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IDEA IS DAWN. DAWN IS AN INCEPTION

MARCH 2020

A S C I I M AG A Z I N E

I N SPERON

MESSAGE FROM THE EDITORS’ DESK

With a perfect blend of ingenuity and contraption, we the editorial board of ASCII, the Association of CSE bring to lime-light ‘INSPERON’, an embodiment of cutting-edge technologies and astounding facts, flashing some light on the innovative minds of our blooming engineers. Computer science is an ever-expanding field and the power of what technology holds today is definitely beyond one’s imagination, rendering dazzling set of ideas and therefore, ‘INSPERON’

is themed as ‘Idea is dawn. Dawn is an inception’.

We use this opportunity to express our fervent gratitude and recognize the stead fast dedication of our Placement Coordinators who paved way for talent to meet opportunity. We express our sincere thanks to all association facilitators for their eminent efforts in organizing and indulging students in activities conducted by our association. At the outset, we thank our beloved faculty members for their perpetual brace and supervision in all our endeavours. We hope all readers will

enjoy reading as much as we loved creating ‘INSPERON’. Happy reading buddies!!!

You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

– Michael Dell

MESSAGE FROM OUR MENTORS

CSE department’s innovative and intelligent students bring out the department’s magazine every year with good articles and an ensemble of tit-bits. This year is no exception. The association members are rapidly progressing towards the cutting-edge technologies of computer science. It helps to depart from existing academic world and to explore the new trends in technologies and developments. My hearty wishes for the team for their eminent efforts!

Dr.R.PRABHAKARSECRETARY & PROFESSOR EMERITUS

“INSPERON” is a wonderful journal portrayal of young logical minds of CIT. This magazine is highly info-bound and initiates readers to get into a new technological atmosphere. “INSPERON” focusses on revealing cutting-edge technologies to every CITian. I wholeheartedly congratulate the team for their marvellous efforts!

Dr.V.SELLADURAIPRINCIPAL

“INSPERON” is an art of technical thoughts budding out from the students of CSE department. It gives me immense pleasure to know that the students are exploring new technologies, innovative ideas and bringing out the magazine. I congratulate the team for their extraordinary skills. I believe that this work will be interesting and informative to the readers.

Dr.S.SHANMUGAM DEAN-STUDENT AFFAIRS

I am glad to pen in this magazine“INSPERON” which is a fruitful result of the student’s editorial team. The magazine provides various updates on technical events, news and other creative articles that make the readers to think wide about the technology and the era. To notify in person, ASCII, the association of CSE strives hard to enrich the students technically and to enhance their coding skills. As the Head of the Department, I extend my complete support and wishes to the team. I also wish the team to continue serving the department and the students in the upcoming years.

Dr.G.KOUSALYAPROFESSOR & HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT

KRISHNA PSECRETARY

SUBIKSHA VJOINT SECRETARY

GOWTHAM KJOINT SECRETARY

GOBI SHANKAR ETREASURER

JAYANANDHANA ECO-TREASURER

HARINEE ANANDHEVENT CO-ORDINATOR

SANJAY KUMAR REVENT CO-ORDINATOR

RAKSHITH LEVENT CO-ORDINATOR

BRINDHA EFACILITATOR HEAD

SRIDHARAN SFACILITATOR HEAD

RAJALAKSHMI SFACILITATOR HEAD

VENGATESH SFACILITATOR HEAD

SRIKARAN BARADHWAJ SFACILITATOR HEAD

ASCII OFFICE BEARERS

EDITORIAL BOARDKRISHNA P

HARINEE ANANDHRAJALAKSHMI S

DESIGNGANESH R

HARSHAVARDHAN BOOPATHI M

WORDS FROM ASCII MEMBERS

We, as CSE Students Association (ASCII) faculty in-charges feel proud in writing this cover note for the technical Magazine ‘INSPERON 2020’. It gives us immense pleasure to work along with the editorial team and association office bearers in giving shape to INSPERON 2020 and releasing it successfully as per schedule, which in itself is an achievement, considering the effort and time required. “Knowing and believing in our own potential is the primary requisite for being successful in all our endeavors”. Believing in our own potentials more, motivates to prove ourselves. “Strive for progress, Move towards perfection” is the slogan behind ASCII. It works with the motto of try, progress, never give up even if you make mistakes and improve continuously until perfection is reached. ASCII has been functioning successfully in full swing throughout the academic year 2019-2020. ASCII secretary is the backbone behind all the activities of ASCII. Office bearers and facilitators as the pillars of ASCII have raised the students’ association to the elegant level. We take this opportunity to appreciate all the ASCII members for their magnificent efforts.

Nurturing creativity and inspiring innovation are two of the key elements of a successful education, and this technical magazine INSPERON 2020, is the flawless amalgamation of both. No doubt this creative endeavor will bring out an assortment of technical, artistic and scientific articles with distinct individual autographs of CSE students. It harnesses the creative energies of the students’ community and distils the essence of their inspired imagination in the most brilliant way possible.

We do appreciate and congratulate the editorial team for their successful completion of this tiresome yet daunting task of putting together the innumerable thoughts and dreams of our students into a meaningful and delightful annual publication. May all our students fly high in unexploredatmospheres and bring wonder to the world through their profession with the wings of education.

Dr.K.AmshakalaAssociate Professor

Ms.S.P.AbiramiAssistant Professor

Mr.B.Arun KumarAssistant Professor

Ms.S.NithyaAssistant Professor

As the Secretary of ASCII 2019-20, I feel dazed with the splendid experience I’ve procured by working with concurring peers and networking with budding juniors. ASCII has provided me with the dais to elevate my standards to one more level. My journey as a fragment of ASCII has been prolific and fun-filled by organizing events and activities for juniors; mentoring them with industrial requirements and enhancing their skills in technical aspects. ASCII is all about team spirit and there is no place for trivialities. We are not a team because we work together… we are a team because we respect, trust and shoulder each other. I extend my genuine gratitude to the ASCII staff in-charges for putting their faith in me and granting me freedom to accomplish my plans to actions. I use this opportunity to thank all those who spared a couple of minutes to take a peek into ‘INSPERON’, an evidence of our zealous efforts. Lastly, my best wishes for those who become a part of ASCII in the impending years, for they play a vivacious role in escalating ASCII to greater heights.

KRISHNA P

Being one of the office bearers of ASCII 2019-20, I, personally had a lot of experience in managing events and people. We planned various events for the academic year 2019-20 including Mock Interview and Syllogism. The whole team of ASCII 2019-20 had a lot of fun while working together as a team. ASCII gave us a platform to interact with our juniors, helping them understand the industrial requirements, recruitment process and other technical aspects. I wish to thank the ASCII Staff-in-charges for having trust in my skills and abilities. I would like to advise my juniors to never stop progressing in the process of learning.

GOBI SHANKAR E

WORDS FROM ASCII MEMBERS

As one among the ASCII office bearers, I improved my personal and technical skills by conducting various events for junior students. I learnt how to organize and manage the events. Also, it enhanced my leadership skills. And most importantly, I was able to interact with my juniors and share my placement experiences.Overall, it was a great experience.

BRINDHA E

I feel really elated being a part of ASCII 2019-20,for having a fun filled experience. It gave me a platform to interact with juniors by conducting various events as a part of the association. I thank ASCII staff in-charges for giving me this great opportunity and for allowing me to implement my ideas without any restriction. I wish my juniors make things more interactive, exciting and interesting in the upcoming years.

RAJALAKSHMI S

Our Association has always been about interacting with juniors and helping them out with several topics related to studies and placements. It was a happy period that was provided to me and I am glad to be part of this. ASCII has always been helpful for us and it was great to have got this opportunity.

SRIKARAN BARADHWAJ S

Being a member of ASCII has taught me responsibilities. It has been an enlightening experience for me and has paved a way to interact with my peers and juniors. Our association helped me with the campus recruitments through the classes and events organized through a period of 3 years. Some of the events included seminars,coding competitions, interactive sessions, hackathons and mock interviews. ASCII provided a friendly platform that put no bar to interact or to speak one’s thoughts. The experience has been truly fruitful.

SUBIKSHA V

It feels blissful to leave this message to all of those who have taken some time out of their bustling lives to read this magazine- “Insperon”. I’m so glad that I’ve been a part of its making. It feels like yesterday when I walked through the classrooms of CIT as a fresher. Now that it’s been four years of life at CIT, I’m elated to say that I’ll be walking out of here with lots of memories that I will treasure all my life. Having been an office bearer of ASCII 2019-20, I would like to say that I had a lot of fun being productive to my juniors. Knowing that my efforts have been fruitful to atleast a few people, I can close my eyes peacefully, at the end of the day. Hoping to do so in the future too, I thank all my teachers who gave us a hand in creating this magazine. I give my best wishes to all those who are going to be a part of ASCII next year.

HARINEE ANANDH

Association - Establishes a mental connection. I find ASCII to be the best platform to exchange knowledge. Apart from learning, ASCII enhanced my professional skills like organizational behaviour, leadership quality etc... ASCII doesn’t have any senior junior hierarchy. It treats everyone as a group of friends and this is the key to learn technology easily and quickly. Apart from the studies ASCII gave me a good family of friends.

SRIDHARAN S

ASCII gave me a great platform to enrich my knowledge and an opportunity to interact with juniors. It guided us in shaping our dreams and helped us to build our career through teaching the industrial requirements and train them accordingly. I feel proud to say, I am a member of ASCII.

VENGATESH S

“Nothing is Impossible, the word itself says I’m possible.” - Audrey Hepburn

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY OF LEARNING …………………………………………………………… 1JOURNEY IN ASSOCIATION ………………………………………………………………………… 2MY WALK THROUGH CIT …………………………………………………………………………… 3FRIENDS ………………………………………………………………………………………………... 5PLACEMENT GUIDELINES FROM MY UNDERSTANDING ……………………………………… 6I LOVE U VIRUS ………………………………………………………………………………………. 7GESTURAL INTERFACE ………………………………………………………………………………. 8BLOOMING TECHNOLOGIES ……………………………………………………………………….. 9PROGRA(MEME)MING ………………………………………………………………….………….... 10THE RISE AND RAYS OF THE GPU …………………………………………………….…………. 11DON’T FEAR INTELLIGENT MACHINES, WORK WITH THEM ……………….……………….... 12LIFE AT NUS …………………………………………………………………………………………. 13GRAPHIC DESIGNING …………………………………………………………….………………... 15DARK WEB ………………………………………………………………….…………....…………... 17COMPUTER, CHIPS AND CRICKET …………………………………………………..…………..... 19INFINITE LOOPS IN C …………………………………………………………………..…………. 21STUDY MODE ……………………………………………………………...…………….………….. 22BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES ………………………..………….. 23FILL ME OUT ………………………………………………………….…………………….……….. 24THE BINARY SUDOKU ……………………………………………………………..………………. 25CLOUD HUNT ……………………………………………………………..……………..…………. 26TECH CONNEXIONS ………………………………………………………………………………. 27CRACK IT ……………………………………………………………………….………..…………. 29MUSIC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ……………………………………………………… 30CUSTOM RESPIRATOR MASKS, OUR NEW BLEAK REALITY ……………………............. 31BLOCKCHAIN SIMPLIFIED IN 6 QUESTIONS ………………………………..………………… 33INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GOOGLE ……………………………………………..…………. 37VARIOUS JOB OPPORTUNITIES ……………………………………………...………..…………. 39MICROSOFT SKETCH 2 CODE …………………………………………..…………….…………. 41PYTHON VS C ………………………………………………………………….…………………….. 42TAKE A PEEK …………………………………………………………………………..…………...... 43LAUGH OUT LOUD ………………………………………………………………………………...... 45ANSWERS FOR PUZZLES ………………………………………………………….……………....... 48Y2K PROBLEM ………………………………………………………………………...………….…… 503D PRINTED EYE ……………………………………………………………………..………….…… 51PLACEMENT CORNER …………………………………………………..…………..…………....... 52PLACEMENT STATISTICS ………………………………………………..………….…………....... 53ASCII ACTIVITIES ………………………………………………………….……………………....... 56SYLLOGISM’20 RESULTS …………………………………………………………….....…………... 63

1 MARCH 2020 INSPERON

A BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY OF LEARNING Living the last few moments of our college life, I would like to share something that you may find useful in determining your path in the process of learning. I don’t want to waste these pages of the magazine by giving you some technical concepts which you don’t want to know. I’m here to help you with the ways you could use to learn those technical concepts by yourself. Because I believe in the words,

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

I don’t want you guys to be completely dependent on faculty members and seniors for learning. Learning is a never-ending process of expanding your knowledge and utilizing that knowledge acquired, to make this world a better place to live. That’s what an actual engineer will do. Let’s start from day 1 of your college life. Some of us might have chosen a career in Computer Science out of passion. But, most of us might have chosen this career only out of the family’s compulsion. In the first few months of your college, you might have had various thoughts on your career decision. No worries! If I could do it, why can’t you? Whatever life gives you, the only thing that matters whether you put 100% of your effort before complaining about your family or friends. For us, there is always a demand for automation. If you like any other field other than computer science and regret your decision for choosing computer science and engineering as your career, please don’t. Because I can promise you, that in any other field, there is a major role that computers have to play. So, I suggest you identify the domain which relates to your interest and start to work on that domain from the first year of your college. In the second year of your Under Graduate Programme, you will be introduced with almost all of the core subjects of computer science. Please, don’t even think of skipping the classes. If you do so, you could somehow clear the exams. But you will suffer a lot with placements. With these concepts known to you, you could understand the whole flow of a binary machine. So, please concentrate on learning those concepts well. Ask a lot of questions and interact with your teachers and seniors, so that a lot of new problems and solutions can be discussed. Also, try to solve a problem with the minimum possible time and space. Always start with a working solution and then try to optimize the solution. Being promoted from Sophomore to Junior, you need to be more responsible for your actions. Try to do projects on your own, apart from Mini Project. Try to participate in programs like Google’s Explore ML and Microsoft Student Partners.

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Participate in competitions like Google Kickstart, Google Code Jam, Google Summer of Code and Smart India Hackathon. Apply for summer internships with tech giants like Google, and Amazon. Most importantly, never stop practicing competitive programming. With all the above-mentioned works done, getting a job offer from dream companies will be a piece of cake. In the final year of your college, get a job offer at the earliest. Try to apply for companies off-campus. I suggest you try more interviews from good companies. Never stop hunting for a job you deserve after the efforts you have put into your career. Make your parents proud. And never stop giving back what computer science community gave to you when you are in a need.

Thank you and Good luck

GOBI SHANKAR EIV YEAR

During first year of our college life we had no idea about association. But, later we realised that association is something which connects us closely with the department and brings out the best in us. When we first stepped into the association, it was more of like another boring lecture session that we had to attend. So we bunked; we were irregular and also we messed up the session if we had to attend the it unfortunately. We never realised until the end of 2nd year that association is such a beautiful thing which breaks the barrier of distant relationship with seniors and professors out there. But then we regretted our mistakes at the very beginning of 3rd year. We decided to set right the mistakes. We started striving for the welfare of ourselves through association. Association is a key tool for all to develop their career. We take this as an oppurtunity to thank our seniors who dedicated their valuable time even in their rush hours. They really strived hard to bring the best in us. In return, now, we the final year students are striving hard and making efforts to bring the best out of our juniors. And you, the one reading this article out there, we humbly request you not to commit the mistakes that we did. None is here to misguide you. The real value of a precious stone is not known until it is taken from your hand. Professors here are of that kind. Have a grip of those precious stones and success will arrive at your door step.

SRIDHARAN SIV YEAR

JOURNEY IN ASSOCIATION


MY WALK THROUGH CITOne of the most interesting stages in life that gives you an opportunity to explore is the ‘college

phase.’ Life at college is the time when the teenage years end and we all dive deep into the ocean of new beginnings and possibilities…. This golden period better equips you for all the challenges you’ll face in life and creates a strong foundation of knowledge.

Your life changes completely when you head off to college. Instead of having parents around to remind you to do your homework and get a decent amount of sleep, you’re suddenly completely on your own, with a lot of freedom and a whole new world of opportunities to embrace.College life prepares you for a battle ahead called life…. It is a perfect blend of joy and hardships. You meet different people, you interact with them, you learn about their cultures and grow as a person. You will understand how to talk to different people, how to judge their behaviour, thus helping you with important life skills.

Hence, I attempt to summarize what we think college life is and how it parallels – in more ways than you’d think – real life.

Never knew four years would pass as four minutes in life. Now as I look back, I feel nostalgic with heart-warming memories.

Having dreamt of becoming an engineer, landing at CIT became a dream come true. It brings the saying “If we spend enough time dreaming, then the dream might eventually become real”to lime light. Thank you, CIT, for helping me sculpt a finer ME!!!

First year is where we experience the transition from school to college life. We learn new things and meet new people every day; we look at final years ready to bid farewell as a kid sees his grandparents, thinking that will never be us. Needless to say, first year was fun-filled with home appliance labs learning carpentry, plumbing, fitting; the regular labs; carrying drafters and drawing sheets with H, 2H, 3H variants of pencils to EG classes; maths tutorials and much more memories that will stay fresh and alive.

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During the second half of our first year, we had a cultural fest called “Nakshatra” where getting along with friends from different departments found its bloom… sharing ideas... working as a team hunting for concepts and themes… participating in events arranged by various clubs of CIT… waiting eagerly to find out Mr & Ms Nakshatra. “Treasure hunt” with clues related to riddles associated with places at CIT conducted by CIT NCC remains to be my personal favourite event from Nakshatra. By the time we find a rapport with our peers, second year sets in. This year marks our official entry into the department with higher opportunities to explore our areas of interest. Having interest in service to society, I enrolled myself with Youth Red Cross club which gave me fun-filled experience in a different dimension. Industrial visits gave us a different perspective of our friends’ worlds and nature getting us even closer.

Time has a unique habit of reminding what really matters… yes… time flies and we became pre-final years of CIT. We have a solidified group of friends our age, while we know a set of people below us and have a network of friends ahead. This is the period we have both authority and energy. We’re fresh enough to still swing and old enough to know the ropes. The most interesting part of third year was organizing “CRYPTERA 2K18”, a symposium for two days where we recognized our responsibilities and developed a cordial relationship with our juniors.

Finally came the final year and we were putting our efforts to earn a fruitful career and come out with flying colours. Facing placements where even more thrilling compared to hearing experiences from our seniors. Something which I would like to all the readers is … when we sit for a company, our mindset should be of fitting with the company that matches our area of interest. And the most important, do not give up if your number has not arrived yet. Patience, perseverance with a pinch of luck will, definitely without any doubt, lead you to your desired destination.


“A teacher is a compass that activates the magnet of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom in the pupils”. All four years, we had eminent teachers who helped us in sharpening our skills and talents for what we are today. You are all the pillars of our institution and a guiding star in the life of each one of us. My sincere gratitude towards the institution who have been very flexible in helping out their students and have provided as many opportunities for our development while making us ready to face the society with courage and confidence. My four-year

sojourn at CIT has taught me one fundamental thing – Life is unpredictable. It may be good; may be bad; may be weird or may not even interest you… but expect anything to happen. Thank you, CIT, for giving me a wonderful experience and a heart full of memories. I express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every soul who stood by me and supported my voyage at Coimbatore Institute of Technology… CIT.

One fine day, when I look back… I’ll definitely end up smiling silently reminiscing the beauty of my college life. Adieu CIT !!! Will meet you soon as an alumnus in the near future.

KRISHNA PIV YEAR

The day we got admitted at CIT was such a remarkable memory. It excited us a lot, having expectations beyond the sky. They say “Expectations are never fully satisfied”, but for us it was more than what we actually expected. Even though we had to attend boring lectures, we always rejoiced to see each other’s’ face daily and have loads of fun. Days we spent together, our group chatting, we yelling at each others’ face, our childish mischief will never be forgotten. More than everything, we have learnt that our college friends become our family, we eat together; we take naps together; we fight, laugh, cry, and do absolutely nothing together until we can’t remember

how we lived our life without them in the first place. Each and every nook and corner of CIT has a special memory which will stay forever in the hearts of every CITian until their last breath. Friends at CIT were more like a song which tempts us to play it in a loop. Steve Maraboli said “Letting go means to come to the realisation that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny”, but people at CIT will be part of our history and will hold some special place in the destiny.

SRIDHARAN SIV YEAR

6MARCH 2020INSPERON

This is Brindha. I would like to share some of my experiences gained during placements.Placement is not a threatening process as you all think of.So throw away all the fear you have.The first and foremost thing you must concentrate on is your resume.It should be perfect and free from flaws.Make sure that you are familiar with everything you mention in the resume.Even if your content is small,don’t worry,focus is only on what you have cited. You should be strong in core subjects like DS, DBMS, OS, CA and Networks. In data structures, try to solve the problems using relevant data structures related to the problem. Analyze the time and space complexity after completing the problem. When you get a question from DBMS, you should have an idea of creating a database for a system and also try to implement the concepts like normalization, keys etc., Try to do real time projects as much as you can so that it can create a good impression on you(Only if you have new ideas,not the existing ones). If you are using inbuilt functions for any algorithms in your program, you should be able to explain the algorithm to the HR clearly. They will also test your knowledge by asking questions from the projects you have done apart from subjects.So be prepared. Be strong withat least 2 programming languages. It’s well and good if you are strong in JAVA(That’s what most companies expect). Some of the companies will ask you to solve real time application problems (long programming). So, have an idea of connecting the front end and the back end. 90% of the companies will have aptitude in their first round, where most of the students get eliminated. So make use of your vacation to cover aptitude. Don’t by-heart the formulae. Try to understand the problem and solve accordingly. Have a routine coding practice in platforms like Hackerrank and Hacker-earth and try to get through all the test cases. Be bold and confident while answering to an HR. Maintain good attitude throughout the process. Adhere to dress code always. Express what you know and don’t exaggerate things. Look through the company’s profile before attending the process. Share your interview experience with your colleagues and juniors too so that they can make use of it for their preparations.

All the best for your placements!!

BRINDHA EIV YEAR

PLACEMENT GUIDELINES FROM MY UNDERSTANDING


I LOVE U VIRUS DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS VIRUS?

The Love Letter Virus, also known as the Iloveyou virus, ILOVEYOU, and Love Letter, was a computer worm originating in the Philippines, which began infecting computers on May 5, 2000. It spread by e-mail, arriving with the subject line “ILOVEYOU” and an attachment, “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs”. If the attachment was opened, a Visual Basic script was executed, and the computer was infected. Many recipients were fooled because Microsoft Windows concealed the extension of the file, and it was mistaken as a simple text file. Once executed, the script then e-mailed itself to everyone in the victim’s contact list, edited the Windows Registry to execute the worm at startup, and replaced the data in many computer files, including JPEG images and Word documents, with copies of itself.LOVE BUG VARIANTSThe Love Bug infects all users who are using Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Outlook. The following is what will be the subject, message and the actual attachment for each of the currently known wild viruses. If you see this e-mail, do not attempt to open the attachment and instead delete the mail even if the message is from someone you know well.Variant BSubject: Susitikim shi vakara kavos puodukui...Message: kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.”Attachment: LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbsVariant CSubject: fwd: JokeMessage: *No Message*Attachment: VeryFunny.vbsVariant DSubject: ILOVEYOUMessage: kindly check the attached LOVELETTER coming from me.”Attachment: LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbsSpecial Notes: Creates Registry entries as WIN- -BUGFIX.exe instead of WIN-BUGSFIX.exe.Variant ESubject: Mothers Day Order ConfirmationMessage: We have proceeded to charge your credit card for the amount of $326.92 for the mothers day diamond special. We have attached a detailed invoice to this email. Please print

out the attachment and keep it in a safe place. Thanks Again and Have a Happy Mothers Day!Attachment: Mothersday.vbsVariant FSubject: Dangerous Virus WarningMessage: There is a dangerous virus circulating. Please click attached picture to view it and learn to avoid it.Attachment: virus_warning.jpg.vb

RAJALAKSHMI SIV YEAR

8MARCH 2020INSPERON

Sometimes life imitates art. Take for example, that scene in the 2002 science fiction film ‘Minority Report’, where Tom Cruise uses specially designed gloves to maneuver content around wall-sized computer screens just by waving his hands. That is totally doable, said Mike Friedel, director of sales for Oblong Industries. The company’s CEO, John Koffler,

was science adviser to Steven Spielberg for the sci-fi film. While Oblong’s product uses a wand rather than gloves, the premise is essentially the same. Gestural technology seeks to adapt the user interface, to make it more effective, more flexible, more intuitive. The user may interact with a computer monitor, a white board or a big array of screens. Commands may be conveyed through gloves or a wand or simply by waving a pattern in the air. This creates a new dynamic for

presentations. Instead of having to click and-drag on a screen, “now you can grab something, resize it and bring it into the picture from some other place, with simple gestures,” said Friedel.

More than mere convenience, the promise of gestural tech lies in its ability to give people freer access to the vast volumes of data that are growing up in the public realm. “People carry around massive amounts of data on smartphones and tablets and laptops. But can you really solve big problems on a smartphone? No. You need better access to that information,” he said. “Sometimes you need access to multiple streams of information, and the ability to manipulate that data is key. It’s not just about having the information. It’s about being able to combine that data, to cut and paste it and to share it.” This raises interesting possibilities for government, said Michael Hong, principal at global management consulting fi rm A.T. Kearney. When combined with virtual or augmented reality, the technology could open the door to smoother, more effective citizen services. Gestural technology could also help government to better serve those with disabilities. “These are customized, instantaneous, personalized experiences. If someone can move their fingers or arms and you have sensors that pick up on that, now they can interface and engage with government in ways that they haven’t been able to in the past,” he said. Gestural tech could bring new challenges too, as for instance with the auto industry’s interest in establishing hand gestures as a way to simplify the control interfaces in a car.

HARINEE ANANDHIV YEAR

GESTURAL INTERFACE


HOLO LENSE 2

Holo lense 2 is a pair of mixed reality smart glasses developed by Microsoft.Mixed reality is a very interesting concept where the real and virtual world coexist there by creating an entirely new environment. This takes the experience of users to next level. It provides a whole new level of virtual assistance which will be of great use in field of education and engineering.I’m pretty excited to get hands on experience with this device.

SAMSUNG’S NEW NEON PROJECT

Neon is an upcoming project from Samsung Technology and Advanced research lab. This technology is developed with a goal to provide humanly chatbots. They are not just an AI machine.They are developed with a motive of creating virtual humans. By the term ‘Virtual Humans’, what I meant, is that they have emotions. They can feel happiness as well as sadness. When feelings are combined, they almost become real humans. This primarily aims at improving chatbot experience to next level. LENOVO’S THINKPAD X1 FOLD

This is an upcoming product of Lenovo which is a PC with foldable screen. What’s unique is that the screen is made of OLED.The OLED panel is provided by LG which is the pioneer of OLED technology. This device is powered by Windows 10x which is developed by Microsoft for dual screen and foldable screen devices. This device is same as 9.7 inch iPad and it looks pretty great as well. What’s even more special is that, in portrait mode this device got a feature to bring keyboard on screen. This feature will give the feel of a laptop to its users. Another bonus is that the keyboard fills in the gap between the two halves of the screen when

the device is folded up. This device runs on Intel’s hybrid technology and its priced around 2499 USDs. This device gonna give new experience to PC users.

KAVIN VIGNESH JIV YEAR

BLOOMING TECHNOLOGIES

10MARCH 2020INSPERON

Who in the world actually likes to sit in a boring lecture to learn something as interesting as programming? The “Ah damn it, here we go again!! I have to attend the class today, I have no attendance” attitude will definitely never help one to learn programming. It is something that one has to do with his whole heart. Professional textbooks suggest visual aids such as presentations and videos as tools to better understanding. It is true, to an extent, yet, how many times did we find ourselves dozing off in a lecture that involved presentations? Crisp content in a presentation help us understand concepts better and of course, programming is no exception to that rule. While thinking about these visual aids being short, crispy and to the point, the idea of memes struck my mind. Well, I’m no professional meme maker, but an admirer of funny and interesting memes. I started hunting for memes related to programming. I honestly never thought that I would find an ocean of memes and meme pages. There’s so much content in them that I actually started learning stuff through memes. For instance, I never knew the meaning of the “sudo” command until I saw a meme about it. There’s this interesting meme that I saw about deadlock. An interviewer asked a candidate, “Explain deadlock and we will hire you.” The candidate in turn replied, “Hire me and I’ll explain it to you.” Could there be a better explanation for deadlock?I recently came across a one line meme that said, “I’m going to tell you a joke on UDP but you may not get it!” Interesting, right? These are just samples. There is much much more!! Some meme pages on Instagram actually teach programming like never before. There is a page called “inside code” where there are a lot of posts on optimization techniques along with the brute force approaches. A page called “learn machine learning” has an amazing set of posts that almost teach Machine Learning from scratch!! The conventional ways of learning obviously help lay a strong foundation for our programming knowledge, constant practice does make it better, and memes provide another perspective from which the (same old) concepts can be seen. If you’re someone who does all these, then congratulations!! You’re a Programemer!!

RAKSHITH L III YEAR

PROGRA(MEME)MING ENHANCE PROGRAMMING SKILLS THROUGH MEMES


Ray Tracing or so called “RTX” is a new feature introduced by NVidia, which is still in developing phase in terms of consumer applications out in the market. It is a technique that produce realistic lighting effect in 3D applications. Substantially, an algorithm can trace the path of light and then simulate the light interacts with the objects in the virtual world of computer. Over the years, we’ve seen the lighting effects in video games have become more and more realistic, but the ray tracing is more about how the object interacts with the world and has less about the light itself. This brings dramatically more lifelike shadows and reflections with improved scattering. The algorithm finds where the light hits and calculates the interaction and interplay it is more like the human eye would see the real light reflections and shadows.Even though, there is enough computational power available, it’s possible to render realistic CG images that close in real life. But with a well-equipped gaming PC only has so much GPU power to work with, let a modern game console. Thus, this is just small beginning to the era of new GPUs which is based Turing micro-architecture and the end of Pascal based GPUs.

GANESH RIII YEAR

THE RISE AND RAYS OF THE GPU


DON’T FEAR INTELLIGENT MACHINES, WORK WITH THEM

This article is based on a ted talk presented by the famous chess player Garry Kasparov, who was considered to be the world’s best, and who lost his match to the IBM’s super computer, ‘The Deep Blue’. In 1985, he defeated 22 of the world’s best chess playing machines and was the Grand master during that age. He was very proud at that time and stated that the machines were weak those days. After 12 years, in 1997 he played two games with the IBM’s super computer The Deep Blue in which he won the first match but lost the second. When he first met Deep Blue, he had a weird feeling, the feeling which we may experience when wetravel on a driverless car for the first time or the feeling we experience on receiving an order from a computer. He wondered on the capabilities of technology. He wondered what a machine can do with him. But when he lost, he was very upset. He worried whether his beloved game of chess was gone. He then understood that he was afraid of his match and he was pretty sureof the fact that his opponent had no such fears. He then thought of playing chess games with computers on his side. Machines have statistics and we have knowledge. His dream came into existence in 1998 in the name of Advanced machines. But its first experience was a failure, since the collaboration of machine power and human brain was not perfect. He came to a formulation that a machine plus a good process plus a weak player is superior to a strong player and even more superior to a machine plus a weak process plus a strong player. The technology is growing at a higher pace and it is our responsibility to grow with it. Nowadays machines can work on their own and reduce manual labor. But we should not worry about it. Instead think of the ways in which we can bring the best out of it for the advancement of humanity. We should never worry about what machines can do today instead worry about what machines cannot do today. Machines have calculation and we have knowledge. Machines have objective and have purpose. We should work for the benefit of the society with machines on our side. The only thing, we as humans can do is, to dream. So let’s dream and achieve big!!

NEHA S SNEHAS III YEAR III YEAR


The morning blue skies of May 30th, 2019 welcomed me as I arrived on the little island that man had made in his sight though God has His own. The beautiful landscapes and the mystical buildings of the country of Singapore drove past me as I took a cab from airport to NUS. I pondered back, rewinding my calendar to February 22nd, 2019 – the day when I received the offer letter citing my application being accepted and I was to join the intelligent and creative minds selected for the GAIP Global AcademicInternship Program Big Data Analytics using Artificial Neural Networks was a memorable one. Each and every moment, from landing at Changi Airport and setting my watch two and a half hours ahead of IST to reverting it exactly 60 days later, was a memorable one. It is always a special moment when you meet the professors and the management team who gave you the opportunity to work with them, for the first time. On the very first day, one of my professors asked “How is Singapore?” and my response was ‘Singapore is inspiring!’ As far as the first week of internship was concerned, it ended up in a useful manner where we learnt about various techniques of data analytics using Excel and more importantly, the data analytics process and why it is important. As a follow up of the first week, the second week schedule was also the program conducted by one of the NUS faculties, Dr.Tan, in which the session was talked on Components of a decision tree, splitting rules and criteria, Using decision tree in python with scikit learn, various advanced classification models, naïve bayesian classifier,Logistic regression, multinomial logistic regression, using these advanced classification models in python with scikit learn. Then we were introduced to multinomial logistic regression and then moved to text mining and the idea of acquiring and preparing their own data. Dr.Wei Wang took over the BDANN class. Prof Wang began with an introduction to artificial neural networks. He showed the class many demos of popular applications of ANNs. After a run through the history of neural networks, the professor taught the detailed working of multi-layer perceptrons. The contents taught in class lectures helped us to implement an improvised solution to the problem statement considered. We have been given enough time to work on our project and the final assessment was scheduled on 24.6.2019.

LIFE AT NUS


In the HP program we were given hands on Training with the Hadoop Systems. We used cloud Virtualization where we used AWS service. We were given 5 days full of Hands on Training which was the best part of this Internship. For the HP project we came up with

an idea of Analytics on Movies based on their ratings and their success factor so that it is very easy for a new production company to decide which type of movie to produce. The final assessment for this project was scheduled on 28.06.2019 followed by a final quiz.

The diverse culture and cleanliness at NUS was instantly impressive. The people were nice and helpful, and the weather was awesome! I realised, there was so much to learn, to observe and to do. The culture, the food, the language, and the people- everything was new. Days passed very quickly. Besides working hours, there was an equally exciting life

outside. During weekends, we all went to look around the little country Singapore and visited places like Little India, Chinatown, Marina Bay Sands, Sentosa Island, Singapore Flyer, Universal Studios and many more. I learnt the way the country’s system worked, how organized and systematic and law-abiding the citizens of Singapore were. The structured, flawless and the most efficient was definitely the country’s public transportation facility- a real class apart from the rest of the world.

After my successful internship, I now strongly believe in NUS’s mission statement — to transform the way people think and do things through education, research and service. New friends, inspiring research supervisor, a rich research experience, loads of memories and gigabytes of photos- that’s what I bring back from an awesome summer spent in Singapore.The roads looked longer; the bus stands looked lonelier as we walked back for the very last time. I bid adieu to the little nation but it had definitely sent me back home with many sweet memories that I will cherish for years and years to come. I feel ignited. Overall, it was a wonderful experience working together with students from 3 most emerging nations in science in Asia i.e. Chinese, Japanese and Indians. I so miss it!

RISHABH K PATELIV YEAR


All article is written based upon something they had inspired through their vision. Thus, we get inspired something by our visual in this visually advanced world. So, the idea of article based on graphical designing is catchier to choose. so basically, what is graphical designing? By the web sources, it has been clearly defined in two ways. One, Graphic design is the process of communicating visually using typography and images to present information. Graphic design practice embraces a range of cognitive skills, aesthetics and crafts, including typography, visual arts and page layout. Like other forms of design, graphic design often refers to both the process (designing) by which the communication is created and the products (designs) which are generated. Two, Graphic design is a creative process that combines art and technology to communicate ideas. The designer works with a variety of communication tools in order to convey a message from a client to a particular audience. The main tools are image and typography. And its more interesting that there are eight types of graphical designing.They are,• Visual identity graphic design.• Marketing & advertising graphic design. • User interface graphic design. • Publication graphic design.• Packaging graphic design. • Motion graphic design.• Environmental graphic design.• Art and illustration for graphic design.

Visual identity graphic design: Visual identity graphic design can be described as the visual elements of brand identity that act as the face of a brand to communicate those intangible qualities through images, shapes and color. Designers that specialize in visual identity graphic design collaborate with brand stakeholders to create assets like logos, typography, color palettes and image libraries that represent a brand’s personality.

Marketing & advertising graphic design. Marketing designers work with company owners, directors, managers or marketing professionals to create assets for marketing strategies. They might work alone or as part of an in-house or creative team.Example of Marketing & advertising graphic designis Magazine and newspaper ads. Example for Art and illustration for graphic design are Comic books, Technical illustration and Concept arts.

GRAPHIC DESIGNING


User interface graphic design. A user interface (UI) is how a user interacts with a device or application. UI design is the process of designing interfaces to make them easy to use and provide a user-friendly experience. Example of User interface graphic designis Web page design

Publication graphic design. Publication design is a classic type of design—think books, newspapers, magazines and catalogs.Graphic designers that specialize in publications work with editors and publishers to create layouts with carefully selected typography and accompanying artwork, which includes photography, graphics and illustrations.

Packaging graphic design. Packaging designers create concepts, develop mockups and create the print-ready files for a product. This requires expert knowledge of print processes and a keen understanding of industrial design and manufacturing

Motion graphic design. Motion graphics design is a little new for designers. Formally reserved for TV and film, technological advances have reduced production time and costs, making the art form more accessible and affordable. Now, motion graphics is one of the newest types of design and can be found across all digital platforms, which has created all sorts of new areas and opportunities.Example for Motion graphic design are animated logos and promotional videos.

Environmental graphic design. Environmental graphic design visually connects people to places to improve their overall experience by making spaces more memorable, interesting, informative or easier to navigate. Environmental design is a broad type of design, here are some examples:Public transportation navigation and Event and conference spaces.

Art and illustration for graphic design. Graphic art and illustration are often seen as being the same as graphic design, however they’re each very different. Designers create compositions to communicate and solve problems, graphic artists and illustrators create original artwork. Their art takes a number of forms, from fine art to decoration to storytelling illustrations.Example for Art and illustration for graphic design are Comic books, Technical illustration and Concept art.

LAKSHMIRAJ NIII YEAR


When we think of the web, most of us think of sites like Google, Facebook, Twitter. The web that is accessed through search engines like Google and Bing is only a tiny percentage of the “web” that’s out there, Known as the “surface web”, “indexed web”, and “visible web”. The current estimated size of the surface web, according to one source, is close to 5 billion pages.

However, the surface web is believed to make up only a tiny percentage of the World Wide Web, with much of it existing on the “deep web” and the “dark web”.No one really knows how big the deep web is, but it is certainly larger than the surface web, with some estimates saying it may be 500 times as large as the searchable web. According to a study published in Nature in 2015, Google indexes just 16 percent of the surface web, and none of the deep web, meaning that a Google search will show up less than 1 percent of the information that exists online.

The analogy of an iceberg is often used to describe the difference between the surface web and the deep web we can see a small part of it on the surface, but a lot more lies beneath.

Websites on the dark web don’t end in “.com” or “.org” or other more common web address endings; they more often include long strings of letters and numbers, ending in “.onion” or “.i2p.”

DARK WEB


HOW DARK WEB ENCRYPTION WORKS

TOR and similar services operate by bouncing your traffic around the web so that your ISP does not know what sites you visit, and the sites you visit do not know your physical location. TOR users do not connect directly to the website or service they want to visit. Instead, they bounce through a series of nodes on the network. Each node only knows the data it receives and the node to which it is passing the data.So while the initial node knows it is being connected to by, for instance, MK’s computer, it doesn’t know which website MK is planning to visit, as MK’s connection will be bounced through further nodes before connecting to its final destination. This website will only know the final node that connected to it, it will not know that MK’s computer was the one that originally sent the request to connect to the service.

This complex encryption model makes it very difficult to trace back who has visited a site using the dark web, guaranteeing users a level on anonymity they do not have on the surface web.

DEEP WEB VS DARK WEB

While the terms are often used interchangeably, the deep web and the dark web are not the same thing. The deep web refers to the parts of the World Wide Web that are not indexed by search engines. It includes things like databases, email services, online banking services, and other services protected by paywalls or passwords.

The dark web is relatively a small part of the deep web. Websites on the dark web are not accessible through normal browsers and can only be accessed through special software such as TOR or I2P (Invisible Internet Protocol).

The appeal of the dark web is its anonymity.It has a high level of encryption that means it is difficult to identify either those visiting websites or hosting websites on the dark web. TOR is one of the popular services used to visit darkweb sites.

GOWTHAM KIII YEAR


The success or failure of any invention, specifically a technological invention, depends on how effectively it serves the society and when the BatSense Chip was welcomed by the cricketing fraternity, this technological invention had its mission accomplished. When Bangladesh’s Tamim Iqbal scored his first 100 against England, his coaches would have been able to give him some new insight into why he did so well and how he might replicate that performance. Normally, top-level cricket coaches would give their advice based on what they saw, perhaps helped by video analysis software and some biomechanical analytics about the batsman’s movements. Yet Tamim’s coaches had some extra help. The Bangladesh star was one of many players using a smart bat with sensor technology in the handle – the first time this had been used at a major cricket tournament. For a while now, cricket coaches and analysts have, during practice, placed sensors on key parts of batsmen bodies – arms, legs, the abdomen and thighs – that generate movements that determine how efficiently the batter hits the ball. Yet whereas the player’s body propels the bat, it’s the bat itself that actually speeds through the air and strikes the ball.The new sensor tech, named BatSense, was devised by Intel, the International Cricket Council’s Innovation partner, and sports start-up Specular. The technology sends real-time data of bat speed and angle from the point the batter lifts the bat, through the downward arc, the moment of impact and the follow through, to an analyst’s computer. “A batter needs fast hand-speed to create power through the ball,” says England and Wales Cricket Board’s lead batting coach, Graham Thorpe. Thorpeexplains the necessary bat speed can be created by big, tall players with long levers (arms), like England’s Alex Hales and Ben Stokes, but also the short snappy arm movements preferred by shorter players like Jonny Bairstow, Eoin Morgan and Thorpe himself. Each BatSense chip weighs less than 25g and fits into a sleeve covering the bat handle beneath the rubber grip. It contains an Intel Curie compute module, which processes wireless data with motion sensors and built-in algorithms. During the design phase, Specular engineers had to ensure these algorithms produced accurate measures from players’ bats. The average batter moves a lot as they wait to hit the ball, like tapping the bat on the ground and shuffling their feet. Some batsmen get rhythm from this, for others it’s a habit. From the point of view of the analyst, it’s just noise, so the algorithm had to be taught to ignore it. The smallest errors in a batsman’s technique can be the difference between them succeeding and failing at international level. Apart from the information about bat speed and angle, there are more pressing things that they need to know. Balance, coordinating movements, tracking the ball with their eyes from the bowler, off the pitch and onto the bat, keeping their head still as they strike the ball and so on.

COMPUTER,CHIPS AND CRICKET


At a Champions trophy event, Intel used a Falcon 8 drone to monitor pitch conditions. The drone carried HD and infra-red cameras to monitor and assess grass coverage, grass health and topology. TV commentators used this information to provide insights into how the pitch might affect play. Bats containing BatSense technology were used in fan zones at the Oval, London, and Edgbaston, Birmingham, during the Champions Trophy. Fans could put on a headset and face virtual-reality bowlers. Cricket Australia, the sport’s governing body down under, is preparing for the Ashes by using a new Microsoft sports analytics platform to help coaches better understand player performance. Specular’s principal engineer, Nara Sundarajan, thinks it won’t be long before someone attaches sensors to cricket balls to record how much a bowler spins, swings the ball, or moves it off the seam.

TECHNIQUE CHECK: SIX THNGS THE SMART BAT MEASURES

1. Time to impact Elapsed time between back-lift and the ball impact point.2. Follow through angle Angle of bat from vertical to the rest point or direction change after impact.3. Bat speed at impact The speed of the bat at the time of impact with the ball. 4. Back lift angle Angle of bat from vertical to the rest point on the backswing.5. Max bat speed Maximum bat speed within the swing between backlift and follow through.6. Impact angle Bat surface vertical angle during impact with the ball.There’s virtually no domain where Computer and technology haven’t placed their giant feet on.And the Cricketing field is no exception.Embracing the change and adapting to the ‘SMART WAY’ is definnitely the way forward!!

BALASATYA N II YEAR

PERKS OF USING A BAT SENSOR


Can u guess the output for the following code:int main(){ inti;for(i = 0; i< 128; i++){ printf(“%d”,i);}return 0;}Yes , you are right . The printf() statement will be executed 128 times . The output will be: 0 1 2 3..127Now , guess the output for the following code:int main(){ chari;for(i = 0; i< 128; i++){ printf(“%d\n”,i);}return 0;}Do you think the loop will also run 128 times ? The answer is “NO”. It will run indefinitely.Let us first see the output: 01.126127-128Did you notice anything in the above output ? It seems that 128 will come after 127 and the loop will get terminated . But -128 has come after 127 and -128 is less than 128 which satisfies the condition and hence the loop does not stop . But the question is why -128 comes after 127 ?. Let us see the reason..EXPLANATION : Usually , a character variable takes 1 byte(8 bits) of memory to store a character . Among these 8 bits , the most significant leftmost bit is sign bit and the remaining 7 bits represent the magnitude.

INFINITE LOOPS IN C If the sign bit is 0 then it represents +ve value else it represent –vevalue .So , the binary representation will be Value of ‘i’ Binary representation

0 0000 0000 1 0000 0001 2 0000 0010 .. … 126 0111 1110 127 0111 1111

Now add 1 to it0111 1111

1 (+)---------------1000 0000

Now , the sign bit is 1 so this becomes a –ve number . Probably , you know that negative integers are represented using 2’s complement and 2’s complement of -128 is “1000 0000”.

So, “ i ” becomes -128 instead of +128 . Hence “ i ” varies between 0, 1, 2,… , 127, -128 , -127 , … ,-1, 0, 1, 2,…. and so on . But the similar thing must not happen in the first program because the size of an integer is 2 bytes or 4 bytes depending on OS . If the size of integer variable is 2 bytes( 2 * 8 = 16 bits ) then can you tell the minimum value of “ n ” which will make the following loop an infinite loop ?


Study mode is an app, which will be implemented for the students who cannot resist themselves from using mobile phones while they are involved in work and who want to use their phone only when it is required or emergency purposes. Coming to this app, this app “Study Mode” will work by message processing. When an individual is involved in an important work. He or she can use this app. Time limit will also be given. The following are the situations where the ‘Study Mode’ app can be used.

• When the mobile is in study mode• When a message is received• Urgent or important word should be given in messages. • If the word, is given it will read by the mode and it will be displayed.• When calls have to be made the respective numbers should be selected and only those calls will be received by the phone.• If needed, the individual can select time limit. Till that limit the

study mode will be on.• After the limit get over, study mode will off automatically.• When this mode is on, an individual cannot access• Any other apps like Instagram,Facebook etc. This app will be very useful for the current and the future generation of India.Their dream will not be withheld by the Smartphones.

SAMYUKTHA VII YEAR

STUDY MODE

int main(){ inti;for(i = 0; i< n ; i++){ printf(“%d\n”,i);}return 0;}Maximum positive integer that can be represented using 16 bits is “ 0111 1111 1111 1111 ”or 32767 . When “ i ” becomes equal to 32767 then the next increment makes it -32768 instead of +32768 . Therefore , the minimum value of “ n ” will be 32768.

SUGASH J II YEAR


ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION •Travelling sales man problem•Vehicle routing problem•Graph coloring •Network traffic optimatization

BEE COLONY OPTIMIZATION•Job shop scheduling•MR Brain image classification •Face poses estimation•Parameter estimation

BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES

FISH SCHOOLING OPTIMIZATION •Threats detection •Forecasting stock indices using radial basis•Knapsack problem

BIRDS FLOCKING OPTIMIZATION •Robotics based rescue operation•Computer animation•Separation (avoid crowding neighbours)•Alignment(steer towards average heading of neighbours)

SUWETHA SII YEAR


ACROSS

2. A device type that feeds data into a computer, such as a keyboard or mouse.5. The exclusive right, as recognized separately in each country, to publish and sell literary, artistic, or musical materials.10. A software system that links topics on the screen to related information and graphics, which are typically accessed by a point and click method.11. Copy (data) from one computer system to another, typically over the Internet.14. Usually consists of eight bits.15. A measure of the amount of computational work that a computer system performs.

FILL ME OUT

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1. Usually comprises the display device, circuitry, casing, and power supply.3. An error, flaw, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that causes it to produce an incorrect or unexpected result or to behave in unintended ways.4. A client software program that runs against a Web server or otherInternet server and enables a user to navigate the World Wide Web (WWW) to access and display data.6. The collection of physical parts of a computer system.7. Sending an email, posting photos on a social media site and using your webcam.8. A part of a computer system or network that is designed to block unauthorized access while permitting outward communication.9. The combination of typeface and other qualities, such as size, pitch, and spacing.12. Any computer-generated information displayed on screen, printed on paper or in machine readable form, such as disk and tape.13. A word or group of words that act as a way to cross reference to other documents or files on the computer.

KRISHNA P IV YEAR


THE BINARY SUDOKU:

Randall presents a binary sudoku puzzle. The joke is that the binary system has only two digits (0 and 1). Thus, the binary puzzle is a challenging logic puzzle that can be solved just by reasoning. Only zeros and ones occur in the puzzle, but this turns out to be more complicated than it seems to be.

RULES:

Binary puzzle has to be solved according to the following rules:1. Each box should contain either a zero or a one.2. More than two equal numbers immediately next to or below each are not allowed.3. Each row and each column should contain an equal number of zeros and ones.4. Each row is unique and each column is unique. Thus, any row cannot be exactly equal to another row, and any column cannot be exactly equal to another column

SUWETHA S II YEAR

THE BINARY SUDOKU


CLOUD HUNT Inventor of Computer BIOS Inventor of Computer Bug Inventor of First Data Base Inventor of Computer Scanner Inventor of Computer Speakers Founder of Apple Computers Founder of Artificial Intelligence Founder of Bluetooth Father of ‘C’ Language Father of ‘C++’ language

Founder of Email Founder of Internet Father of ‘Java’ Founder of Linux Founder of Mouse Founder of Php Founder of USB Founder of WWWFounder of Yahoo Founders of Oracle

REVATHI MII YEAR


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KRISHNA PIV YEAR


CRACK IT !1. A snail wishes to reach a water shore. To do this it must cross a wall which is 30 feet high. It has a time limit of 30 hours to reach atop the wall. The time starts as soon as it starts climbing the wall. However, he faces a problem while climbing. Every hour it climbs the wall 3 feet up, it slides down 2 feet. This occurs every hour. So how many hours will it take for the snail to reach atop the wall?

2. You are blindfolded and 10 coins are place in front of you on table. You are allowed to touch the coins, but can’t tell which way up they are by feel. You are told that there are 5 coins head up, and 5 coins tails up but not which ones are which. Can you make two piles of coins each with the same number of heads up? You can flip the coins any number of times.

3. You have 5 jars of pills. Each pill weighs 10 grams, except for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill weighs 9 grams. Given a scale, how could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?


CHECKOUT PG 48 TO SATISFY YOUR CURIOSITY


As an ardent music lover, my day begins with two simple things... early morning blues and a dope playlist to combat such symptoms. So many of us like to hit the gym, go for an early morning jog, or just chill out to our favourite Spotify recommended. Music undoubtedly plays a pivotal role in our lives. When we think of AI... it’s glistening silver bots, self driven cars and complicated automations that immediately come to mind. Your Spotify recommended? A series of advanced algorithms that adapt to your taste in music, evolving at each step with the data you provide it, to create the perfect personalized tailor made song suggestions at your disposal. It’s a uniquely powerful combination of 3 data analysis models.(1) Collaborative filtering-analyse both yours and others behaviour.(2) Natural language processing-analyze text.(3) Audio analysis-analyze the raw tracks themselves combined together you get your weekly recommended from an app that knows you like your best mate.AI has been employed not just in marketing and recommendations. It has also been integrated into music production, creation, mixing and sampling, lyric generation and so on. Some softwares have been programmed to perform the songs as live performances.Some of the popular platforms are Google’s magenta, amper, AIVA. All of them have the basic concept: feed the system tonnes of data-from disco classics to indie rock to EDM. It picks up chords, tempo, length, patterns and how notes relate to each other and from that data creates unique self produced melodies. pretty neat if you think about how it transforms an artists one month work into a 120 second process.

MUSIC AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Some deliver midi while some deliver audio. This feature can be exploited extensively to create more personalized content for the user.. Sony CSL laboratory distributed the first ever pop song written and produced entirely by AI called daddy’s car based on the theme of Beatles. Over 13000 were entered into the program from which a 3.00 minute song was created entirely by AI. Back then popular musician David bowie worked alongside engineers to create an app called Verbasizer in the 90’s. It took literary source material as input and randomly reordered them to form lyrics. This shone a new light in the creative writing process. In recent times pop artist Taryn southern, incorporated AI into her album to create “I AM AI” the first ever pop album composed and produced entirely with AI Use of AI in music is seen as unoriginal or threatening to musicians by many. However, AI is merely a tool that can work hand in hand with artists to create revolutionized music. It is only a threat if we deem it to be. By mingling AI into music, we can take music to the next level.

YOGALAKSHMI SII YEAR


Key features:• Danielle Baskin, a San Francisco-based designer is creating custom N95 respiratory masks that will help protect against the Coronavirus.• The masks are specially printed to match the lower portion of your face so that facial recognition features on smartphones will still work while you’re using the mask.

Amid a worldwide shortage of N95 respirator masks to protect Chinese citizens from exposure to the COVID-19 virus,the official name for the Wuhan Coronavirus, Danielle Baskina San Francisco-based designer has come up with a gimmick that won’t just shield you from pathogens, but will also make you look like a walking art installation.These custom respirator masks, called “Resting Risk Face” look exactly like you, meaning you can unlock your iPhone with FaceID without removing your protective gear and potentially exposing yourself to the virus.

To get your custom mask, which costs $40, you’ll have to first upload a photo of your face to Resting Risk Face’s forthcoming mobile app. Natural light works best, according to the website, so you’ll want to take your photo during the day. You’ll then be able to preview the map of your face and tweak any alignment issues relating to how your facial features will look on the mask.

Then, to print your face onto the mask, Resting Risk Face uses computational mapping, which is exactly what it sounds like: a way for computers to translate the pixels of your facial features onto the surface of a surgical mask without distortion. The mask’s elastic band will also be made to match your skin tone. Resting Risk Face’s printer uses inks made of natural, non-toxic dyes so it doesn’t affect breathability.

CUSTOM RESPIRATOR MASKS OUR NEW BLEAK REALITY !!


While this will help your friends identify you more easily, or lp patients in finding their doctor, Baskin says that for facial recognition features to work on your smartphone, you’ll have to add an alternate appearance to your FaceID settings (or equivalent settings on Android). This is pretty much the same deal as adding your face with or without makeup or another version of your face with a new set of glasses.

On an iPhone: Settings > Face ID & Passcode > Set Up an Alternate Appearance, then follow the onscreen instructions and take a photo of yourself in the mask.On an Android device: Settings > Lock Screen menu > Improve Facial Recognition > tap Continue > take a photo of yourself in the mask. Beyond corona-virus concerns, Baskin says that folks working at hospitals or around chemicals always need masks, so she sees an ongoing user base for her creations. As for the rest of society, she sees a bleak future where we’ll need to wear masks to protect ourselves from the effects of pollution.

KRISHNA PIV YEAR

"...Years from now, as our air quality declines, we'll probably need better, more industrialmasks. So, it's inevitable that masks become part of our fashion", says Baskin.


I’m sure you have heard of new technology Blockchain, or if not, the new money Bitcoin?(Minting money!!!). Blockchain is the underlying technology which is used to create bitcoin. Well here are 6 questions that would answer what a blockchain is. First things first, here are some terms you might want to take a look at first before you proceed.

Block:A block is made of digital pieces of information and has three parts.I.Information about transactions such as time, date, amount II.Participants in the transaction.III.Hash of the block along with the previous block’s hash.Here’s how a simple block would look like. Hash:

A hash is a unique digital fingerprint of a certain amount of data generated using a hashing algorithm. Hash is a one way function unlike encrypted data which can be decrypted.Mining:In proof-of-work, miners use special software to solve mathematical problems and are issued a certain number of rewards in the form of

cryptocurrencies. This provides a smart way to issue the currency and also creates an incentive for more people to mine.

Decentralization:Decentralization is the process of distributing and dispersing power away from a central authority and distributing the power over the network.

Nodes:Nodes are computers in the blockchain network. Each node has a copy of the digital ledger or Blockchain. Each node checks the validity of each transaction. If a majority of nodes say that a transaction is valid then it is written into a block.

Smart contracts:Smart contracts are lines of code that are stored on a blockchain and automatically executed when predetermined terms and conditions are met. At the most basic level, they are programs that run as they’ve been set up to run by the people who developed them. Smart contracts were created to diversify the usage of blockchain technology and not just send and receive cryptocurrency.

BLOCKCHAIN SIMPLIFIED IN 6 QUESTIONS


Q1: WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN? As the name suggests, blockchain is a decentralized system of chain of blocks strung together forming a network. In simpleterms, Blockchain can be described as a data structure that holds transactional records, send, receive, validate transactionsetc, all while ensuring security, transparency, and decentralization. You can also think of it as a chain or records stored in the forms of blocks which are controlled by no single authority. A blockchain is a distributed ledger that is completely open to anyone and everyone on the network. Once an information is stored on a blockchain, it is extremely difficult to change or alter it.

Q2:HOW DOES BLOCKCHAIN WORK? A blockchain network makes use of public and private keys in order to form a digital signature ensuring security and consent.• Once the authentication is ensured through these keys, the need for authorization arises.• Blockchain allows participants of the network to perform mathematical verification and reach a consensus to agree on any particular value.• While making a transfer, the sender uses their private key and announces the transaction information over the network. A block is created containing information such as digital signature, timestamp, and the receiver’s public key.• This block of information is broadcasted through the network and the validation process starts.• Once the majority of nodes in the network come to a consensus and agree to a common solution, the block is time stamped and added to the existing blockchain. This block can contain anything from money to data to messages.• After the new block is added to the chain, the existing copies of blockchain are updated for all the nodes on the network.Pictorial description of a blockchain.

Q3. IS BLOCKCHAIN SECURE ENOUGH? New blocks are always stored linearly and chronologically. That is, they are always added to the “end” of the blockchain.After a block has been added to the end of the blockchain, it is extremely difficult to go back and alter the contents of the block. That’s because each block contains its own hash, along with the hash of the block before it, If that information is edited in any

way, the hash code changes.If a hacker tries to alter a transaction, the block’s hash changes and since the next block contains the hash of the block the hacker altered, the hacker has to also alter the next block and the next and so on. So in order to change a single block a hacker has to change all the other succeeding blocks which is extremely difficult and would cost enormous amount of resources to do so. In a proof-of-work blockchain like Bitcoin,If a hacker wanted to coordinate an attack on the blockchain, they would need to control more than 50% of all computing power on the blockchain so as to be able to control all other participants in the network. Given the tremendous size of the Bitcoin blockchain, a so-called 51% attack is almost certainly not worth the effort and more than likely impossible.


Q4: WHY BLOCKCHAIN?• Security: It is the most secure system till date with no hacks ever made• Peer-to-peer: Since it is a decentralized system no middle man is required.• Transparency: All the transactions are recorded in the blockchain.• Speed: Due to its cross-border platform and peer-to-peer attributes, transactions occur much faster as compared to traditional systems.• Cost efficient: Since no middle man is required, cost of a transaction is reduced drastically. • Decentralized: No central authority controls over the network and power is distributed among the networks.

Q5:WHERE CAN WE USE BLOCKCHAIN? Blockchain’s uses can be diversified through the usage of smart contracts and can be used in a million ways on how the developer wants it,Some popular usage are:• De-fi(decentralized finance)• Healthcare• Insurance• E-voting• Certificate issue• Storing of Land records• Government funds tracking• Supply chain

Blockchain is already being implemented by large companies, some examples are:FedEx FedEx is one of the world’s biggest logistics management companies and handles billions of dollars worth of cargo every year. FedEx has now become the first big shipping giant to incorporate Blockchain Technology into their supply chain management. So far, FedEx uses Blockchain to track high-value cargo and are soon planning to extend the functionality to almost all their shipments.

IBM Using the Hyperledger Blockchain creator tool, they can help organisations to create their own distributed ledger and smart contract systems. They have already partnered with some businesses that deal with logistics to increase efficiency and lower costs for them. The partners include logistics giants like Walmart and banks like the Bank of Montreal , Commerzbank, Erste Group, and the United Bank of Switzerland.


Bank of America Bank of America is trying to enable open-sourced ledgers to create more efficient financial transactions for consumers and business. Combined with Ripple’s XRP token, Bank of America could save billions of dollars every year in cross-border payments.

Huawei Technologies Huawei wants to use Blockchains to organize the mobile industry further to reduce fraud and trickery. Huawei states that Blockchain Technology offers mobile carriers superb opportunities to support the transformation of business models through new network layers, which can revolutionize how data integrity is verified and value and rights are transmitted and tracked over the infrastructure to subscribers.”

Microsoft Microsoft is another tech giant that has embraced Blockchain Technology since its inception. Microsoft had started accepting Bitcoin payments on its website from 2014. Microsoft has also secured some 40 patents related to the use of Blockchains as payment gateways and for secure storage. Microsoft is also letting businesses and developers deploy their own Blockchain using Stratis in Microsoft Azure.

Q6.IS BLOCKCHAIN THE FUTURE? So one would wonder that given all the strengths and benefits of blockchain, is this the next dotcom technology?Experts predict that by 2030• Most governments around the world will create or adopt some form of virtual currency.• There will be more trillion-dollar tokens than there will be trillion-dollar companies.• A cross-border, blockchain-based, self-sovereign identity standard will emerge for individuals, as well as physical and virtual assets.• Most of world trade will be conducted leveraging blockchain technology. With blockchain constantly being developed and evolving there emerges many use cases. Blockchain may also be integrated with AI, machine learning etc to further expand the technological horizons and where it can be used to revolutionizethe technology industry and further help the world as a whole.

KAISII AIII YEAR


INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GOOGLEFact #1Google Was Originally Known As “Project BackRub”When Brin and Larry Page first developed an algorithm for searching the net, they dubbed it “BackRub”. This algorithm was then used to measure and rank the importance of web pages based on inbound links; the skeleton of what would become Google Search was formed. Changing the name from Backrub to Google was probably a smart choice.

Fact #2Google is a Multi-Billion Dollar Spelling MistakeGoogle is perhaps the biggest and most public spelling mistake ever made. Page and Brin settled on “Googol” as the name for their search engine, referring to the impossibly large number of the same name (the number 1 followed by a hundred zeros).When it came time to register the domain name, they were delighted to find that Google.com was available. Good reason

for that – until then, Google wasn’t even a real word! The term “googol” to describe the number 10100 was originally coined by a nine-year-old boy. At one point, his family considered suing Google for their use of the word.

Fact #3The Founders Originally Didn’t Get AlongDespite similar visions and interests in the World Wide Web, Page and Brin certainly didn’t start off as friends. As soon as they met, the pair clashed on nearly every topic they discussed and both referred to the other as “obnoxious”. Despite (or even because of) their passion for arguments, the two ended up becoming friends and would later join forces on a research project that would change the internet

forever.

Fact #4The First Google Computer Was Made From Lego Due to budget constraints (don’t forget, even the founders of Google were once poor college students), the Google team fashioned custom-made server racks out of Lego bricks.Today, Google runs more than one million servers in data centres around the world to handle over 3.5 billon searches made internationally every day. Hard to

imagine it all started with a single server built from a children’s toy!


Fact #5Google’s First Chef Was a Former Caterer For ‘The Grateful Dead’. In 1999, Google’s employees (all 40 of them) held a cook-off to determine who to hire as head chef. Charlie Ayers, former caterer for American rock band, The Grateful Dead, won the competition and held the position for 7 years

.Fact #6Google Was Officially ‘Verbified’ Google received one of its biggest honors when the Oxford English Dictionary officially added “Google” as a verb in 2006. Google’s influence became so widespread that “to Google” became synonymous with searching for information on the internet.

Fact #7Google Was Nearly Sold For Less Than A Million Dollars Next time you make a bad decision, spare a thought for the former CEO of internet company Excite, George Bell. When Bell was made an offer to buy Google for $1 million back in 1999, he declined. The price was knocked down to a steal at $750,000 but he still declined, saying the asking price was too high.Bell couldn’t have predicted the company he turned down would later go on to make hundreds of billions of dollars and become a global phenomenon.

Fact #8Google Introduced A Search Engine That Reads Your MindIn April of 2000, Google announced the release of “MentalPlex”, a search engine that reads your mind to determine your search results. Sounds unbelievable? Well… yeah. MentalPlex was actually the first of what would become several cheeky Google hoaxes announced each year on April Fools’ Day.


Fact #9Google Rents Goats To Maintain The Grounds Of Its California Headquarters. Since 2009, Google has replaced lawnmowers with a herd of 200 goats to maintain the lawns at its Mountain View HQ. Google hires the goats for about a week at a time, allowing them to graze on the grass, clear the weeds, and fertilize the grounds. Dan Hoffman, director of real estate and workplace services at Google California,

claims it costs about the same as mowing, adding, “Goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawnmowers.

PRABHA DIII YEAR

VARIOUS JOB OPPORTUNITIES

DESIGN UX/UI Designer Web Designer Game Designer

SKILLS REQUIRED Creativity Knowledge in one designing tool Problem Solving Programming Knowledge (eg.., html/css etc..,) Multimedia Design

RESEARCH Nano Technologist Telecommunication Researcher Enhancement of Computer Intelligence

SKILLS REQUIRED Programming Skills Knowledge on Current Technology Team Management Ability to Research on New Things. Analyse and develop your skills based.

ANALYST Application Analyst Cyber Security Analyst Data Analyst Forensic Computer Analyst System Analyst

SKILLS REQUIRED Programming Skill (eg., R, Python etc..,) Analytical Thinking Knowledge in any one Analytical tool

DEVELOPER Android/iOS Application Developer Web Developer Game Developer

SKILLS REQUIRED Creativity Programming Skill (eg., Java, C++, jsect.,) Knowledge in one Server Technology (eg., Tomcat, Flask, Django etc.,) Knowledge in one Development Tool


VARIOUS IT FIRMS

Information System Manager IT Consultant IT Sales Manager IT Trainer

SKILLS REQUIRED Basic Programming Skill Communication Skill Marketing Skill Time Management Leadership Report Writing Commercial Awareness

MAINTENANCE Database Administrator Network Administrator Application Tester

SKILLS REQUIRED Programming Skill (eg., SQL, NoSQL, java etc.,) Knowledge in one Database System Knowledge in multithreading, and parallel programming Knowledge in one Testing Framework (eg., Mocha, Selenium etc.,)

Analyse and develop your skills based on your interest. “Don’t wait for the job,

Aim for the job and just wait for right time to achieve it.”

VENGATESH S IV YEAR


What is Sketch2Code?As the name suggests, it is a site that converts your sketch into the HTML code. You can transform any hand-drawn design into an HTML code with AI. So, if you have a sketch made for a Mockup, just upload the picture on the site and your HTML is ready.It is a really awesome and unique way of using Artificial Intelligence and Automation.For now, Sketch 2 Code will only support basic app visual elements including labels, text fields, text paragraphs, images, and buttons.The model behind this service has been trained with millions of images and enables object detection for a wide range of types of objects. With this information Microsoft can generate the HTML snippets of the different elements in the design, and then can infer the layout of the design from the position of the identified elements and generate the final HTML code accordingly.How It Works

SamplesThere are some samples on the site to start with.For example, I ran the sample sketch and the site created very nice HTML for that:

It is a really nice and free product from Microsoft.Below is the basic flow if you are interested in knowing how it works:

EXAMPLE

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MICROSOFT SKETCH TO CODE


Python is a high speeddynamic language that has a huge user base and is constantly growing. It is noted for it’s code simplicity and is easy to develop codes in python than in C. It is simple and uncluttered.Python will not use semi colon or curly braces. Declaration of variables are not done in python. In C statements inside curly braces are treated as a block. Since python do not use them, a uniform white space indentation is used to mark the block of statements. In python the input will be considered only as a string. Hence a type casting is made to do arithmetic calculations. Here are some code snippets in Python and it’s corresponding code in c.

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PYTHON VS C


TAKE A PEEK


LAUGH OUT LOUD


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ANSWERS FOR PUZZLES

FILL ME OUTACROSS2. INPUT5. COPYRIGHT10. HYPERTEXT11. DOWNLOAD14. BYTE15. LOAD

DOWN1. MONITOR3. BUG4. BROWSER6. HARDWARE7. UPLOAD 8. FIREWALL9. FONT12. OUTPUT

BINARY SUDOKU

CLOUD HUNTInventor of Computer BIOS – Gary KildallInventor of Computer Bug – Dr. Grace Murray HopperInventor of First Data Base – Dr. Edgar Frank CoddInventor of Computer Scanner – Ray KurzweilInventor of Computer Speakers – AbinawanPuracchidasFounder of Apple Computers – Steve JobsFounder of Artificial Intelligence – John McCarthyFounder of Bluetooth – EricssonFather of ‘C’ Language – Dennis RitchieFather of ‘C++’ language – Bjarne StroustrupFounder of Email – Shiva AyyaduraiFounder of Internet – Vint CerfFather of ‘Java’ – James GoslingFounder of Linux – Linus TorvaldsFounder of Mouse – Douglas EngelbartFounder of Php – RasmusLerdorfFounder of USB – Ajay V.BhattFounder of WWW – Tim Berners-LeeFounder of Yahoo – Jurry Yang and David FiloFounders of Oracle – Ed Oates, Larry Ellison, Bob Miner

TECH CONNEXIONS1. BINARY SEARCH TREE2. CRYPTOGRAPHY3. NETWORKING4. KEYBOARD SHORTCUT5. POWERPONT PRESENTATION6. CONCEALED MEMORY7. SERVER SIDE SCRIPTING8. WORD DOCUMENT9. FIBER OPTIC CABLE10. IP ADDRESS


CRACK IT1. Solution:Every hour the snail climbs up 3 feet, it slides down 2 feet. So, the actual height it is climbing in 1 hour is 1 foot.Similarly, in 25 hours, the snail would have climbed 25 feet, in 26 hours it would have climbed 26 feet and in 27 hours it would have climbed 27 feet, but things change after 27 feet.As we know, the snail covers 3 feet up in 1 hour. So, in the 28th hour, the snail would have climbed 30 feet up the wall and would have reached atop the wall. Therefore the answer to this riddle is 28 hours.

2. YesExplanation:Make 2 piles with equal number of coins. Now, flip all the coins in one of the pile.Let’s consider a simple case:P1 : H T T T TP2 : H H H H TBy filping P1P1 : T H H H HP2 : H H H H TP1(heads) = P2(heads)

3. Step 1: Take out 1 pill from jar 1, 2 pills from jar 2, 3 pills from jar 3, 4 pills from jar 4 and 5 pills from jar 5.Step 2: Put all these 15 pills on the scale. The correct weight is 150 (15*10). But one of the jars has contaminated pills. So the weight will definitely be less than 150.Step 3: If the weight is 149 then jar 1 has contaminated pills because there is only one contaminated pill. If the weight is 148 then jar 2, if the weight is 147 then jar 3, if 146 then jar 4, if 145 then jar 5.


The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond December 31, 1999. The flaw, faced by computer programmers and users all over the world on January 1, 2000, is also known as the “millennium bug.” (The letter K, which stands for kilo (a unit of 1000), is commonly used to represent the number 1,000. So, Y2K stands for Year 2000.) Many skeptics believe it was barely a problem at all. When complicated computer programs were being written during the 1960s through the 1980s, computer engineers used a two-digit code for the year. The “19” was left out. Instead of a date reading 1970, it read 70. Engineers shortened the date because data storage in computers was costly and took up a lot of space. As the year 2000 approached, computer programmers realized that computers might not interpret 00 as 2000, but as 1900. Activities that were programmed on a daily or yearly basis would be damaged or flawed. As December 31, 1999, turned into January 1, 2000, computers might interpret December 31, 1999, turning into January 1, 1900. Banks, which calculate interest rates on a daily basis, faced real problems. Interest rates are the amount of money a lender, such as a bank, charges a customer, such as an individual or business, for a loan. Instead of the rate of interest for one day, the computer would calculate a rate of interest forminus almost 100 years! Centers of technology, such as power plants, were also threatened by theY2K bug. Power plants depend on routine computer maintenance for safety checks, such as water pressure or radiation levels. Not having the correct date would throw off these calculations and possibly put nearby residents at risk. Y2K was both a software and hardware problem. Software refers to the electronic programs used to tell the computer what to do. Hardware is themachinery of the computer itself. Governments, especially in the United States and the United Kingdom, worked to address the problem. In the end, there were very few problems. A nuclear energy facility in Ishikawa, Japan, had some of its radiation equipment fail, but backup facilities ensured there was no threat to the public. The U.S. detected missile launches in Russia and attributed that to the Y2K bug. But the missile launches were planned ahead of time as part of Russians conflict in its republic of Chechnya. There was no computer malfunction. Countries such as Italy, Russia, and South Korea had done little to prepare for Y2K.Due to the lack of results, many people dismissed the Y2K bug as a hoax or an end-of-the-world cult. The use of the word “Y2K” inthe movie “Irumbuthirai” pushed me to study about this particular problem and as a result of this you readers see this article. The way on how the programmers approach this problem amazed me a lot. So ”Programming is always ULTIMATE!” isn’t it?

KRISHNARAJ JII YEAR

Y2K PROBLEM


A much-anticipated tech trend in 2020 will be sophistication of technology upgrades in the medical field. 3D printing will open a new business of advanced prosthetics as many universities are expanding their research in 3D printing of bionic body parts. Before we move on to the use of 3D printing for eyes, let’s have a look at what amazing 3D printed projects have been achieved and what are the advantages Additive Manufacturing gives for the actual production of human body parts. One of the biggest achievements is a 3D printed human heart. The prototype is very promising and can already fully function for 30 minutes. Additive Manufacturing has also shaken the medical world with lots of uses of 3D technologies for surgeries such as jaw reconstruction and dental implants, 3D printed skin and even cancer treatment! We also can’t forget about the revolutionary 3D printed bone.

The 3D printed cornea is for people who suffered from eye conditions, diseases or damaged their eyes in other way and are partially or totally blind. One of the transplant organs that are very much needed, is a cornea, the first layer of our eyes that the light goes through. It also has a protective feature. There are millions of people whose cornea was damaged, which leads to partial or even total blindness. They require eye surgery after suffering from

burns, lacerations, abrasion or disease and 3D bioprinting is coming with a rescue. ‘’It was tricky to find the right recipe for an ink that’s thin enough to squirt through a 3D printer’s nozzle’’. It involves the use of a healthy human cornea, but instead of the cornea being donated to 1 patient, it can be used to 3D print 50 artificial corneas for transplant! The lens is produced with a mix of the stem cells from a healthy cornea, collagen, which naturally exists in our body and jelly-like goo called alginate. This mixture becomes a bio-ink which is then applied by the 3D printer in concentric circles into a shape of a cornea.The amazing fact that Additive Manufacturing technology already allows to 3D print human cornea look-alike match that mostly consists of the same ingredients, which allows avoiding different

complications.

RAJALAKSHMI S IV YEAR

3D PRINTED EYE


A PLACE WHERE TALENT MEETS OPPORTUNITYPLACEMENT CORNER

“Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in. And every student is waiting to experience the taste of success by entering into an esteemed organization.”

We begin every process on this note and we’re sure these lines would have been registered in every students’ mind.

We, the placement team of CIT are a group of like-minded, passionate workers who strive towards a common goal. CIT has given the us the opportunity to interact with the corporate world and be the mediators in the form of Placement Coordinators. This platform has given us an opportunity to gain knowledge about the corporate and industrial world. We make sure that every student gets the opportunity to work for the organization of their dreams. During this process, we are presented with several obstacles which we have learned to resolve with time.

To be a part of a student’s initial steps in their career is the greatest privilege that the CIT placement team possess. We thank the institution and the department for providing us with an opportunity to be a part of the placement team and wonderful memories to be cherished for life.Success is ensured for the ones who have the courage to step out of their comfort zone. We, the Placement Coordinators wish everyone success in all their future endeavours.

PLACEMENT COORDINATORS 2019-20PANDIYAN E, DIVYA G, SWEETHA S, MARI VIGNESH N


PLACEMENT STATISTICS


NAME COMPANIESABIRAMI G RELIGARE ARCHANA P V TCS NINJA ARUN C IBM ASHUTOSH KUMAR PANDEY T INFOSYS OPTUM UHGBINDHU S INCTURE TECH DIVYA G ZOHO GOBI SHANKAR E TCS DIGITAL YAHOOHARIPRIYA S TCS NINJA OPTUM UHGHARINI G INFOSYS HARINII M RELIGARE HARISH RAGHUL B MARKET SIMPLIFIED JASMINE J OPTUM UHG JEYALAKSHMI M SATURAM KARTHIKA DEVI C MULTICOREWARE KAVIN VIGNESH J ROBERT BOSCH KOWSALYA D T RYTHMOS MATHESWARAN S MULTICOREWARE MYTHEREI M L&T INFOTECH NANDHA KUMAR M ROBERT BOSCH NANDINI DEVI S L&T INFOTECH NIRMAL KUMAR S TCS NINJA TEKIZMAPANDIYAN E EXALCA PAVITHRA K S INFOSYS FORDPRAJVIN A FUTURE GENERALI BPO PRAVEEN KUMAR E RELIGARE SANJAY KUMAR R ROBERT BOSCH SIBI SARAVANAN G ANKERCLOUD SNEHA PRIYADARSHINI S S INFOSYS SOWMYA R L&T INFOTECH SRIDHARAN S MARKET SIMPLIFIED SRIKARAN BARADHWAJ L&T INFOTECH SUBHASHREE D TECH MAHINDRA SUBIKSHA V INCTURE TECH SUREKHA A INCTURE TECH THANGHAVEL S TCS NINJA SENTIENZ VARSHINI M FUTURE GENERALI BPO VENGATESH S ZOHO VIJAYAPRASAD V ROBERT BOSCH VISHNU PRASATH M ROBERT BOSCH


NAME COMPANIESARSHATH KHAN S EXALCA SENTIENZ ASVITHA V INFOSYS BRINDHA E ROBERT BOSCH TCS DIGITALBUBESH P ACCOLITE DEEPAN S EXALCA DHIVYA M FUTURE GENERALI BPO DINESH M FUTURE GENERALI BPO GOGULAVANI S INFOSYS HARINEE ANANDH ROBERT BOSCH HARINI N EXALCA HARIPRIYA P R ROBERT BOSCH PLAYSIMPLEHASWIN RAJ V ZOHO HEMANTH VAIRA VIGNESH M ZOHO JAYASHREE SANTHANA S MARKET SIMPLIFIED JAYASHYREE G OPTUM UHG JEYAPRIYA T HYUNDAI MOBIS KRISHNA P TECH MAHINDRA MEENAKSHI SUNDARAM M S REDBUS YAHOOPRABHAKARAN M FUTURE GENERALI BPO PRIYADHARSHINI B ROBERT BOSCH RAJALAKSHMI S TCS NINJA VALUE LABSRAMANATHAN S DELTA X TCS NINJARITHU R INFOSYS ROSHAN ZAMEER ALI S L&T INFOTECH SANGEETHA E INFOSYS SHAENMUGAPRIYAN S ANKERCLOUD SHANMUGAPRIYA K INFOSYS FORDSHOBAKEERTHANA E INFOSYS SRINATH T HASHEDIN SRIRAM I ANKERCLOUD SUJITH KUMAR P ZOHO SUJITH S ZOHO SWEETHA S INFOSYS THENNARASU R THOUGHTWORKS THIRIKANDANATHAN S KGISL BPO GOVARDHANAN K S ANKERCLOUD MAHESWARI V ANKERCLOUD MARIVIGNESH N INFOSYS


ASCII ACTIVITIES ASCII is keen in enlightening the skills of students, both towards the technical and

personal front. The students are kept updated with technologies through seminars and workshops conducted by the industry specialists. One primary focus of ASCII is to help students towards their placements. This aspect is supported perfectly by sessions on various core technical topics that software firms demand and through seniors’ training. To provide a habitual environment towards interviews for juniors, a mock interview was conducted by ASCII office bearers and final year students’ facilitators along with Skype call interview by our Alumni. Other initiatives include online and offline coding tests, aptitude tests etc…

27 JUNE 2019

GROUP DISCUSSION FOR

PRE-FINAL YEAR STUDENTS

RESOURCE PERSON

ASSOCIATION FACULTY MEMBERS

11 JULY 2019

ASCII-INAUGURAL FUNCTION

RESOURCE PERSON

MR. PADMANABHAN SRINIVASAN

CEO, EASY DESIGN SYSTEMS PVT LTD

COIMBATORE


25 JULY 2019

ALUMNI TALK ON

“ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILL DEVELOPMENT”

RESOURCE PERSON

MR. AJAY KUMAR AND MR. MADHAN KUMAR

ONCEPTUAL BUSINESS SOLUTION PVT LTD

1 AUGUST 2019

AWARENESS TALK ON

“E-CONTENT DEVELOPMENTAND ITS SCOPE”

RESOURCE PERSON

MR. PATHY THANGAVELU

MANAGER - BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

ZILLON CUBES, COIMBATORE


12 SEPTEMBER 2019

WORKSHOP ON

"IOT AND INDUSTRIAL IOT (IIOT) –

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS "

RESOURCE PERSON

MR.S. VIJAYARAGAVAN MS.V. ANITHA

DESIGN ENGINEER PCB DESIGNER

PLC AUTOMATION PLC AUTOMATION

19 DECEMBER 2019

AWARENESS SESSION ON

“IOS APP DEVELOPMENT”

RESOURCE PERSON

MR. SHIBU

SENIOR TECHNO-COMMERCIAL MANAGER

APPLE BUSINESS GROUP

REDINGTON


10,11 JANUARY 2020

INTERNAL HACKATHON 2020

RESOURCE PERSON

MR. KESAVAN S MR. SELVAKUMAR NATESAN

DEVELOPER ASSOCIATE OFFICE TECH PRINCIPAL

SAP LABS INDIA THOUGHT WORKS

MR. DIVYESH GOVARDHANAN SWATHI J

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

CLOUD ASSERT DEPT OF CSE, PSG TECH


23 JANUARY 2020

AWARENESS PROGRAM ON

“BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY”

RESOURCE PERSON

VIJAY BALAJI ELANGO

VICE PRESIDENT

EMURGO, BENGALURU

15 FEBRUARY 2020

TALK ON “UPGRADING SKILLS TO

MEET THE CHANGING MARKET NEEDS”

RESOURCE PERSON

MR. BARATH, MR. RAMPRADEEP

ZOHO CORPORATIONS

CHENNAI

22 FEBRUARY 2020

MOCK INTERVIEW FOR

PRE-FINAL YEAR STUDENTS

RESOURCE PERSON

ALUMNI,

ASCII OFFICE BEARERS AND

FACILITATORS


27 FEBRUARY 2020

TALK ON “PERSONALITY

DEVELOPMENT AND RESUME

WRITING”

RESOURCE PERSON

MS.P. ANANTHI

CAPGEMINI, BANGALORE


9,10,11 MARCH 2020

SYLLOGISM’20

RESOURCE PERSON

ASCII OFFICE BEARERS AND

FACILITATORS


SYLLOGISM’20 RESULTS SYLLOGISM’20 is a two-day Tech-Fest organized by ASCII office bearers for juniors with events including Just A Minute (JAM), Crack It (Quiz), Coding and Debugging, Designing to test their technical skills and soft skills. We now bring to spotlight, the winners of Syllogism’20 events.

GANESH R III YEAR

ROBERO LAITONJAM II YEAR

KIRUPHASANKARAN N II YEAR

CRACK IT

BALASATYA N II YEAR

ROBERO LAITONJAM YOGALAKSHMI S

II YEAR

SAAJAN S II YEAR

JUST A MINUTE


ASWIN M III YEAR

JAYANANDHANA EIII YEAR

PRASANNA NIVAS D II YEAR

CODING AND DEBUGGING

ROBERO LAITONJAM II YEAR BOYAI SALAM II YEAR

VARSHINI INU V III YEARSURAJ KUMAR SHARMA B III YEAR

GANESH R III YEAR

GOWTHAM K III YEAR SYED AFRIDY HUSSAIN S III YEAR RAVI KISHORE P III YEAR

DESIGNING

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