Amrita University & TIFAC CORE in association with VeriSign proudly present InCTF’10, India’s First National Level “Capture the Flag” Style Ethical HACKING contest.
InCTF’10 is from February to March 2010 and is focused exclusively on the student community. You can participate from your own university and no travel is required. No prior exposure or experience in [...]
After the Success of FOSSTER ‘09 that was conducted on 28th and 29th of March, 2009; FOSSTER ‘10, the National Level FOSS Conference at Amritapuri Campus is back. It will be held on 20th and 21st of February, 2010.
FOSSTER now has an official website http://fosster.co.in [we we not able to reserve fosster.in - which is [...]
April 6, 2009
Amritapuri Campus
When
NASA decided to build Mars Exploration Rovers at a cost of several
hundred million dollars, it chose free and open source software to
power the robots. Launched on the Martian surface in 2003, the rovers
are still going strong today. When Amrita decided to build a complex
ERP software solution for its 1300-bed specialty hospital [...]
Let me introduce you to FOSSTER ‘09, a FOSS (Free and open source software) workshop and conference on 28th and 29th March 2009 at our campus (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus).
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham is a contributor to the Open Source movement since 2003 and has developed AmritaVPN that is being used widely. Amrita was awarded [...]
I had posted yesterday (http://avinashjoshi.co.in/2009/02/11/amrita-university-receives-a-grade-from-naac/) that my University (Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham) is now NAAC accreded with an A grade.
To celebrate this, our chancellor, advisor and a loving Mother, our beloved AMMA had announced an icecream party for all students and faculties of our college!! The icecream party was at 4:30 p.m and it went on [...]
!Ubuntu Rocks!
Introduction:
Today morning as I got into my class, my little friend Aswathy (I call her achu) bounced up and asked me for help. On enquiring, what the matter was, she told me that she wanted to install IBM RSA for her projects; but she was having vista!! Ok now I knew that RSA works [...]
Source: http://amrita.edu/news2009/univ-news/naac.php
The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) awarded an A grade to Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. “It was perhaps one of the most complex accreditation exercises undertaken by NAAC,” said Assistant Professor Prashant R. Nair, who was appointed as a university-wide coordinator. “Over a hundred people in the university were directly involved with the accreditation [...]
Students and faculties of my College (Amrita Vishwa vidyapeetham) are busy with the Amritakalotsavam, our College annual fest.
Well, to be frank, I am also taking part this time in a group dance. Surprising right? I know. We are having our practice sessions going on – basically having great fun! (The song is good old “Hai [...]
The Sun Club at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus conducted the first ever fossquiz ‘09, a college wide FOSS contest.
To start with, we had the registration on 21st and 22nd of January. Registration desks were placed in the College corridors. The first day, we had 50 teams registered and on the second day, it shot [...]
Join Amrita university’s OSUM today!
Amrita OSUM
The Open-Source University Meet-Up (OSUM) is a student developer organization that educates its members about the latest open-source technologies in a fun and engaging way.
Through its on-campus activities, Sun sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members via technical demonstrations. Additionally, online web [...]
OSUM
The Amrita Open-Source University Meet-Up (OSUM) is a student developer club that educates its members about the latest open-source technologies in a fun and engaging way.
Through on-campus activities, Sun-sponsored OSUMs will receive access to technical information that can be shared with OSUM members through technical demonstrations. Additionally, online web courses through the Sun Academic Initiative [...]
Sorry for not having posted all these days….
I am very very happy,excited and tension free today!! My classmates and me had something exciting to do today.. It was the most exciting, happening CCR (Centre for Corporate Relations) hour that had never taken place for us till today. :)
We had something new and exciting to do [...]
Challenges in Informatics: Patching, Hacking and Exploiting – Cipher4
CIPHER is a Capture The Flag-style exercise in IT security for teams of students from universities. The task is to maintain a server running multiple services, while simultaneously trying to get unauthorized access to the other team’s servers. Each successful penetration gains points, as well as [...]
I received an SMS from Rajesh on 17th saying that there would be a confernce call the next day at 5:30 with few of my fellow Campus Ambassadors. I replied back confirming my participation.
On the morning of 18th(Gurupurnima), I got to know that in the evening there is a talk by Swamiji on Gurupurinma followed [...]
