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Mr.Ankit Fadia giving his special lecture Our technologically networked world is continuously challenged by new security loopholes, threats and attacks. With a growth in computer users and networks, the scale and sophistication of cyber crime has increased thus creating a high demand for ethical hackers. The demand for computer security professionals is estimated to grow to over 77,000 in India and 188,000 worldwide. For the purpose of addressing this issue, our college Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore invited an alarming personality, Mr.Ankit Fadia a widely recognized computer security guru and cyber anti-terrorism expert. Mr.Ankit Fadia lives in USA where he is pursuing his Bachelors in Computer science with specialization in information security from Stanford University, California, USA. The function began with welcome address by our Principal Dr.V.Murugesan followed by the presidential address by our honorable chairman Dr.S.Thangavelu. Mr.Anki...

A glimpse of the interview My turn for interview had finally come. Actually they were interviewing three people at a time, I think Vivek Balaji(ECE) and one of my classmate Ramya accompanied me. With all nervousness I went inside. Siddharth, Mayur and Sumedh Sakdeo They asked simple questions like "What will you do as a MSP?", "Why should I select you as MSP ?", and some techi questions in C(as I was in my 2nd yr of Engg).It was simple and my interview went well. Then the interview for others was held for about 3 hours extending up to 10:00 p.m in the night. By this the day 2 was also over. We all had a great experience and fun.

Another person Sumedh Sakdeo from Pune joined the MSPs.The participants were received in the auditorium with the Windows vista official song rocking the roofs. The session on creating a website with WEB 2.0 kindled the creativity quotient of the gathering ,with many claiming after the session that they had their problems solved with regard to AJAX. They showed the difference of working experience in html and Asp.net. The various pillars of Windows vista presentation ,XML and RSS technologies were covered in the further sessions. Mayur Tendulkar, Sidharth Prakash and Sumedh Sakdeo(from left) A bit difficult question ,“What were the languages used to develop the Windows XP operating system?” was finally thrown at the audience. The MSPs brought in huge competition by offering to provide the original windows vista operating system CD to the participant with the most convincing answer One of my classmate ...

We received a great response from engineering students (as far a 150 km away) around the district of Coimbatore. We were able to enroll about 104 students from other engineering colleges. Dr.Arokyaswamy ,President ,Computer Society of India (CSI) –Coimbatore chapter, Was invited for the inaugural address. The student were spellbound when he went on to elaborate on the challenges of the IT.Then student representatives from various colleges were asked to convey their expectations. We were taken by surprise when a student representative queried “How is Microsoft countering the GOOGLE GEAR threat ?” (Of course, the MSP’s got into act immediately!) The first session was on Microsoft Academia that covered the various initiatives taken by Microsoft for the Students, Faculty members and more. The audience went crazy when they knew any answer to the question asked, would be appreciated with a Visual studio CD. Then they adop...

Mr. Deepan Thangavelu, Secretary of our college( Sri Shakthi Institute of Engg & Tech), came in contact with two Microsoft student partner leads, Siddharth Prakash and Mayur Tendulkar of pune user group and invited them to our college. They were very much interested and also planned to recruit few MSPs(Microsoft student partners) here. This was for the first time ever, I came to know that there exist people known as Microsoft Student Partners. I guess not only me a lot of people in My College . As the date was fixed for the conference, our college started sorting out students for the interview to be conducted by MSP leads on the conference. The selection process was as usual, Written exam, Group discussion etc .After that more than 50 students were selected for the interview. Day before the Conference Siddharth and Mayur spoke with our college students and were very much excited on observing our overwhelming response.  

You all know how technology is developing faster. U will rarely find people not using the word 'Computers'. You wont wonder even if Kids of 5yr old use Computers. I ll give you an example, I saw a Computer when I was 10 yrs old and I started playing PC games only when I was 13 yrs old. But when I once played with my 8 yr old cousin he is far better then me. The only way we can console ourselves is by saying that they can only play games but not create one. As we all know we can do that easily using software like flash, XNA game studio and many more. But guys, now we have got Competition here also. Kids of just 10 yr old can also Create games !! Just imagine. Microsoft on its latest Professional Developer Conference, announced that its going to release BOKU, a new visual programming language made specifically for creating games and designed to be accessible for children. Microsoft says that its programming environment runs on the Xbox, allowing rapid design iteratio...

Taking technology to the masses Anasuya Menon MICROSOFT SELECTS STUDENT PARTNER They will be updated on developments in technology Interactive programmes to be organised COIMBATORE: Abhishek Suresh and S. Arumugham, second year Information Technology and Computer Science Engineering, students from Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, have been selected by Microsoft as student partners. Having joined the bandwagon of about 250 Microsoft Student Partners across the country, they aim to take technology to the masses. An unrelenting passion for technology helped them get through the selection process. The Microsoft Student Partner programme is an initiative to sponsor students who are interested in technology. The company delegates these student partners to take its products and latest technology to the larger student community in various engineering colleges in the city. Software The student partners would be updated on the various developments in technolog...

@Behind the Scenes Technical Meet was the first conference that I organized after I got selected for Microsoft Student Partner program (but not recruited :)) on 28th Sept 2008. For this we had invited the Madurai .net user group MSPs Mr. Arun and Mr.Jebasingh who were in their final yrs. As there were a lot of conference been conducted in our college, we wanted a totally different kind of conference. So the days before the event we created different posters. We gained a lot of Experience by this conference. @ Day before the event The day before the event we invited all the first years and explained them about the event that was to happen the next day. We also gave a brief of Imagine cup, Microsoft, Student partner program and about our user group. The students were really excited and felt it different from the usual session. @ Day of the Conference Jebasingh and Arun were the key speakers on that day and most of the audience were from the 1st year(we consoled our self th...

In your life there might be many memorable moments and events. At times you might have even felt that if you had missed that event it would have been one big blunder. Tech Vista 2008 is one such event which is in the Black box of my heart. Tech Vista is Microsoft Research India’s annual Symposium for students, teaching fraternity and Scientist to interact and share their views. More than thousand of students and staff attend the symposium on Microsoft Research. Tech Vista 2008 was held on 1st October 2008 at Chennai Convention Centre, Chennai. The event was organized by many student volunteers and Chennai Microsoft Student Partners. I came to know that this time there were more than 1400 participants. As a Computer Science student I was very eager as Prof. John Hopcroft , Author of our Theory of Computation text book was the keynote speaker. @Day Before the event :) For this event we were supposed to pre - register a month before. Unfortunately due to our developer conferenc...