Guru Nanak Institute of Technology has organized a guest lecture on Data Mining and its Modelling concepts by Prof. D. D. Sharma, Director, Guru Nanak Institute of P.G Studies on 24’Sep’2010 for CSE and CSIT students.

The chief guest has been warmly received by Prof. Sandeep Singh Rawat, Head of the Department, CSE/CSIT. Later, the guest of the day along with the HOD shared the dais on the request of the host Ms.Phani Sree (IIIyr, CSE).

Thereafter, Prof. Sharma delivered the lecture which focussed on data bases, data mining and the modelling concepts. The session was interactive and the lecture was very useful to the students. Finally, he suggested the students to involve actively in the various activities held in the college.

At the end of the lecture the guest honored the winners of quiz competition held by CSI-student branch.

1. Ms.Shrunkala (IIIyr, CSIT)
2. Ms.Tanvi (IIIyr, CSIT)

On the same pace, he rewarded Ms.Preethi (IIyr, CSIT) for her academic excellence.

Then, Prof. Rawat thanked the speaker and felicitated him with a memento.
Lastly, Ms. Monisha (IIyr, CSIT) delivered the vote of thanks.

Department of CSE and IT, CSI-GNIT Student Branch organized a Guest Lecture on “ROLE OF SECURITY MECHANISMS IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS” by The DR. A.V.N. KRISHNA for B.Tech. II & III year (CSE, IT) students on 07th August 2010. Dr. Krishna is having more than 19 years of teaching Experience and presently working as  Professor in Computer science, Indur Institute of Engineering and Technology, Siddipet, Medak dist., Andhra Pradesh, India

Photo: Dr. A.V.N. Krishna delivering the lecture on "role of security mechanisms in communication systems"

More than 200 students attended the lecture. He started with basic networking concepts and then discussed the TCP/IP layers, Cryptographic techniques, Data movement from system to System, Importance of security, current areas of research and future scope. He focused on doing the in-house mini-project and suggested many areas for research and development. At the end there was a question-answer session.

Overall it was a great success with 200 students attended the lecture and wished to have many such fests in future.

GNIT student branch and departments of CSE and IT organized a Guest Lecture on 27/11/2010 on “COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN INDUSTRY” by Prof V. Anandam. Which was conducted for First year CSE * IT students. It went for 2½ hours from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM.

He puts up with 10years of teaching experience and 20 years Industry and Worked for various corporate like HONEYWELL, GE NUCLEAR GROUP. During his lecture he shared his industrial experience in developing high-end applications. He discussed how computer role changed from normal calculations to computer operated fully automated tools and how the future industry is going to be with computers. After two hour interactive lecture students forced him to speak for more half an hour by posing questions. Overall it was great & inspiring

Members of CSI-cognition club conducted a workshop on Scratch in the month of October as the activity of the month. This is not only the first ever activity under cognition club but also first ever workshop which has been planned and conducted by the students of GNIT. Workshop aims to bring out creativeness among students by making them design games, animation and many more interesting stuff.

Participation fee for this workshop was `50 each participant received participation certificate, reference tool DVD.A total of 168 participants had registered (50% of the department) making it the most active event in the history of GNIT. Even 67 first year participants got registered for the event,which shows the interest among freshers of CSE&IT department to learn and grow. Workshop held on two days(23rd and 30th October).Participants were divided into 4 batches and two batches each attended workshop on each day. Total amount of `8400 is collected, out which `2800 was the expenditure. Amount of `5600 has been transferred to GNIT-CSI account. Which would be used in the future activities. Workshop was conducted by dividing participants into 4 batches. Batch 1 &2 attended the workshop on 23rd October, other two batches on 30th Ocotber. The workshop was very successful and we  also had a competition in the month of January’11 on Scratch and all the participants of the workshop are eligible for free entry. At the end,out of so many good concept games we have selected three winners

ADD WINNERS NAMES HERE:
Phinny Samuel                                    
R.P Sainath                 
N. Prashanth  

The workshop team was appreciated by Mr.Sandeep Singh Rawat,HOD of CSE&IT department and Prof.Venkatramana, principal of GNIT.

A workshop on RTCG-2010 (18th December, 2010)

One day National workshop on “Recent Trends in Computer Graphics” -RTCG 2010 was held on 18th December, 2010 hosted by Guru Nanak Institute of Technology, Ibrahimpatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The speakers for the event were eminent personalities from the teaching fraternity who have great teaching and research experience in the field of Computer Graphics. Total of 103 participants included both students and faculty who came from various well known colleges across the city and perhaps some teaching professionals from different parts of the state.

The inaugural began by lamp lightening that was followed by prayer song that marked the opening of the workshop. After this, honorable Principal Dr. C. Venkataramana Reddy addressed the gathering followed by the Organizing Secretary Prof. Sandeep Singh Rawat, Head of the Department, Computer Science and Information Technology.

First session of the day was the key note address by Prof. Atul Negi from Central University, Hyderabad. Following that, there were two demo sessions on Open GL software by    Mr. I. Govardhan Rao, Osmania University. His presentation threw light on all the technical aspects of the Open GL software, which is essentially an open source platform used for creating graphics based applications. Post lunch, session was by Prof. B. Anuradha, Marconi Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, explained the different methods of creating animations and computer graphics.

Lastly Mrs. S. Kalyani, coordinator for the workshop delivered Vote of Thanks which marked the closing of the workshop.

A workshop on Ethical Hacking - 18th & 19th Feb, 2011

Ethical hacking is a field that interests almost every individual and has evolved largely in the past decade. Today every IT company is recruiting the best hackers in town just to make sure that their systems are secure.

Loophole is a workshop on Ethical Hacking and Information Security for School and College students, aiming at spreading awareness on the need of Ethical Hacking and the consequences of Hacking attacks. Kyrion Digital Securities has been catering to a vast number of Elite Colleges of Engineering by organizing Workshops and Training Programs for them in the field of Ethical Hacking and Information Security. They  have served an esteemed clientele (including IISc Bangalore, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati, NIT Calicut, NIT Warangal, NIT Allahabad,  IIIT Allahabad, Thapar University, VIT Vellore and many more) in the past and from whom they  have received and enthusiastic and good response.

Guru Nanak Institute of Technology along with Kyrion Technologies, have conducted this workshop on Ethical Hacking, organized by A Rajiv of III yr CSE along with a team of 6 volunteers. Mr. Ranjan Kakkar, Marketing head & Mr. Tajinder Kalsi, Senior Corporate Trainer represented Kyrion Technologies. The event started with the lightening of lamp and a prayer song, followed by an inaugural speech by Principal Dr. N C Pant.
The speaker, Mr.Tajinder Kalsi discussed various aspects of Ethical Hacking by dividing them into 7 modules as:

1. Concept of Hacking
2. E-mail Attacks
3. Software Cracking
4. System Hacking
5. Trojans and Viruses
6. Web Server as Target
7. Wireless Hacking

It began after the lunch on the first day, and the first three modules were successfully completed. Topics as fake mails, password cracking, securing of e-mail ids and phishing were covered. A small question-answer session was conducted later and goodies were given to those who answered them correctly.
The second day started with introduction of live OS for system hacking. Later they talked about Trojans and viruses, their advantages and disadvantages and also uses. A method called Steganography was taught where secret messages can be hidden under image file. SQL Injection was proved to be an effective tool for entering in any websites private database under web server as target. For the purpose of wireless hacking, any Linux based OS is used and a demo on how to capture data packets from a wireless network was shown.

The workshop was very informative and knowledge spreading. It made us aware of the web attacks one can be a victim of and what control measures are to be taken for security reasons. Certificates and tool kits were given to the participants after the workshop.

There was a very good response from all the students of Guru Nanak Institutions and wonderful cooperation from the faculty. All the sessions of the workshop were very interactive. Over 80 students participated from different colleges like GNEC, CMRIT, MVSR, CJITS, St. Anns, Bharath and a few more. This workshop was another grand success under the CSI student branch of GNIT and is now looking forward to conduct many such events.

Interaction with industry

The domains in which interaction is theoretically possible are:

· Industry support to basic research for knowledge creation

· Industry participation in technology development involving some exploratory work

· Academic intervention in solving specific industry problems

· Laboratory utilization by industry

Of the above, interaction at the level of industry support to basic research is virtually non-existent, whereas at the level of industry participation in technology development, some interaction, particularly with large public sector enterprises, has been witnessed. Industrial problem solving constitutes, by and large, a successful initiative, though not actualized to its full potential, since interaction in this domain is largely contingent upon the presence of a strong industrial base in the region. One might, however, add that such a constraint is of little consequence if the interaction is in areas where the Institute has recognized expertise. Laboratory utilization by industry for developmental purposes and for material and product testing has seen relatively greater success Industry Needs and Expectations

Industry's enduring interest lies in targeted development. Large scale industry has the resources to invest in new technology development initiatives, but it often tends to rely on bought out technologies, generally from the overseas. Academic intervention may be required in minor technological innovation/modification aimed at technology absorption/implementation. In the case of medium and small scale industry, the needs are primarily oriented towards problem solving, with support required in the areas of design, process improvement and plant and machinery performance, etc. This industry segment may also need academic intervention in reverse engineering where the product exists and what is sought to be developed is a process to yield it. There may be some appreciation, specifically in the case of medium scale industry, of the need for parallel exploration of a new product line triggering a focussed developmental activity, which might be carried out in-house or in collaboration with the academia. In its interaction with the academia, industry's expected time frames are immediate, and investment is directed towards efforts that promise result-oriented solutions. The costing frames are typically guided by a reluctance to invest in technology R&D which has either long term or unclear outcomes.

Academia Aspirations

For academicians, the primary focus of interest is invariably a problem that throws up an intellectual challenge. Technology development initiatives which involve understanding/ exploration of a concept/phenomenon and alternative methodologies, etc., related to process and design improvement could be of considerable interest. Academic environments value the autonomy of the individual researcher and there is a strong preference for working towards creation of knowledge in specialized domains. Typically, academic interest in the multidimensionality of a problem leads to a tendency to explore a variety of options to arrive at a solution. Such activity consumes both time and effort and the result may often be inimical to what the industry would regard as a wholesome solution.