CSI event in December

The CSI National Convention 2003 will be held at IIT, New Delhi from December 11-13 2003. Organised by the Computer Society of India (CSI), India’s premier body of IT professionals, the mega event, to be attended by over 1,200 professionals and delegates, will be inaugurated by the President A P J Abdul Kalam. The theme—‘ICT for Prosperity of Mankind’—reflects the technological gains India has made in information technology.

The convention’s inaugural session is to be addressed by R A Malshekar, director general of CSIR and Prof M S Swaminathan of MSSRF. CSI has put together a fine team of thought-provoking speakers to address the various plenary sessions at the convention.

The list of speakers include

K N Gupta of the Ministry of Communications and IT, Prof S Chandrasekhar of FORE School of Management and Prof R Sadananda of AIT, Bangkok among others. The various theme areas include distributed and network-based computing, VLSI, database management systems, computer vision and robotics, microprocessors and computer architecture, multimedia computing, artificial intelligence, weather forecasting, remote sensing, mobile computing, image processing, digital signal processing, bio-informatics and bilingual computing.