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`Hospitality team' emerges topper

CHRIST COLLEGE'S "Hospitality Team" won the award for the "Best Team" and Rupam Khaitan was adjudged the "Best MCA Student" and Syed Samir Akhtar the "Best MBA Student" at the "Collaboration Jam," an event jointly organised by Christ College and IBM, recently.

The programme was designed to connect people throughout the world to find solutions for issues in various domains.

Issues from Automotive, Banking, Healthcare, Hospitality, Telecommunications and Retail industries were taken for jamming sessions. The exercise was conducted remotely using the internet-based software "QuickPlace" and "Lotus Sametime Meeting" hosted by IBM.

The objective of conducting "Collaboration Jam" using this software was to lead the participants to understand collaboration capabilities and how it could be leveraged to solve business problems. Participants learnt how to make use of collaboration jam to innovate bottoms up from anywhere, anyplace.

The teams first prioritised issues that were posted on the QuickPlace.

The MBA and MCA students together gave Business components. The MBA students gave Business Solutions while the MCA students came up with technical solutions.

Workshop

B.N.M. Institute of Technology, along with the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIITB), has proposed to hold a national workshop on "Wireless communication" on August 17 and 18 at the J.N. Tata Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science campus.

The event is bound to attract hundreds of students, and about a 1,000 delegates. Major multinational companies are expected to exhibit their products during the workshop. Subject experts will dwell deeper on topics such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, Radio Frequency Identification, industrial applications of Wireless Technologies, Security Issues, Mobile Data Management, VoIP, Wireless Broadband Solutions and so on.

Law graduates

Last week, it was the turn of the Bishop Cotton Women's Christian Law College to get into convocation mode. In its first ever convocation ceremony, 47 students were awarded their degree certificates.

Presenting them their degrees was the former Chief Justice Rajendra Babu. Mr. Rajendra Babu spoke about his college days when he could never dream of a college for law, exclusively for women.

He joked, "Usually students who joined law during my time were dropouts from some other course and they were not interested in law, but there were a few like me who were serious about the course."

Education being the manifestation of perfection, Mr. Babu gave examples of Michelangelo and from the Shakespeare plays and asked the students to "cultivate good values, ethics, morals and some philosophy in life and implement it throughout life." Everything else would follow, he told the graduating students. He wanted the students to have a holistic approach to life and not limit their knowledge to only law. This, he felt, would help them in their profession.

RASHEED KAPPAN

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