If an incident took place then entire world come to know in next 30 minutes because of Information technology. Now youths are getting update on their mobile and it all happened because of IT,” said Dr Durgesh Pant, Director of Uttarakhand Open University, while addressing in two days conference on Innovation in computer science and emerging techonologies-ICSET-2014, at IMS Unison university, Dehradun on Friday.
The Chief Guest in the inaugural ceremony was Dr Durgesh Pant, Director, Uttarakhand Open University and the Guest of honor was Dr Kunwar Singh Vaisla, Chairperson ACM Chapter, Dehradun.
Pro Chancellor and Vice Chancellor Prof MP Jain, Pro Vice Chancellor Prof. Vijayan Immanuel, Associate Pro Vice Chancellor Prof Pawan K Agrawal, Dean R&D and Chairman of the Conference Prof MK Bhandari, Organizing Secretary Prof Udai Bhan Trivedi, Dr Sanjay Pachauri, Dr Vaibhav Panwar, Prof Vishok Kumar Singh inaugurated the ceremony by lighting the lamp.
Prof MP Jain welcomed all the guests with flowers and mementos and encouraged students to touch new heights in the field of computer science.
Dr Durgesh Pant captured the changes in the field of computer sciences over the past few years and laid stress on its easy accessibility and quick reach to all corners of the world.
Dr Ashish Negi warned against the excessive commercialization of information
technology. On the first day of this conference three technical sessions were held in which many academicians and research scholars presented their research papers.
A cultural evening was also organized in which many students actively presented cultural events. Faculty members of various schools attended the conference including media coordinator of this conference Prof. Abhishek Kumar Chaudhary, Prof. Deepak Uniyal, Dr. Kumar Rajyavardhan and Prof Nikhil Ranjan amongst others.