Third ETG Event

The third ETG event was as big success as the last two events. This time we had a 70+ participation. The talk on .NET platform and ADO.NET by Jignesh Desai was highly appreciated. Now, we have few more volunteers lined up for speaking to this highly technical crowd. Unfortunately, I missed this event as I was in Chicago on this day.

Jignesh delivering the session

Chicago - Jan '07

Second ETG Event

Second ETG event at Khalsa college was a big success with more than 60 participants consisting of Post Graduate Students of Comp. Science, IT, University Professors and Industry Professionals. I delivered a two hour session covering CORBA and J2EE architectures. This now will be followed by Web Services, Web Services Orchestration, SOA, Web 2.0, Symantic Web, etc. etc. in future sessions. Mr Jignesh Desai, MVP has volunteered to conduct the next session on Jan 27th. Details on this session can be seen at http://www.abcom.com/etg.

4 days at IEEE/WICSA2007 Conference

Last four days (6-9 Jan) I have been in the WICSA2007 conference (http://www.gv.psu.edu/WICSA2007/index.html). The conference gave lot of insights with current and emerging trends in software architectures with several eminent speakers delivering valuable sessions at the conference. The keynote by Scott Ambler (founder of Agile Modeling), gave very good information on Agile Modeling and directions for further research (http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/) in this area. Prof Prabhakar (http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/tvp/) of IIT, Kanpur on his keynote on second day gave important information on Knowledge Management of Software Architecture.

I presented a paper entitled "Setting up Architect Team" on 6th Jan.

Recognition as Ph.D. Advisor

The new year (2007) has begun with a great news. I officially received an intimation that I am now a recognized Advisor for Ph.D. at Univ. of Mumbai, India in Computer Science. Having a mixed exposure of both Academics and Industry, I am happy to know that my contributions to academics have now been recognized. Many thanks to Prof Mukund Sanglikar, Head of Computer Science Dept, Univ. of Mumbai for his support and efforts in getting me this recognition. I now look forward to enrolling few bright and aspiring students for Ph.D.