Activities Landscape
Computer Society of India regularly organizes workshops, seminars conventions, and technical talks for the benefit of professionals and users of IT apart from conducting continuing education and professional development programmes for a focussed audience of budding professionals, researchers and students. The CSI Annual Conventions are held in different cities across India. The other leading examples of national/international conferences include BIG, COMAD, ConSEG, COMNET, ConfER etc. Among these, the National Conferences on Education and Research (ConfER) are the latest addition since the 2007-08 academic year.
The CSI Annual Conventions, usually attracting 2000 plus participants, have been held since 1965. Apart from technical sessions, tutorials and panels, a principal feature has been the Exhibition. A few of the recent and well attended conventions include CSI-96 (Bangalore), CSI-98 (Delhi), CSI-2002 (Bangalore), CSI-2004 (Bombay), CSI-2007(Bangalore), and CSI-2010(Mumbai). CSI also organizes a number of international conferences regularly. The most stable series of these has been the Networks conferences, which have been held every two years since 1980, with IFIP co-sponsorship. The latestst one was in Bangalore in 1998. In recent years, the International Council for Computer Communication (ICCC) has also joined as a co-sponsor. The VLDB-96 conference (Very Large Data Bases) was held in Bombay. The International Conference on Visual Computing will be held in February 1999, in Goa, with co-sponsorship from IFIP and the ICCC.
National Student Conventions have been annual events since 1985. CSI along with its member institutions also host National, Regional, State level students symposia and conventions. The National Student Conventions many times are hosted together with the CSI Annual Conventions. A record number of Student Conventions were held during the year 2006-2007 spread across India viz. The most appreciated regional student conventions include - Region-3 (Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan) Student Convention, 17–18 February 2007, Patan, Gujarat on the theme “Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools”, Region-7 (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry) Student Convention, 23–24 February 2007, Kovilpatti, Tamil Nadu on the theme “Pervasive Computing: Technology and its Applications”, Region-1 (Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, UP etc.) Student Convention, 25 Feb’ 2007, New Delhi on theme “Enterprise Applications Development Methodologies and Tools”, Region-5 (Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh) Student Convention, 23–24 March 2007, Bangalore on the theme “Information Security and Management”, Region-4 (Jharkhand, Chhatisgarh, Orrisa) Student Convention, 24–25 March 2007, Rourkela on theme “Web Engineering”. The State of Karnataka is leading far ahead with other Indian states by hosting CSI Karnataka State Conventions every year since 1987. The State of Tamil Nadu recently launched its CSI State Convention in January 2009.
The Computer Society of India also extends funding support for research projects as well as funds visits of researchers presenting papers at international conferences. It facilitates industry-academia interaction through CIO meets, Professors’ meets. There are awards for professionals, industry and government to recognize achievements in ICT domain. Indian Government has also entrusted CSI with the task of training physically challenged to improve their career prospects in ICT sector.
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