Thought for the Week

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
--Albert Einstein

Invited Talk by the Librarian

Mr Sainul Abideen P, Librarian gave invited talk in the International Workshop on UNESCO's WINISIS/GENISIS for developing digital libraries and archives,organized by Mahatma Gandhi University in association with Marian College, Kuttikkanam

1st Open Access Day @ IIITM-K

14th October 2008 was celebrated world wide as the open access day to bring awareness and encourage publishing of research and literary works in open access over the web. IIITM-K celebrated the Open Access Day with a day long workshop . Different presentations were made in the workshop. In forenoon session had discussions "on open systems, open architecture and open content" and in afternoon section main topic was 'Trivandrum Science City' concept. The topics discussed include.

EGGS: Education Grid Gateway System, As Open System for E-Learning and Open Content Management in Education and Research by Dr K R Srivathsan (Director, IIITMK). Virtualization: A Green IT Solution for EGGS by Mr Sukant Kole,
EGGS-Video on Demand for Colleges by Mr David Mathew (Design Engineer, IIITMK)
KISSAN, VUAT, E-Krishi and Open Content in Agriculture by Dr C K Peethambaran
KISSAN, Krishideepam and NAIP-AKM- Highlights of Open Content and Open Services for Agriculture by Mr R Ajith Kumar,
Open Access Publishing by Dr S Rajendran (Div.Head, Library, VSSC)
Online Library and Information Services -as Open e-Library and Open Publishing Platform by Sainul Abideen P (Librarian, IIITMK)
Kerala Open Patent Movement by Mr Praveen Raj (NIIST)
Open GIS development by Mr T Radhakrishnan
Trivandrum Science City Concept by Dr M S Gopinathan
ACIIL and Interdisciplinary Education program by Dr K R Srivathsan (Director, IIITMK).

After the presentations, a Panel discussion on 'Trivandrum Science City Concept' was carried out by a panel from the Trivandrum region organizations which was
moderated by Dr C S P Iyer.

IIITM-K Librarian nominated to International Steering Committee of ISIS

Mr. Sainul Abideen, Librarian,IIITM-K representing Asia Pacific attended the 3rd World Congress of ISIS (ISIS3) held in Brazil. ISIS3 was held as part of the 8th Congress on Information for Health Sciences(CRICS) with more than 150 delegates from over 30 countries. The World Congress was attended by over 1200 delegates. ISIS3 witnessed the release of three free/open source products such as ABCD, integrated online automated management system for libraries and documentation centers; ISIS NBP -the new ISIS network-based platform and JISIS - WINISIS replacement software based on Berkeley DB.
At the meeting Sainul was nominated to the International Steering Committee of ISIS. This Steering committee accredited by UNESCO, will assist and collaborate with BIREME, UNESCO and the ISIS Software Developers, user community etc. in promotion, quality control, and monitoring of the ISIS family software products.

Sreekutty Receives Award

Miss. Sreekutty T S , Digital Library Trainee, of the institute secured 3rd rank in the BLISc Examination conducted by the University of Calicut. She was felicitated
by an award constituted by Farook College Old Students Association. Dr U Muhammed (Retd. Principal, Farook College) distributed the award in the presence of MP Abdussamad Samadani, and Prof KA Abdul Jaleel, in a function held at Farook College.

Digital Library Staff Congratulate her for her achievements.

Newly Added Books in the Library

1. B Method an Introduction, by, Schneider, Steve ;

2. Proceedings of National Conference on Methods and Models in Computing, by, Minz, Sonajharia (Ed) ; Lobiyal, D K (Ed) ;

3. Microsensors, MEMS, and Smart Devices, by, Gardner, Julian W ; Varadan, Vijay K ; Awadelkarim, Osama O .

4. Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach, by, Pressman,Roger S ;

5. Designing with Web Standards, by, Zeldman, Jeffrey ;

6. Bulletproof Web Design : Improving Flexibility and Protecting against Worst case Scenarios with XHTML and CSS, by, Cederholm, Dan ;

7. Industrial Strength Formal Methods in Practice, by, Hinchey, Michael G (Ed) ; Bowen,Jonathan P (Ed) ;

8. ZUM 95 the Z Formal Specification Notation, Nineth International Conference of Z Users,Poceedings 1995, by, Bowen, Jonathan P (Ed) ; Hinchey, Michael G (Ed) ;

9. ZUM 97 the Z Formal Specification Notation, Tenth International Conference of Z Users, Proceedings, 1997., by, Bowen, Jonathan P (Ed) ; Hinchey,Michael G (Ed)Till,David (Ed) ;

10. ZUM 98, Z Formal Specification Notation, Eleventh International Conference of Z Users, Proceedings, 1998., by, Bowen,Jonathan P(Ed) ; Hinchey, Michael G (Ed)Fett, Andreas (Ed) ;

11. IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering ,ICGSE, Two Thausand Eight, by,IEEE

12. Google Story, by, Vice,David S ; Malseed, Mark ;

13. Essential System Administration, by, Frisch, Aeleen ;

14. Data Crunching,Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and More, by, Wilson, Greg ;

15. Hundred and One Mathematical Projects, a Resource Book, by, Bolt, Brian ; Hobbs, David ;

16. Open Source for the Enterprise, Managing Risks,Reaping Rewards, by,
Woods, Dan ; Guliani, Gautam ;

17. Specification in B an Introduction Using the B Toolkit, by, Lano, Kevin ; Haughton, Howard ;

Thought for the Week

"We Learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do."
-- Samual Smiles

CD Contents

(1) CD No: D 70
Title: DeveloperIQ Vol.8 Issue 10 October 2008
This CD has five sections.

(i) Source Code:

1. ASP.NET
2. Visual Basic
3. VB.NET

(ii) Antivirus & Spyware

1. Avast Home Edition 4.8.1229.80723
2. AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 8.0.138
3. Ad-Aware 2008 7
4. 1.0.8
5. Lime Wire
6. Avira AntiVir Personal- Free Antivirus 8.1.0.331
7. Advanced Windows Care Personal 2.8.6
8. Spyware Blaster 4.1
9. ZoneAlarm Firewall (Windows 2000/XP) 7.0.483
10. Spybot -Search & Destroy

(iii) Utilities

1. BitComet 1.03
2. FileZilla 3.1.1.1
3. Flash Player 10 RC (IE)
4. Shareaza 2.3.1.0
5. Notepad ++ 5.0.3
6. SciTE

(iv) Miscellaneous

1. Trillan 3.1.10.0
2. Download Accelerator Plus 8.6.7.1

(v) Open Source

1. Apache Struts
2. Apache Ant
3. Apache Cocoon
4. Apache Forrest
5. Apache HTTP Server
6. Apache Tomcat 6.0.18
7. Apache JAMES 2.3.1
8. Maven
9. AspectJ
10. Java Runtime Environment
11. Open Office
12. eMule 0.49b
13. Spring Framework
14. Plone 3.1.5.1
15. Zope 2.11.1
16. phpMyAdmin
17. FireBird
18. SQuirrel SQL Client

(2) CD No: PC 161
Title: PC Quest October 2008, DVD Xtreme, CD 1

1. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edn VHD 1.1
2. Zenwalk Linux: A Slackware based GNU/Linux Distro
3. Death Track: A compact racing game with powerful vehicle and road battle

(3) CD No: PC 162
Title: PC Quest October 2008, DVD Professional, CD 2

SPECIAL RELEASES:-
Google Chrome
Windows IE 8 Beta 2
MS VS 08 SP1

OPEN SOURCE TOOLS:-
WordPress 2.6.1 EPIWARE
Bugzilla
Adobe Flex, etc...

HOT UTILITIES:-
Adobe Photoshop Album SE 3.2
NetBeans IDE
IBM Lotus Symphony 1.1
Backup4all 4.0 Build 10
Wubi 8.04
XAMPP 1.6
Xobni, etc....

TOOLS FOR DEVELOPERS:-
MyEclipse
SharePoint Server 1.4
NetBeans 6.5
Android 0.9
JDK 7 Build 33
jMaki
db4o

ANTIVIRUS UPDATES:-
F-Secure Sep 1'08
Avira 7
AVG Aug 30'08
McAfee 5373
Trend Micro 5.5, etc...

Thought for the Week

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success."
--Henry Ford

Newly Added Video

Title: Service Models in the Software Industry
Speaker: Mr.Philip John,CEO, Ushustech.
Date: 22--02-07

Abstract:

Discuss the history of Software products and service in India , the relevant of the topic in the present Situation. Makes an evaluation on Indian software products and Service and its exporting.Explain how a particular software project will is undertaking and which are the process behind the project. explain what is Software service and what are the Management techniques comes under the Software Service.


Title : Software development for a poverty alleviation project SUBICSHA Project
Speaker: A.Jyotsna, MSIT Student, IITMK
Date: 18-01-07

Abstract :

Discusses an important Central Government best Awarded, Poverty alleviation project, named SUBICSHA . Explains how far useful the Information Technology effectively in the modern society with the example of this SUBICSHA and says about the project SUBICSHA in detaile , and its objectives, requirements, activities ,etc.There is also discussion about the Software used for this project and the its scope .

Thought for the Week

"The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success"
--Henry Ward Beecher