28 October 2007: UoM team comes out 37 with honorable mention in ACM ICPC programming contest in Kanpur
The UoM team came out 37 with honorable mention in the ACM ICPC programming contest held in Kanpur. Click here for more details

23 October 2007: Press Conference - DCL offers air tickets to UoM students participating in the ACM ICPC in Kanpur
For the second year runnning, Data Communications Ltd is sponsoring UoM students going to IIT Kanpur, India for the Regional ACM ICPC Programming Contest. A press conference will be held on the 24 October, in the presence of the Minister of Education, where DCL will officially hand over the tickets to the team.

27 September 2007: UoM team qualifies to go to Kanpur
Zyaad Jaunnoo, Madhav Ramlugun, Yashvin Veerappa qualified for the Preliminary online contest - ACM ICPC contest Kanpur site - held on Saturday 22^nd September 2007. The team is now eager to compete at IIT Kanpur. We wish them the best of luck. Please find details of all qualified teams. UoM is team 57.

More details about the contest can be found here.

08 September 2007: Programming contest - Second round
Seven candidates have been shortlisted as being the best programmers of the University. They are:

We still need to find our third contestant to represent the University at IIT Kanpur. A second programming contest will be held on Tuesday the 11^th September 2007 @13.00 for these contestants in the MCID lab. Madhav and Zyaad are encouraged to participate for practice purposes.

06 September 2007: MSc Presentation timetable

The timetable for MSc project examination has been released. Presentations will start on Wednesday 12 September.
For more details, please consult the timetable which can be downloaded below.

Click here for details

28 August 2007: Web 2.0 Presentation by Vinivi

Mr Gilles Grangere and Mr Jean-Francois Topige from Vinivi will have a presentation on Thursday the 6th of September 2007 at 11:00 in ELT2. The ouline of their presentation will be as follows:

• Figures of today's internet
• Tendancies on the web
• RSS
• social networks
• Video
• Mashups
• Virtual Worlds
• Rich interfaces
• Web 2.0 & User Generated Content

They are also agreeable to propose real life projects for the best students in class. Please, do some background study so you are prepared to ask questions.

Note: Priority will be given to Level II students doing Web Technologies.

27 June 2007: Prof Niranjan talks on Bioinformatics

Prof Niranjan is going to talk about his exciting research in Bioinformatics on Wednesday 27 at 10:00 in Lecture Theater 1.

Abstract

Much of the interesting cellular function in biology is attributable to mechanisms that differentially regulate concentrations of proteins. High throughput measurements with microarrays capture the profile of mRNA concentrations which are treated as proxies for protein abundances. That there cannot be a one to one correspondence between these two levels has been noted in the literature by several authors. Eukaryotic cells may employ a number of different mechanisms to regulate protein levels. First and simplest is via a direct link between the required protein levels and transcription. The more protein is required, the greater is the amount of transcribed mRNA. Secondly, the mRNA can be degraded selectively. mRNA molecules are usually unstable and the rate at which they decay show a high variation governed by different mechanisms. Thus controlling the decay rates selectively can lead to different rates at which the corresponding protein can be synthesised. Thirdly, ribosome binding can be differential, achieving selectivity in the rate of translation of protein molecules .Finally, there can be differential regulation at the post translational level whereby different proteins decay at different rates. Thus we find very little correlation between mRNA concentrations and the corresponding protein levels, as several authors have noted.

Here I use a machine learning framework to predict protein levels using mRNA levels and several proxies of mRNA level regulation such as codon bias, transcript length, mass of the resulting protein, meaured ribosome occupancy and measured mRNA halflives as input. Using a Gaussian process regression I show it is possible to achieve a higher level of predictability of protein levels than is apparent when one looks for correlation between mRNA and protein abundances. From this framework I show how a leave-one-out strategy can be employed to uncover which of the mRNA-protein pairs do not fit such data driven model based prediction. I argue that these pairs that do not fit the learned model are candidates for regulation at the post translational level, ie. failure, rather than success, of the model is informative! Putting together a small dataset for yeast, where simulataneous measurements of mRNA and protein levels are available in the public domain, and the remaining aspects can be extracted from databases and publications, I ranked potential candidates for post translational regulation. Searching through the literature it was possible to find experimental evidence for five mRNA-protein pairs amongst the top twelve.

27 June 2007: SPOON Consulting is coming to UoM

SPOON Consulting is coming to university tomorrow for an interactive session with students.

Gilles Boissaye, Zulaika Sunthbocus, Brian Chan Lee Yoong, Vikram Awotar and Isha Nunkoo will be presenting their company and tallking about job opportunities. The presentation will start at 10:30 in the Burrenchobay Lecture theater

7 June 2007: Presentation of Infosys by CSE Alumni

The CSE Alumni, led by Ms Zareen Mandary, organised a presentation on Infosys on Thursday 7 June at 10:00 in the Burrenchobay Lecture Theatre.

During the presentation, they talked about life at Infosys both in Mysore and Mauritius and the students were given a mock aptitude test followed by a discussion with Infoscions.

Students will have to go through an aptitude test along with a test in English language (communication, presentation skill etc). Interview will be based on the result of aptitude test, English Language test and University results. More details will be given by the HRM from Infosys.

4 June 2007: 3 Day Workshop for Academic & Support Staff on Work-based Learning by Mr.David Jamookeeah on the 4th , 5th & 6th of June 2007
Venue: Lecture Theatre2 New Academic Complex

7 June 2007: Presentation of Infosys by CSE Alumni

The CSE Alumni, led by Ms Zareen Mandary, are organising a presentation on Infosys on Thursday 7 June at 10:00 in the Burrenchobay Lecture Theatre.

During the presentation, they are going to talk about life at Infosys and the infamous aptitude test that "prospective" Infosys employees have to go through.

27 April 2007: Presentation of the Master in Computer Applications programme to non-Computer Science students

The Institute of Information Technology of the University of Mauritius is launching a Master of Computer Applications programme which is specially designed for non-Computer Science degree holders. This Masters level program covers all aspects of Software Development and Project Management.

A presentation focussing on the strengths of the programme and the opportunities it provides will be made on Friday 27 May at 12:00-13:00 in Burrenchobay Hall next to the Faculty of Agriculture.

This programme has been developed with the assistance of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

6 April 2007: Talk on Software Processes and Practices

Mr Jimut Basa, Project Manager at Infosys, who has more than 10 years experience in Software Development in Europe and in the US will give a talk on "Software Processes and Practices as used in the Software Industry” at 14:00 in Lecture Theater, Ground Floor, Engineering Tower.

Level II students must attend (CSE and IS). Other students may attend.

5 April 2007: Presentation on Context-Aware Webservers

One student will do a presentation on Context-Aware Webservers on 5 April 2007 at 14:30 in the Textile Building. Students are encouraged to attend.

26 Feb 2007: Classes are resuming normally today

The cyclone is finally over and classes are resuming normally today.

23 Feb 2007: A cyclone warning class II is in force in Mauritius

Consequently, all classes are canceled and students should not come to the university. This has been confirmed by the Head of Department, Dr Oveeyen Moonian.

20 Feb 2007: Launching of the departmental website

This website, built over a period of two months by members of the CSE Website Subcommittee (Avinash MEETOO, Pascal GROSSET, Begum DURGAHEE, Dr Shakuntala BAICHOO, Sheeba ARMOOGUM and Soulakshmee GHURBHURRUN) has been launched. More information is available here.

19 Feb 2007: Presentation of job opportunities by Accenture

People from Accenture came to the department of Computer Science & Engineering to present the various job opportunities available in the company.