Computer Society of MIT

About Us

The computer society (then called Computer Club) of Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chrompet was founded in 1983, by the students of non-InfoTech branches with a view of improving their knowledge in the field of computer science. Later, when the departments of Computer Science & Engineering and Information Technology were formed, the students from these courses also began to take part actively in the functioning of the society. This is a student body associated to Computer Center of MIT.

During its initial years, the society mainly concentrated in getting expertised with the basics of computers and programming languages such as C. Later it included the tools required by various streams like hardware designing and modeling software for the students of mechanical streams, circuit designing and simulation software for the students of electronic stream, etc. Over the years, the society has evolved, from being just an organization for imparting knowledge, to an active participant in the evolution and promotion of Free & Open Source Software (FOSS). The major event associated with this area is the conduction of the inter-college free software festival Carte Blanche every year. During Carte Blanche '10, an audio conference with Richard M Stallman was organized as a part of this. It was an interactive session where he answered various questions related to software freedom. A visit by the same person to our college oragnized in the year 2002. And the transcript of his lecture is here.

Vision:

  1. Computer Society will be the preferred partner for industries in all spheres connected with students including internships, projects and event collaborations.
  2. Other students of MIT as well as other colleges will look up to Computer Society fellows to solve their computer related problems.
  3. Computer Society fellows will be infinitely better than other MIT students in their chosen field.

Teams

This year, the society has taken up new initiatives and new teams have been formed in this regard.

  • The Student Facilitation TeamThis new team will be doing activities like notifying students about the internship opportunities from AUKBC,CUIC etc., Encouraging participation in various inter-college events and symposiums & publicizing the achievers. And will conduct various intra-college level project contests (FOSS related) for the students of all streams.
  • The Extra Mural TeamThis team is deisgned exclusively for conducting workshops, monthly seminars, Talks on new technology which will include all three streams IT, Electronics and Mechanical. Regular practical classes on various highly needed topics by eminent personalities in the corresponding fields will also be handled by this team.