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From The Principals Desk

OCTOBER 2013VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1

Inside this issue:

It is indeed a proud moment for me to present to you the second

volume, Issue 1 of the MVJ-CSI TECHBUZZ.As we begin this new academic year, I heartily congratulate the MVJ

CSI Core Committee, the editorial team of TechBuzz for their com-mitment and dedication in coming up with this newsletter. I hope

the students are benefitted from the informative articles in thisnewsletter and I encourage them to use this as a platform to show-

case their technical abilities.It is the motto of our institution to be engineered for tomorrow

and I sincerely wish the students and faculty to take advantage ofthe guest lectures, workshops, conferences and contests arranged in

association with CSI and gain more knowledge in the latest trendsand keep themselves updated with the current technology.

From The HODS Desk

Message From The Chairman, CSI-BC

On behalf of CSI-Bangalore Chapter I would

like to congratulate the editorial board of thenewsletter TECHBUZZ. for providing such

an excellent platform for knowledge dissemi-nation.

With the drastic changes in the field of In-formation Technology it becomes essential for

the academics & professionals to be updatedwith the new technological developments.

Newsletter like TechBuzz, provides a platform

for improving technical writing skills and

helps knowledge creation/sharing.Based on the contents of the newsletter, I

see an increase in the creative thinking andpresentation skills of the contributors.

I, wish the student branch officials & edito-rial board all the success in their future

endeavours.Keep, sharing you will learn more.

It gives me immense pleasure in presenting the release of TECHBUZZ, the

MVJCE-CSI Student Chapter Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 1 October 2013 on behalfof the Departments of CSE, ISE & MCA.

The CSI-Student Chapter at MVJCE aims to keep students and faculties updatedwith the latest technological revolutions in IT industry. This newsletter will feature

updates about programs and events organized under CSI-Student Chapter, articlesfrom IT professionals and students and success stories from former students.

The interaction between students, faculty, CSI and IT professionals will certainlygo a long way to make our institution a vibrant one that can provide the best pos-

sible education in IT field. Therefore I humbly encourage all to make use of thisplatform to remain connected in the IT community.

I congratulate and appreciate the editorial team and appreciate their creative and

innovative skills yet again in the second edition of this newsletter.Mrs. N. Sreedevi

HOD, CSE

B.S. Bindhumadhava

Chairman,CSI-

BC

Dr. K.S. Badarinarayan

Principal, MVJCE

We thank you for

your encouragement

and support...Patron:

Shri M J Balachandar,Chairman

Dr. M.V. JayaramanFounder, MVJCE

About CSIThe Computer Society of India was established in 1965 and has grown since with

71 chapters country wide and 418 student branches. The primal aim of CSI is to

conduct research, share vital information and resources and help heighten thelearning and knowledge of IT professionals.

CSI publishes many newsletters, provides platforms for paper presentations, holds talks on important trends for thebenefit of students who will eventually enter the industry. The members of CSI have access to a wide variety of useful

resources. Their website http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/myhomeis a great place to start your journey with CSI.

MVJ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING www.mvjce.edu.in
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Conquer C++Coding Contest

Guest Lecture on

Exponential Growth Of The Android OS

A guest lecture was organized by theDepartment of CSE in association with

CSI(Computer Society of India) on the

topic Exponential growth of the AndroidOS. The enthusiastic students CSE,

ISE and MCA got to interact with Mr.

Amit Surana, Managing director, Smar-

gav Solutions. Mr. Amit opened the ses-sion by giving a brief introduction about

Android OS. This was followed by the

details and software specifications of

the same. The talk was titled,

Exponential growth of the Android OS.

Mr.Amit spoke about the entry of An-

droid into the smartphone industry andalso about its notable market share in

India and overseas. The students were

well informed about the features of An-droid and also other vital things like

Application framework and Web kits.

Mr. Amit encouraged the students to

actively involve themselves in applica-

tion development. The session was trulyinspirational and a complete fun-filled

technological experience.

The Department of Computer Scienceand Information Science Engineering inassociation with the Computer Society ofIndia successfully organized a coding

contest titled Conquer C++. It was a two

day event. Conquer C++ took place on the

19th and 20th of March. The event com-

prised three rounds. Round one was the

void or return round. The students had

to rack their brains to tackle the tricky

multiple choice questions. Fifty students

of a possible 160 qualified to the second

round- Unlocking the Code. Segments ofprograms had to be debugged. The final

round was named C++ overloaded. Thetop 10 contestants vied for the top spot by

solving complex problems in C++ by writ-

ing code and executing it. The event pro-vided a platform for future programmers

to showcase their talent and was also

aimed at building confidence. The whole

event was truly educative and informa-

tive.

The prize giving ceremony and a guest

lecture was also organized on March 20th

in Dr. M.V. Jayaraman Auditorium. Mrs. N.Sreedevi, HOD CSE, welcomed the audi-

ence after which Principal shared a few

words with the students.

Ms. Anushaof VI Semester gave a report

of the Conquer C++ coding contest fol-lowing which Mrs. N. Gayathri, HOD, ISE,

who was also the judge of the final round

shared with the students the criteria used

for the judging of the event. The resourceperson from the industry, Mr. AmitSurana&Dr. K. S. Badarinaryan, Principal,

MVJCE, handed out the gifts and certifi-

cates to the finalists and winners.

The 10 nalists and winners of the C++ coding contest

From left: Mrs. N. Gayathri, HOD, ISE, Mrs. N. Sreedevi, HOD, CSE,Dr. K.S. Badarinarayan, Principal, Mr. Amit Surana, Smargav Solutions

Mr. Amit Surana Delivering The Lecture

Round 1: Void Or Return

Round 2 : Unlocking The Code

Round 2 : C++ Overloaded

Students Getting Involved With

The Lecture



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The field of Artificial Intelligence is

growing at a rapid pace due to signifi-

cant contributions from various re-

searchers and industries. MVJCE offersprogrammes at graduate and post grad-uate levels in various disciplines. TheInstitute provides world class education

and encourages research and develop-

ment activities, National conference on

Artificial Intelligence and Informationsystems (NCAIIS-12) was suported by

the institute to expedite the research

and innovation activities in the area of

Artificial Intelligence & Information Sys-tems. The conference was organized by

the Department of Information Scienceand Engineering and provided a national

forum to intensify the information ex-change of results in theoretical researchand practical developments in Infor-

mation systems, It was an excellent op-

portunity for researchers, scientists,

technologists and industrialists to pre-

sent their leading research findings,

innovations and developments.

A special key note talk on Information

Extraction and Retrieval was given by

Sri T Sabapathy , COO, Cymfony PvtLtd, and Student Coordinator of Com-

puter Society of India(CSI).

The Principal of MVJCE Dr. K S Ba-

darinarayan also gave a key note ad-dress on Artificial Intelligence and appli-cations of Artificial Intelligence. Paper

presentations were done in two ses-

sions, faculties, UG students and PG

students from various colleges partici-

pated in the conference.

I-TECH 2013 - A National Workshop On4G Internet And Associated Technologies

Aone day National Workshop on 4GInternet & Associated Technologies-

(I-TECH-2013) took place at Smt. Raja-lakshmi Jayaraman seminar hall, MVJCE

Bangalore on 14th of August, 2013.

Registrations started at early morning

9am with enthusiastic delegates lining

up, all set to participate in the work-shop. Students and professors from

different colleges all around the cityhave registered. There was an invoca-

tion song to the almighty & welcomeaddress by Prof. Sreedevi N, HOD, anddept of CSE. The lamp lighting cere-

mony was held by our beloved Principal

Dr. K.S .Badarinarayan, the Chief guest

Dr. K C Gouda, the speaker Mr. Datta-

treya S Vellal , our CSE DepartmentHOD , Ms.Sreedevi N and the workshopconvener Mrs. Sanchari Saha. Then

Prof. Sanchari Saha of CSE Department

has given an introductory overview of

the workshop. A multimedia presenta-

tion of the workshop was presented tothe audience. Our beloved Principal sir

addressed the audience with his words

of wisdom. He encouraged all the par-ticipants, and emphasised on the fea-

tures of 4G Internet technologies.The chief guest, Dr. K C Gouda, was

then invited to speak to the excited au-

dience. He was simply delighted on the

association of CSI, with the college and

felt the workshop was an excellent and

unique opportunity to the students aswell as to the faculties. Mr. Dattatreya S

Vellal delivered a technical talk on 4G

Internet and Associated technologies

specially focussing on Web design &Unix computing.

Later on a hands-on session also was

conducted based on Web design &

UNIX programming where the partici-

pants obtained practical knowledge onthe technologies.

National Conference on

Artificial Intelligence And Information Systems

Releasing Of The Conference Proceedings

From Left: Mrs. Sreedevi, HOD, ISE

Sri T Sabapathy, COO, Cymfony Pvt Ltd

Dr.K.S. Badarinarayan, Principal, MVJCE

A Moment From The Conference

Inauguration Of I-Tech 2013 by

The Chief Guest, Dr. K.C. Gouda

Mr. Dattatreya Vellal Giving A Lecture On

4G Internet And Associated Technologies

Participants Having A Hands On SessionOn The Topics Of Web Design And Unix

Programming



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A national conference was held on thetopic Frontiers In Virtualization And

Computing Technology FVCT-2012on 4th and 5thOctober 2012. The Chief

guests for the event were Mr. Chandar P

Mannar, CEO of Phoenix technologies

and representative for the Computer

Society of India, Bangalore Chapter, Ms.Bhanumathi, Scientist, NAL and Hon.

Secretary for the Computer Society ofIndia, Bangalore chapter. The occasion

was also graced and blessed with key-note address by our beloved principal,Dr. K.S. Badarinarayan and Ms.

Avayambal, the HOD of Computer Sci-

ence department. Mr. Arvind Kumar

Shuklafrom VmWare and Mr.Prashant K

S from IBM, delivered a technical talkon Virtualization and Cloud Computing.Paper presentations followed this talk

on a wide variety of topics.

National Conference OnFrontiers In Virtualization And Computing Technology

Workshop on Business Intelligence

A Workshop was organized on 17thOct2012 by the Department of MCA on

Business Intelligence by Mr. SrinivasKatti Group Manager Business Develop-

ment HW Specialists @ Oracle Banga-lore.

Mr. Srinivas Kattispoke to the students

about the meaning of Business Intelli-

gence and how it is useful in various

fields like marketing, finance & salesetc., Business Intelligence is mainly

based on Data mining for analyzing the

business for improvement and forecast-

ing.

The session was very interesting asMr. Srinivas Katti got involved with the

students in an interactive session.

Release Of The Proceedings of FVCT

From Left: Prof.K.Avayambal, HOD -CSE

Mr.Chandar P Mannar

Dr.K.S.Badarinarayan, Principal, MVJCE

Mr. Arvind kumar Shukla

Paper Presensentation Session at

Smt. Rajalaksmi Jayaraman Seminar Hall

While it took the radio 38 years and the television a short 13years, it took theWORLD WIDE WEB only 4 years to reach 50 million users.

Bill Gates house was designed using a MACINTOSH computer.

The first domain name registered was Symbolics.com

Hewlett Packard was started at a garage in Palo Alto in 1939.

FACEBOOK pays at least $500 if you can find a way to hack the site.

According to Moores law, a microchip doubles in power every 18 to 24 months.

Email has been around longer than the WORLD WIDE WEB.

HP, GOOGLE, MICROSOFTand APPLE have one thing in common-apart fromthe obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.

The domain www.youtube.comwas registered on February 14, 2005.

The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the normal

rate of 20. Another name for a Microsoft Windows Tutorial is a crash course.

Compiled By: Apoorva Sharma, V-A, CSE

FUN FACTS!

Mr. Srinivas Katti handling the lecture session

UPCOMING EVENTS

September 2013:

MVJ CSI PAPER WRITING AND

PRESENTATION COMPETITION

October 2013:NATIONAL CONFERENCEON RECENT TRENDS IN

TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLU-

TION AND INTELLIGENT

COMPUTING

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Mainframe

A mainframe is thecentral data reposito-

ry, or hub, in a corpo-

rations data pro-

cessing center, linked

to users through less

powerful devices such

as workstations or

terminals. We use the

term mainframe in this

text to mean comput-

ers that can support

thousands of applica-

tions and input/output devices to simultane-

ously serve thousands of users.

IBM introduced zEnterprise System, which

is the first of its kind. It was purposefully

designed to help overcome fundamental

problems of today's IT infrastructures and

simultaneously provide a foundation for the

future. The zEnterprise System brings about

a revolution in the end-to-end management

of diverse systems, while offering expanded

and evolved traditional System z capabilities.

With zEnterprise, a system of systems can

be created where the virtualized resources

of both the zEnterprise 196 (z196) and se-

lected IBM blade-based servers, housed in

the zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension

(zBX), are pooled together and jointly man-

aged.

End-to-end solutions based on multi-platform workloads can be deployed across

the zEnterprise System structure and benefit

from System zs traditional qualities of ser-vice, including high availability, and simpli-

fied and improved management of the virtu-

alized infrastructure.

Because many mission-critical workloads

today have one or more components onSystem z, using System z environments for

z/OS databases and other capabilities, the

ability to co-locate all of the workload com-

ponents under the same management plat-

form and thereby benefit from uniformly

high qualities of service should be quite

appealing and provide tangible benefits and

a rapid return on investment (ROI).For the first time it is possible to deploy an

integrated hardware platform that brings

mainframe and distributed technologies

together, producing a system that can start

to replace individual islands of computing

and that can work to reduce complexity,

improve security, and bring applications

closer to the data they need.

IBM introduced zBC (Business Class) 12

System, is extended support for growing big

data and cloud computing. The zBC12 is

powered by up to 18 microprocessors run-

ning at 4.2 GHz. The zBC12 can be config-

ured with up to 13 processors running con-current production tasks. There are also

environmental savings both in terms of thedata center footprint and

electricity used when

you're consolidating, say,

24 servers down into one

box. The Enterprise Linux

Server can run more than

3,000 Linux apps, and

supports analytics and

cloud computing for Linux

on System z.

Advantages: The zBC12

comes with software tools

to support analytics, cloud

and mobile computing

capabilities. Delivers in-

creased performance,flexibility and scale in a lower cost package.

Helps save money through consolidation on

Linux and an efficient cloud delivery model.

The zBC system provides deployment of

new workloads such as cloud, analytics and

mobile: z/OS (2.1 Version), Linux on System

z and IBM POWER7 blades and IBM System

x blades. Currently in Maintec Technologies,

Bangalore, we have z9 zEnterprise System

with z/OS 1.12 Version.

Today, mainframe computers play a central

role in the daily operations of most of the

worlds largest corporations, including many

Fortune 1000 companies. In banking, fi-

nance, health care, insurance, utilities, gov-

ernment, and a multitude of other public andprivate enterprises, the mainframe computer

continues to form the foundation of modern

business.

The new mainframe owes much of its pop-

ularity and longevity to its inherent richness

in reliability and stability, a result of continu-

ous technological advances since the intro-

duction of the IBM System/360 in 1964. No

other computer architecture in existencecan claim as much continuous, evolutionary

improvement, while maintaining compatibil-

ity with existing applications. The term main-

frame has gradually moved from a physical

description of the IBM larger computers to

the categorization of a style of computing.

One defining characteristic of the mainframehas been a continuing compatibility that

spans decades.

Corporations use mainframes for applica-

tions that depend on scalabilityand reliabil-

ity. For example, a banking institution could

use a mainframe to host the database of its

customer accounts, for which transactions

can be submitted from any of thousands of

ATM locations worldwide.

Businesses today rely on the mainframe to:

Perform large-scale transaction processing

(thousands of transactions per second),

Support thousands of users and application

programs concurrently accessing numerous

resources, Manage terabytes of information

in databases and Handle large-bandwidthcommunication.

REFERENCES

[1] Mike Ebbers, John Kettner, Wayne OBrien, Bill

Ogden, Introduction to the new mainframe z/OS

Basics,http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/

pdfs/sg246366.pdf, March 2011

[2]New IBM zBC12 mainframe gets OpenStack

integrationhttp://storify.com/ibmevents/new-ibm

-zbc12-mainframe-gets-openstack-integration

Article by: Mr. V J Santhosh Kumar

Company: Maintec Technologies Pvt Ltd,

Bangalore

Acer: Stan Shih

Adobe: John Warnock

Amazon: Jeff Bezos

AMD: Jerry Sanders III

Apple: Steve Jobs

DEC: Ken Olsen

Dell: Michael Dell

EA: Trip Hawkins

EDS: Rose Perot

Intuit: Scott Cook

Microsoft: Bill Gates

Motorola: Paul Galvin

nVidia: Jen-Hsun Huang

Oracle: Larry Ellison

People Soft: Dave Duffield

Seagate: Al Shugart

Sony: Akio Morita

Sun: Scott McNeely

VMware: Diane Greene

Compiled By:

Ms. Kusuma T.S.G., MCA

Companies And Their Founders

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The Life And Works Of Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Tu-ring was an English

mathematician, war-

time code-breaker

and pioneer of com-

puter science. He is

best known for the

key role he played in

cracking the

'unbreakable' German Enigma codes in

World War II, and thereby helping to win the

war. He also created the Turing machine,

which can be considered a model of a gen-eral purpose computer.

Born on 23 June, 1912,

Turing lived with his

brother and relatives in

England, while his par-

ents lived in India untilhis father's retirement

from the Indian Civil

Service in 1926. Turing

studied mathematics at Cambridge Univer-

sity and went on teach there, working on

the world of quantum mechanics. It was at

Cambridge that he developed the proof

which states that automatic computation

cannot solve all mathematical problems;

this concept, known as the Turing machine

became the basis for the modern theory of

computation. In 1936, Turing went to

Princeton University in the US for two years.

He then worked secretly part-time for the

British cryptanalytic department, the Gov-

ernment Code and Cypher School, and took

up full-time work at their headquarters in

Bletchley Park once the war began. His

major contributions here include those to

the Enigma machine, which was a machine

for encryption and decryption of secret

messages. Turing had something of a repu-

tation for eccentricity at Bletchley Park. He

was known to his colleagues as 'Prof' and

his treatise on Enigma was known as 'The

Prof's Book'. While working at Bletchley,Turing, a talented long-distance runner,

occasionally ran the 40 miles (64 km) toLondon when he was needed for high -level

meetings, and he was capable of world-

class marathon standards. Though his work

remained secret for many years, Turing was

awarded the OBE by King George VI in

1945, for his wartime services.

From 1945 to 1947, Turing lived in Rich-

mond, London while he worked on the de-

sign of the ACE (Automatic Computing

Engine) at the National Physical Laboratory

(NPL). He presented a paper on 19 February

1946, which was the first detailed design of

a stored-program computer. In 1948, he

was appointed Reader (a senior academic

with a distinguished international reputation

in research or scholarship) in the Mathe-

matics Department at the University of Man-

chester. In 1949, he became Deputy Direc-

tor of the Computing Laboratory there,

working on software for one of the earliest

stored-program computers. During this time

he continued to do more abstract work in

mathematics, and in "Computing machinery

and intelligence".

Turing ended his life tragically by commit-ting suicide on 7 June, 1954. He has never-

theless made huge contributions to the fieldof computer science, and thus earned the

title of "The Father of Computer Science".

Compiled by: V.Arjun, V-B, CSE

CompCloud Know Your Technology Ubiquitous computing

Ubiquitous computing is the method of enhancing computinguse by making many devices (services) available throughout the

physical environment, but making them effectively invisible to the

user. (Mark Weiser)

Ubiquitous means present everywhere, simultaneously encoun-

tered in numerous different instances. Computers become a

useful but invisible force, assisting the user in meeting his needs

without getting lost in the way.

It tries to construct a universal computing environment (UCE)

that conceals (hides):

computing instruments

Devices

Resources from applications or customers

Technology

Invisible to users

Characteristics of Ubiquitous computing Applications

Context-awareness (also a key characteristic of perceptual

interfaces)

Improvised and dynamic interaction

Interactions among applications are based on specific con-

text

Goals

The promise of ubiquitous computing: a life in which our tasks

are powerfully, though invisibly, assisted by computers.

Aspect Oriented Programming

In computing, aspect-oriented programming (aop) is a programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separa-tion of cross-cutting concerns. AOP forms a basis for aspect-oriented software development.AOP includes programming methods andtools that support the modularization of concerns at the level of the source code, while "aspect-oriented software development" refers

to a whole engineering discipline.

Aspect-oriented programming entails breaking down and encapsulation of concerns into separate, independent entities by providing

abstractions (e.g., procedures, modules, classes, methods) that can be used for implementing, abstracting and program logic into dis-

tinct parts (so-called concerns, cohesive areas of functionality). Nearly all programming paradigms support some level of grouping com-

posing these concerns.

Compiled by: Ms. Alphonsa Anti Tharayil, VII Sem ISE and Mr. S. Amit Kumar, V-B CSE

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TechnoGlass View ItCompiled by:-Hassan Rashid, MCA, Anil M., MCA and Ms. Rashmi N.S., ISE, Manasa, ISE

New wi-fi based tech developed by Indian-origin researchers reads gesturesIndian-origin researchers from the University of Washington have developed a new gesture-recognition

technology called WiSee that brings certain sensational possibilities a step closer to reality.

Characteristics of the WiSee technology:

To change song playing in other room just move hand to flip through the songs

Users can control their electronic and household appliances from any room with a simple gesture

The technology can identify nine different whole-body gestures, ranging from pushing, pulling

and punching to full-body bowling.

Out of the 900 gestures performed, WiSee accurately class ified 94 per cent of them.

Source: The Indian Express, 22ndAugust 2013

Tesla Aims to Charge Electric Cars in Five MinutesTesla Motors is pushing the limits of charging technology to make electric vehicles as practical as gas -powered

cars. Electric vehicles take too long to recharge. Tesla Motors is quickly reducing the charging times. Last

September, it unveiled a network of supercharging stations designed exclusively for its Model S and future

electric vehiclesthat could charge a battery halfway in 30 minutes. In May, it announced an upgrade that cut

that time to 20 minutes. Now Teslas chief technology officer, JB Straubel, says the company eventually could

cut the time it takes to fully charge the battery to just five minutes or not much longer than it takes to fill a gas

tank.

Source: MIT Technology Review, July 16 2013

Smartphone Cradle, App Detect Toxins, Bacteria In FoodThe handheld biosensor was developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.A series of lenses and filters in the cradle mirror those found in larger, more expensive laboratory devic-

es. Together, the cradle and app transform a smartphone into a tool that can detect toxins and bacteria,

spot water contamination and identify allergens in food.

Kenny Long, a graduate researcher at the university, says the team was able to make the smartphone

even smarter modifications to the cellphone camera.

Source : The Financial Express, August 01, 2013Calculating Art

Researchers have developed a robot called DAVID that is capable of creating amazing art on canvas

using a camera, special software, 24 colour palette and just five brushes. Scientists have developed a

new artist robot that can choose from five brushes and 24 colours to create a vibrant piece of art and

can even decide where to add the next stroke. The name David was chosen because it stands for what

the researchers tried to accomplish:

Drawing Apparatus for Vivid Image Display.

The robot cleans the brushes itself and takes pictures of the canvas so that it can access the areas that

need more paint. Developed by a team at the University of Konstanz in Germany, David uses software to

decide where to add the next brush stroke. After each brush stroke, e-David takes a picture, and its software calculates such

moves as where the image needs to be lightened or darkened. Researchers said their project objective is to build a robot that

can paint, pure and simple. The device takes a picture of what it wants to copy. The robot watches itself paint and decides whereto add the next stroke, constantly tweaking its moves based on what it's seeing through a camera pointed at its canvas.

Source:http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/en/edavid/, August 20, 2013

MVJCE CSICORE COMMITTEE

TIPS ON PHOTOSHOPCreating Animated GIF

A small step by step procedure to create an animated image (gif) using Adobe Photoshop

1. Open a new document in Adobe Photoshop. Select the Gradient Tool and

fill the background with #911169 to #5b1569.

2. Choose a font and type out a word or a phrase. I chose the word star and

used the Bauhaus 93 font. Fill it with a color of your choice. Duplicate the layer. You

should now have three identical layers. (Step 2a)

Next select the stars layer and go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and add differ-ent amount of noise to each layer. I chose 20, 21, and 22. (Step 2b)

3. Download star brushes,

(http://www.deviantart.com/resources/applications/psbrushes/?qh=&section=&q=star)

Create a new layer on top of each of the text layers. Select the

brush tool and place some stars on top of your text. Be sure to

create a different pattern for each text layer.

4. Go to Window > Animation and create three frames. (Highlighted the but-

ton to create new frame) The first word layer and the first sparkle layer should be active on the first

frame. See the image (Step 4) to see which layer should be selected on which frame. Frame delay

time should be 0.2 sec. Now press play.

5. The last step is to save the animation. So go to File >

Save for Web and Devices and save it as a .gif file!STEP 3

STEP1

STEP 2(a) STEP 2(b)STEP4(a)

The final image!

Ms. Ramya P.

Student Coordinator, CSE

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Student Coordinator, ISE

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Student Coordinator, MCA

Praveen Innocent

Completed B.E.(ISE), MVJCE 2013

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1. Inefficient processing caused by constant page swapping(9)

2. CPU is also known as the _______ of a computer (5).

3. Company that makes Macintosh computers (5)

4. Standard code used to exchange information among

data processing and communication system (5)5. Short for web Log (4).

6. A way of repeating a statement a number of times (4)

7. A register that holds the beginning address of the current

partition ( 12)

8. A tab added to the ribbon for certain activities (13)

9. Miniature version of the document (9)

10. A gateway machine and its software that protect a net-work by filtering the traffic it allows (8).11. Web pages are written using this language (4)

12. Input or Output (2)

13. An Internet system that organizes files into menus con-taining links to text files, graphic images, databases, andadditional menus (6).

14. A program used to test if a particular network computeris active and reachable (4)

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Nikhil Y ,CSE Naveenrajha ,CSE

Engineering Life

Istill remember the first day of my bachelor's degree at MVJ, everything was different and new. I choseto become an engineer in the field of Computer Science. In my childhood days I would fill out slam

books and write Computer Science Engineer as my ambition! I had never worked on a programming

language before, in fact I didn't know how and what it was? Back in my 11th and 12th i chose biologyover computers to follow my dads path and get a degree in medicine. But things changed and today I

am happy with my decision of becoming an Engineer! I thank Mom and Dad for all their support, without

whom I would not have made it this far. Most of the credit goes to my lecturers at MVJCE for their guid-

ance and support in teaching and helping me gain knowledge, from the basics of programming to allother skills that I have acquired today. I had very good teachers, under whom learning was fun. The memory of all my lecturer s who

have taught me and mentored me will forever be etched in my memory and I am grateful to each and every one of them.

Apart from all the labs and classes, I had the best group in the entire college; we were known to be outstanding students. Out-

standing in a sense, always outside the class for many reasons, be it technical fest or cultural fest, department event, semi nars or

spreading some news to all the students and many other things. If anybody wanted to look for us, they would be guided to the Cof-

fee day Express near canteen, that's where anybody would find us. I had the best times at MVJ with my crazy group of friends. Every

semester and everyday was a full of fun and excitement. The last minute assignment submission, one night studies for the internals,

going to the teachers for important questions, arriving late for the morning classes, bunking classes after lunch, etc. , I miss all these

small things I had taken for granted.

Today I find myself far away from home, family and friends overseas in a distant place. I am pursuing my Masters in Computer

Science at Florida Institute of Technology, in Melbourne, Florida, United States of America. The education system here focuses more

on practical knowledge. What I like most about this system is the flexible education, the freedom to choose subjects every semester

as per our interests. I got to learn basics of lot of subjects at MVJ. Subjects like Computer Networks, Analysis of Algorithms, Data-

base system Management, Compiler Design, Operating System, Object Oriented Programming, Web

Programming etc. Also topics on the various types of attacks and techniques to keep away from theseattacks are covered. Every day I get to learn something new here. After my Masters I am planning to

work for a couple of years here, and return to India to step up my own company, if things go as

planned.

ATTRACTIVE PRIZES TO BE WON !!!

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Bharat Surana

Melbourne, Florida,

USA

Ms. Preethi Sheba

Asst. Prof., CSE

Ms. Simi Matthews

Asst. Prof., CSE

Ms. Anusha S.

VII-A, CSE


Ratankumar Takhellambam

V-B, CSE

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