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KOZHIKODE: Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode (IIM-K) will host the XXII annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2018) from December 20-22. The conference with the theme 'Operations and Supply Chain Management at Cross Roads: challenges of Big Data, Industry 4.0, Sustainability and Global Uncertainty' has attracted more than 200 paper submissions and about 190 of them would be presented in during the event, a press release issued by IIM-K said. Prof. Vishal Gaur of the Johnson School of Business, Cornell University, USA will inaugurate the conference. IIM-K director, Prof. Debashis Chatterjee will preside over the function. Among the prominent personalities scheduled to attend the event are Prof. Gopinath Chattopadhyay, Federation University, Australia; Prof. Alok V Verma, Old Dominion University, USA; Prof. Arnab Bisi, Carey Business School, John Hopkins University, USA; Prof Saji Gopinath, Director IIITMK Thiruvananthapuram, among others. … [Read more...] about IIM-K to host XXII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management

ALLAHABAD: The role of emotional communication in the context of human computer interaction (HCI) is even more relevant and challenging when considering the varied technological application areas, from e-teaching and e-learning to office applications, entertainment, remote health care and assistive technologies, robotics, advertising and design of new technological products. These views were expressed by Prof P Nagabhushan, Director, IIIT-A while inaugurating the three day international conference on Human Computer Interaction at Jhalwa campus here on Friday morning. He called upon the research scholars to design a machine which may record thinking of human being. He laid stress on learning rather than passing the exams. He said that human-computer interaction is the study of how people interact with computers and to what extent computers are or are not developed for successful interaction with human beings. Delivering the main talk, Prof. Ron Sun from New York said that a … [Read more...] about International conference on human computer interaction held at IIIT-A

ALLAHABAD: Currently bioinformatics is being increasingly widely viewed as a more fundamental discipline that also encompasses mathematics, statistics, physics and chemistry, opines eminent global bioinformatics experts on the first day of three day international conference on bioinformatics and systems biology. The conference is being organised by Indian Institute of Information Technology-Allahabad (IIIT-A), on Friday. Speaking on 'personalized medicine in cancer treatment - hype or hope? Kapil Mehta of University of Texas, US said that the evidence-based medicine is an approach to medical practice intended to optimize decision making by emphasising the use of evidence from well-designed and well conducted research. He said biopharma doubled its funding for precision medicine in last Five years and expected to go up by another 33% in next Five years. Number of publications discussing personalized/Precision medicine has sky rocketed. Referring the global cancer incidence - Globacan … [Read more...] about International conference at IIIT-A