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Research positions at Mile Lab, IISc, Bangalore

Today Prof.A.G. Ramakrishnan from IISc, Bangalore posted an announcement in INFITT discussion group announcing openings for BE Graduates for Research Positions at Mile Lab, IISc, Bangalore. This caught my eye as the project described was exciting one involving software applications for visually challenged.  I am giving a link in this post to the announcement for the benefit of graduates inclined towards research who will find this position interesting.

MILE Laboratory at Indian Institute of Science is actively involved in developing an automated book reader for the visually challenged. This research involves image mosaicing, page layout analysis, script recognition, speech synthesis and natural language processing. You can read the announcement from the IISc page here or in PDF format here

November 25th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Miscellanous | Leave a comment

Indian Tricolour Placed on the Moon

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Yesterday was a proud moment for all Indians.It was the placing of Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthday.  The Indian flag was painted on the sides of Moon Impact Probe (seen above), one of the 11 payloads of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, that successfully hit the lunar surface today at 20:31 hrs (8:31 pm) IST. This is the first Indian built object to reach the surface of the moon. The modern Indian space programme was initiated in 1962 when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister of India.

I have been reading in some sections of media where critics are arguing against spending for space programs in a country like India, when much has to be done here for Poverty eradication, Healthcare and Literacy. I don’t see merit in this argument. If you say that space can be explored only when everything is completed in ground then no country can qualify for doing it – ever. I am against arms race and space wars, but scientific space programs are must for a developing nation like India. It has several benefits including Employment, Challenge, Ambition for youngsters without which literacy or poverty eradication becomes meaningless.

What do you think, please post your comments.

November 15th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: India | Leave a comment

San Jose Tech Museum and “The Alps”

I was in San Jose area and had the whole day to spend before my return flight (Jet Airways from SFO to BOM) in the evening. So I started the day with my friend dropping me in San Jose Tech Museum.

San Jose The Tech Museum of Innovation

First I went to see the IMAX movie "The Alps" which had breath taking views and an emotional story – an expert climber had been wanting to climb the "Eiger" mountain in the Alps which had killed his father 40 years back.

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Then I went to see the exhibits, which included a Silicon IC (Chip) manufacturing, Gene therapy, inventions, solar energy and many more. It is a must see museum for today’s students.

San-Jose-Tech-Museum Gene Structure San-Jose-Tech-Museum Chip Fabrication

I wish we had something like this in India – may be in Bangalore Indian IT giants can take a clue from their Silicon Valley counterparts to fund one. What impressed me was the web page creation kit they have – in every exhibit you can insert your bar coded ticket to get a photograph of yourself and at the end you can post all of them into your own custom web page, cool!

July 18th, 2008 | Tags: | Category: Movies-TV-Videos, Travel | Leave a comment