Business Intelligence And Data Warehouse Workshop being organized by CDAC, Mumbai

C-DAC Mumbai (formerly NCST) and Computer Society of India (CSI) are jointly organizing a four days intensive workshop on BI DW: Tools and Techniques from December 01-04, 2010. The Knowledge Based Computer Systems division at C-DAC Mumbai carries out research and development in core areas of Natural Language Processing, Expert Systems, Case Based Reasoning, Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Soft Computing and Planning and Scheduling.

The workshop intends to provide a comprehensive overview of the field of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with hands-on practical experience on tools like Weka, Mondrian and Kettle. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for interactions among the participants from different academic institutions, research organizations and industry practitioners in India. The workshop plans to invite distinguished researchers and professionals to give keynote lectures in emerging Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing technologies.

Many organizations are awash with data, but starving for information and getting out intelligence of it. However, some organizations have successfully developed certain analytical competencies and gets the benefits in this competitive edge. Intelligence can make good impact on a organization growth.

With this view, this workshop provides an opportunity to study Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing in detail and promote the usage of Data Warehousing and Data Mining concepts in projects with Gigabyte or Terabyte of data.

Target Audience:

• Software Developers/ BI professionals
• Researchers
• Professors
• Students

For more details about the workshop and registration process, visit http://bidw.cdacmumbai.in/.

Google Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine

How could providing developers with machine learning on tap unleash a flood of smarter apps? What is Google Prediction API? How will it help developers to create software that learns how to handle incoming data? Read at http://www.technologyreview.in/computing/26093/page1/.

Indianizing with Rupantar- An OpenOffice.org extension from CDAC, Mumbai

In a diverse country like India, localisation of information in the respective languages of the people works as a way of empowerment for the people. And, open source provides the necessary technical platform for delivering that information at some reasonable cost. CDAC Mumbai has long been involved in developing tools/technologies in the area of localisation and open source. These include Xlit, Matra, SuTra, Anumaan. New tool to join this list is Rupantar.

Rupantar is an extention for OpenOffice.org developed by the KBCS division of CDAC Mumbai. This extension works as a utility to write in Devnagri script, hence allows a user to type in Hindi and Marathi language. It uses the Rupantar scheme, also developed by CDAC Mumbai, to convert from Roman to Devnagri. More details about downloading and installing the extension can be accessed at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/rupantar.

Related blog posts:

http://matra2.blogspot.com/2010/03/rupanatar-openoffice-writer-extension.html

http://blogs.siliconindia.com/light/Writing_in_HindiMarathi_Indianising_information_and_softwares-bid-cs2Li6d193012540.html

For feedback about the extension mailto:prakash@cdacmumbai.in.

SIGAI Workshop on Emerging Research Trends in AI, 2010

Artificial Intelligence has always been a challenging field providing lots of opportunities of research and development in no. of areas like language processing, multi-agent systems,  web mining, information retrieval, semantic web, e-learning, optimization problems, pattern recognition etc. And, there is growing interest in the field in India between academia and industria both.

Keeping this in mind, The Special Interest Group on AI (SIGAI) of Computer Society of India (CSI) announces a workshop on “Emerging Research Trends in AI”. The workshop will be organized and hosted by CDAC,  Navi Mumbai, and is meant to encourage quality research in various aspects of AI, among the Indian academia/industry.

For more details, see Call for Papers and visit: http://sigai.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/ertai-2010

multi-agent systems,  web mining, information retrieval, semantic web, e-learning, optimization problems, pattern recognition, etc.

XlitHindi extension for OOo released by KBCS, CDAC Mumbai

KBCS division of CDAC Mumbai has released its transliteration extension for the OpenOffice writer. This tool enables to write in Hindi very easily without knowing the Hindi typing. It is very much helpful for the people using Hindi for the e-communication and documentation.More details of the English to other Indian Language transliteration system can be read at:http://www.cdacmumbai.in/xlit. To download the extension and other details, visit : http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/xlithindi.