SJCE to host CYBERIA

The national-level annual technical fete CYBERIA '06 will be held in Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering from March 31 to April 3 under the joint auspices of IEEE-SJCE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) student branch.

CYBERIA had a humble beginning in 1994 and has evolved into one of the best national-level technical fests. After celebrating a decade of excellence in creating a technical forum and also rendering an excellent service to technicality, CYBERIA has, over the years, attracted exuberant participation from all over the country.

An avant-garde series of events has been introduced to bring out the innnovative and intellectual talents of the participants. The fiesta of technicality will commence on Mar. 31 at 5 pm in the college auditorium. The inaugural function will be presided over by Ramananda Baliga, Vice-President, IBM Global Services, India. This will be followed by the panel discussion, where eminent personalities from the industry and the academia will deliberate on the topic — "Indian engineers are good at what they do but still need to be told what to do". The sponsors include leading firms like Tektronix, IBM, Perot Systems, Larsen and Toubro, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens and Broadcom.

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The events include X86 — microprocessor related contest, Erradicate — on the spot software debugging contest, ExQUIZite — A general quiz, Impedance — Hardware design contest, Pragmata — The management game, Neuroglea — A bio Quiz, The quest — An online software designing contest, Abacus — A mathematical modeling contest, Innovata — A creative modeling contest, Eldorado — A physical and virtual technical treasure hunt, Gene Hunt — A virtual molecular bio-genetic engineering contest and Papyrus — Paper presentation contest on the topics like Signal Processing, Networking and Communication, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and Electrical Engineering and Embedded Systems.