FREE passes to Compute 2010 for Startups

[Kallol Borah]

Hi folks
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Bangalore is giving away 10 free passes to startups for the ACM India launch and Compute 2010 on 21st, 22nd and 23rd. These passes were to be used by two sponsors who are now giving them away to deserving and interested startups. If you want to attend, please write to me with your name, startup co name and upto one more person you want to bring along. You can see a detailed agenda here http://compute2010.eventbrite.com/ and you can register additional people online if you wish to.
regards
Kallol

---------- Agenda : pls circulate to people who you think can be interested ----------

Dates	21st, 22nd and 23rd January, 2010
Venue	VenueTaj Residency, M.G. Road, Bangalore, Karnataka - 560001, India
Web	http://compute2010.eventbrite.com
ACM Bangalore invites you to Compute 2010, the third in the series of annual conferences of ACM Bangalore Chapter, being held on 22nd and 23rd January at Taj Residency, Bangalore, India. This is co-located with the ACM India Launch event, being held in Bangalore, India on 21st January 2010. Compute 2010 is themed around the topic of contemporary information management and highlights tutorials and selective papers around this topic.
Key Highlights
Keynotes	Theme: Contemporary Information management 1. Prof. Wendy Hall, ACM Worldwide, Chairperson, and a renowned researcher in UK, is going to talk on ‘The Emerging Science of the Web and Why it is Important’. 2. Prof. Rajeev Sangal, Director, IIIT Hyderabad, and a renowned researcher in area of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, is delivering the second keynote on ‘Parsing for Indian Languages’.
Talks	Talks on first day include those given by three Turing Award winners 1. Prof. Barbara Liskov (MIT), Turing Award, 2008 on  ’The Power of Abstraction’ 2. Sir Tony Hoare, FRS (Microsoft Research), Turing Award, 1980 speaking on ‘The International Verified Software Initiative’ 3. Prof. Raj Reddy, (CMU), Turing Award, 1994 talking on ‘To Err is Human. Computational Limits to Human Thinking’
Panel Discussions	Includes 1. ‘What's Holding up Computer Science Research in India?’ on the first day where the lead speakers include Krithi Ramamritham (IIT, Mumbai), ACM Fellow,  P Venkat Rangan (Amrita Univ), ACM Fellow, Rajeev Rastogi (Yahoo Research), Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, I2IT Pune (ACM Fellow), Panel Moderator: Dr Mathai Joseph. (Advisor, TCS), ACM Council 2. ‘Analytics – Role of Structured and Unstructured information management’ on the third day where speakers include Dr Karin Murthy, Information management Group, IBM Research Dr Lokendra Shastri, Head of Centre for Knowledge Driven Information Systems, Infosys
Deep Dive Tutorials	The biggest USP of three contemporary topical tutorials is their hands on development oriented style. The tutorials are on 1.Programming the Cloud, where Amazon, IBM, Yahoo and Microsoft are going to demonstrate their Cloud Computing platforms and show the solution to a single application use case for attendees to be able to review and compare. 2. Rich Internet and Social applications, where Adobe, Facebook and OpenSocial platforms will be worked upon 3. Widget platforms for Mobile, Desktop and TV, where Nokia and two other companies will present how-tos of widget implementation on their platforms.
Early Bird Offer
The first 150 registrants to Compute 2010, are going to get free entry to the co-located ACM India launch event which is otherwise by invitation.
Compute 2010 also features presentation of selected research papers by academics and professionals across India, and The ACM India event on 21st Jan also features talks by Dr. Anand Deshpande. Co-Chair, ACM India, Prof Dame Wendy Hall, FRS. President, ACM, Dr. John White CEO, ACM , Dr. Rick Rashid (Senior VP, Microsoft), and Prof P.J. Narayanan. Co-Chair, ACM India
You can register for the event on http://compute2010.eventbrite.com. For details visit Compute 2010 website.

 

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