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BU's `cyber centre' inaugurated
By Our Staff Reporter
BANGALORE, DEC. 20. A new ISDN line powered ``cyber centre'' of Bangalore University was inaugurated by the Minister of State for Information Technology, Prof. B.K.Chandrashekar, and Mr. B.V.Jagadish, an alumnus of the university and founder of Exodus Communications, at the university's Jnanabharati campus here on Thursday.
The centre will be used to impart basic computer education, mostly to postgraduate students, and teaching and non-teaching staff of the university.
It may be recalled that a ``basic paper on computer applications'' was incorporated into the postgraduate courses of the university from the academic year 2000. The centre would train students to meet the requirements of the paper, Mr. Ravi, one of the eight instructors -- five for the students and three for the teachers -- at the centre told The Hindu.
``Many students who walk in here do not even know basic DOS (disc operating system) commands. We have just finished teaching a batch of them,'' Mr. Ravi said.
Teachers too are taught at the centre. ``Usually when we teach lecturers and professors here, the students don't have access to the computers,'' he says. Of the three servers that serve the 50-odd computers at the centre only one is up at a time which means only 10 computers would allow users to access the Internet, which the teachers would be using. But protocol aside, the other servers can be ``upped too,'' if there is demand.
Presently around 2,500 students are learning at the centre. A library information system was also getting ready.
Other initiatives at the university include computerisation of the examination administration process. When that happens, the university's three lakh students from its 363 affiliated colleges should be the true beneficiaries, with everything related to their examinations streamlined.
One may also recall that BU is one of two institutions chosen from Karnataka to be part of a national network of academic and research organisations, including major libraries; the other being the Indian Institute of Science.
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