IBM Technology Day Celebrations at BITS Pilani Rajasthan

Sept. 16, 2007 - PRLog -- For one whole generation of yesteryear BITSians, the word IBM still brings back nostalgic memories for it was that one piece of IBM 1130 Machine which gave ideas to innovators, got them inspired and groomed whole lot of Techies – leaders in real and virtual worlds who today are who is who from Australia to America.

One of the hottest technology topics these days, Virtualization is the creation of substitutes for real resources, that is, substitutes that have the same functions and external interfaces as their counterparts, but that differ in attributes, such as size, performance, and cost. Virtualization benefits include reduction of hardware cost by consolidation, optimization of workloads, IT Flexibility and responsiveness.

On Saturday 08 Sep 2007, with Virtualization as the focus, the IBM Technology Day celebrations took off at the Lecture Theatre Complex of BITS Pilani with Prof Rahul Banerjee’s crisp welcome note. BITS Alumnus Kalapriya Kannan from IBM India Research Labs (IRL) gave a talk on Recent Research in Virtualization which was followed by a talk on Virtualization in P series by BITS Alumnus Radhika Parameswaran from IBM India Software Labs (ISL).

MSRI Research Fellow Biju Raveendran who is doing PhD at BITS Pilani gave a talk on Energy Efficient File System for Flash Devices. Srikanth Srinivasan from ISL spoke on Distributed and Cluster File Systems. Dr RK Shyamsundar Manager Programming Languages and Software Engineering from IRL gave an enlightening talk on Research and Opportunities at IRL.

IBM’s University Relations Programmes include the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS), Shared University Research (SUR) Grants, IBM faculty Awards, IBM PhD Fellowship Program, Faculty Travel Grants, International Travel Grants for students, one year project training, Summer Visitor program, Academic Visitor Program, Event Sponsorships, Extreme Blue Program, University Curriculum Lectures and Guest Lectures.

The IBM team and senior computer science faculty members had detailed discussions in the office of Prof LK Maheshwari Vice Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science for further strengthening the BITS IBM collaboration.

About BITS Pilani: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani Rajasthan which has set a bench mark in industry university collaboration is one among the top ranking universitiesin India today offering degrees in various branches of Engineering, Management, Economics, Pharmacy, Sciences, Engineering Technology, Information Systems, General Studies, Finance, etc presently at Pilani, Dubai, Goa campuses and in the near future at Hyderabad campus apart from an array of work integrated learning programmes for HRD of a vast spectrum of Indian corporates.

Website: www.bits-pilani.ac.in