Media Release
Mangalore, Oct 5: The inaugural of Anveeksha-2010, a national-level paper presentation competition organized by the IT students of AIMIT, St Aloysius College (Autonomous) was held on October 5 at AIMIT auditorium at Beeri, Kotekar.
Prof Dr Abdul Rahiman, former vice-chancellor of Kannur and Calicut Universities was the chief guest and inaugurated the programme by lighting the lamp.
“Make use of God given opportunities to come up in life. You are happy to be at AIMIT which offers excellent facilities, make use of them by working hard” said Prof Rahiman to the students gathered for the inaugural.
He compared his time when one had to struggle just to get references and abstracts of publications. There was no easy access to journals. The present generation of scholars have access to journal and in the split of a second they can access any article and publication from anywhere in the world. He requested the students to access the library facilities and read a lot and thus increase their knowledge.
His last four suggestions to those gathered were to read on subject matter and also on general topics; have sound computer knowledge; improve English language skills and try to publish research findings in reputed journals and magazines.
Fr Denzil Lobo, director, AIMIT in his inspirational message to the students talked about the drastic changes that have taken place during the last 150 years and spoke about the breathtaking technological innovations that would happen by 2050. He mentioned about flying cars, teleportation, ubiquitous computing devices, chips which could sense one’s own thoughts and the feelings of others.
He also mentioned the future developments which would be in the field of computers, smart travel, and smart communication devices, media and public services,. He told the students that ideas have changed the world and if they really work hard they would be contributing towards development of technologies of the future. He said, Anveeksha is an effort to promote such ideas and hoped that at least some from the audience would make a difference and be innovators of future technologies.
Prof Santhosh Rebello, dean, IT and Bioinformatics section of AIMIT introduced the chief guest , Prof Manimhozhi, the faculty coordinator welcomed the gathering and Cedric Mascarenhas, student coordinator of Anveeksha proposed the vote of thanks.
During the day various speakers on various topics. Dr Ozwald Mascarenhas, chairman, MBA dept, AIMIT gave a presentation on cyber ethics. Prof Dr Manjayah spoke on networks and also showed a movie about “Warriors of networks,” a presentation on packet switching. Then students did the paper presentations on four technical areas.
The sessions were held at two locations. Students from various colleges from Mangalore and Bangalore participated in the competitions. Every track had a keynote address, followed by the presentations by students. Prof Dr Balaji spoke on Bioinformatics. He dealt with various algorithms. Prof Dr B H Shekar delivered an address on Digital Image Processing Applications. He also dealt with applications in medicine, defence, environmental science, manufacture and forensic applications.
AIMIT won the first place in three of the four tracks while Joythi Nivas Bangalore won Track-1 on Networks.
The valedictory programme was held at 5 pm. Fr Swebert D’Silva, the principal, St Aloysius College (Autonomous) was the chief guest. He gave away the certificates and prizes to the award winners.