First day of Technologic ’08 sets in motion

Glimpses of the event Technologic '08 - Day One

Over the years, technology has sizably emerged as an indispensable part of our lives. With continuous streamlining and modernization of electronics, technological experts in diverse fields are striving to come up with the best technological inventions to facilitate comfort for the users.

Competing with such pace of developments and mastermind inventions, the promising students and faculty of the Department of Information Technology at Manipal University, Dubai campus are holding the event Technologic ’08 to showcase various projects, models and presentations related to Information Technology.

The first day in series of Technologic ’08 unfolded today, inaugurated by Dr. Ramjee, the director of Manipal University, Dubai. After the recitation of the Holy Qur’an by a student from the department, Dr. Ramjee addressed the audience with a welcome speech followed by a short yet creative flash presentation on the forthcoming programs to be introduced in the department.

The department specially invited Mr. Sudhir from NASCOSYS, a business broadcast solution provider, who delivered a presentation on Multimedia and Animation. Among the guests was present Dr. Faiz M. Ishaq too, a working professional from Pakistan, enlightening the audience with a discussion on supercomputers and Play Station 3. He was presented with a memento by Dr. S.K. Pandey, the head of department of Information Technology.

Also esteemed with the mementos by Dr. S.K. Pandey were Mr. Jawid Nazir and Mr. Zaheeruddin Ahmed, the faculty members of the department.

Among the presentations conducted by the faculty, Mr. Jawid held a presentation on CISCO Networking Academy and Mr. Zaheeruddin announced the introduction of one-year certificate course in ‘Graphic and Design’ to be implemented in September.

The second half of the event was scheduled to hold software presentations by students where they exhibited application-based softwares coded by themselves as part of their projects. One such striking project designed by a group of five students was the Kidroid, an Artificial Intelligent Machine that is used for object deliverance. (Centre image in the collage above)

Students will showcase their talents and exhibits in rooms 203, 204 and 205 from 10:30am – 3pm tomorrow (23rd April) on first floor. Do come and appreciate all their efforts for making this event a success.