Newsletter:

10th April 2010

Annual Issue 4:

MCNC Completes Four Years. During the year 2009-2010, MCNC organized ICEMC2 2009, Fourth Innovative Conference successfully. Also, GATE workshop 2010 was organized. The Proceedings of the ICEMC2 2009 was published in MacMilan Advanced Research Series.

Visitors: Prof Ram Dantu, University of North Texas, USA, Prof Hema Sharda, University of Western Australia

Research Progress: MCNC has achived good progress in research. Prof Kumar travelled to Munich, Germany to present his paper entitled "Acoustic Design of Classrooms" at AES 126th Convention. Also, the concept of the "Programming Quotient(PQ)" was developed and a paper was presented at ICMCS 2010, Chennai Conference.

PESIT Micromouse: Two research Papers were presented on Micromouse Maze Solving algorithms in HiPC 2009 Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing and National Conference held at RVCE, Bangalore. Micromouse was also demonstrated at "Prakalpa", PESIT Project expo.

Conference Participation: MCNC members have participated in several international conference such as HiPC 2009, Cochin, ICMCS 2010, Chennai, National Instruments Labview conference, AES 126th Convention, Munich.

Conference Organization: Fourth Innnovative Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing, ICEMC2 2009 was successfully organized at PESSE, Bangalore during July 27-29, 2009. Fifth ICEMC2 2010 is being planned for organization at PESIMSR, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh.

Industry Partnerships: Funding has been received from ISRO, Indian Space Research Organization for organizing ICEMC2 2010 and GATE Workshop 2010.

1st May 2009:

Annual Issue 3:

MCNC Completes three years. During this year, MCNC has organized an international Conference ICEMC² 2008, and a workshop IASW 2009. The proceedings of ICEMC2 2008 was published in MacMillan Advanced Research Series.

Foriegn visitors:   Prof Srinivas Sampalli and Prof Mike Shepherd of Dalhousie University Canada,  Dr Leisa Armstrong, Edith Cowan University, Australia, Mr Chris Bolan, Edith Cowan University, Australia. .

Research Progress:  MCNC has made a good progress towards research. Innovative Teaching Approach for Software Engineering with labs has been developed and presented as a tutorial at IEEE CS Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, CSEE&T 2009 at Hyderabad. The paper on Innovation teaching of Software Engineering was also published in CSI Communications, Feb 2009 issue.

PESIT Micromouse: This is a project being undertaken with the funding from PESIT Research Council. This project will involve design and development of Micromouse an autonomous robot for IEEE Micromouse competitions.

Conference Participation:  MCNC members have participated in several international conference such as  TIDC, 2008, CSEE&T 2009, Hyderabad.

Conference Organization:  Fourth  Innnovative  Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing, ICEMC2 2009 is being organized at PESSE, Bangalore during July 27-29, 2009.

Industry Partnerships: Funding has been received from ISRO, Indian Space Research Organization for organizing ICEMC2 2009 and IASW 2009. 

1st March 2008

Annual Issue 2:

MCNC Completes two years. During 2007, MCNC has organized an international Conference ICEMC² 2007.

Foriegn visitors:   Prof Srinivas Sampalli, Dalhousie University Canada,  Prof Shanton Chang, University of Melbourne Australia, Prof Nalin Sharda, Victoria University Australia, Prof Vishy Karri, University of Tasmania, Australia, Mr Ravinder Sabhiki, IBM USA.

Research Progress:  MCNC has made a good progress towards research. The breakthrough research is in using analogies and case studies for innovative pedagogy for mobile communication. This topic was presented as an invited tutorial at NCECCube 2007, I2IT, Pune. A paper was also published in CSI Communications, July 2007 issue.

Conference Participation:  MCNC members have participated in several international conference such as  TIDC, 2007, NCECCube 2007, Pune, FTF 2007..

Conference Organization:  Third Innnovative  Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing, ICEMC2 2008 is being organized at Infosys, Mysore, during August 11-14, 2008.

Industry Partnerships:  Several MNCs have shown interest in signing  MOUs with PESIT based on MCNC initiatives. Symbian Software, Freescale Semiconducators, Infineon Technologies. Infosys has consented to sponsor the venue for ICEMC2 2008. Funding has been received from ISRO, Microsoft, Cranes Software, Wiley Publishers. Talks by Industry at PESIT such as by  CG Corel on FPGAs was organized.

1st March 2007:

Annual Issue1:

MCNC Completes one year. MCNC was started an year ago on 1st March 2006. During this time, MCNC has organized an international Conference ICEMC² 2006, deployed a website, published/presented research papers at several international conferences in India and abroad. MCNC is participating in several MNC partner programs such as TI, IBM, Microsoft etc. A TI-Lab is being setup with evaluation boards and software from Texas Instruments. Several resource CDs covering topics on Network Security, Computer Networking, Mobile Communication, Artificial Intelligence are being developed.

Foriegn visitors:  MCNC has attracted expert visitors from all over the world. To name a few here: Dr. Ramesh Tirumale of Boeing in USA, Dr Mike Shepherd of Dalhousie University, Canada, Mr Jens Harnisch, Infineon Technology, Germany.

Research Progress:  MCNC has made a good progress towards research. Two research papers have been selected for presentation at premier international conferences such as AES 122nd Convention to be held in Vienna, Austria and Military Communication Conference held in Washington DC USA. Significant research has been made in Public-key crytpography and Steganography.

Conference Participation:  MCNC members have participated in several international conference such as HiPC 2006, Texas Instruments TIDC and ATC, Freescale Technology Forum, ICONS 2007.

Conference Organization:  Second International Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing, ICEMC2 2007 is being organized at PESIT during August 3-5, 2007.