International School of Information Management
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The International School of Information Management (ISiM) is the first Indian i-School and is an autonomous constituent institute of the University of Mysore
, located in Mysore in Karnataka
State, Southern India
. ISiM was conceptualised and established in 2005, in collaboration with the leading information schools in the U.S – namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan
, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University
, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore, and Dalhousie University
of Canada. ISiM was established with munificent grants from the Ford Foundation
and Bangalore based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd.
Being a new age school for the knowledge economy, ISiM also defines a new educational model – Inverse of Distance Learning
– in which, the students and the school are in Mysore, but, the faculty and mentors are a distributed network of excellence drawn from ISiM’s partners and other institutions.
ISiM is directed by an independent Governing Board, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, with eminent academics and industry stalwarts as members. ISiM is managed today with some of the finest minds from Academia, Industry and the Government and has on its governing board personalities like N. R. Narayana Murthy
, Chairman and Mentor Infosys
Technologies and others like Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman-IIT Kanpur, Dr.N. Seshagiri, Former Director General, National Informatics Centre
, New Delhi
, Dr. S. Sadagopan
, Founder Director- IIIT, Bangalore, Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, Department of E-Governance, Government of Karnataka
, Mr. Prasad Ram
, Director and Center Head, Google
India, among others.
With redefining the academia-industry interaction through a process of continuous engagement of students and the industry mentors in open community projects being one of the main visions of ISiM, it envisions to be an innovative institution, shaping and defining the multidisciplinary domain of information, while innovating new institutional models and focusing on preparing information professionals who can help solve the information asymmetry
.
ISiM recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of information, and envisions being a ground breaking higher education institution, addressing the challenges of defining this domain. The challenges of the information age require educational institutions to continuously evolve, and ISiM has special focus towards innovating new institutional models. With emphasis on redefining the academia—industry interaction, ISiM encourages continuous engagement of students and industry mentors in Open Community Projects, and by doing so, aims to be a world class institution of higher learning, which prepares professionals who can build information systems to help solve the information asymmetry.
ISiM graduates find career opportunities as Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Information System Developers, Content Managers, Management Information Analysts, Information Marketers, Knowledge Portal Managers, Knowledge Management leads, Web / Online Content Analysts, Data Analytics / Business Intelligence Specialists, Data Warehousing Professionals, MIS Officers, Archivists, Librarians etc.
officially launched ISiM. From 2005, ISiM has evolved from being a mere concept to reality, and has defined a new educational model in this process - Inverse of Distance Learning
.
ISiM recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of information, and envisions being a ground breaking higher education institution, addressing the challenges of defining this domain. The challenges of the information age require educational institutions to continuously evolve, and ISiM has special focus towards innovating new institutional models. With emphasis on redefining the academia—industry interaction, ISiM encourages continuous engagement of students and industry mentors in Open Community Projects, and by doing so, aims to be a world class institution of higher learning, which prepares professionals who can build information systems to help solve the information asymmetry.
ISiM's Mission:
ISiM also organized 2007, prior to the commencement of its M.Tech programme.
Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, giving the commencement speech, outlined various kinds of aspirations that we, Indians, have seen over the ages, taking examples from Indian PURANAS and history. He said the only reason why we keep innovating, is that we don't stop aspiring. He stressed upon the fact that we should always aspire towards reaching greater heights, and work hard towards achieving them. He gave the Ten Commandments for Success that included: being brave; believe in “no boundaries’; failures as learning opportunities; not being limited by success.
Also speaking on the occasion was the chief guest for the ceremony, Shri M. N. Vidyashankar, IAS, Principal Secretary, e-Governance, IT, BT and ST, Government of Karnataka. He underscored the importance of innovation and said that is the only way for organizations to compete in the current global scenario. He also said that one of the main hurdles in the path of constant innovation was the non-acceptance of technology by members of the general public. Shri Vidyashankar highlighted with an example each for the success of using technology at their department and for the failure of an innovative education system due to the non-acceptance of technology. He also threw light on the fact that though Indians have significantly contributed to the research and innovation successes at Silicon Valley (California), they have not played such a major role in research activities in the Indus Valley (India), and advised the students to work towards a career of innovation.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, Prof. V. G. Talawar, in his presidential address stressed on the three Ds: Desire; Determination; Dedication.
The dignitaries distributed the degree certificates to the graduates. On the occasion, two graduates, Mr. Nabhajit Ray (M.Tech Class of 2009) and Mr. Nikesh N (M.Tech Class of 2010), were awarded the "Parvathamma Subbaraya Gold Medal", instituted with munificent grants from Dr. Chudamani, an alumnus of the University of Mysore and currently, the Deputy Librarian at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
University of Mysore
The University of Mysore , is a public university in India. The University founded during the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, the Maharaja of Mysore, and was conceptualized on the basis of a report on educational progress in the United States and Australia, submitted by Messrs Thomas Denham and...
, located in Mysore in Karnataka
Karnataka
Karnataka , the land of the Kannadigas, is a state in South West India. It was created on 1 November 1956, with the passing of the States Reorganisation Act and this day is annually celebrated as Karnataka Rajyotsava...
State, Southern India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. ISiM was conceptualised and established in 2005, in collaboration with the leading information schools in the U.S – namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
, International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore, and Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University
Dalhousie University is a public research university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The university comprises eleven faculties including Schulich School of Law and Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine. It also includes the faculties of architecture, planning and engineering located at...
of Canada. ISiM was established with munificent grants from the Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation
The Ford Foundation is a private foundation incorporated in Michigan and based in New York City created to fund programs that were chartered in 1936 by Edsel Ford and Henry Ford....
and Bangalore based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd.
Introduction
Each new era and society demands a new breed of professionals. Just as the industrial age heralded management sciences, the information age is engendering the domain of information sciences. With this belief and the concept of an institution focusing exclusively on information studies and research in India, ISiM was established. ISiM was conceptualized and established in 2005, by the University of Mysore, with seed grants from the Ford Foundation and Bangalore based Informatics India Pvt. Ltd., and in partnership with some of the leading information schools in the U.S, namely the School of Information at the University of Michigan, the School of Information Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, and the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. To strengthen its academic linkages, ISiM signed memorandum of understanding with School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, USA, University of Michigan, USA and Dalhousie University of Canada in 2006.Being a new age school for the knowledge economy, ISiM also defines a new educational model – Inverse of Distance Learning
Inverse of Distance Learning
Inverse of Distance Learning is a concept of education, where an institution focuses on imparting education to students who are gathered in a traditional classroom in one place , while its faculty are experts from both academia and the industry...
– in which, the students and the school are in Mysore, but, the faculty and mentors are a distributed network of excellence drawn from ISiM’s partners and other institutions.
ISiM is directed by an independent Governing Board, chaired by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, with eminent academics and industry stalwarts as members. ISiM is managed today with some of the finest minds from Academia, Industry and the Government and has on its governing board personalities like N. R. Narayana Murthy
N. R. Narayana Murthy
Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy , better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He and six other engineers founded Infosys in 1981. Mr. Murthy served as CEO from 1981 to 2002. From 2002 to 2011, he served as Chairman...
, Chairman and Mentor Infosys
Infosys
Infosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China,...
Technologies and others like Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman-IIT Kanpur, Dr.N. Seshagiri, Former Director General, National Informatics Centre
National Informatics Centre
The National Informatics Centre ' is the main science & technology organisation of India's Union Government in informatics services and information-and-communication- technology applications...
, New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
, Dr. S. Sadagopan
S. Sadagopan
Professor S. Sadagopan is the Founder Director of the International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, a new generation Institute, promoted jointly by the Government of Karnataka and the IT industry in 1999....
, Founder Director- IIIT, Bangalore, Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, Department of E-Governance, Government of Karnataka
Government of Karnataka
The Government of Karnataka is a democratically elected body with the Governor as the constitutional head. The Governor who is appointed for a period of five years appoints the Chief Minister and his council of ministers...
, Mr. Prasad Ram
Prasad Ram
Prasad Bhaarat Ram, known as Pram, is a computer scientist and promoter of education.- Early life :Prasad Ram was born in Tiptur of Karnataka state in southern India. He obtained his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1987. He then went on to...
, Director and Center Head, Google
Google
Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
India, among others.
With redefining the academia-industry interaction through a process of continuous engagement of students and the industry mentors in open community projects being one of the main visions of ISiM, it envisions to be an innovative institution, shaping and defining the multidisciplinary domain of information, while innovating new institutional models and focusing on preparing information professionals who can help solve the information asymmetry
Information asymmetry
In economics and contract theory, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This creates an imbalance of power in transactions which can sometimes cause the transactions to go awry, a kind of market failure...
.
ISiM recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of information, and envisions being a ground breaking higher education institution, addressing the challenges of defining this domain. The challenges of the information age require educational institutions to continuously evolve, and ISiM has special focus towards innovating new institutional models. With emphasis on redefining the academia—industry interaction, ISiM encourages continuous engagement of students and industry mentors in Open Community Projects, and by doing so, aims to be a world class institution of higher learning, which prepares professionals who can build information systems to help solve the information asymmetry.
ISiM graduates find career opportunities as Chief Information Officers (CIOs), Information System Developers, Content Managers, Management Information Analysts, Information Marketers, Knowledge Portal Managers, Knowledge Management leads, Web / Online Content Analysts, Data Analytics / Business Intelligence Specialists, Data Warehousing Professionals, MIS Officers, Archivists, Librarians etc.
Evolution of ISiM
The seed of ISiM was sown during a discussion among like minded peers in the academia and some more members from the industry, and dozens of brainstorming sessions later during the annual Knowledge Summit "INFOVISION" in September 2005, Dr. Som Mittal, the then Director of HP and the current President of NASSCOMNASSCOM
The National Association of Software and Services Companies of IT software and services related activities for use of both the software developers as well as interested companies overseas....
officially launched ISiM. From 2005, ISiM has evolved from being a mere concept to reality, and has defined a new educational model in this process - Inverse of Distance Learning
Inverse of Distance Learning
Inverse of Distance Learning is a concept of education, where an institution focuses on imparting education to students who are gathered in a traditional classroom in one place , while its faculty are experts from both academia and the industry...
.
ISiM recognizes the multidisciplinary nature of information, and envisions being a ground breaking higher education institution, addressing the challenges of defining this domain. The challenges of the information age require educational institutions to continuously evolve, and ISiM has special focus towards innovating new institutional models. With emphasis on redefining the academia—industry interaction, ISiM encourages continuous engagement of students and industry mentors in Open Community Projects, and by doing so, aims to be a world class institution of higher learning, which prepares professionals who can build information systems to help solve the information asymmetry.
ISiM's Mission:
- Shape and define the emerging new multidisciplinary domain of information through education and research
- Innovate and adopt new institutional models in education and research
- Engage all stakeholders — academia, industry, government, NGOs and others in solving information friction problems
Academics
The first batch of M.Tech began in August 2007. Currently, two batches of M.Tech students have graduated out of ISiM. The 2nd year of the third batch will commence from September 2010. Being a multidisciplinary course, the M.Tech degree offered by ISiM attracts students from various backgrounds, from different states within India and from around the world. The growing number of foreign students at ISiM is a testimony to its high standards of education (foreign students have grown from 0% in the first batch of M.Tech to 23% in the third batch). In its fourth batch(2012) 27% of the total students are foreign students. It show the development of ISiM year by year.Degree programmes
Committed to prepare the information professionals of tomorrow, ISiM offers the following programmes:- M. Tech in Information Systems & Management
- Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management
- Doctoral Degree Programme (Ph.D) in Information Systems & Management
- Executive Education Programmes
- Corporate Training Programmes
Faculty
With its innovative education model, the Inverse of Distance Learning, ISiM's faculty are members of a distributed network of excellence drawn from ISiM partners and other institutions, while the students and the campus of ISiM are at Mysore. In other words, ISiM has 37 adjunct faculty drawn from its network of excellence. ISiM’s faculty include Dr. Srinivas “Srini” Sampalli, from Dalhousie University in Canada, who is one of Canada’s top educator and researcher, Dr. Kevin Crowston from Syracuse University, Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan who is an Entrepreneur and a Business Consultant, Prof. Helen Sharp from the Open University U.K, Ms. Waltraut Ritter from Knowledge Dialogues Hong Kong, Dr. D. S. Guru from Department of Studies in Computer Science of University of Mysore, Mr. Bhanu Kiran Potta who is the Global Product Manager of Nokia, among others.Research
Research areas of ISiM include:- Content Development & Management-Tools and Technologies
- Business Intelligence & Information
- Data Mining and Information Retrieval
- Natural Language Processing and Indian Languages
- Human Information Interactions and Usability
- Knowledge Management, Information Use and Reuse
- Cultural Informatics
Projects
ISiM has been involved in various community projects, which include:- Vidyanidhi: Digital Library and e-Scholarship portal
- In Mar 2007, ISIM received Rs 1 crore funding and collaboration from Rediff to research Indian language content management and Optical Character Recognition. (Indo-Aryan languages, Dravidian languages)
- Education Development Center (EDC) India Digital Library of Audio Visual Educational Materials
- Sasyasiri: Web enabled multimedia database of plants of Karnataka, Govt. of Karnataka
- WikiGyan: WikiGyan enables people/organizations to share development data (elections, health, education, literacy, etc) and gain insights through data analytics and intelligence. It is a suite of tools that lets people to upload spreadsheets, download them, build databases and data warehouse, and visualize data in different ways. For simplicity, it can be called as a combo of a YouTube for spreadsheets and Wikipedia for structured information.
- Internet Safari: Internet awareness and training programme for Women and Children, funded by National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. The main objective of this programme is “prepare the kids for the future”. With internet redefining information with the passing of each day, this project focuses on spreading awareness about the internet and its usage among the faculty and students of government schools, where penetration of internet is least.
- NavaMysuru: Positioning Mysore as a Knowledge City, a project by ISiM and Knowledge Dialogues, Hong Kong. The objective of this project is to identify the indicators essential for a knowledge city, develop a framework based on them, and to work in collaboration with Mysore city civic administration to position Mysore as a Knowledge City.
ISiM Governing Board
| Member | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Dr. V. G. Talawar (Chairperson) | Vice-Chancellor, University of Mysore University of Mysore The University of Mysore , is a public university in India. The University founded during the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, the Maharaja of Mysore, and was conceptualized on the basis of a report on educational progress in the United States and Australia, submitted by Messrs Thomas Denham and... |
| Prof. M. Anandakrishnan | Chairman IIT Kanpur Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a Central deemed University located in Uttar Pradesh, about 15 km north-west of the city of Kanpur in the Kalyanpur suburb.... |
| Dr. N. Seshagiri | Former Director General, National Informatics Centre National Informatics Centre The National Informatics Centre ' is the main science & technology organisation of India's Union Government in informatics services and information-and-communication- technology applications... |
| Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy N. R. Narayana Murthy Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy , better known as N. R. Narayana Murthy, is an Indian industrialist and software engineer. He and six other engineers founded Infosys in 1981. Mr. Murthy served as CEO from 1981 to 2002. From 2002 to 2011, he served as Chairman... |
Chairman & Chief Mentor, Infosys Infosys Infosys Limited, formerly Infosys Technologies Limited is a global technology services company headquartered in Bangalore, India. It is the second largest IT exporter in India with 133,560 employees as of March 2011. It has offices in 33 countries and development centers in India, China,... Technologies |
| Dr. Prakash G. Apte | Former Director, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Indian Institute of Management Bangalore The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is a business school located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It was established in 1973 by the Government of India, and is the third Indian Institute of Management to be established .It offers several Post Graduate and Doctoral programmes, as well as... |
| Dr. S. Sadagopan | Founder Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore |
| Dr. P. Anandan | Managing Director, Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... Research Labs India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore |
| Mr. N. V. Sathyanarayana | Chairman & Managing Director, Informatics India Limited Bangalore |
| Prof. P. S. Naik | Registrar, University of Mysore University of Mysore The University of Mysore , is a public university in India. The University founded during the reign of Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV, the Maharaja of Mysore, and was conceptualized on the basis of a report on educational progress in the United States and Australia, submitted by Messrs Thomas Denham and... , Mysore |
| Mr. M. N VidyaShankar (IAS) | Principal Secretary, Department of e-Governance, Government of Karnataka Government of Karnataka The Government of Karnataka is a democratically elected body with the Governor as the constitutional head. The Governor who is appointed for a period of five years appoints the Chief Minister and his council of ministers... |
| Dr. Prasad Ram Prasad Ram Prasad Bhaarat Ram, known as Pram, is a computer scientist and promoter of education.- Early life :Prasad Ram was born in Tiptur of Karnataka state in southern India. He obtained his B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1987. He then went on to... |
Director & Centre Head, Google Google Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program... India |
| Dr. Shalini R. Urs (Member Secretary) | Executive Director, ISiM, University of Mysore |
ISiM Board of Studies
| Member | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Dr. Shalini R. Urs (Chairperson) | Executive Director, ISiM, University of Mysore |
| Dr. Chidananda Gowda | Former Vice Chancellor and Visiting Professor, ISiM, University of Mysore |
| Dr. D. S. Guru | Reader, Department of Studies in Computer Science, University of Mysore |
| Prof. T. N. Nagabhushan | Special Officer, E-Learning Centre, Visvesvaraya Technological University, SJCE Campus, Mysore |
| Dr. J. K. Suresh | Assistant Vice President, Infosys Technologies Ltd. Education and Research, Bangalore |
| Dr. N. Yathindra | Director, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology, Bangalore |
| Prof. Krithi Ramathirtham | Dean, Department of Computer Studies and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay |
| Prof. Chandrashekar Ramanathan | International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Bangalore |
| Dr. A. G. Ramakrishna | Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore |
Campus
ISiM’s campus is located in the ‘‘Manasagangothri’’ campus of the University of Mysore at Mysore, India. ISiM began its journey by utilising the classrooms of the Department of Library and Information Science in the University of Mysore. Its new campus was inaugurated on 20th August 2008 by Mr. N. R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys, who is also a member of ISiM’s governing body.InfoVision Summit Series
In an attempt to promote Academia – Industry interaction for improvisation and innovation through collaborative effort, ISiM organizes InfoVision, an annual conference series organized with this theme. 2006 was organized with Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Bangalore as joint organizers, 2007 with Rediff and Internet And Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), 2009 with Microsoft Research and Bangalore Chamber of Industries and Commerce (BCIC)and 2011 with TDWI Chapter India, CSI, DAMA international, IEEE Computer society, ACM and Compegence.ISiM also organized 2007, prior to the commencement of its M.Tech programme.
Special Lecture Series
ISiM collaborates with other universities and organizations to organize special events, and one such venture is lecture series called “Special Lecture Series”, with speakers being experts from both the academia and the industry. Listed below are such lectures, their themes/topics and speakers:- Special Lecture (1): “Wireless Security: Threats and Solutions”, by Dr. Srinivas Sampalli, Professor and 3M Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Prof. K. Chidananda Gowda, Former Vice Chancellor, Kuvempu University. (2006)
- Special Lecture (2): "Web Content Mining for Automatic Integration of Web Search Source", by Dr. Vijay V. Raghavan Distinguished Professor of Computer Science. The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA. (2007)
- Special Lecture (3): "More Search Vs. Search More - a computing perspective”, by Prof. S. Sadagopan, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. (October 2008)
- Special Lecture (4): "Decision Making and Information Systems" by Prof. H. Raghav Rao, Professor, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. (December 2008)
- Special Lecture (5): “Next Generation Information Access", by Dr. Mark T. Maybury, Executive Director, Mitre Corporation, USA. (January 2009)
- Special Lecture (6): “Making a better Web snippet”, by Dr. Ed Cutrell, Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA. (May 2009)
- Special Lecture (7): “Strategy and Innovation Management”, by Mr. Jatin H. Desai, CEO The DeSai Group, USA (June 2009)
- Special Lecture (8): “Data Mining and Risk Management”, by Dr. S. Chandrasekhar Officiating Director & Chair Professor, IT FORE School of Management, New Delhi. (June 2009)
- Special Lecture (9): “Changing Paradigms of Digital Marketing & Multichannel Commerce” by Mr. Ajay Malgoankar, Group Project Manager, Infosys Technologies Ltd. (September 2009)
- Special Lecture (10): “Information Control and Terrorism: Tracking the Mumbai Terrorist Attack through Twitter”, by Prof. H. Raghav Rao, Professor, University at Buffalo, State University of New York. (January 2010)
- Special Lecture (11): "Computing for Socio-Economic Development at Microsoft Research India" by Dr.Edward Cutrell, Researcher - Manager, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore(September 2010)
- Special lecture (12): "Leadership,Ethics & Persuasive Communication" by Dr. Matthew Frank Barney , Infosys Mysore (November 2010)
- Special lecture (13): "Talk on Copyrights", by Mr .Jared Margolis (BA,LLB,BCL),Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong(December 2010)
- Special Lecture (14): “The Open Video Project: Research and Practice”, by Prof.Gary Marchionini, Dean and Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA (February 2011)
- Special Lecture (15) : Relevance of Information Management in Industry by Ms.Jagadamba Krovvidi,Principal Technology Architect, Infosys Technologies Ltd.(May 2011)
- Special Lecture (16) : User Experience Design for Enterprise Software by Dr.Todd Barlow, Director of Usability and User Interface Design, USA (June 2011)
- Special Lecture (17) : Individual Differences in Phishing Susceptibility: An Integrated Information Processing Model by Dr.Arun Vishwanath, Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Adjunct Associate Professor, Management Science & Systems, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.(November 2011)
CXO Lecture Series
As part of its activities, ISiM also launched a CXO lecture series in October 2009, and the inaugural lecture was delivered by Mr. M. N. Vidyashankar, Principal Secretary, Department of E-Governance, Government of Karnataka. He delivered a talk on “e-Governance in India: Challenges and Opportunities”.Workshops
ISiM organizes workshops and seminars on a regular basis to address various issues pertaining to the information age, which are open for students of the institute, as well as the general public. Details of such events organized in the past are provided below.- ISiM Executive Training Programme (July/August 2006): Training workshop on Digital Libraries for NIFT Library Information Science Professionals.
- Information and Knowledge Audit – A Practical Introduction (January 2007): One day management workshop. Faculty: Ms. Waltraut Ritter (Hong Kong), Mr. Ritendra Banerjee (Hyderabad), Dr. Shalini R. Urs (ISiM, Mysore).
- Brainstorming workshop on OCR for Indian languages (March 2007): Also featured the setting up of Rediff Center for Indian Language Content Management (RCILCM).
- Workshop on “Text Mining and Business Intelligence” (March 2007)
- Cyber Security Workshop (October 2007): Focusing on teaching the basic principles of cyber security from the perspective of providing security awareness and its best practices for the real world. Faculty: Dr. Srinivas Sampalli (Dalhousie University, Canada).
- Workshop on Machine Learning (April 2008): Focusing on introducing the basic techniques of Machine Learning, its major areas of application and providing hands on experience to the participants. Faculty: Prof. Sargur N Srihari (SUNY Buffalo, New York).
- Workshop on Data Warehousing and Data Mining (October 2008): Faculty: Mr. Surya Patchala (Accenture, Hyderabad), Dr. P. Radha Krishna (Infosys, Hyderabad), Mr. Anoop Nambiar (Infosys, Bangalore).
- Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Management (October 2008): Focusing on answering queries on entrepreneurship and management. Faculty: Prof. Nandini Vaidyanathan (Management Consultant).
- Workshop on Capability and Maturity Model (CMM) (October 2008): Focusing on introducing the CMM standard and its assessment. Faculty: Mr. Srinivas Thummalapalli (Bangalore).
- Workshop on Spatial Data Infrastructure for Urban Governance Decision Making (March 2009): Organized by University of Amsterdam, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Decision Making (ITC), The Netherlands, and School of Planning and Architecture, and hosted by ISiM.
- Workshop on IPR and Cyber Laws (June 2009): Focusing on providing students and professionals an understanding of Intellectual Property Rights and Cyber Laws. Faculty: Dr. Prabuddha Ganguli (Vision-IPR, Mumbai).
- Workshop on Business Process Management (August 2009): Organized by ISiM in association with UDream, Bangalore. Faculty: Mr. Raghu Santanam (Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA).
- Workshop on Social Network Analysis (April 2010): Focusing on introducing the concept of Social Network Analysis (SNA) and to provide hands on expertise on an open source tool for SNA. Faculty: Prof. Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University, USA).
- Pacific Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2010) (June 2010): Organized by ISiM as a part of Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD 2010), in association with International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India.
- Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (June 2010): Focusing on introducing the domain of Intelligence and Security Informatics. Faculty: Dr. R. N. Prasad (Infosys, Mysore), Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham (University of Texas, Dallas, USA), Dr. Michael Chau (University of Hong Kong).
- Workshop on Cloud Computing (Nov 2010): Focusing on virtualization. A team from VMware conducted a one day workshop in which students of ISiM got hands on experience with VMware's product called vSphere.
- The Challenge - Think, Explore and Evolve [T2E]: One day workshop organized in association with IBM and CSI. An overview about cutting edge technologies such as plug-in development, WEB 2.0, And DB Management was presented to the participants.
- Java Workshop:Infosys - Education and Research Division, Mysore organized four days hands on workshop covering fundamentals of Java programming.
- Interactive Session on Information Excellence by Mr.Nagaraj Kulkarni, Founder, COMPEGENCE.The session introduced the “Process + Data + Domain approach” that is essential to achieve successful business outcome.
Conferences
ISiM collaborates with industry majors and universities to organize conferences. Such conferences organized in the past include:- 15th International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), organized with Computer Society of India (CSI) as the organizing partner and Infosys as the facilities partner. The event was sponsored by Google and Wipro as platinum sponsors and SAP as the bronze sponsor.
- International Conference on Digital Libraries (ICDL) 2010, at New Delhi, in collaboration with The Energy and Research Institute (TERI).
Graduation Day 2011
ISiM celebrated its Graduation Day on Monday, the 11th of April, 2011. In her Welcome Address, Prof. Shalini Urs, Executive Director of ISiM, drew attention to the objective and tradition of celebrating graduation days. She said, a graduation day is an academic cultural tradition and is a rite of passage essentially symbolizing “Inculcation, transformation” and “Return to Society in a changed status.” The purpose of ISiM Graduation Day Celebrations program is to build a sense of new roles as ISiMians and solidarity.Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India, Bangalore, giving the commencement speech, outlined various kinds of aspirations that we, Indians, have seen over the ages, taking examples from Indian PURANAS and history. He said the only reason why we keep innovating, is that we don't stop aspiring. He stressed upon the fact that we should always aspire towards reaching greater heights, and work hard towards achieving them. He gave the Ten Commandments for Success that included: being brave; believe in “no boundaries’; failures as learning opportunities; not being limited by success.
Also speaking on the occasion was the chief guest for the ceremony, Shri M. N. Vidyashankar, IAS, Principal Secretary, e-Governance, IT, BT and ST, Government of Karnataka. He underscored the importance of innovation and said that is the only way for organizations to compete in the current global scenario. He also said that one of the main hurdles in the path of constant innovation was the non-acceptance of technology by members of the general public. Shri Vidyashankar highlighted with an example each for the success of using technology at their department and for the failure of an innovative education system due to the non-acceptance of technology. He also threw light on the fact that though Indians have significantly contributed to the research and innovation successes at Silicon Valley (California), they have not played such a major role in research activities in the Indus Valley (India), and advised the students to work towards a career of innovation.
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Mysore, Prof. V. G. Talawar, in his presidential address stressed on the three Ds: Desire; Determination; Dedication.
The dignitaries distributed the degree certificates to the graduates. On the occasion, two graduates, Mr. Nabhajit Ray (M.Tech Class of 2009) and Mr. Nikesh N (M.Tech Class of 2010), were awarded the "Parvathamma Subbaraya Gold Medal", instituted with munificent grants from Dr. Chudamani, an alumnus of the University of Mysore and currently, the Deputy Librarian at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Programmes
ISiM – is a new age school for the knowledge Society. With a mission to capitalize knowledge, driven by technology, it is committed to prepare the information professionals of tomorrow - to design, develop, implement, manage, and evaluate information systems in a wide range of environments in the global context. ISiM offers the following programmes:- M.Tech in Information Systems & Management
- Post Graduate Diploma in Information Management
- Doctoral Degree Programme (Ph.D) in Information Systems & Management
- Executive Education Programmes
- Corporate Training
Community Reach Programmes
ISiM also aims to connect with the society as part of its activities, and organizes various Development Dialogues, where discussion mainly focuses on addressing the current challenges in the world. These include:- New Ventures India Awareness Programme, April 27th, 2010: A presentation to sensitize various stakeholders about green business opportunities and what NVI is doing to assist the development and growth of green businesses by facilitating fruitful interaction between entrepreneurs, mentors, business advisors and potential investors.
- Interaction with members of Akshara Foundation, April 26, 2010: A presentation by Akshara Foundation, Bangalore, 4-5PM, 26 Apr 2010.The delegates from Akshara Foundation, Bangalore visited ISiM on the 26 Apr 2010 to explore the opportunities of working together on areas of common interest.
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