NIT, Rourkela all set for ICCCS-2012

Rourkela: A three-day International conference titled ‘2^nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Security (ICCCS)-2012’ is being organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela from tomorrow and will continue till 08^th October 2012.

The conference will be inaugurated in the Bhubaneswar Behera Auditorium. The inauguration function will be presided over by the Director of the institute. The chief guest of the function will be B Yegnarayana, Professor and Microsoft Chair, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.

The objective of the conference is to bring together academic scientists, professors, research scholars and students to share and disseminate information on knowledge and scientific research work related to communication, computing and security to discuss the practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted. The conference would provide the participants with opportunities for national and international collaborations and networking among universities and other institutions from India and abroad for promoting research and developing technologies. This aims to promote translation of basic research into applied investigations and convert applied investigations into practice. This conference also creates awareness about the importance of basic scientific research in different fields and matching this with the job market.

The conference had received 514 research articles from 11 countries across the globe, out of which 124 have been selected for presentation during the conference. About 150 delegates from India and abroad will participate in the conference. Experts from abroad will also participate in the conference. The two experts from abroad are Lukas Kencl, Professor and Director, CTU Ericson-Vodafone R&D Centre, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic and Yung-Ming Li, Professor and Director, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan.