36th CSI annual convention held at Kolkata

KOLKATA: The 36th annual convention and exhibition by Computers Society of

India (CSI) started at Science City, Kolkata, on November 22 and would be on

till the 24th, 2001. The theme is "India - Emerging IT Superpower".

In line with this, the conference has had in its repository - seminars,

interactive sessions, and paper presentations.



The program was addressed by Dr F C Kohli and inaugurated by Manabendra
Mukherjee, minister for IT, West Bengal. The other speakers were Prof. C R

Muhukrishnan, deputy director, IIT (Madras) and Ajoyendra Mukherjee, VP, TCS.

The exhibition showcased products and services of players like TCS, Cognizant

Technologies, Tata Infotech, R S Software and Usha Telecom among others.

In the convention the CSI National IT awards were given away. The Best IT

Usage was given for the smart card usage for the Gujarat driving licenses and MP

zilla parishad. The best package application was given to Infosys while the CSI

e-governance award went to Karnataka and Gujarat. The National Young IT

Professionals award was given to Pune based Priya Electronics with the runners

up going to ABM Knowledge Ware from Mumbai. In the CDAC category the award went

to Leela Hind, CDAC company.