IEEE ICCIC 2013.

The inaugural ceremony of IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, a 3-day coference was held on 26 Dec. '13 at 10.0 a.m. at the college premises. The event began with an invocation followed by the welcome address of Dr. M. KARTHIKEYAN, Organizing Secretary 2013 IEEE ICCIC, Secretary IEEE Podhigai Prof, Head of ECE Dept and VP of Tamilnadu College of Engineering. Dr. M. KARTHIKEYAN is the Organizing secretary of “IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research” (an IEEE sponsored annual event) ever since 2010. He encouraged the presenters to make use of the vast chance before them and endeavour to publish their articles in IEEE.

The Chief Patron of IEEE ICCIC, Er. M. K. S. SREENIVASAN, Chairman, Vickram Group of Institution in his Presidential Address shared his bliss of organizing the college's 2^nd international conference following the success of ICIEMS (International Conference Interdisciplinary Engineering & Sustainable Management Sciences) in Feb. ’13.

Dr. N. KRISHNAN NALLA PERUMAL, General Chair – 2013 IEEE ICCIC, Chair IEEE Podhigai, Professor and Head, Center for Information Technology and Engineering, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University; Dr. R. RAJARAM, Dean (Research), Vickram College of Engineering; and Dr. A. ASKARUNISA, Professor and Head, Dept of CSE, Vickram College of Engineering expressed their felicitation for IEEE ICCIC and threw hint amongst audience on the topics of research that hold high scope. They also told the audience to be keen in updating their article status and take extra care on checking their documentation. 

The conference proceeding were released by the chief guest, Cdr. VIJAY SINGH, Dy. Director, Naval Research Board, DRDO, New Delhi; and the first issue was received by Er. M. K. S. SREENIVASAN. Cdr. VIJAY SINGH in his inaugural and key note address briefed on various kinds of project done under NRB, DRDO and augmented the exposure to the crowd. He enraptured the audience by his live citation of successful NRB projects. He concluded his talk exemplifying the needs for sending a project proposal and motivated young minds to valiantly undertake unique projects that could be granted to a maximum of a crore. 

The event was graced with the august presence of Er. S.R. Vijay Shrinivas, Director, Vickramce; Er. M. S.R. Raj Santhosh, Secretary, Vickramce; and Er. M.S. Vikram, Joint Secretary, Vickramce. As a mark of love and gesture of distinction, chief guest, guests of honor, and invitees were honored with a memento. The Vote of Thanks was proposed by Dr. S.NAGARAJAN, Vice Principal, Vickramce following which the event adjourned for technical activities. 

Out of 180 papers that were selected for presentation from various countries, 60 papers were presented on day 1 of the conference in 6parallel sessions of Dijkstra Hall -A, Dijkstra Hall - B, Turing Hall, Faraday Hall, Ramanujam Conference Hall, and Vikram Sarabai Conference Hall.