Dear Readers, Greetings from the Editorial Team!

It has been an eventful quarter, and the year is off to a great start. Three major events, namely Ojas, BITCON, and the farewell, kept both the students and the faculty occupied. And in the midst of all this, they made time for the academic progress.

The spring brought with it renewed vigor for the year’s work, and a variety of festivals celebrating this energy and new life. It is with this same enthusiasm that we approach the year and all the challenges it holds for us, to overcome and grow, forever becoming better.

Lastly, our heartiest congratulations and best wishes to the outgoing batch of 2014-2018! It has been a wonderful four years with you, and now it is time for you to move on and enter a different world. We hope that you may achieve all that you want in life, and live up to the potential we have seen in you. This is just the beginning for you, and it is a long climb to the top.

“The woods are lonely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep And miles to go before I sleep.”

VISION OF THE DEPARTMENT

To provide cutting edge learning environment and nurture talent to produce world-class

computer professionals with ethical values who could excel in industry and research.

MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT

Promote peace, prosperity and growth in society by producing competent computer

professionals with strong ethics, entrepreneurial, continuous learning and research skills

through quality teaching-learning processes rendered by experienced faculty and ever up-

gradable infrastructure.

M1. Promote peace, prosperity and growth in society by producing competent computer professionals with strong ethics, leadership qualities and entrepreneurial skills. M2. Inculcate professional behavior, research of international quality and continuous learning skills in students through quality teaching-learning process. M3. Support the professional development of all faculty members in the areas of teaching and research. M4. Infra structure up gradation in sync with emerging technologies.

BHILAI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, DURG

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

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PATRON

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ISSUE 10

APRIL 2018

The Professional Activity Club, BIT Durg, organized a Debate Competition on the 20th of February, for students of 4th and 6th semesters.

BITCON 2018, a National Conference on Frontiers in Science, Technology and National Development, was organized by the CSE Dept. on the 15th of February. The theme of the conference was “Innovations in Computation, Communication and Cybernetics”. (I3C 2018)

Ojas 2018, the technical and cultural fest of BIT-DURG, was organized on the 16th and 17th of February. The CSE Dept. was in charge of the ‘Informals’ event, and the students and teachers worked together to make the event a success.

A large number of faculty and students published various technical and research papers during this quarter, including presentation of papers at Ojas and BITCON, and publications in various journals.

An expert lecture on “AI and Machine Learning” by Ali Mustafa Shaikh, was organized by the PAC, on the 20th of March.

Google AI which builds own AI

Google has developed an

artificial intelligence system

that is capable of generating its

own AIs.

Google unveiled this project,

namely AUTOML, in May last

year, with the aim of making it

easier to design machine

learning models. AUTOML

uses reinforcement learning,

and acts as a controller neural

network that develops a task-

specific child AI.

In November, the AUTOML

plans were used to create

NASNet, a child AI which

outperformed state-of-the-art

machine learning architectures

built by humans. The child AI

created by this parent AI is much

more advanced and intelligent

than the parent. NASNet has

outperformed all its human-made

counterparts.

Specifically, NASNet was

developed to recognize objects

that appear on a video in real-

time. This was tested on the

ImageNet image classification

and COCO object detection data

sets, which Google calls “two of

the most respected large-scale

academic data sets in computer

vision”.

The image detection tests

performed by Google on

NASNet gave 82.7% results,

which is 1.2% better than

previous results achieved by

other AI models. The system is

4% more efficient, with a 43.1

percent mAP (mean Average

Precision).

This is something that may be

greatly beneficial for human

society. An AI that can build AI

could open the doors of machine

learning and AI to non-experts.

NASNet could prove useful for a

wide range of applications, and

open source the AI for inference

on image detection and object

classification.

Aakansha Arora 4th Sem - A

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4th Sem –A

A Brief History of Stephen Hawking

(1942-2018)

Professor Stephen William

Hawking was born on 8th January

1942 in Oxford, England.

With a First class Honors degree

in Natural Science, in October

1962, Stephen arrived at the

Department of Applied

Mathematics and Theoretical

Physics (DAMTP) at the

University of Cambridge to do

research in cosmology. After

gaining his PhD (1965) with his

thesis titled 'Properties of

Expanding Universes', he became,

first, a research fellow (1965) then

Fellow for Distinction in Science

(1969) at Gonville & Caius

college. He became a Reader in

Gravitational Physics at DAMTP

(1975), progressing to Professor

of Gravitational Physics (1977).

He then held the position of

Lucasian Professor of

Mathematics (1979-2009).After

that he held many positions of

Academics and Research.

Professor Stephen Hawking

worked on the basic laws which

govern the universe. These results

indicated that it was necessary to

unify general relativity with

quantum theory, the other great

scientific development of the first

half of the 20th century. One

consequence of such a unification

that he discovered was that black

holes should not be completely

black, but rather should emit

'Hawking' radiation and

eventually evaporate and

disappear (1974). Another

conjecture is that the universe

has no edge or boundary in

imaginary time. This would

imply that the way the universe

began was completely

determined by the laws of

science. Professor Stephen

Hawking received thirteen

honorary degrees.

In 1963, Stephen was

diagnosed with ALS, a form of

Motor Neuron Disease, shortly

after his 21st birthday. In spite

of being wheelchair-bound and

dependent on a computerized

voice system for all

communication.

KNOW

YOUR

FACULTY

Mrs. Monika

Verma Asst. Prof (CSE)

Qualification: B.E(CSE), M.Tech(CSE)

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Favourite Book: All Technical Books

Favourite Dish: Kadhi-Chawal

Favourite

Movie: Lakshya

Favourite Actor: Actor from the real world, Dr A. P. J Abdul Kalam

Message for the Students: “The mantra is

unveil your inner strength,

embrace your

personality,

jump at the right

time, fast-iterate, listen to the feedback and Succeed.”

The Best Current Shows for Geeks

Mr Robot

Elliot Alderson is a cybersecurity

engineer by day and a vigilante

hacker by night, who joins a

“hacktivist” group that wants to

destroy all debt and financial

records of the largest

conglomerate in the world. But

with Elliot suffering from

extreme mental illnesses, not all

is as it seems.

Silicon Valley

This HBO comedy series follows

the life of computer programmer

Richard and his friends as they

develop a compression program

that could revolutionize the

world. The series gives an

insightful look into the startup

tech world, fickle venture

capitalists and investment

companies.

Black Mirror

If you are nervous about how all

the ‘cool’ innovations could

potentially destroy lives, and

even the planet itself, this dark

series will likely confirm all your

fears. The British science fiction

anthology examines modern

society and the unanticipated

consequences of new

technologies.

Halt And Catch Fire

Halt and Catch Fire tells a story

about the 80s through the lens of

dreamer, engineer, and genius

Joe MacMillan. Here's a show

about what happens when big

ideas meet big industry and when

dreams meet reality. It shows

everything from a charismatic,

atmospheric, and realistic point

of view.

The IT crowd

The IT Crowd follows the three-

person IT team working in the

basement of a fictional company.

The two genius, but socially

awkward technicians are led by a

hopelessly non-technical IT

manager trying to bridge the gap

between the department and the

business side of things.

Nishant Chhattani 4th Sem- A

of the most successful companies

have built their empires on

information that you just provide

in exchange for free services . The

consumers are just now starting to

realise the true cost of the trade.

The success of these big

companies had led to smaller

start-ups like LocalBlox, to jump

into the market. The reason some

companies are the most powerful

is because they are relevant and

there is a lot of intelligence that

goes behind the scenes,

generating these relevant

experiences.

The company insists that the

information has never been used

to push a political agenda, unlike

the previous scandal. However,

leaks like this take on a new

significance as consumers are

becoming more educated about

companies that deal in data, and

lawmakers are trying to figure out

how to regulate this new frontier.

Ashutosh Verma

8th Sem

UpGuard Data

Leak

Upguard, a cybersecurity firm has

tied Facebook, along with other

popular consumer sites, to a data

leak. Chris Vickery, Director of

Cyber Risk Research in said firm,

discovered the situation in

February. He found 48 million

profiles, constructed using

technology that scrapes public

data from various social media

sites.

The profiles were a company

called LocalBlox which offers a

variety of marketing and business

intelligence tools. The software

starts with a person or company,

searches the Internet for publicly

available information on that

entity that has been posted to

sites. LocalBlox then creates

profiles based on that information,

which can be used for commercial

purposes like marketing.

Big data is big business, and some

News From SIH-

2018

Five teams from BIT Durg

represented BIT and

Chhattisgarh state in the finals of

the software edition of Smart

India Hackathon - a national

level digital product development

competition organised by

AICTE/MHRD. The 5 teams

participated at the venues of

different ministries for solving

the listed challenges by the

respective ministry.

Team Jargons, led by

Jayesh Patel (CSE 6th)

created a web based solution

to detect mental anomalies

in college Students.

Team Innocube, led by

Shubham Sahu (CSE 8th)

created a web and mobile

based app for crop insurance

as required by Agriculture

Ministry.

Team Lakshaya. (from IT)

finished as a top 8 team for

Ministry of Tamil Nadu at

Kolkata.

Prof. Sumit Sar , Prof. Dinesh

Bhawnani and Prof. Sarang

Pitale (IT) acted as team

mentors for 3 teams from IT

department.

Prof. Chaitali Choudhary and

Prof. Sudip Bhattacharya acted

as the Coordinators for the

contest and also as team

mentors.

The teams were congratulated

by Principal Dr. Arun Arora

Sir, Head of the Department

(CSE), Dr. Padmavati and Head

of the Department (IT) Dr. Ani

Thomas.

This success of students is an

encouragement and is

motivating other junior students

to participate in this type of

contests in the future.

A Slice of Life! Prof. Dinesh Bhawnani

Placement and Competitive Exams:

In the campus recruitment, 32 students of the CSE Dept. were placed in

companies that visited the campus. These included TCS, Analytic

Quotient, Global Logic, Epic Research, Capital Height Research, C-

Core, PathFront Consulting Services, Synapse India, Tech Mahindra

among others.

Some of our students have made their mark by procuring high ranks in

competitive examinations through their tireless efforts.

Name Rank/Percentile

GATE:

Prajakta Tawri 67

Shubham Dewangan 260

Mohnish Kumar Sinha 308

Shreyansh Jain 491

Swati Jaiswal 840

Raghuveer Singh Kushwaha 960

CAT:

Nimisha R Matthew 92.12

Viraj S Adesara 88.77

Shubham Dewangan 84.51

GRE:

Rahul Pandey 310

Shilpa Jain 321

Our heartiest congratulations to them!

Blockchains

As the name indicates, a

blockchain is a chain of blocks

that contain information. This

technique was first described in

1991 by a group of researchers

and was originally intended to

timestamp digital documents to

make impossible to back date

them or to tamper with them.

A Blockchain is a distributed

ledger that is completely open to

anyone. It has an interesting

property that when some data is

recorded inside it, it becomes

very difficult to change it. Or in

other words, it is a continuously

updated record of who-holds-

what. Blockchain is the

underlying technology behind

cryptocurrencies. Blockchains

debar the middlemen, such as

Amazon, Flipkart, etc from the

scene, hence no extra money has

HSBC are all planning to make a

single digital cryptocurrency and

settle transactions using

blockchain.

Blockchain is the next level of

the internet and a complete

overhaul of how things in our

world are going to be recorded,

organised and run. In the future,

blockchains that manage and

verify online data could enable us

to launch companies that are

entirely run by algorithms, make

self -driving cars safer, help us

protect our online identities, and

even track the billions of devices

on the internet of things. These

innovations will change our lives

forever and this is all just the

beginning.

Rajat Ranjan Jha

4th Sem- A

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to be spent on them.

Blockchains have something

called proof of work. It’s a

mechanism that slows down the

creation of new blocks. As an

example, it takes about 10

minutes to calculate required

proof of work and to add a new

block to the chain in case of

bitcoin. This mechanism makes

it very hard to tamper with the

block. If you tamper with one

block you’ll need to recalculate

one_____

the proof of work for all the

following blocks. So the

security of a blockchain

comes from its creative use of

hashing and the proof of

work mechanism.

The blockchain has

applications far beyond

cryptos. And as a whole, it

will be none less than

revolutionary. In the near

future, 6 banks including

Barclays Credit Swiss and

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