Dear all, The CSI eNewsletter of June 2013 can be accessed at http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-2013-06-01.pdf and also at the CSI KM Portal http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/enewsletter For the archives of this newsletter, pl. visit http://www.csi-chennai.org/csi-enl/csi-enl-archives.htm or at http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/archives You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the information presented in the mail. =============================================== Primer on CSI History – An Appeal As Computer Society of India (CSI) will be turning 50 in 2015, a series of Golden Jubilee events/activities are planned in the coming two years. In this context, a primer on "CSI History” -- highlighting the significant milestones of CSI from its inception is being brought out. To facilitate the compilation/preparation of this primer, inputs are requested from CSI members and all who have been associated with CSI at various capacities at the chapter, regional, national and international levels. Kindly provide us with all possible information relevant to this primer as write-ups, documents, publications, photographs and in all other forms at your earliest. The inputs provided will be used with suitable acknowledgement. While soft copies of the inputs can be sent to by email to csi.history@gmail.com the hard copies (documents/publications/photos/) may pl. be sent to: Director – Education, Computer Society of India, Education Directorate, CIT Campus, IV Cross Road, Taramani, Chennai – 600 113. Ph: +91-44-22541102 / 1103 / 2874. After use, they will be returned back to you if desired. We request your immediate support in this activity as the lead-time for the primer preparation is quite short. =============================================== With regards HR Mohan Editor -- CSI eNewsletter http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======= -- The Executive’s Guide to Windows 8 -- Executive’s Guide To Software-Defined Networking -- The Executive’s Guide to the Internet of Things -- Internet of Things – A Thing of the Future -- Machine to Machine Technologies: Unlocking the potential of a $1 trillion Industry -- The tech whiz -- Report: Software & Information Industry Association's Vision from the Top -- What's wrong with India's software product eco-system -- A checklist for stepping into Cloud -- Cloud Bursts Into Higher Education -- Next-generation networks: An overview -- Taking Your Enterprise Mobile: The Executive Checklist -- Security Metrics: Critical Issues -- Book Summary: Does IT Matter? -- Video: Doctors 3D-Print An Emergency Airway Tube To Save A Child’s Life -- Video: The World in 2030 -- Video: China straddling bus (5 min -- Video: TED: Arthur Benjamin does “Mathemagic” -- Video: How kids learn today: Libraries, Technology, and Learning at MIT in the 21st Century -- Webinar: Do You Need The Cloud or Do You Want the Cloud -- Webinar: Priorities 2013: Moving from Buzz to Business -- Quick tips for having a great relationship with your boss: -- Use your first year of employment to learn good organizational political skills: -- Some critical elements of culture to pay attention to when you get employed: -- You think English is easy??? -- Announcements -- ICT Events -- ICT News: Voices & Views -- ICT News: Telecom, Govt, Policy, Compliance -- ICT News: IT Manpower, Staffing & Top Moves -- ICT News: Company News: Tie-ups, Joint Ventures, New Initiatives -- Book: Programming In SAP-APO (TMH) -- Book: Programming Windows: Writing Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML (Dreamtech & Wiley) -- Book: Data Structures, Algorithms and Applications in C++ (Universities Press) -- Book: Database Systems: Models,Languages,Design and Application Programming (Pearson India) -- Book: Data Mining for Bioinformatics (CRC Press) -- About the CSI-eNewsletter -- Contributions to CSI-eNewsletter -- Volunteers to CSI-eNewsletter InfoQuiz–2013-06-01 =============== (SEVEN Prizes to Win – TWO Prizes of Rs. 500/- each and FIVE books) 1. ------ is the whistleblower behind the US National Security Agency surveillance revelations 2. ------ is the Google’s experimental project in launching balloons into near space to provide internet access to buildings below on the ground. 3. ------ is a Swiss long-range solar powered aircraft project whose four engines are fuelled entirely by solar power, gathered by the 12,000 photovoltaic cells 4. Asus has recently unveiled a mobile device ------ that it described as the world’s first three-in-one tablet, laptop and desktop computer. 5. ------ is named as the world’s fastest super computer in the recent Top 500 survey of supercomputers.. Email your answers by 10th Jul 2013 to csi.infoquiz@gmail.com with subject “infoquiz-2013-06-01”. Please provide your name, designation, company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the contact phone nos. after the answers. There are SEVEN prizes to win. TWO prizes of Rs. 500/= each by SRA Systems (www.srasys.com). FIVE prizes will be in the form of books which are briefly reviewed in this edition of the newsletter. They are being offered by Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt. Ltd (www.tmhshop.com/), Wiley India Pvt. Ltd (www.wileyindia.com), Universities Press (www.universitiespress.com), Pearson Education (http://www.pearsoned.co.in), and CRC Press (www.crcpress.com). Answers along with the winners’ info will be published in the next issue. Answers & Winners of InfoQuiz-2013-05-01 =============================== Open Source P2P digital currency, MySQL, Phablet, Politicians, Interests Rs. 500/= from SRA Systems: Maninder Singh (Bangalore) & Harpreet Singh (Ludhiana) Book from Tata McGraw Hill Education Pvt Ltd: Pankaj Goyal (New Delhi) Book from Wiley India Pvt Ltd: Hemanth Pradeep Varanasi (Pune) Book from Universities Press: K K K Chand (Visakapatnam) Book from Pearson: Piyush Javeria (Udaipur) Book from CRC Press: R.Ganesan (Chennai) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.