Pointers to functions

On 26th September, Deepa Singhania from the department of Computer science gave a prelimary talk on the use of pointers to functions in C and C++.

Pointers to functions, as the name suggests, are pointers which point to functions. Using them we can model Event Driven Programming, Stack Smashing, even a basic implementation of Classes in C.

Beginner's Guide to MATLAB

On 19th September, Assistant Professor of Department of of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Mr NM Kakoty, gave an introductory talk on using Matlab, a software package used in Computation and Algorithm development.

The highlight of the talk was the fact that Mr Kakoty demonstrated a use of MATLAB in the domains of Mechanical Engineering Simulation, Digital Signal Processing, Image Processeing and also Robotics.

Sunday Talk on Adobe After Effects

Today a talk on "Adobe After Effects" was given by Divyarup Basumatari, a student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The topic was presented along with practical demonstrations. Initially, the plan was to demonstrate using an existing video which was created by Divyarup for TechXetra(a technical fest of the university) and by showing how he did it. But later on, he thought of demonstrating by creating a new composition and making the audience aware of all the facilities available in Adobe After Effects. Many of the students of the university attended the talk and they loved it.

DNS and Network Analysis

On 5th September, a talk was given by Saurabh K Karn (department of Mech. Engg.) on preliminary concepts of how DNs works as well has tracing network activity with Network Analysis tools such as Wireshark.

This talk was particularly interesting given the fact that we often (and mistakenly) use insecure methods to access sensitive resources on our networks, such as Wi-fi without encryption, and the use of telnet to access Unix terminals.

The talk helped spread awareness of how current are not designed with security as a primary concern.

Thanks Saurabh!