National Workshop on Cryptology 2015, 11-13 September at Bhubaneswar

15th National Workshop on Cryptology is being organized during 11-13 September 2015 at KIIT Bhubaneswar. The website link is http://nwc15.kiit.ac.in/ although this link has not been given yet by CRSI website http://www.crsind.com/

Professor Bimal Roy: Padmashri Award for Serving Coutry and Sacking Reward for not bowing to All Mighty Politicians

Politicians believe they are empowered by the people to take steps sometimes even to tarnish the image of our motherland.... and if you can not prove your point by argument then bring the weapon of financial and other irregularities!

we often wonder why our institutes do not figure within top institutes of world! How do we expect so? If our institutes of higher learning are forced to abide by the rules framed by funding bodies such as MHRD or such... And if do not follow the government specified line then you either resign or get sacked!!!! After all they are paying!!! Centre of excellence can not be achieved without freedom...

As an Indian citizen, Indian Constitution gives me the freedom of speech.. and I condemn the government order of sacking the ISI director Professor Bimal Roy.

Looking Back 6 Yearsand Looking Forward at CSE department of HIT Haldia

Following is the content that I wrote for CSE departmental Magazine, in Haldia Institute of Technology  “Hash Define” first edition of 2015.

I still remember the day when I was about to enter the class room 9001, the room beside HOD office in July 2009. I was given the subject Microprocessor (EI-502) to teach. My heartbeat increased. I could feel that. But only thing that was giving me little bit confidence was the fact that I had teaching experience.

That class included a sincere student Tulika Bose, and later on the students like Sanghita Kanjilal, Priyanka Chiraniya, Anupam Majumder, Zaved Mahamud, Saheli Dhar, Sudipa Bera, Prakash Rai, Madhumita, Anindita, Shalini, Payel, Saptarshi, Zahid, Amir, Kamal, Gitanjali Lama, Rohan Chetri, etc joined the class which I think made the batch very good.

Next semester, I taught the elective Network Secuirty to final year students. There I found a student named Rajneesh Kumar, Whom I consider an extra ordinary student. In subsequent years, I got many good students in terms of academic, behavior, extra curriculum, event management etc. The list is long but few names can be mentioned: Huma Nazneen, Deepak, Arpita, Meghna, Shikha, Gaurav, Anand Chetri, Dipika, Debasmita, Buddhadev,Shristi, Ankita, Namrata, Nirjhar, Harsh, Sanjib, Buddhadev, Ramkrisha, Debadrita, Farhan, Anjani etc. It may be mentioned a very brilliant student Swarnashree Chaudhury left all of her dear ones few months back….

When some students of these batches come back to college for some reason and meet us we do feel very Happy.

What I observed is that students do come here in campus with lots of dream, courage in their eye, but that courage demises as they progress towards higher semesters. What might be the reason(s)?

Somewhere I read that ordinary people adapt themselves and adjust with the existing environment surrounding them if they do not like the present environment. But extra ordinary people change (upgrade) the present environment itself to meet their expectations. Shall we not try to uplift the campus environment in our small capacity if we don’t like it as it is….

As our ex President APJ Abdul Kalam said: Dream is not what we get during sleep, but dream is what does not let us sleep.

The fact is that most of live either in Past or in Fututre. That is we think of our old days like school days, old friends, previous campus, last semesters etc. or we think about the future – what we will achieve in future etc. But most of us never live in Present. Only on focusing on Present, and gathering lessons from the Past we can make our future brighter.

Regarding semester, mostly classes are held for around 160 days. If we can’t make sure that we will attend most of the classes and be there in class/lab in correct time, then how do we expect that we would be regular and punctual in office when we join some organization after we graduate?

Extra curriculum activities are very helpful in shaping our personality towards perfection. My personal experience suggests that sports, cultural activities, techinal activities, weekend trips to neighborhood tourist spots or trekking (off course following the college protocols properly), watching good movies, reading good novels or autobiography really inspire us to go ahead. That is we have to balance our academic life with our positive non-academic sides.

Doing interships in semester breaks really helps us a lot to familiar with the environments in top grade Institutes/companies. But compare to the huge number of students in our country, the number of students got chance in these top grade organizations is very less. But nonetheless, we can do internship in our Institute only under some faculty member.

At last I want to convey what I heard in a program in Shibpur when one student was giving a quote: It is our Attitude, not Aptitude  that decides our Altitude in future.

School Deputation Vacancy for MCA for SC category

There is a vacancy for MCA passed candidates in a Bengali medium higher secondary school in Haldia, West Bengal. This post is reserved for SC category candidates. The salary will be minimum Rs. 25,000 per month. The joining will be as soon as possible after the interview, and the whole process is expected to be completed within September. The tenure is up to June 2015. The advertisement was published in Sangbad Pratidin Bengali News paper dated on 11.09.2014. Name of the school is Chakdwipa High School, Chakdwipa, Haldia, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal - 721666. Application from interested candidates should reach The Headmaster of the school latest by 23.09.2014.
The school is in walking-distance from Braja-lal-chak bus stop. on the NH-41 highway from Kolaghat to Haldia. It takes approximately 1 hour by bus from Mecheda railway station in South Eastern Railway Howrah-Kharagpur Division. The school is 7 KM from Haldia rail station. Haldia is well connected by rail (Howrah-Haldia local, Panskura-Haldia local, Asansol-Haldia Express, Chennai-Haldia Weekly Express, Anand Vihar Terminus (Delhi)-Haldia weekly express). In another route, it takes 1 hour from Raichak in South 24 Pgs to reach the school by taking the Kukrahati-Haldia bus via Balughata.
Haldia is an industrial city, surrounded by Haldi river. It offers all the modern city-life facilities. Yet one can feel the touch of village greenery and simplicity of people here.

National Workshop on Cryptology 2014 at Jabalpur

National Workshop on Cryptology 2014 will be held in IITDM Jabalpur during  25 - 27 September, 2014. Detail of this annual event of CRSI can be found in this link.

Virtual Lab

Virtual Laboratory is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT).
Millions of engineering students would be enriched immensely by exploring this virtual lab. Various IITs, NITs and some other national level institutes/universities have participated in this project and developed various labs in BT, CH, CE, CS, EC, EE, ME. Few examples of different such labs are -

1. Digital Signal Processing  

2.Digital Logic Design 

3. C Programming 

4. Basic Electronics  

5. Computer Organisation and Architecture 

Virtual Labs at IIT Kharagpur - http://iitkgp.vlab.co.in/

WBUT Question Papers

West Bengal University of Technology (WBUT) has implemented a long due process of uploading the previous year's question papers. 2009 onwards question papers are available for WBUT affiliated courses including B. Tech program. The link is http://qpaper.wbut.ac.in/