FCS Newsletter April 2017 - GNA University...ASHIMA AGGARWAL (Chief Editor) ASHIMA MITTAL (Managing...

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FCS Newsletter

April 2017

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Technical News 1-3

SNMP network

monitoring

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Todays Network Securi-

ty Issues

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Faster page loads 6

Speed up testing of

traffic management

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Smart Cities and engi-

neers

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Events 9-13

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ASHIMA AGGARWAL (Chief Editor)

ASHIMA MITTAL (Managing Editor)

GAGANDEEP SINGH (Designer)

No. 15 April 2017

Infosys Launches Nia, an Artificial Intelligence Platform for Businesses

Nia builds up on the success of the software company’s first generation AI platform for businesses, known as Mana, as well as its ro-botic process automation (RPA) technology, AssistEdge. Nia combines the big data analyt-ics, machine learning, knowledge management and cognitive automation capabilities of Mana with the end to end RPA capabilities of Assist-Edge. Additionally, Nia includes machine learning, optical character recognition (OCR) and natu-ral language processing (NLP) capabilities. Nia is a customisable, unified and modular platform, that allows clients to build their own experiences around it to suit their needs. Nia can forecast revenues, identify requirement of potential products, understand customer be-havior, provide deep understanding of con-tracts and identify lack of compliance or fraud.

IBM Launches Four Cloud Data Centre's in US

IBM is continuing to expand its global network of cloud data centers, the latest addition being four data centers in the US – two each in Washington, D.C., and Dallas. IBM’s cloud revenue grew 33

percent in the first quarter, while the business as a whole saw its revenue decline for the 20thconsecutive quarter. Its cloud revenue over the last 12 months was $14.6 billion. Also growing are IBM’s analytics and cognitive solutions businesses, which are closely inte-

grated with cloud, sold as services running on the company’s cloud platform. Expanding data centers that host this platform is strategically important as the company faces stiff competition from the cloud giants, who have been investing tens of billions of dollars in data center infrastructure annually. With the four new facilities online, IBM has more than 55 cloud data centers in 19 coun-tries, 22 of them in the US. The company has not disclosed the capacity of the new server farms, saying only that each of them can sup-port “thousands of physical servers.”

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FCS Newsletter April 2017

Apple to Offer Free Coding, Art Classes at all its 495 Stores Worldwide

Aiming to educate communities globally, Apple will launch numerous teaching sessions in May in all its 495 stores, ranging in topics from photo and video to music, coding, art and design and more. Titled "Today at Ap-ple", the free teaching sessions will be led by highly-trained team members, world-class artists, photographers and musicians. The teaching sessions will cater both professional and basic level participants. The programmes primarily focus on the features of Apple products that its customers love most, irre-spective of skill levels and ages.

Those interested in photography can learn shooting, organising, editing and more in six 'How to' sessions. The photography ses-sions for advanced photogra-phers gives them an opportunity to learn the techniques including light and shadow, portraits and storytelling. The programme will also offer special courses for families and educators. Parents can also join Apple's weekend programme along with their kids to learn

courses like music making and coding with robots. Kids Hour is designed to spark imagination and creativity through fun, hands-on projects. Sessions include coding with Sphero robots, Creating Music with GarageBand and Making Mov-ies Together with iMovie.

Oracle is conducting Oracle Code, a free-of-charge event, in Delhi on 10th May for developers to learn about the latest developer technologies, practices, and trends

Oracle Code is a free event for developers to learn about the latest developer technologies, practices, and trends. Learn from technical experts, industry leaders, and other developers in keynotes, sessions, and hands-on labs. Experience cloud development technology in the Code Lounge with workshops and other live, interactive experiences and demos. And the programme will includes; Technical Sessions: Learn from technical experts in sessions for developing software in Java, Node.js, and other languages and frameworks, Hands-On Labs: Get hands-on with Bare Metal Cloud Services and Docker Containers in labs let by industry leaders and developers and Code Lounge: Experience 3D printing, hear tips from developers at CodeCast, exchange ideas in the IoT Workshop, and much more.

Google Maps can Now Tell you Where you Parked your Car

Google Maps has introduced a new feature that will help you remem-ber where you parked your car in case you forgot. All that Android users have to do is tap the blue dot and then tap "Save your parking" to add their parking location to the

map. This will show a label on the map itself identi-fying where you parked your car. Users can add additional details about their parking spot by tapping the label to open the parking card. They can also save an image of their parking spot and send parking location to friends. For iOS users, the steps are similar except that the after the tap on blue dot, the label will read, "Set as parking location" to the map itself. This is in addi-tion to the automatic parking detection you might have already noticed in Google Maps for iOS. If you connect to your car using USB audio or bluetooth, your parking spot will be automatically added to the map when you disconnect and exit the vehicle.

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MIT Created an App to help you Learn a Language while Waiting for Stuff to Load

Researchers at MIT could help their fellow countrymen find the time to learn new lan-guages. They are working on a series of apps called WaitSuite that’ll help time-strapped people learn new languages — while increasing their focus on other tasks. WaitSuite is based on learning apps such as DuoLingo, but instead of being a stand-alone app it introduces micro-learning into other tasks — sneaking knowledge into your daily idle moments. When waiting for a response to an email, a small box will pop up in the app you’re currently in and test your vocabulary. Within WaitSuite, there are specialized apps such as WaitChatter (now available as a chrome extension) that can integrate ‘wait-learning’ in five common daily tasks: waiting for emails, instant messages, Wi-Fi to connect, elevators to arrive, or content on your phone to load.

Samsung Launches Galaxy S8 and S8+ in India

Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ have been launched in India at a price of Rs. 57,900 and Rs 64,900 respectively. The Galaxy smartphones come as the successor of the Samsung flagship range. The smartphones with ‘Infinity Display’ differ in screen size and battery power and weigh 155 grammes and 173 grammes respectively. Samsung Galaxy S8 sports a 5.8-inch Quad HD+ Super AMOLED curved display. The dis-play comes with a 1440x2960 pixel resolution and an 18:9 aspect ratio. In contrast the Galaxy S8+ features a 6.2-inch screen sharing similar specifications. Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+ is powered by Samsung’s own Exynos 8895 SoC (2.35GHz Quad + 1.9GHz Quad) processor.

Apple Finally made these Apps Free for all Users

Apple updated several Mac and iOS apps—including iMovie, Numbers, Keynote, Pages and GarageBand—to make them free for all users. Pre-viously, the apps were free for users who purchased a new Mac, iPad or iPhone since 2013, but now people with older or used devices have access too. The changes will make it easier for businesses and educational institutions to download the apps through the Volume Purchase program. While many Apple users were already eligible for the free software, the update is good news for those with old and secondhand devices, along with peo-ple with "hackintosh" computers. Macs tend to last around four to five years, and afterwards many do-nate the computers for educational use.

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SNMP NETWORK MONITORING

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network management systems tool that’s commonly used on IT pros’ computers. SNMP network monitoring is a UDP-based network protocol that’s part of the Internet proto-col suite, and is comprised of a set of data objects, a database scheme, and a set of standards for efficiently moni-toring your network. In a realistic IT business environment, SNMP is designed to make network monitoring easier and ultimately simplify your work tasks. SNMP network monitoring protocol will give you an up-to-date layout of your network, which can save you tremendous time and resources. You can get an instant map of the devices on your network as well as important details and a complete network inventory of each device. SNMP Network Monitoring Features A quality SNMP network monitoring tool provides many beneficial features to help you simplify your daily IT tasks. Among them: • You can monitor your consumables such as ink, toner, and paper supplies • Get alerts for various related events, such as when your copier’s print source is running low • Keep your system up and running • Use some versions of SNMP to connect securely to network devices Benefits and Costs of an SNMP Management Tool With its many applications and benefits to your network, you’ll want to take full advantage of all that an SNMP management tool can provide. The protocol will make your network management duties and responsibilities sim-pler, allowing you to focus on more challenging tasks.You can purchase SNMP management tools from various software vendors at different price points.

MR. KAMALJEET SINGH

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

TODAY’S COMPUTER NETWORK SECURITY ISSUES

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Network security deals with the requirements needed for a company, organization or a network administrator to help in protecting the network, computer systems and the resources that are network accessible. They are protected from any unauthorized entry, malicious components as well as monitoring continuously, consistent-ly and measuring the effectiveness or lack of effectiveness of the network. Network security is a major concern of every company that has a computer and is connected to a network. A network security that has been compromised means that a competitor or any hacker can gain entry to the sen-sitive or critical data and they may delete or make off with the information resulting in data loss or complete system destruction. The terms information security and network security are most of the time used to represent the same meaning. Network security, though, is more specifically taken as the provision protection from out-side intruders. The process of network security begins from the authentication of any user who logs in with the appropriate password and user name which is ‘one factor authentication’. There is another method of authentication known as ‘two factor’ where when one is using an item like an ATM card or mobile phone and another three factor authentication can also be used where a body part is used like a retinal scan or fingerprint. When au-thentication has been verified, there is a firewall that decides, which programs or services are allowed for net-work users to access. This component may be effective in the ability to prevent any unauthorized access but it fails to check harmful contents like computer worms that are transmitted across the network. An IPS or intru-sion prevention system is able to detect and stop the activities of this sort of malware. The firewall and IPS settings are created by the network’s System Administrator who also installs a viable antivirus system, which is up-to-date.

MR. UMESH SEHGAL

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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FASTER PAGE LOADS

A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user’s home page on a social-networking site, for in-stance, might display the latest posts from the users’ friends; the associated images, links, and comments; notifications of pending messages and comments on the user’s own posts; a list of events; a list of topics currently driving online discussions; a list of games, some of which are flagged to indicate that it’s the user’s turn; and of course the all-important ads, which the site depends on for revenues. With increasing frequency, each of those components is handled by a different program running on a different server in the website’s data center. That reduces processing time, but it exacerbates another problem: the equitable allocation of network bandwidth among programs. Many websites aggregate all of a page’s components before shipping them to the user. So if just one program has been allo-cated too little bandwidth on the data center network, the rest of the page and the user could be stuck waiting for its compo-nent. At the Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation this week, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are presenting a new system for allocating bandwidth in data center networks. In tests, the system maintained the same overall data transmission rate or network “throughput” as those currently in use, but it allocated bandwidth much more fairly, completing the download of all of a page’s components up to four times as quickly. Most networks regulate data traffic using some version of the transmission control protocol, or TCP. When traffic gets too heavy, some packets of data don’t make it to their destinations. With TCP, when a sender realizes its packets aren’t getting through, it halves its transmission rate, then slowly ratchets it back up. Given enough time, this procedure will reach an equi-librium point at which network bandwidth is optimally allocated among senders. TCP gives all responsibility for traffic regulation to the end users because it was designed for the public internet, which links together thousands of smaller, independently owned and operated networks. Centralizing the control of such a sprawling net-work seemed infeasible, both politically and technically. But in a data center, which is controlled by a single operator, and with the increases in the speed of both data connections and computer processors in the last decade, centralized regulation has become practical. The CSAIL researchers’ system is a cen-tralized system. The system, dubbed Flowtune, essentially adopts a market-based solution to bandwidth allocation. Operators assign different values to increases in the transmission rates of data sent by different programs. For instance, doubling the transmission rate of the image at the center of a webpage might be worth 50 points, while doubling the transmission rate of analytics data that’s reviewed only once or twice a day might be worth only 5 points.

MR. VIMAL DEV

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

The transmission control protocol, or TCP, which manages traffic on the internet, was first proposed in 1974. Some version of TCP still regulates data transfer in most major data cen-ters, the huge warehouses of servers maintained by popular websites. That’s not because TCP is perfect or because computer scientists have had trouble coming up with possible alternatives; it’s because those alternatives are too hard to test. The routers in data center networks have their traffic manage-ment protocols hardwired into them. Testing a new protocol means replacing the existing net-work hardware with either reconfigurable chips, which are labor-intensive to program, or software-controlled routers, which are so slow that they render large-scale testing impractical. At the Usenix Symposium on Networked Sys-tems Design and Implementation later this month, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial In-telligence Laboratory will present a system for testing new traffic management protocols that requires no altera-tion to network hardware but still works at realistic speeds — 20 times as fast as networks of software-controlled routers. Traffic control Each packet of data sent over a computer network has two parts: the header and the payload. The payload con-tains the data the recipient is interested in — image data, audio data, text data, and so on. The header contains the sender’s address, the recipient’s address, and other information that routers and end users can use to manage transmissions.When multiple packets reach a router at the same time, they’re put into a queue and processed sequentially. With TCP, if the queue gets too long, subsequent packets are simply dropped; they never reach their recipients. When a sending computer realizes that its packets are being dropped, it cuts its transmission rate in half, then slowly ratchets it back up. A better protocol might enable a router to flip bits in packet headers to let end users know that the network is congested, so they can throttle back transmission rates before packets get dropped. Or it might assign different types of packets different priorities, and keep the transmission rates up as long as the high-priority traffic is still getting through. These are the types of strategies that computer scientists are interested in testing out on real networks. Speedy simulation With the MIT researchers’ new system, called Flexplane, the emulator, which models a network running the new protocol, uses only packets’ header data, reducing its computational burden. In fact, it doesn’t necessarily use all the header data — just the fields that are relevant to implementing the new protocol. When a server on the real network wants to transmit data, it sends a request to the emulator, which sends a dummy packet over a virtual network governed by the new protocol. When the dummy packet reaches its desti-nation, the emulator tells the real server that it can go ahead and send its real packet. If, while passing through the virtual network, a dummy packet has some of its header bits flipped, the real serv-er flips the corresponding bits in the real packet before sending it. If a clogged router on the virtual network drops a dummy packet, the corresponding real packet is never sent. And if, on the virtual network, a higher-priority dummy packet reaches a router after a lower-priority packet but jumps ahead of it in the queue, then on the real network, the higher-priority packet is sent first. The servers on the network thus see the same packets in the same se-quence that they would if the real routers were running the new proto-col. There’s a slight delay between the first request issued by the first server and the first transmission instruction issued by the emulator. But thereafter, the servers issue packets at normal network speeds.

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NEW APPROACH SPEEDS UP TESTING OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR DATA CENTRE

NETWORKS

MS. ASHIMA MITTAL

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

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WHY SMART CITIES AND ENGINEERS ARE A PERFECT

FIT?

If the 21st century had a signature buzzword, “smart” might be it. From smartphones to smart homes, everything is getting smarter and, in doing so, opening up a near-endless range of new possibilities. One of the most intri-guing developments in the shift to all things smart? Smart cities. Here’s a closer look at the state of smart cities, along with why engineers are positioned to lead the smart city movement. The global market for smart cities is projected to skyrocket to US$1.2 trillion by the year 2020, according to a report from Global Industry Analysts, Inc. The potential benefits of smart cities are many, including higher quali-ty of life, more equitable opportunities for all; unparalleled social, environmental and economic growth; in-creased participation from smart citizens; massive consumption reductions in both energy and water; and en-hanced interconnectivity, communication and response, including during natural and manmade calamities. smart city features which not only make our environments more efficient, but also safer, friendlier and cleaner, David Perry, Director of Development and International Affairs at Lille, France’s HEI: Hautes Etudes d’Ingé-nieur, told Masterstudies, “We need to find solutions to what 20th century urbanism has left out, that is urban life metabolism and the flows that connect us to nature. What we take in, what we give off -- circular economies.”

MS. SUKHVANDANA

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

In the seminar, the resource person discussed about the basic concepts about Cloud Computing and also gave a practical demonstration of using the account for the same.

Subsequently, there was a discussion about the different areas like Java, .Net, PHP, Android, Cloud Com-puting and many more, particularly which are considerable as per demands of current market. Students were advised to choose their domain while considering the several factors such as their interest, the salary-scale, brighter future scope in the market.

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SEMINAR ON CLOUD COMPUTING BY SACHTECH, MOHALI

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INTERNSHIP TEST CONDUCTED BY DIFFERENT COMPANIES

Different Companies conducted the aptitude test with intention to provide free training to the students, who

would score good marks. Students’ selection was done for free internships depending on their marks in aptitude

test. Delightfully, 8 students were selected for the same with 45% scholarship, 1 with 50% scholarship and 1

more student named Arshdeep for free internship at SachTech Solutions. 30 Student were selected for intern-

ship at IBM AllSoft Solutions. And some students were selected in Pisoft Infomatics Pvt Ltd on 10th April,

2017.

LIBRARY WEEK CELEBRATED FROM

9TH

APRIL- 15TH

APRIL

National library week is celebrated every year to grace the contributions of our Nation Libraries and Librarians and to promote Library Use and support. Phoenix club celebrated Library week in which students of FCS have donated old books to the library so that books can be reused by some other students. Students showed their Gratitude to the Librarians by presenting them a hand made card.

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DIGITAL AWARENESS CAMPAIGN

Student of B.sc (Digital Marketing & Social Network) organized an event DAC (Digital Awareness Cam-paign)Week from 9th April,2017 to 16th April,2017 at GNA University. On DAC week different kind of imag-es along with quotations were uploaded. Every students worked very hard. They divided the types of Cyber Crimes and create pictures according to their topics. Students used Social media platforms like; Facebook, In-stagram, Twitter for this awareness campaign. They created a page (Digital Awareness) on facebook. They got the result from Globalized people and they also appreciate their work with the giving comments on Instagram & some of people retweeted some tweets on twitter. Whole event was ran smoothly throughout the week. Im-ages were that much creative full so that without the quotation images itself depicts story. GNA University provided a great platform for people to know about different type of crimes and enhance their knowledge. Student got the chance to increased their knowledge with mindful thoughts. In this event, Students of Bsc (DMSN) experienced almost all senses which helped them to make this one of the most knowledgeable experiences in their life.

Walk Fearless: International Competition Facebook P2P Challenge

Our team of 9 students are com-peting in an International compe-tition - Facebook P2P challenge wherein a cash amount of 2000 US$ and 400 US$ facebook ad credits has been given to them by EdVenture Partners in the 2nd round of this challenge from Fa-cebook. The theme chosen by the team is to promote Women in every sphere and help them be-come safe and secure. This chal-lenge is being run online through facebook, instagram and other social media sites with the name WalkFearless.

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SPORT’S MEET PARTICIPATION

Students of FCS and Faculty members have participated in various evnets like badminton, Race, Football etc. Students and faculty members shows the sportsmanship by participating in many events.

Inauguration of CSI Student Chapter

Inauguration of CSI Student Chapter at GNA Uni-versity was organized by Faculty of Computational Science. Dr. DS Chabbra, Chairman and Dr. SC Jain, Vice Chairman, CSI Chandigarh Chapter were the guests of honor who inaugurated the Chapter in the University along with Dr. Prem Kumar, Vice Chan-cellor, GNA University. They motivated the students towards research activities in the field of Computers and encouraged them to write articles for CSI Com-munications.

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2ND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ‘ADVANCES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE’

Faculty of Computational Sciences, GNA University organized 2nd National Conference on 'Advances in Computer Science’ on 29 April, 2017. The conference was inaugrated by S. Gurdeep Singh Sihra, Pro-Chancellor, GNA University, Mr. Ashok Bansal, Executive Dir., Punjab Infotech, Mr. Ravinder Kundu, Change Manager, Google, Dr. Sandeep Sood, Associate Dean, GNDU.

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