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  READING INSPIRATION DAY 2021 We salute APJ Abdul Kalam and celebrate his monumental achievements as a Scientist, Scholar and the President of India. We fondly remember his passion for teaching education and for reading. Dr. Kalam truly ignited young minds with the power to think and innovate. Dr. Kalam is not with us today but his thoughts, ideals and vision for India live on forever. As part of the virtual celebrations, the library conducted the following two events in collaboration with the NDLI Club: Online Quiz on the Life and Times of Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam Online Book Review Competition Book Exhibition for the faculty members of SFIT                                                     Poster for the Quiz Contest 24 st...

  Be Safe in Cyber World: Do's and Dont's for Teachers  Be Safe in Cyber World: Do's and Dont's for Students For More resources, please visit the following URL: https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=booklet-on-cyber-safetysecurity&ln=en&ln=en

October is celebrated as   National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM)   globally. In order to bring attention to Cyber Security and as a concentrated effort to stay safe and secure online, NCSAM is celebrated all over the world. It is an initiative to put conscious efforts towards ensuring better cybersecurity hygiene and incorporate stronger security measures. With this objective, DSCI drove a month-long awareness campaign under the guidance of the National Cyber Security Secretariat. The campaign disseminated various content artifacts and reached out to 3.25 million citizens throughout the country. Many interesting quizzes have been launched on the myGov portal to   test the knowledge and readiness level of citizens around Cyber Security. The overall objective of the Quiz was to create Cyber Security awareness among citizens, to achieve a better security posture for the country, and to empower online users to remain Safe Online.   Participate and earn reward ...

hey say there’s gold but I’m looking for thrills You can get your hands on whatever we find Because I’m only coming along for the ride Protima Achaya loves music, but her all-time favourite remains Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon. Born in Mysuru to an army officer, Protima had been to six schools by the time she was in class 12. She did not have any place to sink her roots into. But this life made her comfortable with change. Protima was good at studies. She had different ‘what I want to be when I grow up’ answers at different points of time – playback singer, hospitality, businesswoman, chief of staff at Tata Group. Protima finally landed up in the engineering college now known as NIT Surathkal for a BE in electronics and communication. Being one of the few girls in the college, life was not easy. It was Protima’s first experience in navigating her way in a male dominated world. And she literally rocked. She joined the college band, and became the first girl in the histor...

  Raj Reddy: India’s only Turing Award winner, AI pioneer TNN | Oct 13, 2021, 07.25 AM IST Raj Reddy, professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, is the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize in computer science. He’s still the only Indian to win the award. Reddy, who comes from a farming family in Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh, is an artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer. He’s been researching AI since the 1960s, when few in the world knew much about it. Reddy says AI has transformed the world in the last 10 years in a way that previously seemed would take at least 50 years. Congratulations! You have successfully cast your vote Login to view result “I joined the field when the subject was starting off. I was at the right place at the right time. Now we have computers that are a trillion times more powerful, memories that are a trillion times larger. Back then, the first computer had just 4 KB of memory and i...

  St. Francis Institute of Technology Library & NDLI Club, Borivali, Mumbai organizes Quiz on “READING INSPIRATION DAY OR VAACHAN PRERANA DIWAS 2021”, to commemorate the Birth Anniversary of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on 15th October. e Quiz Link: https://forms.gle/xdy4J9DWD4ngWqbS8

  Dear SFITians A Warm Greeting from…. St. Francis Institute of Technology On the occasion of 'Vaachan Prerana Divas' (15th October), Birth Anniversary of our Former President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam   “NDLI Club” Invites you to participate in an Online Book Review Competition 🗓️ Date: 22nd October 2021  ⏱️ Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00pm 📌Registration is Free  Registration Link: https://forms.gle/7vdwiRxujn7zEtKT7   Last Date for Registration: Friday, 15th October, 2021 Note:  Registration is mandatory  Rules and Guidelines:  Students are required to review book other than textbooks and religious books. One entry per student Only SFIT students, faculty and non-teaching staff are allowed to take part in the contest. The book review must be uploaded in pdf on the Google form itself. Time allotted is strictly five minutes for presentation.. Medium of presentation English / Hindi /Marathi. Join the meeting 10 minutes before the given time. Decision of ...