Yearbook Report 2008-2009

        As another year comes to an end we at the Computer Society (or "Comp Soc”, as we all so frivolously call it) choose not to look back in retrospect but to eagerly look forward to collectively reaping the benefits of the seeds of effort sowed by us this year. We consider ourselves a developing society and have progressed exponentially over the past couple of years.

        The year for the Comp Soc began with an induction process. The Comp Soc saw students from Masters Courses of our college turning up for the inductions.
Our activities in the first term included a 5-day Flash & Animation workshop conducted for Stephanians. The workshop introduced the students to the Flash environment, its concepts and action scripting followed by animation techniques and implementation. Next we organized the Algorithm Challenge conceptualized by Varun.

        A week into the second term we had a talk on Web-searching techniques and the Page-Rank system by Prof. Sufyan Beg of the Jamia Milia University. This was immediately followed by plans for the second E fiesta – the annual inter school/college technical festival organized jointly by the Electronics and the Computer societies. The Comp Soc then came up with the Cyber Marathon, an intra-college tournament comprising of technical and non-technical contests related to computers and technology. This also included a presentation by Dr. Sandeep Sen, Prof. and HOD, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Delhi on Computer Science. For the third term the Comp Soc plans to conduct a week-long workshop on Desktop Publishing / Web Page Designing.

        Our publications department this year has been quite active. We started ASK - St. Stephen's Science Newsletter. It is a Comp Soc initiative meant to serve a purpose. "The obvious purpose is to enable effective communication, creation, and dissemination of ideas and information, within the Science block in particular, and the college in general. We visualize ASK as a long-lasting endeavor taken up by the Science societies for the benefit of the Science community and the college as a whole. Right Click, our society journal, is scheduled to be "on stands" (read main corridor & lib corridor windows and the science block tree) by the first week of March.

        It has been quite an active year with the Comp Soc emerging as a society promoting and enhancing technology and science for the well-being of Stephanians and others.