An exclusive newsletter for faculties of Computer Science departments of Affiliated colleges of University of Madras

1. Computer Science
February 2020
Faculty
Greetings… Though,
February is short, it is
filled with lots of love
and sweet surprises, for
most of our institutions
are too busy with activi-
ties… every college had
their department tech-
nical symposiums and
events… It was too diffi-
cult for me to include all
the events which has
been submitted for
publish.. I reserved few
events for our next is-
sue.. Thank you all for
your continuous sup-
port..
Inside this issue:
Department Events 1
NTA NET June 20 1
Article: Predatory
conferences
2
Department Events 3
Seminars and Work-
shops
4
Catalog 4
Lions Club Book
Bank college visit
4
Page 1
Seminar @ Dr. Ambedkar Govt. College
Department of Computer Applications,
Chevalier T Thomas Elizabeth College
for Women, Perambur, Chennai, organized a Guest Lecture on utilization of Social
Networking for enhancing career and learning process on 20th February 2020. Dr.
C.V. Suresh Babu, Professor, De-
partment of Information Technolo-
gy, Hindustan Institute of Technol-
ogy and Science (Hindustan Univer-
sity) was the Resource Person
FromEditorsDesk
Volume 3, Issue 7
On February 12th, 2020 the PG
and Research Department of
Computer Science conducted a
Regional Seminar on ‘Recent
Trends in Computing’. 11
Colleges across Chennai had
participated. The presidential
address was voiced by Dr. A.
Geetha M.Sc., M.Phil., Ph.D,
Principal of Dr. Ambedkar
Government Arts College. The
session was succeeded by an awe-inspiring inaugural address articulated by Dr. D.
Gladis MCA., M.Phil., Ph.D, Principal of Bharathi Women’s College.
Guest Lecture @ CTTE
NTA NET June 2020 Exam
UGC NET Events UGC NET Dates
Online applications begins on March 16, 2020
Last date to apply online April 16, 2020
Release of admit card May 15, 2020
UGC NET exam Start date June 15, 2020
UGC NET exam: End date June 20, 2020
Result July 5, 2020
Dr.R.Rajini Surendranath
Head, Department of Computer Science
Guru Nanak College
Topic: A study on quality of Service in
Unifiied Communication networks using
Cloud Computing methodology
University: Periyar Maniammai Institutte
of Science and technology,
Valam, Tanjavur

2. Why one attends conferences
At any stage during PhD process, scholars are supposed to attend
or present their research papers in academic conferences. These
academic conferences can play a significant role in shaping their
future. Many scholars actively show interest to register and attend
just for their ego-boosting, career-advancing benefits of having
their names listed on conference programs. Some of the general
reasons why they attend these academic conferences are:
 Presenting a paper is one of the main objectives of an academic
conferences.
 When they attend the conference as a participant and present
their paper, they get an opportunity to get their
abstract or paper published as conference pro-
ceedings. Selected papers on some innovative
research are also published in the top journals.
 Getting feedback on their research work
 Learning opportunity to broaden their thinking
and knowledge by listening to new ideas and theories and
recent trends related to their field
 Giving a talk in front of an audience, giving a speech about the
current research will help them to develop skills as a public
speaker.
 Connecting with other people in their field. Networking is also
fundamental to getting a job in academia.
 Socialize and spend some quality time with their colleagues
and make some new friends during lunch and coffee breaks
 Adding to their CV
 Travelling (this is not the main goal of attending a conference
but it is always nice to see other places)
Why conferences are conducted
An academic conference is a gathering of scientists or academi-
cians, where research findings are presented or a workshop is con-
ducted.
It became a trend that every institutions conduct seminars and con-
ferences. At times these programs are sponsored by UGC, AICTE,
ICSSR and such other bodies, but most of today’s conferences are
self-supported and sponsored by some commercial organizations.
Purpose of national conferences/seminars should serve the follow-
ing purposes
 To benefit the research scholars and faculty by providing them
an opportunity to actively participate in research paper presen-
tations by experts from other institutions and to actively get
involved in the interactions -post presentation.
 To enable the department to publish an edited volume each
year and to provide policy recommendations to the govern-
ment.
 To enhance the research output of the scholars and supervisors
by providing opportunity to present and publish collaborated
research papers
 To build an image to the department and college.
 To generate a better opportunity to showcase the expertise of
their faculty members.
 To provide an opportunity to the faculty and scholars of the
department to network with the best minds in their discipline.
Conference Management: an emerging Business Model
Organizing Conferences is the most exciting and rewarding task.
An academic conference is a formal event that usually takes two or
three days and mostly occurs on annual basis. However, at the
same time, running academic conferences among a tight budget is
also challenging. Planning a conference demands a certain skill set
and there has to be perfect budgeting and creativity for the same to
bring successful results. Not every department has an expert
team that can organize conferences along with performing rou-
tine academic functions. Thus, outsourcing comes into the pic-
ture. The conference business is growing rapidly due to huge
demand by individual scholars, faculties, associations, institu-
tions and universities; it has become fairly a huge industry,
growing year after year.
Evolution of Predatory conferences
The criteria of those Institutional Accrediting agencies and
norms for promotion and pay increment, the pressure to pub-
lish or perish is crushing had created a busi-
ness opportunity for revenue-seeking compa-
nies to emerge as a Predatory conference or-
ganizers, by exploiting researchers' need to
make quick money by allowing anyone to
present papers in conference after paying the
fee and publish proceedings.
Pay to submit
There is a growing underbelly of conferences that might walk
and talk like the real thing without any basic editorial stand-
ards. “Put my name” trend had made process crazier with
quantity rather than quality. These open-access model publica-
tions accept submissions without a proper peer review process,
but with a heavy publication price from young researchers and
college faculties, mostly to tempt them to pay to publish their
work. In many cases, they accept 100% of submissions which
usually consisting of nonsense and/or plagiarism content
Advertising is legalized lying
For these companies, advertising is the art of making whole lies
out of half-truths, they attract participants through advertise
promising workshops, oral plenaries, keynote lectures, and a
student poster competition, deliberately copied from well-
established conferences. These organizations claim that their
editorial board members are conference organizers by placing
their names and photographs on their conference web pages,
and by sending email invitations to their meetings which are
“signed” by members of the editorial boards without their con-
sent, list sponsors that are not actual sponsors, list speakers who
will not be attending and have no knowledge they are being
used for fraudulent purposes and list academic or university
support where none exists.
Predatory conference to Predatory journals
Publishing papers in journals is mandatory before submitting
the Ph.D. theses. This leads the predatory conference organizers
to start predatory journals for publish their paper for an addi-
tional fee, so they can publish twice. A Texas-based analytics
firm, listed the number of questionable academic journals that
falsely claim to use a peer-review process at around 8,700.
Conclusion
In today’s fast changing world, attending a conference has be-
come a “must” to survive and succeed in an academic atmos-
phere. As the number of conferences and participants increase
dramatically the number of predatory conferences too has in-
creased rapidly. Many fake conferences are organized by for-
profit companies who may present themselves as not-for-profit.
These bogus and predatory conference invitations are becoming
very common, today it is a routine task for deletion of probably
bogus conference invitations from our inbox. And they often
funnel accepted papers into known predatory journals or never
publish a conference book of proceedings at all. On many occa-
sions the money and time spent on these programs do not result
in the desired outcomes. The result is, good conferences serve a
purpose, bad conferences only serve the profiteers and scam-
mers.
Predatory conferences
-an organized scam for our “INTELLECTUALS”
Page 2
Computer Science Faculty
Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu

3. The Departments of Computer Science and Computer
Applications, Chevalier T Thomas Elizabeth College for
Women, organized AITHON 2020 on 29th February,
2020, as a tribute to Dr. A. P. J Abdul Kalam, our
honorable former President of India, and to work towards
achieving his Vision 2020 dream. A one day workshop
on ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE USING PYTHON
and MACHINE LEARNING was conducted by
Foursteps Training Solutions, in which 300+ students
participated and acquired the skills required to step into
the field of AI
Department of MSW and Computer Science of
Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College
joined together and made the walls of our college
by a beautiful one with wall painting. Students from
MSW and Computer Science joined and completed
the work within 15 days
Volume 3, Issue 7 February 2020
Project Day @ SSS College
Department of Computer Science and Applications of Prince Shri Ven-
kateshwara Arts and Science College organised M4ZE-IT 2020 a
Technical event on 13th February 2020. Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu, Profes-
sor, Department of Information Technology, Hindustan Institute of Tech-
nology and Science (Hindustan University) was the Chief Guest and deliv-
ered a lecture on “I am ready for University Exams”.
Symposium @ Prince Shri Venkateshwara
National Science Day was been celebrated at Government Arts and Science Col-
lege, RK Nagar, Chennai, on 27th February 2020. Dr. C.V. Suresh Babu, Professor, De-
partment of Information Technology, Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science
(Hindustan University) was the Chief Guest and delivered a lecture on “Women in Science”
Wall @
Dr. Ambedkar Govt. College
Science Day @ RK Nagar Govt. College
AITHON @ CTTE

4. Computer Science Faculty
Lions Club of Chennai Elite Stars (District 324 A1) has initiated a perma-
nent project to serve “Economically weaker section” students by spon-
soring them for their Academic books for their entire course with associ-
ation with Anniyappa Publications.
For further details please contact
anniyappapublications@yahoo.com
Page 4
I. You can do it yourself” series:
1. Writing Journal Papers
2. Doing Project
3. Self Learning
II FDP’s
1. Teacher—Do’s and Don’ts
2. Personalized Teaching
3. Teaching Beyond Syllabus
4. Project Based Teaching
5. Teaching with Technology
6. My Teacher—student’s perspective
7. Challenge the Challenge—A Road Map UGC
NET
8. Once upon a time long long ago-Teaching
through stories
9. From Guru to Teacher, Trainer, Coach,
Mentor — Channing role of a Modern
Teacher
III SEP—Student Empowerment
Programs:
1. I am ready for University Exam
2. 5 units in 150 minutes
3. After UG what NEXT…
4. Activity Based Learning
IV Skill Development Programs
1. Document Management System through
Word processor
2. Effective Presentation
3. Build your own website
4. Decision Making through Spread sheet
5. Data Analysis through Spread Sheet
6. Problem solving using C / C++ / Java
7. Story, Screenplay, Dialogue and Direction — Multimedia product
development
V Quiz Programs on following subject areas:
1. Computer Science
2. Information Technology
3. Management
4. Teaching Methodology
5. Research Methodology
For Previous issues of our Newsletters visit: https://www.slideshare.net/anniyappa
Book distribution event
Date: 13th
February 2020
Book distribution event
Date: 20th
February 2020
Book distribution event
Date: 27th
February 2020