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Management fete begins at NIT-C

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400 students from 60 colleges taking part in the festival

MAKING A POINT: Anand Parthasarathy delivering the key-note address at the three-day all-India MCA meet `Nakshathra-07' organised by the Department of Computer Engineering of the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, on its campus on Friday.

KOZHIKODE: `Nakshathra-07,' an all-India management fete hosted by the Department of Computer Engineering of the National Institute of Technology, Calicut (NIT-C), began on the NIT-C campus near here on Friday.

As many as 400 MCA students from 60 colleges across the country are taking part in the three-day meet. Anand Parthasarathy while delivering the keynote address said Kerala had given birth to many innovations in technology.

"The age of digital cinema end-to-end can truly be said to have born in Kerala," Mr.Parthasarathy said.

He said Kerala has been a hotbed of creativity amidst all the breathtaking developments in the field of technology.

A student of MES College of Engineering in Kuttipuram, Sainul Abideen, managed to squeeze 2.7 gigabytes of data on one square inch piece of plastic opening the possibility of new high-density storage options. A professor at Sree Sankara College in Kalady, P. Harikumar, pioneered the SMS novella - readable on a mobile phone and also created a short feature film for viewing on such phones.

The Ernakulam-born Joseph Pally, now in Texas (U.S.), has created the world's first web resource (Cubes) that seamlessly integrates browsing, searching, editing, drawing, painting, and audio visual media handling.

The Kerala - based cinematographer Ramachandra Babu has mooted a new cinema format — Cineku — combining the pull of the short feature and the brevity of the Japanese verse form Haiku. When `Moonamathoraal' was released in Kerala in 2006, it became the first film in India to be digitally shot, edited, distributed (via satellite) and exhibited at multiple simultaneous locations.

In the seventh year of the new millennium, the PC has already overtaken television as the vehicle of mass entertainment and information in the West.

Most recently, PC and TV are converging into a single device for Information, Communication and Entertainment (ICE), signalling a new ICE Age.

The PC has also shrunk - in size as well as cost; from desktop to laptop, to notebook, handheld Pocket PC, a computer that is as small as a mobile phone (and does the job of a phone).

However, with increasing power going into the mobile phone, the pocket PC is being replaced in some measure by smart phones that combine the functions of a phone and a simple PC.

The IT Bill became a law on October 18, 2000, making India one of a handful of nations that had set up the necessary legal apparatus to encourage e-commerce. Indian ingenuity has also created global headlines in recent months in the IT arena, Mr. Parthasarathy said.

Indian engineers help set up the world's highest cybercafe at the Everest base camp. Keralite henkurrusi Kesavadas of New York State University invented a process to convey a sense of touch via Internet in June 2003.

Krishna Bharat, Principle Scientist at Google.com, created the world's first computer-generated news web site www.google.com/news, Mr. Parthasarathy said.

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