text: Department of Computer Science (PG) organised a virtual Tech-Talk Session in association with IEEE, Bangalore Section on 26-September-2020 from 09.15 - 11.00 A.M.
  Mr. Nishant Krishna, Software Architect, Inventor and Mentor, Co-Founder – TechMachinery Labs, Bangalore delivered a tech talk on Solving real-life problems using Cognitive Computing.
  The session emphasized on Converging Technologies such as Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, Importance of Cognitive Systems, and the Key Challenges in the IoT World. The session gave us information on what Edge Computing is all about and what it has to do with Industry 4.0, Hyper Realistic Artificial Intelligence, Imparting Conversational AI Behaviour, the Turing Test and Natural Language Processing.
  Mr. Nishant Krishna also spoke about Sentiment Analysis and Voice of Customer and some of the ways it could be used, in its objective and challenges. He also covered the types of sentiment analysis, Metadata Classification, and the various artifacts used in it. He also spoke about Elastic search, Steps involved in designing a Cognitive Application, the Emerging Cognitive Computing areas, Future Applications of Cognitive Computing and how Cognitive Computing can be applied in creating Smart Cities.
  146 Participants attended the event and the session was very useful for the students. The session paved the way for exploration and research in the area of Cognitive Computing which is an upcoming and promising technology.
  The Department of Computer Science (PG) ensures a first-hand experience by continuously conducting sessions involving industry experts. The second session of the programme on IET was held on 18th, September 2020, The session started with an opening note by Dr. R Kumar, Head, Department of Computer Science (PG) During the session Mr.Kurian George Cheripurathu presented an introduction to need of awareness of learning graphic tools by technical students. He demonstrated various posters, banners, and websites which were visually appealing.