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Workshops

ISiM organizes workshops and seminars on a regular basis to address various issues pertaining to the information age, which are open for students of the institute, as well as the general public. Details of such events organized in the past are provided below.

  • ISiM Executive Training Programme (July/August 2006): Training workshop on Digital Libraries for NIFT Library Information Science Professionals.
  • Information and Knowledge Audit – A Practical Introduction (January 2007): One day management workshop. Faculty: Ms. Waltraut Ritter (Hong Kong), Mr. Ritendra Banerjee (Hyderabad), Dr. Shalini R. Urs (ISiM, Mysore).
  • Brainstorming workshop on OCR for Indian languages (March 2007): Also featured the setting up of Rediff Center for Indian Language Content Management (RCILCM).
  • Workshop on “Text Mining and Business Intelligence” (March 2007)
  • Cyber Security Workshop (October 2007): Focusing on teaching the basic principles of cyber security from the perspective of providing security awareness and its best practices for the real world. Faculty: Dr. Srinivas Sampalli (Dalhousie University, Canada).
  • Workshop on Machine Learning (April 2008): Focusing on introducing the basic techniques of Machine Learning, its major areas of application and providing hands on experience to the participants. Faculty: Prof. Sargur N Srihari (SUNY Buffalo, New York).
  • Workshop on Data Warehousing and Data Mining (October 2008): Faculty: Mr. Surya Patchala (Accenture, Hyderabad), Dr. P. Radha Krishna (Infosys, Hyderabad), Mr. Anoop Nambiar (Infosys, Bangalore).
  • Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Management (October 2008): Focusing on answering queries on entrepreneurship and management. Faculty: Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan (Management Consultant).
  • Workshop on Capability and Maturity Model (CMM) (October 2008): Focusing on introducing the CMM standard and its assessment. Faculty: Mr. Srinivas Thummalapalli (Bangalore).
  • Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructure for Urban Governance Decision Making (March 2009): Organized by University of Amsterdam, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Decision Making (ITC), The Netherlands, and School of Planning and Architecture, and hosted by ISiM.
  • Workshop on IPR and Cyber Laws (June 2009): Focusing on providing students and professionals an understanding of Intellectual Property Rights and Cyber Laws. Faculty: Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli (Vision-IPR, Mumbai).
  • Workshop on Business Process Management (August 2009): Organized by ISiM in association with UDream, Bangalore. Faculty: Mr. Raghu Santanam (Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA).
  • Workshop on Social Network Analysis (April 2010): Focusing on introducing the concept of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and to provide hands on expertise on an open source tool for SNA. Faculty: Prof. Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University, USA).
  • Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2010) (June 2010): Organized by ISiM as a part of Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010), in association with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India.
  • Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (June 2010): Focusing on introducing the domain of Intelligence and Security Informatics. Faculty: Dr. R. N. Prasad (Infosys, Mysore), Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas, Dallas, USA), Dr. Michael Chau (University of Hong Kong).
  • Workshop on Cloud Computing (Nov 2010): Focusing on virtualization. A team from VMware conducted a one day workshop in which students of ISiM got hands on experience with VMware's product called vSphere.
  • The Challenge - Think, Explore and Evolve (April 2011): One day workshop organized in association with IBM and CSI. An overview about cutting edge technologies such as plug-in development, WEB 2.0, And DB Management was presented to the participants.
  • Java Workshop (April 2011):Infosys - Education and Research Division, Mysore organized four days hands on workshop covering fundamentals of Java programming.
  • Interactive Session on Information Excellence (June 2011) by Mr.Nagaraj Kulkarni, Founder, COMPEGENCE.The session introduced the “Process + Data + Domain approach” that is essential to achieve successful business outcome.
  • Information Economics Workshop (March 2012): by Dr.Abhinanda Sarkar, Principal Scientist, Software & Analytics, GE John F Welch Technology Centre, Bangalore. Information Economics, the study of situations in which different economic agents have access to different information. Topics discussed: Asymmetric Information; Game theoretic Approaches; and Auctions.

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