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Report authored by: Arjuna rao C
IEEE Bangalore Section organised Ninth Annual Symposium on "Telecom and Internet technologies for the net economy" during Nov 23-24, 2000 at Hotel Comfort Inn, Bangalore.
Prof Rajgopal, Chairman, Bangalore section, welcomed the gathering.  He said that the section has been organising the annual symposium starting from 1990, except for one year. The symposium has become a forum to know the advances in various technologies and network with peers. He explained that the student paper contest was merged with the symposium in this year. A contest for post graduate student papers also was introduced from this year. He hoped that this symposium would benefit everyone.
Dr Chockalingam, co-convenor gave a over view of the symposium. He highlighted that the plenary talks, Tutorials, Research papers and student papers covering the various technologies would be presented during the two days.
Plenary talks were given by Prof. V.U.Reddy, IISc on "Broadband Access using DSL" and by Dr Uday Shukla, IBM Global on "Internet for Net economy". Tutorial on "E-Markets" was given by Prof Y Narahari, IISc and Tutorial on "Recent trends in mixed signal processing for telecom applications" was given by Mr. R Krishnan, Texas Instruments. About 19 contributed technical papers including 8 student papers were presented.
Dr N Srinivas from Motorola and Mr Satish Kulkarni, CDOT judged the student papers that were presented. Students from SJCE, Mysore bagged the first and second prizes in the graduate category.First Prize was awarded to the paper "Auction Bot : An Implementation of Static
Software Agents" by Sharath K Udupa, Prashanth Mekara & Akshay and second Prize was awarded to the paper " A Modified TCP Protocol for better performance on
satellite Links by Arijit Ghosh, S Swaminathan, and V C Ravikumar. No prizes were announced for Post graduate student paper contest, as only one paper was presented in that category.
The symposium attracted about 70 participants. Mr SV Sankaran, Vice chairman, IEEE Bangalore section, coordinated all the sessions. The sessions were chaired by Mr Sasi Kumar,Co-Convenor of the symposium, Mr S Nagarajan, IEEE CCEM Chairman, Dr N Srinivas, Motorola and Mr Satish Kulkarni, CDOT.
Plenary talks & Tutorials
Abastracts of award winning student papers
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