NITK to hold international conference on Adcons

Mangalore, December 13: National Institute of Technology-Karnataka, Suratkal will be organising an international conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Security (Adcons) from December 16 to 18.

Revealing this to media persons on Tuesday Prof. G. Umesh, Director-in-charge NITK, said that the event the grand finale of the yearlong silver-jubilee celebrations of the department of Computer Science and Engineering of NITK.

He said that the conference is being organised to provide a stimulating forum to policy makers, researchers, practitioners, developers and users share ideas, report findings, discuss products and define future directions in the field of Advanced Computing, Networking and Security. The conference will feature Technical sessions with contributed papers, invited talks, tutorials, doctoral Consortium and panel discussion, he said.

He informed that the conference is expected to be attended by about 200 delegates from various countries including India, USA, South Korea, China, Poland, and Iran.

The comprehensive range of topics that will be addressed in this conference including High Performance Computing, Service Oriented Computing, Information Retrieval, Pattern Recognition, Image processing, Wireless and Adhoc Networks, Sensor Networks, Network Infrastructure, Cryptography, Web security and Application, he said.

The conference starts on December 16, with pre-conference tutorials and doctoral consortium presentations and the technical sessions commence from December 17 until December 18.

The inaugural ceremony is scheduled to be held between 9:30am and 10:30am on December 17 at NITK-Suratkal. The conference is scheduled to be inaugurated by prof. Raj Jain, Washington University, and followed by his keynote address. Dr. BK Murthy, Senior Director and Head (HRD and NKN), DIT, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, GOI, New Delhi will be the guest of honour and will release the Conference Book proceedings. Colonel Rajmohan, Head, Center for Excellence for Information Security, Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore will release the CD proceedings and will deliver a keynote address. The inaugural ceremony will be presided over by Prof. Sandeep Sancheti, outgoing Director, NITK-Suratkal.

Prof Umesh said that the three-day conference is being organised in association with Advanced Computing Society (ACS), India and Computer Society of India (CSI), India and Security Xploded, Bangalore and sponsored by TCS, CSIR, DRDO, INSA, MCIT and SBI and several local industries.