29 December, 2017:

The ninth talk in the ‘50 years of Turing Award‘ series was organized at Anna University on 29th December, 2017. We had an awesome lecture by Prof. Shamkant Navathe  on ‘Contributions of Edgar Codd‘ (1981 Turing Award Recipient).

Professor Delivering Talk
Prof Receiving Momento

19 December, 2017:

The eighth talk in the ‘50 years of Turing Award‘  series was organized at IIT, Madras on 19th December 2017. We had a lovely lecture by Prof. Deepak  on “Contributions of Judea Pearl (2011 Turing Award Recipient) .

 

Prof Deepak Delivering Lecture

 

Prof Chitra thanking Prof. Deepak

 

07 November 2017:

The seventh talk in the ‘50 years of Turing Award‘  series was organized at IMSc on 7th November 2017.We had an awesome inspiring lecture (YouTube) delivered by Prof. Meena Mahajan on “Contributions of Steve Cook and Richard Karp (1982 and 1985 Turing Award Recipients)” .

Prof Meena Delivering the Lecture

 

Prof Meena’s Talk

20 October, 2017:

The sixth lecture in the series of ‘Contributions of Turing Award Winners‘ was held on 20 Oct., 2017 in CMI, Chennai. We had an insightful lecture delivered by Dr.S.P. Suresh on ‘Contributions of Robin Milner (1991 Awardee)’.

21 September, 2017:

The fifth lecture in the series of ‘Contributions of Turing Award Winners‘ was held on 21 September, 2017 in IMSc., Chennai. We had a lively lecture (pdf, video)   by Prof. Dr. Venkatesh Raman of IMSc, Chennai on ‘Contributions of Donald Knuth (1974 Awardee)‘.

Prof on Stage

 

Prof receiving momento from ACM Chennai Chair

 

13 September, 2017:

AICWiC 2017 iSIGCSE Faculty Summit. Conducted in SRM University, Chennai.

 

17 August, 2017:

The fourth lecture in the series of ‘Contributions of Turing Award Winners‘ was held on 17 August, 2017 in IIT, Madras. We had an entertaining and an insightful talk by Prof. Dr. D. Janakiram of IIT, Madras on ‘Contributions of Leslie Lamport (2013 Awardee)‘.

 

Prof. Dr. Chitra Babu introducing Prof. Dr. D. Janakiram
Prof. DJ in Action

06 July, 2017:

The third lecture in the series of ‘Contributions of Turing Award Winners‘ was held on 06 July, 2017 in IMSc. We had an interesting talk  (YouTube recording here) by Prof. R. Ramanujam of IMSc on ‘Contributions of Dana Scott and Michael Rabin (1976 Awardees)‘. It was an enlivening, highly enjoyable lecture.

 

08 May, 2017:

Dr. Sriram Rajamani, Managing Director, Microsoft Research Labs India gave a lecture on ‘Security and Privacy on the Cloud’.  It was a stimulating talk with Dr. Sriram providing insight on how compliance and confidentiality in the context of cloud environments can be effectively ensured by relying on a combination of secure hardware such as Intel Software Guard eXtensions (SGX) or ARM TrustZone (TZ) along with the techniques of formal specifications and verification.

Sriram Lecturing
Sriram – Security & Privacy in Cloud
Introducing Sriram

 

10 April, 2017:

Second talk in the ACM Turing Award Lecture Series – RSA. We had an exhilarating presentation by Dr. C. Pandurangan, Professor, Dept of CSE, IIT Madras. It was a mesmerizing talk without any slides !

CPR in Action

Professor Dr. Chitra Babu presenting a momento to Prof. Dr. C. Pandurangan

21 March., 2017:

We had the first ACM Turing series lecture by Prof. Madhavan Mukund on Dijkstra and his contributions to computing.

dijkstra-21mar2017-handout   YouTube Video of Lecture

We had the chapter office bearers meeting as well.