Dear all, Pl. find an invite for a Distinguished Lecture on “Technologies for catapulting Tamil to the digital forefront” on Tuesday, 7th Jan 2014 at 5.30 p.m. The pdf invite is available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2014/mm-140107.pdf With reagrds HR Mohan Chairman, IEEE CS & VP, CSI INVITE ========================================== International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil, India Chapter Tamil Virtual Academy Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter Cordially invite you for a Distinguished Lecture on “Technologies for catapulting Tamil to the digital forefront” By Dr. A. G. Ramakrishnan Professor of Electrical Engineering Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore On Tuesday, 7th Jan 2014 at 5.30 p.m. at Tamil Virtual Academy Government Data Centre Complex Near Anna Centenary Library Gandhi Mandapam Road, Kottur, Chennai 600025 Phone: 044-2220 1012 Programme: ======== 5.30: Tea & Fellowship 6.00: Presentation About the Speaker: ============== Dr. A. G. Ramakrishnan is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his Ph.D. degree in 1989 in Biomedical Engineering from I.I.T Madras. He was selected as a Young Scientist in 1994. Dr. Ramakrishnan received Sir Andrew Watt Kay Young Researcher's Award in 1992 from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow for outstanding work in the field of medical and biomedical sciences. He was the President of Biomedical Engineering Society of India from 2002 to 2008. He has publications in four different IEEE Transactions: Biomed. Eng.; Info. Technology in Biomedicine; Medical Imaging; and Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. His research areas include Neuro inspired Pattern Recognition, Machine Listening, Human Computer Interface Technologies, Medical and Document Image Processing, Online Handwriting Recognition, Indian Language Technology Solutions, Natural Language Processing. He has guided 25 research scholars so far. He is leading a national research consortium on “Recognition of online handwriting in Indian languages”. OCRs developed by him for Tamil, Kannada and Telugu have been used to convert more than 180 books to Braille books. The text to speech synthesis system developed by him for Tamil and Kannada is available as a web demo on his lab website. Indic Keyboard, an open source IME for most Indian languages, is available on http://code.google.com/ for both Windows and Linux. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.