AICTE / ISTE approved
National Seminar on

Innovations in IT Research & Applications

Venue: Guru Nanak Institute of Management & Technology, Ludhiana (Pb)

Innovations in IT through FOSS
(keynote address)

Dr. H.S.Rai

Professor and Head

Civil Engineering Department

Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana

Innovation

It compasses the entire process, from idea to implementation, for the development of new products, services, methods, management practices and policies

Invention : Innovation

Invention: new concepts or products that derive from individuals ideas or from scientific research.

Invention : Innovation

Innovation: commercialisation of the invention itself.

An invention may have little economic value, if at all. In order to monetise an invention it is necessary to transform it into innovation.

Customer, application or market

Innovation

... taking the invention and moving the ball ahead to market it and extend the idea.

Google didn't invent keyword text ads, but it did a lot with the mode

Innovation: Seven Cs

Crisis

Curiosity

Combination

Conversation

Co-evolution

Challenge

Commitment

Archimedes

Thinking v/s doing

Information Technology

When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology

IT: any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and / or disseminate information.

Information Technology

The study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware.

Role of Education

Focus on fundamentals rather than product

Follow standards

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) http://www.w3.org/

http://www.anybrowser.org/

http://www.anybrowser.com/

C++

Bjarne Stroustrup

Compiler

#include

#include

using namespace std;

int main(){

string s;

cout > s;

cout