A two day International Conference on Next Generation Computing Technologies ended at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES) on Tuesday. The theme of the conference was “Smart and Innovative Trends in Next Generation Computing”. Sharing the details of the event Director – Media, UPES, Arun Dhand, informed that the theme of the conference focuses on some of the advanced areas of computer science that are providing new dimensions to the business and technical communities on a rapidly developing track.
The Chancellor of the UPES, S J Chopra welcomed the participants. The Director, IIT Patna, Pushpak Bhattacharyya in his address gave a deep insight in the area of natural language processing in the context of deep learning. - Director, Cloud labs, University of Melbourne Rajkumar Buyya in his talk focused on some contemporary aspects of ‘Big Data’; ‘Cloud’ and ‘IOT’.
Distinguished Professor, IIT Bombay R K Shyamsundar spoke on the topic of security and privacy in the digital world. He also shared deep insights on various aspects of Facebook security and privacy.
Associate Professor Hanumat Sastry said that in all 139 research papers, shortlisted with peer review process out of the 948 research papers submitted, were presented in the conference in the tracks which included ‘Smart and Innovative Trends in Computational Intelligence and Data Science’; ‘Smart and Innovative Trends in Communication Protocols and Standards’; ‘Smart and Innovative Trends in Image Processing and Machine Vision’.