CENSA Sports and Games 2012-Circular

      

This is to inform all the students of CSE/ISE that CENSA will be conducting indoor games.

They are as follows –

SHUTTLE BADMINTON      --    26^th February, 2012

(Boys Doubles, Girls Doubles, Mixed Doubles)
[An Entry fee for Shuttle Badminton is Rs. 25/- per student]

Venue – Amrutha Bhavana, near Jyothi Hospital

CHESS                                    --    27^th February, 2012

(General)

CARROM                               --    28^th February, 2012

(Boys Doubles and Girls Doubles)

Interested ones can enroll their names to the class CENSA representatives.

The Great Mind Challenge Guidance Workshop

        On Thursday last week, the 16th of February, 2012, Mr. Chinmay Saraswat from IBM visited our campus to enlighten the students of CSE/ISE branches about the procedures of participation in TGMC. He introduced us to tools provided by IBM for effective project development viz-a-viz. Tivoli, RAD, DB2, etc.
                                                                                                                     ----P.S.Pai

What is TGMC?
The Great Mind Challenge (TGMC) is an annual nationwide software development competition, created by the Academic Initiative of IBM. The competition currently takes place only in India and is only open to engineering students from within the country.

IBM DB2 9.7 Workshop

        From the 21st of October 2011, a workshop was conducted in our campus, at the behest of CENSA. The  subject of discussion was IBM DB2 9.7. The program was conducted exclusively for the pre-final year students.  The resource person was Mr. Ratnam from IBM. The students were given appropriate training on the IBM product. An online examination was conducted to assess the knowledge they had gained on the subject. The exam was conducted on the 15th of November, 2011. A total of 59 students cleared the exam and were certified as IBM professionals.
                                                                                        ---P.S.Pai

What is IBM DB2?
The IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a relational model database server developed by IBM. It primarily runs on Unix (namely AIX), Linux, IBM i (formerly OS/400),z/OS and Windows servers. DB2 also powers the different IBM InfoSphere Warehouse editions. Alongside DB2 is another RDBMS: Informix, which was acquired by IBM in 2001.

IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8 Workshop

        From the 23rd of December 2011 a sponsored workshop was conducted by IBM on one of its products, IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8. The resource person was Mr. Mohammed Adnan, representing IBM. The duration of the program was four days followed by an online examination which was conducted on the 25th of January 2012 under the supervision of Mr. Sachin Kumar R.S., Representative from the Academic Initiative wing of IBM. The workshop was conducted exclusively for the final year students. A total of 85 students cleared the online test and were certified as IBM professionals.

                                                                                             ---P.S.Pai

What is Lotus?
IBM Lotus Notes is the client of a collaborative client-server platform. IBM Lotus Domino is the application server. Lotus Notes provides integrated collaboration functionality, including email, calendaring, contacts management, to do tracking, instant messaging, an office productivity suite (IBM Lotus Symphony), and access to other Lotus Domino applications and databases. Lotus Notes can also be integrated with additional collaboration capabilities including voice and video conferencing, online meetings, discussions, forums, blogs, file sharing, micro-blogs, and user directories. In addition to these standard applications the organization may use the IBM Lotus Domino Designer development environment and other tools to develop additional integrated applications such as request approval / workflow and document management.

IBM Center of Excellence Inaugurated at KVGCE

        On the 12th of October 2011, at the behest of CENSA, KVGCE started its partnership with IBM by having the IBM Center of Excellence inaugurated in our department's laboratory. The lab was inaugurated by Mr. Lawrence Mohanraj, the Rergional Manager for IBM Academic Initiative. The occasion was presided over by Sri. P.Venkataramana Gowda. We also had Mr. Sachin R.S. from IBM as well as Dr. K.Chidananda Gowda, former vice-chancellor of Kuvempu University as chief guests.
         Dr. Gowda shared his experiences with IBM computers and NASA from over three decades ago. By citing jocular examples he briefed us on the power of science and technology and its transition from then to now. Mr. P.Venkataramana Gowda, as always, inspired us with his thoughts and guidance. He has indeed been a strong support for us from the side of the management. Our honorable Principal, Dr. N.A.Jnanesh observed the co-incidence of the Silver jubilee year of KVGCE with the Centenary year of IBM. We at KVGCE, deem ourselves lucky to be a part of this historic bond. A bond we all look forward to.
        Before I conclude, I wish to convey my heartfelt thanks to Madam. Tajunnisa N.M. and Prof. Rajesh.D.S. as well as the student ambassadors of IBM academic initiative at our institute for making the day a grand success. I also thank the college management for letting this day happen. I do this in my personal capacity and on behalf of the entire department.

------Suraj Pai

IBM Software Center of Excellence Lab

(As part of IBM Academic Initiative)

Wednesday, 12^th   October 2011

Venue: Auditorium

At 3.00 p.m

Inauguration by

Mr. Lawrence Mohanraj

Regional Manager for IBM Academic Initiative.

Chief Guest

Dr. K. Chidananda Gowda

Former Vice Chancellor, Kuvempu University.

Mr. Sachin Kumar R S

IBM Academic Initiative, IBM India Pvt Ltd

Presided by:

Sri   P. Venkatramana Gowda

Secretary, A.O.L.E(R), Sullia

                 Dr. N.A Jnanesh                         Ms. Thajunnisa N.M                   Prof. Ujwal U.J

                      Principal                                        Coordinator                                     HOD

                 KVGCE Sullia                               Dept of CSE/ISE                    Dept of CSE/ISE

                                                                    Student Ambassadors

                                                                                 Ezaz

                                                                        Vyshali Rao K P

Profile of the Chief Guest

Vivek Rp - A Man With Ambitions! 

I am Vivek Rp from India's Silicon Valley Bangalore. Founder & CEO of Oxi Technologies and BOX OS. Curator @ MeetMyIdeas. Chief-Editor at FounderBits. Co-Founder of Evnts Corp. One of the youngest entrepreneur of India. Have been featured in many Indian Media (Deccan Herald, DNA, ETV, TV9, Bangalore Mirror, YourStory). Very Passionate about Web and Technology. Have been in Web Industry from around 5years. Inspired by history makers like Steve Jobs (Apple Inc), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Have met lots of great entrepreneurs like Chris Andreson (TED Founder), Alexis Ohnanian (Reddit Co-Founder), Shouvick, Sharadh Sharma(Yahoo India).

Vivek Rp : http://vivekrp.com | http://vivekrp.in | http://about.me/vivekrp

Oxi Technologies - Web Designing, Development & Hosting

Oxi Technologies is also known as OXITECH is a Web Designing, Development and Hosting StartUp based in India's Silicon Valley Bangalore. Specialized in Web & Brand Designing & Web Application Development. Creator of BOX OS. Our Services includes Software Development & Testing, Graphic Designing, Printing Solutions, SEO, Web Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Internet Advertising, Brand Developing, Web Consulting, Animations & 3D Animations. 

BOX OS - Your Cloud Computer!

It is a cloud storage service with the interface and functions like an Operating System. In one line "It is like your computer in cloud (internet)"

With BOX OS you can store your files on our cloud and access them from anywhere and using any device. Just you need one browser and a internet connection to get your files anywhere. Main feature of BOX OS is you don't need to download any file to view/watch/listen/edit it. That means no need to have any software in your actual computer. We are having cloud applications to open all kind of files. Like you can view/edit your MS Office Word, Excel files. Can view your images, Can listen to your music files, Can watch your videos. Inside the browser itself. 

BOX OS  : http://boxos.net & http://bit.ly/pptboxos

Annual Plan of Action

CENSA

Computer Engineering Students Association

ANNUAL REPORT

2011 – 2012

 ODD SEMESTER

Date	Event
30/09/2011	A Technical Talk on “Cloud Computing”
09/10/2011	Campus recruitment drive by OxiTechnologies, Bangalore
10/10/2011	CENSA Inaugural & Fresher’s Welcome Function
12/10/2012	Introduction & inaugural of IBM Center of Excellence
27/10/2012 to 29/10/2012	Indoor Games

EVEN SEMESTER

Date	Event
29/02/2012 & 01/03/2012	Workshop on “Android Application Development”
15/03/2012 & 16/03/2012	Workshop on “Robotics”
04/04/2012	Variety Day
12/04/2012	N – GAGE IT
04/05/2012	Farewell

ODD SEMESTER

Technical Talk

·        On 30^th September, 2011 CENSA organized a technical talk on cloud computing which was delivered by Mr. Rajesh Nambiar, senior program manager at EMC2, Bangalore for the students of computer science and information science of 5^th semester and students of MCA of 3^rd semester.

Campus Recruitment Drive

·        On 9^th October, 2011 CENSA organized campus recruitment drive by OxiTechnologies which was brought to us by Mr. Vivek RP, the founder and CEO of the company.

CENSA Inaugural Function/Fresher’s Day

·        On 10^th October, 2011 i.e., today, we are organizing inaugural function of the computer engineering student association, CENSA followed by fresher’s welcome function, incense.h

Inauguration of IBM CoE Laboratory

·        On 12^th October, 2011 CENSA has planned to   inaugurate IBM centre of excellence laboratory at KVGCE campus.

Indoor Games

·        CENSA has planned to conduct various indoor games for all CS and IS students commencing from 27^th October to 29^th October of 2011. And the games will be as follows.

Ø      Badminton

·        Mixed doubles

Ø      Chess

Ø      Carrom

·        Doubles

·        Mixed doubles

EVEN SEMESTER

A Workshop on Android Application Development

·        On 28^th and 29^th February, 2012 CENSA will be organizing a technical workshop on “Android application development” by professionals which will be open to all branches.

A Workshop on Robotics

·        On 15^th and 16^th march, 2012 CENSA will be organizing a workshop on “Robotics” which will include building and programming the Robots and hence will be open to all branches.

Variety Day

·        On 12^th April, 2012 CENSA will be organizing a variety day program where in students from CS/IS of semesters 4^th, 6^th and 8^th are given an opportunity to perform the cultural events.

N-GAGE IT

·        On 14^th April, 2012 CENSA will be organizing a national level paper presentation, N-GAGE IT.

Farewell

·        On 4^th May, 2012 CENSA has planned to organize a farewell party for the outgoing students of CS/IS of the year 2011 - 12.