Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Kaliappan Gopalan, has been selected to give a keynote address at the International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC-2011) in Kochi, India, on July 22, 2011. His keynote address is titled Keyword Spotting in Speech Communication – An Overview. This event is organized by Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology in association with the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)- SIGWEB, Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs), and other organizations.