20-22, February, 2004 Gandhinagar, India

SYNAPSE 2004

The Dhirubhai Ambani-Institute of Information and Communication Technology, located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, aims to serve as a catalyst and a change agent for the development of a culture for Information and Communication Technology. Synapse 2004, the Annual Technology Festival of DA-IICT, was another step forth in this pursuit, celebrating the spirit of Information and Communication in the Society.

The festival was a weekend of celebration, on 20 - 22 February 2004, to connect and bind aspects of Technology and Society through a series of panel discussions, lectures, workshops, exhibitions and exciting competitive events. The celebration reinforced not only the usefulness and usability but also emphasized on the delight and the overall experience of using technology.

Synapse envisages the idea of a multicultural information and communication community by the confluence of corporate, professionals, entrepreneurs, academicians and students, along with technical connoisseurs to accentuate the significance of knowledge sharing in connected communities.

Leading technology and other related institutes in the country participated to discuss and explore Information, Communication and Technology and their application towards technically feasible, culturally desirable and economically sustainable engineering solutions.

Delivering the inaugural lecture Mr. Kanwalinder Singh of CTO Lucent Technologies focused on the theme Future of Mobility: 3G Trends and Developments in CDMA Networks. He talked about the following points:

• CDMA has already succeeded in markets like India.
• Higher forward link and reverse link capacity in future (in CDMA).
• High capacity of voice, almost 3 times that present in GSM.
• Self-optimizing networks that work dynamically to cover maximum area possible.

Further he talked about the "Base Station Router"(Bell Labs' vision of future 4G concept using 3G technology) that combines compact chip design with Ethernet, i.e. true convergence of IT and CT.

Later, Prof. Kudchadker described Synapse 2004 as "unique technological event put together by the students of DA-IICT".

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