Dr. Balaji Palanisamy, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA, inaugurated the CSEA activities for 2013-14, on 22nd July, 2013, with his enlightening lecture on "Cost-effective Resource Management for Map Reduce Clouds: Challenges, Architectures and Techniques". The keynote address was aimed at creating an awareness about network inefficiencies in Hadoop clusters, when bursty input were generated in map or reduce tasks.
