Shell Newsletter

Department of Computer Science

& Engineering
Volume 3 Issue 1 December-2017
Vision and Mission of the Institute
Vision
· To be one of the premier Institutes of Engineering and Management education in the country.
Mission
· To provide Engineering and Management education that meets the needs of human resources in the
country.
· To develop leadership qualities, team spirit and concern for environment in students.
Objective
· To achieve educational goals as stated in the vision through the mission statements which depicts
the distinctive characteristics of the Institution.
· To make teaching-learning process an enjoyable pursuit for the students and teachers.

Vision Vision and Mission of the Department

· To be a premier department for education in Computer Science and Engineering in the state of
Karnataka, moulding students into professional engineers.
Mission
· To provide teaching/ learning facilities in Computer Science and Engineering better than prescribed
by University for easy adaptation to industry and higher learning.
· Provide a platform for self-learning to meet the challenges of changing technology and inculcate
team spirit and leadership qualities to succeed in professional career.
· Comprehend the societal needs and environmental concerns in the field of Computer Science.

Inside Shell ….
“Shell” 
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AI Takeover
from the Department of  Crystal Language
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Computer Science and  Blockchain Technology
Engineering, is dedicated to 
 Alexa by Amazon
Marvin Lee Minsky who was an 
American cognitive scientist co-  Workshops and Talks
founder of the Massachusetts 
 Student Achievements
Institute of Technology's AI 
laboratory.  Think-A-Thon
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 Technical Quiz

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Editor's Message
Dear Reader,
It gives me great pleasure to present to you the 1st issue of “Shell '17-'18”, the bi-annual newsletter
from the Computer Science and Engineering Department.
As a step towards being environmentally conscious, the newsletter is being presented in the online
format. This edition includes the latest developments in the field of Computer Science in the form of
articles, quizzes and puzzles, including departmental activities and student achievements.
For the first time ever, a Think-A-Thon section is also being introduced, which is aimed at
invigorating reader‟s thought process.
I would also take this opportunity to thank all those who have enthusiastically submitted their
contributions for this issue. The newsletter would not have been possible without the assistance and
guidance of the staff as well as the efforts put in by the Editorial Team, whom I‟d heartily like to thank.
Feel free to provide any feedback! We'd love to receive interesting articles, bits of information and photos
for inclusion in our forthcoming issues.
On that note, I wish you all „Bonne lecture‟ and the very best for the coming New Year!

Sumuka Gummaraju, VII CSE

BNMIT has been accredited with ‘A’ grade by the National Assessment and
Accreditation Council.
Department Profile
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at BNMIT is renowned for imparting state
of the art education and carrying out cutting edge research. In addition to the strong UG Program, PG
CSE Program and research facilities for [Link] (Engg.) and Ph.D courses are also offered. The Department has
an equipped R&D centre and ongoing sponsored projects from VTU, DST-IISc and company incubated
facilities.
The Department is associated with professional bodies viz. IEEE (USA), ACM (USA), Computer
Society of India (CSI), student branch of Institution of Engineers & Indian Society for Technical Education.
Major areas of specialization of the faculty include Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern
Recognition, Computer Networks, Network Security, Embedded Systems, Compiler Design, Wireless
Sensor Networks and Data Mining.
The department organizes national and international conferences regularly. Guest lectures are
arranged every semester for the benefits of students. Students are placed in leading IT companies.
Students are also pursuing higher studies in reputed Universities around the globe.
The Director of our Esteemed Institution Prof. T.J. Rama Murthy had a memorable get together
with the BNMIT Alumni at Sunnyvale, USA on 29th September 2017.
“Happy to share with all students and staff
about my visit to USA and attending BNMIT Alumni
get together in Sunnyvale on 29th September 2017.
The get together was a platform to bring back the
alumni to the almamater for encouragement and
mentoring the budding engineers of our Institution. In
the get together it was proposed to initiate a BNMIT
alumni chapter in the Bay area which is well received
by the management. BNMIT alumni will be an
integral part of our endeavours.”
Prof. T. J. Rama Murthy
Director of BNMIT
The AI TakeOver Crystal Lang
AI takeover refers to a hypothetical scenario in which Programming languages, although considered to be
artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the dominant form of just tools to write and execute programs on a digital system,
intelligence on Earth, with computers or robots effectively holds a special place in the hearts of many programmers.
taking control over the planet, away from the human race. Some of them would defend the integrity of their
Possible scenarios include replacement of the entire human favourite programming language by relentlessly and
workforce, takeover by a superintelligent AI agent, and the sometimes even ignorantly debating, stating why the language
popular notion of a robot uprising. is better than the rest.
When, such language loyalty is observed in the world of
computer science, new languages find it difficult to go head to
Earlier this year, Researchers at Facebook Artificial head against those that have decades under their belt. Enter,
Intelligence Research built a chatbot that was meant to learn Crystal-Lang. A language which is as fast as C and as slick as
how to negotiate by mimicking human trading and bartering. Ruby.
But when the researchers paired two of the programs, Crystal-Lang, a newcomer to the world of
nicknamed Alice and Bob, to trade a few objects such as balls, programming languages, has already created ripples by
books and hats against each other, it led to divergence from performing many times better than languages that already
human language as the bots developed their own language for have a considerable number of programmers.
negotiating and began to learn their own bizarre form of Ruby, A very popular language used to create thousands of
communication. The researchers said it wasn't possible for applications, both desktop and web based, has a significant
humans to crack the AI language and translate it back into influence on the syntax and functionality of Crystal. So much
English. so that, basic Ruby applications can be directly compiled
using the Crystal Compiler “cr”.
The chatbots had been instructed to work out on
how to negotiate among themselves, and improve their This unique situation allows us to compare the
bartering as they went along. But they were NOT instructed to performance of the two Languages with exact same
use comprehensible English, allowing them to create their own benchmark programs. Surprisingly, Crystal out-performed
shorthand which was considered precarious. Ruby, running the benchmark programs 20 to 30 times faster
than that of Ruby while consuming significantly lesser
memory. This considerable difference is attributed to the fact
Indeed, some of the negotiations that were carried out that Crystal is statically typed while Ruby is dynamically
in this bizarre language even ended up successfully. typed.
Crystal uses an advanced global type inference
Facebook's experiment wasn't the only time when algorithm to determine the type or set of types that can be
artificial intelligence had invented a new form of language. attributed to a variable, thus performing type checks during
Google revealed that the AI it uses for its Translate tool, would compile time itself. Crystal has a very supportive
translate user input into its own language and then, rebuild it development team with all the core functions and the nuances
into English. But the company was happy with it‟s being well documented. This is a major plus point for Crystal
development and allowed it to continue. as the base of the language plays a major role in its
favourability in the future.
Physicist Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Crystal offers relatively advanced computing
Gates and SpaceX founder Elon Musk have expressed techniques such as concurrent computing and Inter process
concerns about the possibility that AI could develop to the communication in a rather beginner friendly way with high
point that humans could not control it, with Hawking level of abstraction so that programmers can focus on the
theorizing that this could spell the “end of the human race”. logic rather than redundant and boilerplate code.
Thus crystal is a very refreshing language which has
The Physicist in 2014 quoted "Success in creating AI a beautiful syntactic structure similar to Ruby and has
would be the biggest event in human history, but might also be performance comparable to C, which is extremely fast due to
the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks." He believes it being relatively nearer to Machine code.
that in the coming decades, AI could offer incalculable Just as there are two sides to a coin, Crystal comes with its
benefits and risks such as “technology outsmarting financial own set of disadvantages.
markets”, outclassing human researchers and leaders, and
Although Crystal supports concurrency, it does not
developing weapons that are beyond our understanding."
currently support parallel computing which means that
Crystal applications run on only one core even if multiple
Sumuka Gummaraju cores are available and even though Crystal contains libraries
VII CSE ‘A’ that allow crystal applications to be deployed at the server
side, not all web hosting companies allow the hosting of
Crystal programs.
In conclusion, Crystal has the potential to shine
amongst its competitors if the rate of development continues
as is.
[Link] Kiran
VII CSE ‘B’
 If the user details and their interests are encrypted in
BLOCKCHAIN – A TECHNOLOGY FOR a block and if all users are interlinked with one another using
PRIVACY the blockchain then their privacy data is secure and any
company cannot access it without requesting permission from
“ In the current age of the smartphone, he who has the user first. Thus protecting them from unwanted ads and
control over data, controls the World”. The above quote is malicious attacks.
true, especially with respect to big conglomerates of the IT Naveen K B
industry such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Instagram etc.
V CSE ‘B’
The amount of data generated at any given time is
very huge and there are a lot of contributing reasons for that, Alexa By Amazon
but the main three reasons are :-
• “Free” usage of software such as social networking
Alexa is an intelligent personal assistant developed
sites, email providers etc.
by Amazon, made popular by the Amazon Echo and the
• Low cost internet thanks to ISPs such as Jio.
Amazon Echo Dot devices developed by Amazon Lab126. It
• Availability of low cost smartphones to the public.
is capable of voice interaction, music playback, making to-do
lists, setting alarms, streaming podcasts, playing audiobooks,
Let us focus on the most fundamental reason -“Free”
and providing weather, traffic, and other real-time
usage of software. The “Free” software that billions of people
information, such as news. Alexa can also control several
use daily is not necessarily free i.e., even though the user does
smart devices using itself as a home automation system. The
not pay for the software he/she gives away something more
name Alexa was chosen due to the fact that it has a hard
valuable in return - their internet privacy.
consonant with the X and therefore could be recognized with
higher precision. The name is also claimed to be reminiscent
When a user uses such services, they give
of the Library of Alexandria, which is also used by Amazon
away(knowingly or unknowingly) a variety of their personal
Alexa Internet for the same reason.
data such as their likes, dislikes, interests, browsing habits,
frequently bought items etc. This data is then analysed by
Alexa can be used by owners of Alexa-enabled
companies and they start pushing targeted ads based on
devices to install skills, control music, manage alarms, and
interests. Also ISPs provide their users numbers as a part of an
view shopping lists. For example, the Amazon Echo. It has
agreement with ad agencies in exchange for an agreed amount
enough built-in smarts to do a number of tasks, like playing
of money. All this results in the user‟s privacy being
back music and making lights blink. You can use Alexa in
compromised. Thus to help avoid it, we can use this new
Amazon‟s Echo product. By default, Echo devices use
technology called “Blockchain”.
“Alexa” as their wake word. While the device is constantly
listening, it only starts tracking and analyzing what you say
Blockchain is a technology that helps prevent data
next after it hears “Alexa.”. Now suppose there is already a
misuse and provide users the necessary privacy. It was the
person named Alexa in your house, you can change the name
basis of a research paper, written in 2008 by a person or a
(wake word) from Alexa to any other name you would wish
group known only by the pseudonym “Satoshi Nakamoto”
like „Amazon‟, ‟Echo‟ etc.
who is the creator of Bitcoin. In fact, Blockchain is the
underlying technology used in Bitcoin that makes it a secure
There are also a number of hidden features and
currency system.
quirky questions-and-answers you can ask Alexa. For
example, you can ask her to play Rock, Paper, Scissors; get
In blockchain technology there is a ledger i.e., a book
responses when you quote favorite movies (“May the force be
of records that is available to all users on a particular
with you”); or use her to do math on your behalf. You can
blockchain network to view and verify the transactions
customize a lot of what Alexa can do (beyond just changing
recorded. A block refers to a container of sorts in which a set
her wake word). You can log into your favorite music
of transactions are stored. Each block is linked to another by
sources, including Spotify, add items to shopping or to-do
an imaginary chain. This chain is nothing but the 'hash' value
lists, and manage alarms or reminders. FYI, out of the 15,000
of the previous block. There is a pre-defined time period
skillsets that are available on the Alexa, setting timers is the
agreed upon by the network participants at which a new block
most popular skill. Second being playing music. You can also
is created. The new block created contains three values – It's
manage Amazon Shopping notifications, adjust what content
hash value, the previous block's hash value and the number of
you want in your daily flash briefing of the day‟s headlines,
transactions recorded since the last time period elapsed.
and choose what sports teams you care about for your sports
update. You can also enter in your home or work address to
Here each block is a cryptographic block i.e., it is an
get traffic updates for your daily commute, and sync with
encrypted block that connects to another block. Thus if an
your calendar (Gmail, Outlook, or iCloud) to know what‟s up
attacker wants to attack a particular transaction then he has to
next on the day‟s schedule. If Alexa has trouble understanding
attack all the blocks subsequent to the block that contains the
your commands, you can go through a quick voice-training
transaction. He has to decode each block and if there are
session to teach it how you speak. And if you‟re wary that she
million to billions of blocks that takes a lot of time to decode.
might accidentally make purchases on your behalf, you can
Also he has to decode each and every block being created as
enable or disable voice purchasing.
the blockchain is not a static one. It constantly keeps adding
new blocks thus making it difficult for any attacker to extract
data.
Akhil Shridhar
III CSE ‘B’
WORKSHOP/INTERNSHIP AND TRAINING
 Saloni Handuja, Shweta Gupta,Vaishnavi Vinay and Tanmaya Mishra completed their Internship at
QuEST Global, between 6th Feb, 17 to 25th May, 17.
 Shobana B, Sahana P, Priyanka R and Sandhaya P completed their Internship on “An Approach for
Privacy Preservation and Data Publishing” using New Cluster based Anonymization techniques at
Novateur Solution, between Feb, 17 to May, 17.
 Ketan Anand completed his Internship at Mcafffeine, Digital Marketing Intern organised by
MCaffine held between 12th Feb, 2017 to 20th March, 2017.

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Technofest Exhibition
On the occasion of CSIR platinum Jubilee Celebrations, CSIR
had organized Technofest Exhibition from 25th to 27th October, 2017.
Fifty two students (also CSI members) from Computer Science and
Engineering and Information Science and Engineering visited the
exhibition held at CSIR-NAL, HAL Airport road, on 25th October, 2017.
Dr. Sejal Santosh Nimbhorkar, Associate Professor, Dept. of CSE and
Mr. Manjunath G S, Assistant Professor, Dept. of ISE accompanied
students for the exhibition. The exhibition covered key contributions of
CSIR to the Science & Technology in the field of food, agriculture,
energy, aerospace, landslide and health.
Android Application Development Workshop
A three day workshop on Android Application Development
was conducted under CSI-BNMIT on 4th , 5th and 6th of November,
2017. The resource person, Mr. Vishwa Kiran is a senior corporate
trainer from Aprameyah Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and research
scholar from UVCE. He has
15 years of rich experience
as a corporate trainer and
software developer. The
topics covered were basics
of Android application and
its development and its
Design Attributes.

Technical Talk on Intellectual Property Rights

To create awareness about the intangible rights protecting
commercially valuable products of the human intellect and to
incentivize creativity and serve the public interest by facilitating
economic growth, an event was conducted by ACSIS on Intellectual
Property Rights for the 5th semester students of ISE and CSE
branches.
The talk was delivered by Dr. Anindya Sircar who is currently
engaged in consulting, strategizing, teaching and training programs in
the field of Intellectual Property management. He has featured in the
Lex Witness‟s Hall of Fame – Top 50 as a prominent player in the
India‟s legal sector in 2010 and IAM Strategy 300 – World‟s Leading
IP Strategists in 2017. Dr. Sircar interacted with the students and
briefed them about the elements of IP, the complete IP cycle, legal
remedies, Business Strategies, and IP Management- Integration.
Technical Talk on Professional Ethics
On 30th October 2017, Mr. Amitkeerti M. Lagare delivered a
talk on Professional Ethics, that encompasses the personal and
corporate standards of behaviour, values and guiding principle
expected by professionals in an IT industry.
The audience of the
program were the students
from 3rd, 5th, 7th semester and
alumni of CSE branch. Mr. Amitkeerti is currently working as a
Manager and Software Architect in Wireless Connectivity Solutions
group at Intel Mobile Communications India. He works in the GPS
group at Intel and is responsible for delivering the GPS solution for
various Intel platforms.

The focus of the talk

was on how to maintain personal integrity by not using the company
Intellectual Property for personal gain. Students also learnt that
personal integrity deals with judicious use of office resources for
personal use. In this program, the students who had scored First
Class with Distinction in the respective semesters were honoured
with mementoes.
Workshop on Webservices and JSON
A two day
workshop was held on Webservices, Javascript and JSON was
conducted under CSI-BNMIT student chapter on 4th and 5th
November, 2017. Fifty eight students from Computer Science and
Engineering and Information Science and Engineering have actively
participated in this workshop. Mr. Albin Xavier is a corporate
trainer and Sun certified java programmer from Aprameyah
Technologies Pvt. Ltd. He
has 11 years of rich
experience as a corporate
trainer and software
developer. The topics covered included developing a JAX-RS
RESTful Service, HTTP Method and URI matching and JAX-RS
injection.
The students were able to develop real-world JavaScript
applications, create object-oriented JavaScript applications using
JSON to transmit and store data, design and build RESTful
services & clients and build JAX-RS services as an outcome of
this workshop.
Orientation Program on NGO Activity
An Orientation Program was conducted by Youth for Seva
for the 5th semester CSE students on 30 August 2017. Ms. Darshini
who is the co-ordinator of Indiranagar cluster of the NGO spoke
about the Services provided by Youth For Seva to help the needy
and serving the society, the factors blocking from Volunteering,
the opportunities in Youth For Seva for volunteering. The goal of
the NGO is to support schools, destitute shelters, government
hospitals and other organizations in the social sector through
volunteers who can help them mitigate some of their shortcomings and challenges. Youth for Seva aims to
create positive change agents in the society, through the culture of volunteering.
List of Students selected as volunteers for the NGO:
Ms. Aishwarya MS – V A Ms. Gayathri K – V A
Ms. Akshata P Hegde – V A Ms. Greeshma R – V A
Mr. Arvindh K – V A Mr. Jayanth K – V A
Ms. Arpita R Patil – V A Ms. Keerthana Bhoopal – V B

Student Achievements
Cultural
 Bhargavi Venkataram of 7th sem CSE bagged the First
Prize in Senior Level Competition of Veena Seshanna
Competition – Vocal in the Forty Eighth Music
Conference held by The Bangalore Gayana Samaja.
 The Prathyarpana Foundation conducted an event to help
the underprivileged children of the Sparsha Trust which
provides care, shelter, education and all-round skill
development to needy children of single mothers,
construction workers and orphans. The event was held at
the ADA Rangamandira, on the 10th of November 2017.
It featured a choir of over a hundred students of Vijaya
College of Music and was conducted by Bhargavi
Venkatram of 7th Sem CSE.

Technical
 Nandan A.S of 5th Sem B Section won the Best project
award at semester level in the IPL winter competition
2017.
Sports
 Monisha G of 3rd Sem CSE won the 200m medley II, 201m Breaststroke III, 100m Breaststroke
III in the VTU State Level Swimming Competition held on 30th August 2017
 Ranjeetha J of 5th Sem CSE won the 200m Fly III, 200m Backstroke II, 800m Freestyle III in the
VTU State Level Swimming Competition held on 30th August 2017
 Akshara G Dutt 5th Sem CSE won the VTU Inter Zone Lawn Tennis Tournament (Women)
organized by VVCE Mysore from 12th to 14th of September 2017.

QUIZ
1. Which programming language is exclusively used for Artificial Intelligence?
2. A dual layer Blue –ray disc can store data up to ____________.
3. First computer virus is known as ____________.
4. Which was the first search engine on Internet?
5. What is the codename of Ubuntu 17.04?
6. A computer on the internet that hosts data that can be accessed by web browser using http is known
as ____________.
7. When was IoT started?
8. Where did Hadoop gets its name?
9. What open source software was developed from Google‟s map reduce?
10. An Artificial Intelligence technique that allows computers to understand associations and
relationships between objects and events is called ___________.
 10. Pattern Matching 5. Zesty Zapus
9. Spark 4. Archie
8. Toy Elephant 3. Creeper Virus
7. 2000 2. 50 GB
6. Web Server Answers: 1. Prolog

Think-A-Thon
 Chef has sequence of digits S1, S2,..., Sn. He is staying in the first digit (S1) and wants to reach the last digit
(SN) in the minimal number of jumps.
While staying in some digit x with index i (digit Si) Chef can jump into digits with indices i - 1 (Si-1) and i +
1 (Si+1) but he can't jump out from sequence. Or he can jump into any digit with the same value x.
Help Chef find the minimal number of jumps he needs to reach digit Sn from digit S1.
Input : Input contains a single line consist of string S of length N- the sequence of digits.
Output: In a single line print single integer - the minimal number of jumps he needs.
 Write a program to find the closest common parent node for two given nodes in a tree from the given forest.
The forest can contain one or more trees.
Input format: First line will contain value of T(which is the number of trees in the forest), followed by 3T
lines of input, Where the first line denotes the N value where N is the number of nodes of the tree. Second line
will contain N number of values such that the value at index i is the parent of node having the value i, -1 is the
root node. The third line denotes the two nodes M1 and M2 for which we need to find the closest common
parent node.
Output: Depending on the number of trees output the closest common parent nodes on each line.
Tough nut to Crack? Contact Mohan Kurali and Mohammed Azam (VII CSE-A) for Clues.
Send your solutions to : [Link]@[Link] . Most efficient codes will be rewarded with Goodies.

Editorial Team
Students Staff
Mr. Sumuka Gummaraju - VII A Dr. Niharika Kumar
Mr. Rohan K M - V C Prof. Savitha G
Ms. Zainab Noorain – III C Prof. Manikantha K
Mr. S Akhil – III B
Ms. S Mathangi – III B
Mr. Skanda – III B
Mr. Abhishek J – III A

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