SHARING IDEAS: I.V. Murali Krishna, Director, Research and Development, JNTU, Hyderabad with Vice-Chancellor of SPMVV Veena Noble Dass (centre) at the conference in Tirupati on Monday.

TIRUPATI: The two-day conference on `Applications of Data Mining', began on the Sri Padmavathi Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam (SPMVV) premises here on Monday.

The technical meet, organised by the university's department of computer science, is attended by computer experts, scholars and students from several university in the State, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka.

In his keynote address, Director (Research and Development), Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU), Hyderabad, I.V. Muralikrishna, said that the emerging concept was about finding or identifying the valid, potentially useful and understandable patterns in data and said that data mining was best applicable in Geographical Information System to get what is called `spatial data mining'.

He also explained how the growth of information technology as an all-encompassing tool had succeeded in wiping off the contours between subjects like statistics, life sciences, physical sciences etc.

Fall in interest

Professor of spatial information technology at the JNTU, Dr. Muralikrishna, expressed concern at the general fall in interest among students on pursuing research and indicated how research and teaching could complement and add value to each other.

Maintaining that the world had seen several inventions and discoveries even before the advent of computer and hence it need not be viewed as an omnipotent weapon, SPMVV Vice-Chancellor Veena Noble Dass however admitted that computer technology had, of late, made several strides and changed the very face of communication. She felt that IT would make sense to the common man only if the benefits reached the end-user.

Dean of mathematics and computer sciences B. Maheswari spoke on the implications of data mining, while conference director T. Sudha spoke about significance of the conference.

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