The Hindu : Karnataka / Bangalore News : 1,000 candidates short-listed for IIMB admissions this year

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1,000 candidates short-listed for IIMB admissions this year

ABOUT 1,100 candidates have been reportedly short-listed for the postgraduate management diploma programme by the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB), based on their scores in the Common Admission Test (CAT) held in November 2006.

The CAT-2006 results were declared on Tuesday, but only a few could access the IIM websites that eventually got jammed. About 1.77 lakh candidates appeared for the test, the first hurdle for admission to the IIMs and 80 other reputed business schools in the country.

IIMB sources said 270 students would be admitted to the postgraduate programmes this year. Four times this number is short-listed for the next stage. The short-listed candidates will have to attend an interview and group discussion in the second week of February.

A candidate is usually expected to clear the sectional cut-off across all the three sections of the CAT paper: Quantitative Ability, Data Interpretation & Logical Reasoning, and Verbal Ability. The cut-off is generally around 99 percentile for an institute such as IIMB, the sources said. However, candidates with 98.6 percentile have got calls from IIMB in the past years.

Lectures

The International Society of Mathematical Chemistry (ISMC) has organised the first Indo-U.S. lecture series in Mathematical Chemistry at the P.E.S. Institute of Technology (PESIT) from January 8 to 11. The event is jointly sponsored by the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.

MSRIT alumni meet

The M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology Alumni Association (MSRITAA) has organised an annual general meeting and "Milana", an alumni meet on January 7 at 10.30 a.m. in the main auditorium of the institute.

MSRIT alumni the Late Shri Krishna P. Godasi scholarships will be distributed on this occasion. For details, visit www.msritalumni.org or www.msrit.edu or call 9845714329.

Symposium

The P.E.S. School of Engineering here recently organised an international symposium on "Cognition and recognition technologies-2006," an event that featured an educative talk on the topic by Sarguru N. Srihari, Distinguished Professor, Department of CSE, University at Buffalo, SUNNY, United States.

Mr. Srihari said the role of machine learning was the principled way of building high performance information processing systems. He said while reading and writing was important for academic achievement in schools and assessment technologies were key to timely scoring.

He said while reading and writing was important for academic achievement in schools, assessment technologies were key to timely scoring.

Technology had to encompass issues related to handwriting recognition, DAR and making the machine to learn and then infer in the decision-making process.

PES Institutions founder M.R. Doreswamy stressed upon how Cognition and Recognition Technology could help social cause in a vast country such as India. The technology should enable communication between the blind and the deaf.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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