Newsletter:

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.