1288278000-1288285200@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Presentation on Cloud Computing by Mr. Vamsicharan Mudiam\, Cloud Leader - IBM India/South-Asia Thursday\, 28th of October\, 2010\, ISiM\, Mysore DESCRIPTION:This talk is aimed at giving a holistic approach on: \n\nWhat is cloud computing\, virtualization\, advantages & \ndisadvantages of cloud computing\nWhat is the current state of implementation \nWhat is the future direction of evolution\, new applications\non the horizon \nWhat new technologies will drive it\, what advantages\ndoes it provide universities\, colleges\, etc.\nWhat what does it mean in the IT employment space\,\nfor those graduating with IT\, CS\, IS & engineering degrees\n\nSpeaker details:\nMr. Vamsicharan Mudiam\nCloud Strategy Head at IBM\, Bengaluru\, India \nThe presentation will be held on Thursday\, the 28th of October\, 2010\, between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM\, at ISiM\, Mysore. \nFor more information\, please contact:\nMr. Athif Mohammed\nPhone: +91 – 9886772356\nEmail: office@isim.ac.in URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/presentation-on-cloud-computing-by-mr-vamsicharan-mudiam-cloud-leader-ibm-india-south-asia-thursday-28th-of-october-2010-isim-mysore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101015 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101016 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T083939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T084018Z UID:550-1287100800-1287187199@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:ISiM Entrepreneurship Dialogue (2) Friday\, 15th of October\, 2010\, ISiM\, Mysore DESCRIPTION:India\, an emerging economy\, has witnessed unprecedented levels of economic expansion\, along with countries like China\, Russia\, Mexico and Brazil. However\, to sustain the momentum & for India to emerge as a superpower\, major infrastructural changes\, along with socialistic programs that address issues such as poverty and unemployment\, need to be implemented. There has been a growing concern for sustained economic development and has strengthened interest in entrepreneurship education with primary focus on exploring practical measures to augment the supply of entrepreneurs. This belief in the academia has encouraged education and training to inculcate and develop entrepreneurial capabilities in people so that they could set up their own enterprises. \nWhat makes entrepreneurship education distinctive is its focus on realization of opportunity. Given entrepreneurship’s potential to support economic growth\, it has been ISiM’s endeavor to develop a culture of entrepreneurial thinking and indoctrinate students to innovate\, develop finance and business acumen in an effort to transform ideas into economic goods. ISiM’s curricula include a course on “Entrepreneurship” and to make entrepreneurship education more pragmatic. \nA mentoring team from CARMA would engage the students of ISiM in a dailogue\, and will comprise of young innovators and mentors including: \nMr. Anuroop Iyengar\, cofounder of Cognet India Pvt. Ltd\,\n a company which is into semantics. \nMr. Joydeep Chakrabarthy\, founder of oddroad Pvt. Ltd\, a travel portal. \nMs. Rupa Patil\, founder Weekend Nuts\, Creating & Designing productive\n and enjoyable weekends. \nMs. Sreeja Iyer\, has 5 to 7yrs experience in the corporate sector and\n is currently validating on couple of ideas. \nMr. Ganapathy Subburathinam\, a failed ideator\, with over\n 5 yrs experience at CTS experimented with couple of ideas before joining\n the mentoring team of CARMA headed by Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan. \nProf. Nandini Vaidyanathan\, Director – CARMA Group\, will be chairing and moderating the dialogue. \nThe dialogue will be held on Friday\, the 15th of October\, 2010\, between 10:00 AM and 4:00 PM\, at ISiM\, Mysore. \nThe dialogue is aimed at grooming students to think\, conceptualize and implement ideas\, new technologies into the workplace or market\, increasing efficiency\, productivity or generating new products or services with an objectivity on concepts of Management\, Strategic planning & fund management. The second half of the dialogue is dedicated to an activity of implementing a business plan which would bring out the entrepreneur in oneself. \nFor more information\, please contact:\nMr. Athif Mohammed\nPhone: +91 – 9886772356\nEmail: office@isim.ac.in URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/isim-entrepreneurship-dialogue-2-friday-15th-of-october-2010-isim-mysore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20100915T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20100915T153000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T085653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T085653Z UID:552-1284564600-1284564600@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:ISiM 5th Anniversary Celebrations Special Lecture (11) by Dr. Edward Cutrell\, Researcher - Manager\, Microsoft Research India\, Bangalore DESCRIPTION:Date & Time : 15th September 2010\, 3:30pm onwards. \nTopic : Computing for Socio-Economic Development at Microsoft Research India \nVenue : International School of Information Management (ISiM)\, University of Mysore. \nSpecial Lecture Abstract\nAs part of its 5th Anniversary celebrations\, the International School of Information Management (ISiM)\, University of Mysore is organizing a Special Lecture on “Computing for Socio-Economic Development at Microsoft Research India “. \nDr. Edward Cutrell\, who is the Researcher Manager of the “Technology for Emerging Markets Group” at Microsoft Research India\, Bangalore\, will be delivering the lecture. \nThe Technology for Emerging Markets (TEM) group at Microsoft Research (MSR) India addresses the needs and aspirations of people in the world’s developing communities. Their research targets people who are increasingly consuming computing technologies and services\, as well as those for whom access to computing remains largely out of reach. \nTEM is a multidisciplinary group engaged in a range of technical and social-science research\, working in the areas of ethnography\, sociology\, political science\, economics\, and psychology. This has enabled TEM to understand the social context of technology and how it relates to individual users. TEM also does technical research in hardware and software to devise solutions that are designed for emerging and underserved markets in rural and urban environments. \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Cutrell will give an overview of the TEM group and highlights two projects his team has been involved with — one\, which is a study seeking to understand how information technologies are used by very low income residents of urban slums\, and another\, which attempts to provide Wikipedia and other digital content offline using DVDs. URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/isim-5th-anniversary-celebrations-special-lecture-11-by-dr-edward-cutrell-researcher-manager-microsoft-research-india-bangalore/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20100903T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20100904T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T090459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T090459Z UID:555-1283508000-1283619600@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Internet Safari - Internet Awareness and Training Programme for Kids DESCRIPTION:Internet Awareness Training Programme For Kids\n03rd and 04th of September 2010 \nInauguration by: \nProf. T. N. Nagabhushan\nSpecial Officer\, VTU E-Learning Centre\, SJCE Campus\, Mysore \nTime:\n10:00 AM to 5:00 PM \nVenue: \nInternational School of Information Management\, \nUniversity of Mysore \n(Behind Jayalakshmi Vilas Palace) \nFree lunch and Internet Goodies Given \nFor more details\, contact: \nMr. Ashish Ray H C \nPhone: +91-9481821769 \nE-Mail: ashish@isim.net.in \nIn Association With \n \nNational Internet Exchange of India\nDepartment of Science & Technology\nGovernment of India URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/internet-safari-internet-awareness-and-training-programme-for-kids/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20100826T153000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20100826T153000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T105011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T105011Z UID:564-1282836600-1282836600@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:The American Library\, U.S. Consulate General\, Chennai and ISiM present Panel Discussion on "Defining Internet Freedom" DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the American Library\, U.S. Consulate General\, the International School of Information Management (ISiM)\, University of Mysore\, is organizing a panel discussion on the theme “Defining Internet Freedom”. The objective is to understand the issues and challenges of the freedom of internet. \nGovernments and societies across the globe have adopted diverse legal and policy positions on the issue of internet freedom. The notion of internet freedom remains an enigma\, and has raised many threats such as privacy\, copyright and others. \nThe question remains how much freedom is too little or too much. This panel will dwell into these issues and contribute to better awareness and understanding of the same. \nHillary Clinton\, the U.S. Secretary of State\, in January 2010 said that the Internet was a new nervous system for our planet\, and that information had never been so free. How different governments and societies confront these new and transformative technologies is the subject of the June 2010 issue of eJournal USA\, published by the Bureau of International Information Programs of the U.S. Department of State. This issue can be accessed on the internet at: http://www.america.gov/publications/ejournalusa.htm#0610\nWe would like to invite you to participate in this event and contribute to the rich interactions. \nThis event will be chaired by Ms. Corinna E. Ybarra Arnold\, who is the Cultural Affairs Officer at the U.S. Consulate General at Chennai. She will also be leading the discussion. The event will be presided by Prof. V. G. Talawar\, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore\, who will also be moderating the discussion. The panelists include Prof. Shalini R. Urs\, the Executive Director of ISiM\, along with Ms. Corinna E. Ybarra Arnold\, and Prof. V. G. Talawar. \nPanelists:\nMs. Corinna E. Ybarra Arnold \nCultural Affairs Officer\, U.S. Consulate General\, Chennai \nProf. V. G. Talawar \nVice-Chancellor\, University of Mysore \nProf. Shalini R. Urs \nExecutive Director\, International School of Information Management\, University of Mysore \nEvent Date: August 26\, 2010 \nTime: 3:30 PM \nProgramme:\n3:30 PM Welcome by Prof. Shalini R. Urs \n3:35 PM Address by Ms. Corinna E. Ybarra Arnold \n3:40 PM Panel Discussion on “Defining Internet Freedom” \n5:30 PM Closing Remarks by Prof. Shalini R. Urs \n5:40 PM Tea \nFor more information\, please contact: \nAthif Mohammad \nPhone: +91-9886772356 \nE-Mail: office@isim.ac.in URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/the-american-library-u-s-consulate-general-chennai-and-isim-present-panel-discussion-on-defining-internet-freedom/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100622 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T120829Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T120829Z UID:585-1277078400-1277164799@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:ISIM joins University of Arizona and University of Hong Kong to host PAISI Workshop@PAKDD 2010\, Hyderabad\, India\, June 21. DESCRIPTION: URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/isim-joins-university-of-arizona-and-university-of-hong-kong-to-host-paisi-workshoppakdd-2010-hyderabad-india-june-21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100617 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100620 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T120627Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210604T134314Z UID:573-1276732800-1276991999@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:ISiM Workshop on Intelligence & Security Informatics June 17-19\, 2010 DESCRIPTION:Combating terrorism has occupied centre-stage across governments\, security agencies\, policy makers\, academia\, industry and society at large for obvious and understandable reasons. In the academic and industry circles\, past decade has witnessed significant interest in security-related research in a wide range of applications spanning across national and international security\, economic and societal security\, and including personal and community security. Academic disciplines especially centered on Information Technologies such as information and computer sciences\, information systems\, human-computer studies\, technology adoption\, and policy studies have made rapid progress in developing and evaluating customized frameworks\, methodologies\, techniques\, and systems to meet specific information processing and knowledge management challenges of “security” and “Intelligence”. An emerging field of cross-disciplinary study\, called the Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI)\, encompassing these efforts through an integrated technological\, organizational\, and policy-based approach has evolved. This multidiscipline is shaped by research and applications in fields from data/text/web mining to knowledge management to cognitive science to social psychology. The emergent field also has spawned professional societies and conferences\, to build a professional community – \nThis emergent field has good prospects for and demands best of the young minds to expand and strengthen the domain and help contribute to the end goal of Secure and Smart society. The Workshop would help achieve this goal. \n \nFigure 1. Research framework for ISI from H. Chen\, “Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security: Information Sharing and Data Mining\,” Springer\, 2006. \nThis workshop on ISI 2010 will provide a learning platform for students and professionals\, who focus on ISI research. We believe that this summer school will enrich the understanding of the emerging domain of ISI. \nThe Three day Workshop will have one talk and three Tutorials: \nTalk: Competitive Intelligence and Business Strategies by Dr. R.N. Prasad\, Senior Lead Principal. Education and Learning Division\, Infosys Technologies\, Mysore. \nTopics covered include:\n\nPrinciples and Practice of CI\nMarket threats\, changes and new opportunities and trends.\nCI categories: Strategic\, tactical\, adhoc and continuous.\nCI Vs. BI\nCI tools\nMetrics and best practices\nWeb Analytics and methods\n\nTutorial 1: Stream Data Mining and Its Applications in security informatics by Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham\, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Texas at Dallas. \nAbstract :\nData streams are continuous flows of data. Examples of data streams include network traffic\, sensor data; call center records and so on. Their sheer volume and speed pose a great challenge for the data mining community to mine them. Data streams demonstrate several unique properties: infinite length\, concept-drift\, concept evolution and limited labeled data. Concept-drift occurs in data streams when the underlying concept of data changes over time. Concept-evolution occurs when new classes evolve in streams. Data streams may also suffer from scarcity of labeled data since it is not possible to manually label all the data points in the stream. This tutorial will present an organized picture on how to handle various data mining techniques: in particular\, how to handle classification problem in stream domain\, and how to handle clustering in evolving streams. \nDuring this tutorial we also present how the aforementioned properties are addressed for handling the data mining techniques. \nTutorial Outline:\nWe will introduce stream mining with examples\, and present its characteristics and challenges and current state of the art\, and its application to security. \n\nIntroduction\,\nData mining applications for security\,\nSuspicious event detection\,\nFace detection\nWeb page prediction\nBuilding a classification model using scarcely labeled training data based on semi-supervised clustering and active learning.\nTechniques that address all four major challenges to data stream classification: infinite length\, concept-drift\, concept-evolution\, and limited labeled data.\nClassification techniques for evolving data streams (i.e.\, feature set changing along with concept evolution) focusing on textual stream.\nClustering techniques for evolving data stream.\nApplications of stream mining in various domains including\nCurrent state of the art of data intensive stream mining using cloud computing\, namely\, Hadoop.\n\nTutorial 2: Machine Learning Techniques for Crime Data Analysis by Dr. Michael Chau\, Assistant Professor\, The University of Hong Kong. \n\nIntroduction to Machine Learning\nTypes of Learning\nMachine Learning Techniques\nDecision Trees\nProbabilistic Models\nNeural Networks\nApplications in Crime Data Analysis\nNetwork Analysis and Visualization\nTextual Analysis\nHands on with WEKA\n\n\n\n \nFaculty:\n\nDr. R.N.Prasad\, Senior Lead Principal\, Education & Research — Infosys Technologies Ltd.\, Mysore & his Team.\nDr. Bhavani Thuraisingham\,  Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Texas at Dallas.\nDr. Michael Chau \,Assistant Professor\,The University of Hong Kong.\n\nURL:  http://www.business.hku.hk/~mchau/ \nWorkshop Chair: \n     Shalini R. Urs\nExecutive Director and Professor\nInternational School of Information Management\, University of Mysore\nURL: http://www.isim.ac.in/shalinirurs.htm\nRegistration Details: \n\n\n\n          Registration Fee (Corporate)\n: INR 4000\n\n\n          Registration Fee (Academic)\n: INR 2000\n\n\n          Registration Fee (Students)\n: INR 1000\n\n\n\n(Accommodation available on twin sharing basis costing Rs. 1\,000/- per day) \nPayment Mode Details: \nPayment can be made through either DD or Wire Transfer. \nContact for registration: \nLohith Krishnamurthy \n\nMob: +91 9886772356\nEmail: lohith@isim.ac.in URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/isim-workshop-on-intelligence-security-informatics-june-17-19-2010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100427 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100428 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T123824Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T123824Z UID:587-1272326400-1272412799@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:New Ventures India Awareness Programme\, April 27th\, 2010 DESCRIPTION:Objective:\nTo sensitise various stakeholders about green business opportunities and what NVI is doing to assist the development and growth of green businesses by facilitating fruitful interaction between entrepreneurs\, mentors\, business advisors and potential investors. \nAudience:\nPrimary audience is emerging entrepreneurs who are currently running green business enterprise and are looking to scale up. Service providers\, investors\, successful entrepreneurs\, policy makers are also invited to share their experiences and also with a view to their interaction and ultimate deal facilitation. \nProgram:\nIt is a total of two hour presentation-cum-Q&A session followed by networking over high tea. \n\n\n\nSuggested Program Draft\n\n\n15:45hrs Registration\n\n\n1600 hrs – 1800 hrs\n\n\n16:00 hrs\nWelcome Address\nCII\, Mysore\n\n\n16:05 hrs\nIntroduction about NVI and opportunities in green Business space\nHemant Nitturkar New Ventures India\n\n\n16:25 hrs\nThings to watch out for while growing your Business\nNandini Vaidyanathan CARMa Ventures Services\n\n\n16:45 hrs\nWhat do investors look for before investing in your company?\nIndus Khaitan* The Morpheus\n\n\n17:05 hrs\nQ & A\n\n\n17.30 hrs\nNetworking High Tea URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/new-ventures-india-awareness-programme-april-27th-2010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20100426T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20100426T170000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T124446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T124446Z UID:604-1272297600-1272301200@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Akshara Foundation\, April 26\, 2010 DESCRIPTION:The delegates from Akshara Foundation\, Bangalore visited ISiM on the 26 Apr 2010 to explore the opportunities of working together on areas of common interest. \nAkshara Foundation is a Bangalore-based Public Charitable Trust with the mission to ensure that every child is in school and learning well. Established in the year 2000\, the foundation has a range of programmes that provide multiple solutions for universalizing elementary education. The organization was set up primarily to improve learning outcomes among primary school children in all government schools in Karnataka. \nThe event started at 4PM with Prof. Shalini R. Urs\, Executive Director\, ISiM introducing the four guests – Mr. Gautam\, Mr. Alok\, Ms. Shivangi and Ms. Tara to the audience. Mr. Gautam then addressed the gathering and spoke about the vision and the operating model of their organization. He told that the vision of the organization was to improve the quotient of ‘functional literacy’ among the students of government schools. As a part of the vision\, it was necessary to continuously monitor the capability of the students over a period of time. This huge amount of data would the need to be analysed to draw meaningful inferences. He encouraged the students pursuing ‘M.Tech in Information Systems and Management’ to take up some of the technical problems related to ‘Data Analytics’ as an internship project and help them solve it. He further opined that this way\, students could simultaneously learn and contribute towards a noble cause. \nDownload the presentation slides URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/akshara-foundation-april-26-2010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20100412T100000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20100413T163000 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T130838Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210604T134452Z UID:608-1271066400-1271176200@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:Internet Safari\, April 12-13\, 2010 DESCRIPTION:Internet Awareness Training Programme For Kids \n12th and 13th of April 2010 \n10:00 A.M to 4:30 P.M \nVenue: International School of Information Management\, University of Mysore \n(Behind JayalakshmiVilas Palace) \nFree lunch and Internet Goodies Given \nContact for details: 9481821769\, 9731133944\, and 9481036439 \nSupported by URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/internet-safari-april-12-13-2010/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100409 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100411 DTSTAMP:20260609T182604 CREATED:20210519T135940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210519T135940Z UID:612-1270771200-1270943999@www.isim.ac.in SUMMARY:SNA workshop\, April 7-9\, 2010; Faculty – Prof. Kevin Crowston. DESCRIPTION:Curtain comes down to the 3 day workshop on ‘Social Network Analysis (SNA)’. We thank the speaker and the participants for making it a grand success. \nDownload Workshop Brochure \nContext and relevance\nSocial network analysis as a field of study is growing rapidly and in popularity. It is now evolving into a new paradigm across academia\, business\, industry\, popular culture and folklore. It is both an approach and a tool to uncover and understand the hidden side of connections that drive certain phenomenon involving a network of human players. SNA is the technique of mapping and monitoring the relationships and flow of information/knowledge between individuals\, teams\, organizations\, electronic devices\, URLs and other interconnected entities. With the success of social networking tools like Facebook\, Twitter\, Myspace and Orkut with the masses\, their influence on the group behavior and opinions are being increasingly felt every day. SNA has gained currency as an effective tool to study those invisible paths or lines that show the ties or links between people\, organizations and phenomena themselves. It has been deployed to uncover and visualize hidden patterns in as diverse groups as academic communities to terrorists communities; as diverse phenomenon as correlating performance and creativity to who will be the next US president. SNA is since being perceived from being a suggestive metaphor to an analytic approach to a paradigm\, with its own theoretical statements\, methods\, social network analysis software\, and researchers. \nWorkshop Objective\nIntroduce the audience to the goals and perspectives of network analysis. \n\nUnderstanding of network data and issues related to collection\, validity\, visualization and mathematical/computer representation.\nMethods of detection and description of structural properties such as centrality\, cohesion\, subgroups\, cores\, roles etc.\nAt the end of the course\, the participants will be\,\nAble to examine data in ‘social networks way’\nIdentify and formulate network analysis problems\nSolve them using network analysis software and\nInterpret the obtained results.\nThe course will be blend of lectures and lab sessions.\n\nAbout the Faculty:\n \nProf. Kevin Crowston is a Professor of Information Studies at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies since 1996. He received his A.B. (1984) in Applied Mathematics (Computer Science) from Harvard University and a Ph.D. (1991) in Information Technologies from the Sloan School of Management\, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His current research interests include: empirical studies of coordination-intensive processes in human organizations; theoretical characterizations of coordination problems and alternative methods for managing them; and design and empirical evaluation of new kinds of computer systems to support people working together. A specific example of the final interest is the application of document genre to the World-Wide Web. \nSoftware tool used for analysis:\n Pajek – Program for Large Network Analysis (read more…) \n  \nWho should attend?\nHealthcare Professionals \nSocial network analysis has been used in epidemiology to help understand how patterns of human contact aid or inhibit the spread of diseases such as HIV in a population. \nInformation Managers \nThe evolution of social networks can sometimes be modeled by the use of agent based models\, providing insight into the interplay between communication rules\, rumor spreading and social structure. \nAdministrative Agencies \nSNA can also be an effective tool for mass surveillance – for example the analysis of social networks to determine whether or not a particular individual has criminal tendencies. \nInnovators/Change Managers \nDiffusion of innovations theory explores social networks and their role in influencing the spread of new ideas and practices. Change agents and opinion leaders often play major roles in spurring the adoption of innovations\, although factors inherent to the innovations also play a role. \nBrand Managers \nIt has been widely accepted that the social networking sites have tremendous influence on forming opinions about products/brand. An understanding of the nature and dynamics of social networking can be invaluable. \nMarketing Executives \nThe digital marketing age has brought with it a plethora of options to market once products and services. Also\, public opinion and reviews have never been taken more seriously than after the advent of social networking sites. An understanding of the network analysis and tools to simulate them can be precious. \nAcademic Researchers \nSince every discipline in this world— social sciences\, humanities\, science and technology—involve human actors\, SNA has gained currency as an effective research tool .The SNA paradigm offers a new and different set of concepts and analytic tools\, beyond those provided by standard quantitative (particularly\, statistical) methods \nDetailed Program Schedule\n \n\n\n\nDay 1\nDay 2\nDay 3\n\n\n\n\nThe network perspective\nBasic graph-theoretic concepts\nNetwork data collection\nNetwork data management\nTypes of networks.\nPajek and network analysis software.\n\n\n\n\nStructural Holes and Ego Network Analysis\nMeasuring Centrality\nDetecting Cohesive Subgroups\nMeasuring Structural Equivalence\nAffiliation Networks / Co-Membership\n\n\n\n\nClustering and block modeling.\nTemporal\, multi relational and sequences of networks.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nWorkshop Venue\nCourse fee2\n\n\n\nInternational School of Information Management (ISiM) University of Mysore\,\nManasagangotri\, Mysore 570006 \nContact for registration: \nJayanth Jagadeesh \nMob: +91 9663376680 \nEmail: jayanth@isim.ac.in \nShweta \nMob: +91 9663317770\n \n\nRegistration Fee (Regular) : INR. 8000\nRegistration Fee (Academics) : INR. 6000 \nRegistration Fee ( Students ) : INR. 2000 \nEarly bird incentive: Discount of INR. 1000* \n* (if registered on or before March 25\, 2010)\nGroup Registration: 10% discount if 3 or more registrants from the same organization. (Not applicable for students)\n \n\n\n\nRegistration fee will include the course material\, lunch and refreshments. \nDownload the Registration Form \nNote: Accommodation can be availed for 4 nights at an additional cost of Rs. 4\,000 on a twin sharing basis. URL:http://www.isim.ac.in/event/sna-workshop-april-7-9-2010-faculty-prof-kevin-crowston/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR