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All the news that fts Volume Issue August CommunityNews

Teknack 00Annual onlineestival o ACMDBI Chapter isback. Page

Microsot WeekAbhay Parekh,Indias MSP,visits DBIPages

ProleGet a glimpse othe ACM DBIcore committee.Page

Projects on the riseFive new projects set to

release this semester.

Allan Pinto

The list o projects rom ACM DBIChapter just keeps on piling. Lets havea quick look at ew o the past projects

and then have a sneak peek on those set to

release this monthTe biggest technical estival o Don Bosco

Institute o echnology - COLOSSEUM wasaided by the website created by ACM DBI

Chapter. Te entire details o the events andworkshops along with timing was availableon the website. Te graphical content pre-sent on the website was very innovative andreceived praises rom the management as wellas students and teachers. Te success o Colos-seum was clearly seen through the number ohits recieved on the website and the sponsorssponsoring the estival.

Lets look at the projects set to release thissemester.

1ACM DBIT WebsiteTe work on the ACM DBI Website is

going on or the last six months Te website

will be used to students help students selectevents, seminars and workshops to be heldduring the current semester. Te website willalso have resources related to basic tutorialsand sotwares required to view content

2ACM Registration SoftwareTe ACM Registration sotware is coming

out in two dierent versions, one or online useand one oine. Te sotware shall eliminate

the ineective registeration system using penand paper. It will also be able to eliminateerrors and provide a better documentablemember list.

3ACM Feedback SoftwareSimilar to the ACM Registration sotware

the Feedback sotware will also come in twoversions, online and oine. Te eedbacksotware will be used during events, seminar

Increasing interest or practical knowledge has

led to rise in project allocation.

News in Brie

Elections or ACMCommittee heldACM DBIT Chapter held the elec-tions or the new committee inCR-4. The elections were con-ducted by Avinav representing theprevious committee and was pre-sided by Mr. Imran Mirza, Faculty

Incharge o ACM DBIT Chapter.The elected members with theirpost are as ollows: Allan Pinto, Chairman Sundeep Padmanabha,

Secretary Sheron Paul, Treasurer Rahul Isola, Technical Head

Committee membersselectedThe ollowing ACM Members wereappointed as part o the core com-mittee by Allan Pinto, Chairmanin consultation with Mr. ImranMirza, Faculty Incharge or ACMDBIT Chapter. The members are as

ollows: Raul Pinto, Publicity Head Karan Gurani, Asst. Chairman Avanish Pathak, Asst. Techni-

cal HeadCongratulation to the core com-mittee members.


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CommunityNews | August 2010 August 2010 |Community

EditorsMessageNews in BriecontinuedDear Friends,It is my pleasure to present

to you the rst edition o ACMDBI Chapters Newsletter.Right rom the elections o thenew committee, the ACM DBI

Chapter has come along a longway. Lots o workshops and sem-

inars were conducted in this semester. All othem have been appreciated by the manage-ment, sta and students. Please have a quicklook at the newsletter or more.

Tis is the frst edition o the ACM Newslet-ter rom DBI Chapter. Each semester you

will be updated with the activities o ACM

and its uture plans.Here I would take this opportunity to thank

our Administrator Fr. Edward, Director Fr.Adol, Principal Dr. N.G Joag, Head o R&DDr.S. Krishnamoorti , Mr. D Sundararajan andDean Ms. Prasanna Nambiar or their support.

I also thank Mr. Imran Mirza, Sta Coordina-tor o ACM DBI Chapter or the supportthat he has extended all through the semester.

He was the source o inspiration and supportor us without whom we wouldnt have donemuch. I also thank the sta o DBI whosupported our activities in many ways.

I would like to thank Allan Pinto, Chairman

or his sincere eorts towards the progress othe community. I also whole-heartedly thankthe other core members or their enthusiasmand energy.

Very importantly I would thank the studentcommunity or their active participation inthe seminars and workshops without whomall the eorts taken by the committee wouldbe in vain.

Last but not the least, I thank my parentsor what I am today. I also thank them or their

patience and support without which I wouldnthave been able to complete the newsletter.

Any suggestions or improvement o thenewsletter are most welcome.

Hope you enjoy reading this!Regards,Sundeep PadmanabhaE Computers

Project teams createdProjects teams were createdor the development o ACM

projects during the vacations.he teams are expected toomplete ACM Registrationnd Feedback Sotwares. Twoeams were setup to undertakehe work separately or onlinend oine. The online team iseaded by Sheron Paul and the

oine team is headed by Nikhilharma. The two sotwares areet to be released in August.

Workshop CalenderpreparationAt the nal meeting or ACMDBIT Chapter last semester, thetudents were asked to submit

workshop topics that theywould want to conduct work-hpos on. The list is supposed

o reach Allan Pinto, Chairmano ACM DBIT Chapter, by the

rst week o college reopening.he next semester time tablehall be prepared based onhe probale workshop list sent

beore the due date.

Workshop Publicityhe publicity o workshops isurrently being done using ban-ers. ACM DBIT Chapter shall betarting video publicity or eachvent starting rom the nextemester. Any member wish-ng to help out are requestedo meet Raul Pinto, Publicity

Head o ACM DBIT Chapter.Also students are requested to

heck their class notice boardsor ACM notices and participaten the workshops and events inuge numbers.

CommunityNewsA hal yearly newsletter o

the ACM Community

Editor: Sundeep PadmanabhaDesigner: Allan PintoAuthors: Sundeep Padmanabha andAllan PintoSupport Team: Sheron Paul, RahulIsola, Nikhil Sharma.

CoordinatorSpeaksoday there is a need or a close-knit interac-

tion between academia and industry. Over thepast several years, DBI has been providingguidance and expertise to students who aspireor the Industry certications

53 students rom the computer engineeringattended the global certication or the IBMDB 2 conducted by IBM Academic Initiative43 students got internationally certied. Ms

Nandita Rane was the in charge o the event.Te training and certication was absolutelyree. We thank the System Administrator, MrGuna Shekhar or his relentless eorts.

57 students were trained on the Adobe Flexechnology. All the students appeared or theinternational certifcation. Te trainer or theevent was Ms Shainila Mulla.

96 Students took training or the OracleCertication Program and Sun Java in thevacation. A workshop on Hacking Hacknexwas held, attended by students o Don Boscoand rom Engineering Colleges o MumbaiUniversity.

ACM Chapter o Computer Engineeringdepartment o DBI is a vibrant team ocused

to bring the technological breakthroughs inthe orm o workshops, seminars, and onlinetechnical events. I congratulate the core com-mittee members or their eorts and wish them

best luck or the coming term.Te Principal Dr N.G. Joag, has been a

continuous source o encouragement. Te Re-search director Dr. Krishnamoorthy has been a

catalytic agent in injecting quality in all teach-ing learning initiatives. We thank the Dean

Academics, Dr. Prasanna Nambiar or keepingus ocused to oster quality in all our work. We

thank the Director Fr. Adolph Furtado and

the Administrator Fr. Edward Dsouza or thepatronage and proactive support.

We couldnt have achieved these withoutthe support o students. Tank you! I hopeyou enjoy reading this news letter and tell ushow we can improve our eorts to bring youquality deliverables. We hope to bring thisnews letter every semester.

RegardsMirza Ali ImranFaculty [email protected]

The best in the college shallcompete in the ultimate

online challege to prove

their skill at Teknack 00

Gear up or some Awesomeness!Ater two years the annual

online estival o ACM DBIT

Chapter makes a comeback

Sundeep

Aquest is in ront o you, the answersare hidden. But which answer will lead

you to glory, and which will pull youinto nothingness? Te path is laid in ront oyou, but which one will you take?

Lines like these are oten used to describethe sheer number o competitions available toyou. Not just competitions, they can be con-

sidered another set o exams, where you needto memorize a ew ormulae, apply very littlelogic, try and solve a problem statement andBingo! You have the answer!! Tis defnitely isan exam scenario and surely NO what thereal world is like.

I have had enough o such descriptions.Its time to get REAL. In reality, you are notencyclopaedias, nor are you memory storagedevices, where you just have to memorize aew lines to succeed. For Success, you mustutilise all the resources that you have with

you. You have with you a vast resource o in-ormation. o name a ew, you have libraries,books, Internetetc. use it anytime anywhere.Te important thing is, out o this inorma-tion overload, how do you make use o theresources or what you want?

Tere are a very ew competitions that bring

out the echie inside you. We, theACM eam have in our pocketssuch a mind-blowingcompetition.Te ball isin yourc o u r t .It s

t i m e o r y o u t oRise and Shine to Glory. Welcometo the ACM Powered DBIs only OnlineFestival, EKNACK, an e-competition,completely online!!!

Heres the best part Sit at home, use

Google or any other source o inCopy, cheat or do anything you wtry and hack into our servers to g(But dont get caught ;-) ). Like world, we are concerned with resulus the answers within the stipulatbe crowned the Smartest Mind

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Never beore you might have seopen competition! So are you readTen hop on, we promise you, ACMthe biggest competition o its kind, o surprises and excitement, and yodisappointed!

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Microsot WeekIndias No. MSP Abhay

Parekh shares his wisdom

Sheron Paul

Microsot Week was conductedin the month o April 2010 inassociation o ACM DBI Chap-

ter. Mr. Abhay Parekh rom Microsot India

was present or the entire event.Te event started on 5th April. Mr.

Abhay Parekh delivered sessions on thelatest technologies rom the Microsot Cor-

poration. Tese sessions were held rom5th to 7th April. Students enthusiasticallyparticipated in all the sessions. Te sessionsincluded the ollowing topics:

1) Windows 72) Windows Azure3) Windows 2008 Server4) SQL 2008 Server5) XNA Game Studio6) Live @ Edu7) Microsot Academic Programs

8) Ofce 20109) Windows Mobile10) Microsot Expression StudioTe session on Project Natal specially

was very much appreciated by the studentcommunity.

Following the seminars, a line o work-shops were conducted in the same week.

Te workshops were held in college rom9th to 20th April. Tey were taken by a ewselected students rom E and BE.

Te workshop was conducted on theollowing topics:

1. Microsot Ofce 2010Features like ribbons, ofce button

options, outlook improvements, photo/video/graphics in word and PowerPoint,Protected View were explained very well inthe workshop. Special emphasis was givenon Word and PowerPoint since it is mostrequently used by the student community.

2. SQL Server 2008A discussion o what SQL Server is, the

architecture, the relational engine, the pro-tocol layer, data storage, buer manage-ment, logging, transaction, concurrencyand locking, data retrieval,various services,history, editions, and programmability wasdone in the workshop.

3. Windows 7Te workshop was aimed in explaining

the students about all the new eatures like

speech and handwriting recognition, aeroshake, god mode, aero snap, improved se-curity using Bit Locker, support or virtualhard disks, Virtual PC, all new paint andword pad etc.

4. XNA Game StudioMicrosot XNA is a set o tools with a

managed runtime environment that a-cilitates computer game development andmanagement. A 3-D animated Aircrat wasdeveloped in the workshop which could be

controlled with thekeyboard.

5. ExpressionStudio

Microsot Ex-pression Studiois a suite o toolsor designing andbuilding web and

Windows clientapplications and

rich digital mediacontents.

opics like Expression Blend, Expression

Web + Superview, Expression Encoder andExpression Design were well explained inthe workshops.

Microsot Week recieved praises romall the sta members and students. Tankyou Mr. Abhay Parekh, Rank #1 MSP inIndia and also ACM DBI Chapter or the

success. Keep up the good work!

Abhay

Parekh,

Microsot

Student

Partner

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Nikhil Sharma

om airlines to open source

tware, Red Hats global CEO Jim

hitehurst has made a smooth

nsition. Mr Whitehurst, who was

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Delta Airlines in his earlier stint,

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m o open source sotware

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ch as Microsot and Oracle.

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pporting open source operatingstem Linux to an enterpriserastructure sotware rm,mpeting on technologies likeud. I you look at how we

e positioned now with ourstomers and how analystsw us, were an enterpriserastructure company.

ming rom an airline, the-year-old Mr Whitehurst is anlikely CEO or a technologympany, and more so, a companyat makes prots rom sellinge sotware.

hen he let Delta, he was

proached to do a lot oditional turnarounds, but Mr

hitehurst said rather than tryingx something, he wanted toild something, where there wasuoyant canvas to be painted,d Red Hat t that bill. Red H ats also looking or someonem a non-tech background andWhitehursts prole, with hiserest in geeky stuf, matched

well.

her than expanding Red Hats

portolio, Mr Whitehurson diversiying its custobase to include more thbanks (NYSE Euronext iits customers) and telecthat are typically early atechnology.

When I joined, our toplist was great all majobanks and telcos. But weverybody else? Wheremainstream users o IT?o the key things that won,said Mr Whitehursttoday has railroads, utilairlines and petro chemon its top 25 customer l

The most powerul ortechnology is not Moorits inertia,said Mr Whitwho beeed up supportsystems integration paindependent sotware vto extend its presence acustomers.

People want to eel cothey can deliver what thpromised. And we genemore condent doing sweve done beore. So isystems integrator and

to deliver or your cuyou eel more condthings youve deliveSo there is an inertiathat weve to just ovhe added.

Even as Microsot anGoogle get more agin the consumer spaWhitehurst is clear tHat will not dabble iconsumer business.

Were an enterprisecompany and we will stthere at least or the meterm... Look at Apple, tha consumer company. LOracle, theyre an entercompany. Very ew comhave been able to do boand not just in technolobusiness in general.Reparticipating in Indias aUnique ID project throupartners.


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EventReviews Each semester students providereviews o interest to the community.

CommunityProfleCommunityCalendar

udacity

nducted by :

udassar Syed

dacity is a cross-torm digital audiotor and recording

plication. Its is avail-e or ree. Some o Audacitystures include multi track mixing,ise removal, multichannel modepport, recording and playingunds, editing tracks via cut, copyd paste etc.

views on Audacity:

Good reeware. Does everythinghoped it would in a simple, pro-sional manor! To complain abouts app would make someone a

ot so smart PC user..

This program is very useul. I haveed it or ampliying mp3 les,tting up mp3s and creating mp3sas many other unctions, which

avent investigated ully, but justese 3 have proved i nvaluable.ghly recommended. :-)

PC Assembly &Troubleshooting

Conducted by :

Karan Gurani

PC Assemblling, asthe name says meansassembling a personal computerrom scratch. In the workshop aPC was assembled and shown tothe students. Various componentsinside the CPU were shown andexplained while assembling. Allthe doubts that students had wereanswered.

In troubleshooting, commonproblems in computer like nopower, no sound, problem withthe display, network troubleshoot-ing, problems while connectingmedia devices, printers, scanners,etc. were explained. Also variousoptions in control panel, tuning upthe computer were explained tothe students.

Reviews on the workshop:

A very well conducted workshop.Good job ACM DBIT Chapter!! .

Adobe Flex 3

Conducted by :

Allan Pinto

Adobe Flex is a sot-ware developmentkit (SDK) released byAdobe Systems or thedevelopment and deployment ocross-platorm rich Internet appli-cations based on the Adobe Flashplatorm. Flex applications can bewritten using Adobe Flash Builderor by using the reely available Flexcompiler rom Adobe.

Review on Adobe Flex 3:

The workshop was very good. Thesotware is very well developed byAdobe Corporation. I would de-nitely use this sotware or my BEProject. I understand that the entiresotwares eatures cannot be ex-plained or taught in one workshop,hence I wish ACM DBIT Chaptercomes up with another workshopon Flex. Very nicely explained. Theworkshop was very useul.

- David Valles, TE IT..

PHP

Conducted by :

Rahul Isola

PHP:HypertextPreprocessor is awidely used, gene-real purpose scriptinglanguage that was originallydesigned or web developmentto produce dynamic web pages.PHP is available as a processor ormost modern web servers and asstandalone interpreter on mostOperating systems and computingplatorms.

In the workshop, eatures likeAccess logging, access control,HTTP based authentication control,conditionals, while loops, extendedregular espressions, etc. were prop-erly explained.

Reviews on Workshop:

The workshop was taken in avery simple way. We were able tounderstand what PHP is right romthe basics. We also look orward oradvanced PHP workshop rom ACMDBIT Chapter.

GRE

Conducted by :

Avinav Jami

GRE i.e GraduateRecord Examinationis an online compu-ter based adaptivetest that is taken to pursue highereducation in the US.

The seminar on GRE threw lighton how to register or the test, thecurrent pattern o the test, the sec-tions in GRE, how to prepare or thetest, the universities abroad, how

to write the Statement o Purpose(SOP), the Letter o Recommenda-tion (LOR), etc.

Review on GRE Seminar:

A very inormative seminar. Theentire process right rom the reg-istration till the admission processwas very well explained. Gettinga rst hand experience rom theperson who has gone through theentire procedure o GRE is verymuch appreciated.

Customising aMonster PC

Conducted by :

Allan Pinto

Everyone comesacross computers andlaptops tted with the best hard-ware and sotware components.

The cost o a real high end machineis oten to much but the real ques-tion is whether a machine capableo delivering such power can bemade at an afordable budget.

In the workshop, concepts like

hardware component matching,matching clock speeds, etc. werecovered. The workshop also coverdtopics like memory requirementand cost reduction.

Reviews on Workshop.

The workshop was very interactiveand comparison were well based.

The overall topic was made simileand easy to understand. I can noweasily customise my own homecomputer.

Te ACM DBI core commit-tee is as ollows:Chairman: Allan PintoSecretary:SundeepPadmanabhaTechnical Head: RahulIsola

Treasurer: Sheron PaulPublicity Head: Raul PintoAsst. Chairman: KaranGuraniAsst. Technical Head:

Avanish PathakEach o the core committee

members are spending theirtime in the development onew sotwares or the betterunctioning o the ACM DBIChapter.

Allan Pinto, Sundeep Pad-manabha and Raul Pinto, allthree students rom EComputers, are working on aProject Website

or ComputerDepartment.he websiteshall be madeavailable by

August 2010.Tis website willbe used by boththe student commu-nity as well as the sta membersor project related inormation.

Computers and Kararom E Computersoping a sotware or otrations and eedbackware will be used or students in the colleg

Te eedback can be gistudents ater the woseminar. Tis will promeans o improvemeuture activities.Rahul Isola is the admo eknack 2010. He, the other committeehas planned all the aceknack. For more inabout the eknack pleaarticle in this newslett

Thursday March

Adobe Flex 3Conducted by Allan Pinto inSimulation Lab

Tuesday March

GRE SeminarConducted by Avinav Jami inCR-

WednesdayMarch

Workshop on AudacityConducted by Mudassar Syed inCrave Lab.

Monday April

Seminar on MicrosotTechnologiesConducted by Abhay Parekh romMicrosot India on April , and in Fr. Santino Mondini Hall.

Friday April 9

Workshop on MicrosotOfce 2010Conducted by Shveta Sharmaand Georgin Baby in ComputerNetwork Lab.

Monday April

Workshop on PHPConducted by Rahul Isola inSimulation Lab.

Tuesday April

Workshop on PC Assemblingand TroubleshootingConducted by Karan Gurani inSimulation Lab.

Thursday April

Workshop on SQL Server 2008Conducted by Sheldon Dsouza inDBMS Lab.

Monday April

Workshop on Windows 7

Conducted by Sundeep andSheron Paul in Network Lab.

Monday April 9

Workshop on XNAGame Studio

Conducted by Allan Pinto andRebeck Carvalho in Network Lab

Tuesday April

Workshop onExpression StudioConducted by Allan Pinto andRaul Pinto in Simulation Lab.

revious Semester: Workshops.

Tis website will be an importantmeans o interaction between the

BE students and the Pro-ject coordinator.

Sheron Paulrom E I

is comingup with anOnline reg-istration andeedback a-

cility or ACM.Students shall

have the benet oregistering themselves or

ACM DBI Chapter and or pro-viding eedback during events.

Avanish Pathak rom SE


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Computer Departmental Library,

Second Floor, Old Building,Don Bosco Institute o echnology,Kurla West, Mumbai-400 070.

CommunityNews

and workshops to recieve eedback rom theparticipants. Tis will provide a proper backup

and loss o valuable data is prevented.

4Computer Department Project WebsiteTe students on reaching the nal year

always are conused about the types o topicsthat they can choose, how to go about theproject, documentation types and ormats.Such concerns o students has led to the de-velopment o the Computer Department Pro-

ject Website. Te web site shall contain detailrelated to the projects completed by studentsalong with the project details. Te websiteshall also have the ormats or documentationand other purposes. Te project website shallalso cater to the students o the third year or

the new subject, Seminar. Te website shallhave technical papers presented by previousyear students.

5Computer Departmental MagazineTe computer department is coming out

with the Departmental Magazine or the rsttime. Tis magazine contains the details othe computer department. Te technical ar-ticles are prepared with an artistic eel to it.Te inormation is provided in simple english.

Te nal year students are having a dedicatedcolumn to remember each other with theirname and photograph. Te magazine alsoeatures the class photographs o all the classes.Te magazine was prepared by the students othe second and third year o the ComputerDepartment.

Te students most actively involved inthe ACM Projects are Allan Pinto, Sundeep

Project on the rise continued

Padmanabha, Karan Gurani, Rahul IsolaSheron Paul, Georgin Baby, Shveta Sharma

Raul Pinto, Avanish Pathak and many moreTe increase in projects last semester has

shown the enthusiam and determination o

ACM members to apply their knowledge inpractical projects. As the Chairman o ACMDBI Chapter, I ask all the members to helpin development o projects as it is a chance tolearn something new that could be the dening step in your uture lie.

The key tosuccess is to learn

something today,use it tomorrowand rememberit always

All the members interested in taking partin projects can do so by contacting the ACMDBI Chapters core committee. Te projectsshall be provided to the members on availability o the subject o their interest. ACM DBI

Chapter believes that everyone is capable ogreatness. All we have to do is provide a propedirection. What better learning environmencan be provided than learning during thecourse o project development. ACM DBIChapter looks orward to your arrival in theever increasing project team

Top: Registrations shall be taken only on the

computer. Center: The eedback system will be

easier than ever beore and will provide proper

ormatting. Bottom: All members are encouraged

to contact the ACM Team to help us better organise

events, workshops and seminars.

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