Vasudeva Varma— Invited Talks, Presentations, Tutorials (updated on August 2007)

· Tutorial: “Indic Computing - Natural Language processing (NLP) Applications” at National Conference on Computing (NCC – 2003) at IIT Madras, January 31st, 2003.

· Invited talk: “Technology Challenges in Knowledge management”, at Satyam, Hyderabad, March 4, 2003

· Invited Talk “NLP – An introduction” at workshop on Natural Language Processing, VJ Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, March 6, 2003

· Tutorial (with Prof. Rajeev Sangal) "Multi-lingual Information Extraction”, RIDE-2003 (Research Issues on Data Engineering), IIIT, Hyderabad, 10-11 March 2003

· Invited talk: "Information Extraction in Indian context", Goa University, 16th June 2003

· Invited talk: "Project Management: People, processes and pitfalls”, Workshop on Managing Software Development, JNTU, Hyderabad, 4-5 July 2003

· Invited lecture: "Project Management - Managing Knowledge Workers" and "Estimating Software Effort", Course on Project Management in Information Technology, Engineering Staff College of India, Hyderabad, 14-16 October 2003.

· Invited talk: "Entrepreneurship in IT”, Workshop on Entrepreneurship for Engineering students, JNTU, Hyderabad, 12 December 2003

· Tutorial: "Search Engine Technologies" at International Conference on Natural language processing (ICON-2003) at Mysore on 19th December, 2003. Here is the tutorial notes

· Talk:  "Research Career Prospects" at a workshop on Excitement of Research held at IIIT on 28-29 February 2004. Here is the presentation.

· Lecture tour: "Re-use through Component Based Development" at Satyam Computer Services locations at Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, and Pune. April 12-27, 2004

· Invited Talk: "Object Oriented Technologies - Current trends" Workshop on Object Oriented Programming, VJ Institute of Engineering and Technology, Hyderabad, April 28, 2004

· Invited Talk: "Demands on a Learning Organization: Creating Niche Markets, Reaching and Staying in Leadership Position" Satyam Architecture Conference ArchConf-2004, Chennai, June 28-29, 2004

· Workshop series I:  workshop on "Requirements Engineering and Solution Architecture using a case study" at Satyam Computer Services locations at Hyderabad (July 29th and 30th), Chennai (19th August), Bangalore (23rd September)

· Invited talk: "Component Based Software Engineering" Karshak Engineering College, Uppal, Hyderabad, 13th August 2004

· Invited Talk: "Search Engine Technologies and Wars" Al-Habeeb Engineering College, Masab Tank,  Hyderabad 28th August, 2004

· Invited Talk: "Named entities and Ontology creation". ADRIN, Hyderabad, 17th September 2004

· Workshop series II:  workshop on "Software Architecture re-factoring using a case study" at Satyam Computer Services locations at Pune (November 9th, 2004), Hyderabad (November 30th, 2004)

· Tutorial: "Learning Organizations as Teaching Hospitals - A Case study based approach to train software professionals" at CSI-2004 at Mumbai on December 04, 2004. Here is the abstract.

· Workshop series III:  workshop on "Software Architecture Evaluation using a case study" at Satyam Computer Services locations at Chennai (January 25, 2005), Hyderabad (22nd February, 2005)

· Invited talk: “Technology Enablers for Content Management and Knowledge management”, at Wipro, Hyderabad, April, 2005

· Tech Talk at Yahoo - Bangalore "Summarization", 23rd June 2005

· Invited Talk: "Natural Language Processing: Future computing", at Manik Public School, Manik Nagar, Bidar, Karnataka.

· Invited talk: “Knowledge management and Contextualized Search”, at Computer Associates, Hyderabad, 8th November, 2005

· Invited talk: “Contextualized Search for Intelligent Web”, at International Conference & Workshop on Web Technologies & Launch of W3C Indian Office, New Delhi, 10-11th November, 2005

· Invited Talk: "Next Generation Search Engines" Bharat Degree & PG College for Women, 5th February 2006, Ibrahimpatnam.