National workshop on scientific computing

The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - Kerala (IIITM-K) is organising a national workshop on scientific computing on January 30 and 31, 2009.

This is part of a series of training programmes initiated by the IIITM-K to promote quality education. Classes will be led by the IIITM-K faculty who are academicians with Ph.D and extensive international-level research experience and will be supported by the Institute’s excellent IT infrastructure.

Scientific computing is the field of study associated with mathematical modelling and methods for providing numerical solutions to problems in science and engineering. The workshop is designed to give an exposition to the basic topics of scientific computing. It would also give a brief tutorial on Scilab, a free and open-source software for scientific computation widely used in numerical analysis, statistics, control systems design and digital signal processing.

The last date for registration is January 16, 2009. The workshop is free for the faculty of Government colleges and Universities in Kerala. 

Visit http://www.iiitmk.ac.in/nwsc2009/ for more details.

BarCamp Kerala 4

What is a BarCamp?
An informal gathering of all people interested in Computers, Gadgets, Internet and technology!

BarCamp Kerala 4
The fourth unconference BarCamp in Kerala is scheduled on 18th January at IIM Kozhikode.

Discussions

Kenney Jacob on

Social Media - Business Opportunities

Anand Subramanian on

Wordpress - Content Management Simplified

Vishnu Gopal on

Clojure: Lisp in the Java world

Praseed Pai on

The Paradox of Free & Open Source Software

This event is held in conjuction with the IIM-K’s Annual Management and Cultural Festival - ‘BACKWATERS’ scheduled on 16th, 17th and 18th of January 2009. This fest will host 15+ Management Events and Cultural Events that will see participation from 50+ top B-Schools across the country. The events also see participation from 1500+ Corporate Delegates, IIMK Alumni, Entrepreneurs, Undergraduates, etc.

Visit http://www.barcampkerala.org/blog/?p=189 for more details.

Share Photos you click on your mobile phone!

Mobshare Broadcasts your photos instantly to all your friends to their mobile.

Your friends receive instant photo broadcasts from you as an SMS with an embedded URL. No application needs to be installed on your mobile.

If you want your photos to be displayed on orkut, you then need to install the Mobshare Orkut Application.

mobME Wireless Solutions (P) Ltd. developed out of a partnership firm - Torque Technology Solutions which was incubated in T-BIC, Technopark, Kerala. 

Today the company has around 30 employees, a Marketing Office & a Development Center in Cochin and Biz Dev Centers in Mumbai & Gurgaon. They have successfully created many profit centers within the company. SMSC Solutions, IVR (In-bound & Out-bound) Services, Online Bulk SMS (www.FastAlerts.in & www.BuyBulkSMS.com) have all grown into steady businesses.

mobME is featured in the 2008 NASSCOM 100 Innovators list and lately on board of the Vodafone network as a peer2peer photo sharing partner.

www.mobshare.in

Canadian charter airline to deploy IBS software

Canadian charter airline Enerjet has opted for Technopark-based IBS Group's passenger services management software iFly to run its reservations, ticketing, and departure operations.

iFly is an integrated, multi-hosting system that addresses passenger reservations, inventory control, fares and ticketing, and departure control functions of commercial airlines, a release stated.

Enerjet, which began workforce transportation and charter operations in December 2008, will in 2009 launch leisure travel and tour operations, Darcy Morgan, Enerjet’s vice-president - business performance and integration, said .

Morgan added IBS will also work alongside Enerjet to combine the iFly solution with the IBS iLogistics workforce supply chain management software. “This will enable Enerjet charter customers to gain full visibility into their workforce travel plans and activities, resulting in lower costs and improved service,” he said.

Source: Business Standard

Free Software, Free Society

2nd International conference on Freedom in Computing, Development and Culture.
9-11, December 2008 at Mascot Convention Center, Thiruvananthapuram

The Free Software Movement, started about a quarter of a century back, pioneered the various movements for freedom in the digital world – for instance, free knowledge represented by Wikipedia or freedom of creative works from copyright restrictions represented by Creative Commons. We also see a new form of social production where collaboration becomes more important than competition, where people from different parts of the world co-operate to create digital products including documents, music or software. These movements, in their own way, are helping to bring about a reduction in the Digital Divide and increasing access to useful works of knowledge. It is perhaps time to define the contours of this new space and situate interventions therein. Located at the intersection of Free Software, Development and Society, the FSFS Conference will examine the application of the Free Software model for freeing intellectual artefacts from the clutches of restrictive laws (like the Copyright Act), and making them available for human development. The conference will also address, inter alia, issues such as technology access and the digital divide, legal issues, and experiences of using the Free Software model in fields such as music, and literature.

source: fsfs.in

INNOPT’08 Conference - Process Innovation and Performance Optimisation.

Network Systems and Technologies Pvt Ltd (NeST), an international company providing high-end software solutions in engineering and business domains, conducted an internal conference, INNOPT’08, at the Technopark here on Monday.

INNOPT’08 brought together the practitioners, process champions and technology leaders of the organisation to share their innovative ideas, unique experiences and informative findings.  INNOPT’08 was coined from the two streams of this year’s conference - process innovation and performance optimisation.

N.Jehangir, managing director and vice-chairman of the NeST Group, inaugurated the conference. "This is an excellent initiative that provides an opportunity to all NeSTians to share their innovative ideas and solutions. I am sure that this conference will further strengthen our image as a process-driven technology company," said Jehangir in his address.

Alec Dorling, international project leader of the SPICE project and convener of the ISO Group developing ISO/IEC 15504, Ravi Mittal, vice-president, Core Services and Protocols at Symbian (leading mobile operating systems company) and Dr Achuthsankar S.Nair, Head of the Centre for Bioinformatics, University of Kerala, addressed the conference.

Different papers were presented and selected papers were displayed as posters. A technical exhibition was also organised to demonstrate the technology leadership of NeST.

Source: expressbuzz.com