tennis, and volleyball. Computer Science Department The department imparts world class training and research. The department provides state of the art computing facilities to the students. Graduates from the department are most wanted by both academia and corporates like Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM, Oracle, EMC2. All over the world, alumni of the department occupy top positions in both academia and industry especially one of the alumni occupies as Ambassador of India in Israel. Important research and technical patents are registered by our alumnus. The department has generated funds from various government organizations like AICTE, MHRD, and DST for promoting research activities and modernization. "CPBK" The department has signed MOUs with companies such as Microsoft, EMC2, Robert Bosch and TCS. The objective of these MOUs is to bridge the gap between academia and industry scenario. Every year TCS recognizes department’s outstanding students by awarding “Best Student” and “Best Project” awards. The department and Oklahoma State University jointly organized and conducted an International Conference on Sensors, Security, Software and Intelligent Systems (ISSSIS 2009) during 8-10 January 2009. Some of the major research areas which the faculty members and students working on are grid computing , cloud computing , wireless networks, database technologies , bioinformatics, image processing, software engineering data mining and web mining. Interface Interface, an inter-collegiate technical symposium, is conducted by the circuit branches of Coimbatore Institute of Technology. Interface is held for two days in the month of February every year and invites the university students across the country, helping the external university students to showcase their projects, present research papers, network with other university students and participate in various events on campus. This symposium is organized entirely by students—of various departments—from fund raising for the events to event management. Technovation It is a national level technical symposium by the Chemical, Civil and Mechanical engineering students conducted during September every year. Cyber Fest It is a National Level Student Technical Symposium organized by Department of Computer Applications Association during January every year conducted By M.sc Software Engineering and M.C.A. Students. Notable alumni Akkineni Ramesh Prasad - 1960 BE Mechanical, director, Prasad Media Corporation, Hyderabad & Prasad Film Laboratories, Chennai R. Prabhu - 1968 BE Mechanical, former Union Minister of India Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan - 1972 BE ECE, Indian aerospace and computer scientist, associate director, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Natarajan Chandrasekaran - 1976 BSc Applied Sciences, current chairman of Tata Sons. M.