ALAN TURING Centenary Events was organized by Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc , Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, IISc and Computer Society of India at IISC Bangalore .

Event was conducted on October 6-7, 2012 .

Outline Of The Program Conducted :
October 6, 2012

Timings :
Program:

08.30 - 09.15
Registration

09.30 - 10.00
Inauguration by Professor V. Rajaraman, Honorary Professor, IISc

Guest of Honour:
Professor N. Balakrishnan, Associate Director, IISc

10.00 - 11.00
Plenary Lecture by Prof. Manindra Agrawal

11.00 - 11.30
Break

11.30 - 13.15
Plenary Lecture by Dr. Ramesh Hariharan (Strand Life Sciences)
Title of the talk: Turing, Biological Pattern Formation, and the Molecular Computer

Invited Talk by Mr. Anand Parthasarathy, Online India Tech Pvt Ltd
Title of the talk: India’s Tryst with the Supercomputer

13.15 - 14.15
Break

14.15 - 15.30
Audio Visual Presentation of Turing Award Winners

15.30 - 15.50
Break

16.00 - 17.00
Plenary Lecture by Turing Laureate Prof. Raj Reddy
(Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Title of the talk: The Turing Legacy

17.00 - 18.30
Screening of the movie, CODEBREAKER


October 7, 2012

Timings:
Program:

09.15 - 10.00
Invited Talk by Mr. Ibrahim Ahmad, Cybermedia
Title of the talk: Saluting the Indian IT Pioneers

10.00 - 11.00
Plenary Lecture by Prof. Kurt Mehlhorn
(Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Title of the talk: Physarum Computations

11.00 - 11.30
Break

11.30 - 13.00
Panel Session on "Computer Science Education in India"

Moderator: Dr. Swami Manohar
LimberLink Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore

Panelists:
Professor Manindra Agarwal
Indian Insitute of Technology, Kanpur

Dr. Rajaram S. Sharma
NCERT, New Delhi

Prof. K. Rajanikanth, VTU

Dr. M. P. Ravindra, Formerly Infosys Technologies,
Former head, Education and Research,
Infosys Technologies

13.00 - 14.00
Break

14.00 - 15.45
Turing Quiz

15.45 - 16.00
Break

16.00 onwards
Invited Talk by Mr. Indus Khaitan, Bitzermobile
Title of talk: Disrupting the Classical VPN

Contact :
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