IGNITING MINDS 2010 - LET US SHINE THE WORLD
Tech-Talk I @ NITDGP
By
Nikhil Agarwal Senior Undergraduate
Freshersworld.com CA NIT Durgapur
Freshersworld.com
Applied for CA in the month of march.Declared CA on May 21th 2010.Info on Job openings for 2010 batch.Placement papers and other materials.Placed at Novell :)Conducting a Tech Talk with you all :):)
Day Plan
9 AM : A brief introduction.9:10 AM: A presentation on Employability Skills by Arunabha
Bhattacharjee(Regional Co-ordinator,East India)9:30 AM : Most influential tweeples9:45 AM: Free Internet (A vision of Sir Tim Berners Lee-Inventor
of www)10:00 AM: Emotional, Intelligent and multi-talented Robots.10:15 AM : Future of Mobile gaming.10:30 AM : Future of programming10:45 AM : What ifs and Improvement on the web,a
customer view.11:00 AM: Dream come true on the web.
Most Influential Tweeples
1.Twitter Vocabulary: Tweeples,Twitterverse,Tweeps.2.Stephen Fry: 98616 followers( Actor),Britney Spears: 532903.http://www.pulseofthetweeters.com/ by Alok
Chowdhary,Northwestern university.4.Pulse of the Tweeters uses Data Mining, Sentiment Analysis, and
Network Analysis algorithms to mine millions of tweets and find the most influential users on Twitter.
5.Help us to find the most significant tweeters across different trends, their opinions, and trends you might be interested in.
5.Top 10 Tweeples you may follow:
Top 10 people you may follow
10. Rob Enderle (Analyst, Enderle Group): Rob is renowned for looking at the tech world with a discerning, critical eye; fortunately, he’s brought that same perspective to Twitter and successfully deployed it in 140-character chunks
9. Paul Thurrott (Founder, Windows Supersite): Terrific source for information on the Microsoft product ecosystem; not afraid to tell you when he loves something or hates it; uses Twitter to share both news and tips
8. Jeremiah Owyang (Analyst, Forrester Research): Focuses on communication and how technology is revolutionizing it in all its forms, even focuses on Twitter itself; his blog post on how he uses Twitter is an excellent starting point for those who want to learn how to be useful on Twitter
7. Lance Ulanoff (Editor in Chief of PCMag): Excellent source of links, quick news hits, and instant analysis on lots of general tech topics
6. Charlene Li (Author and thought leader): Provides big picture perspectives on emerging technologies, social networking, and the overall direction of the technology world
Continued:Top 10 People to follow
5. Jason Snell (Editorial Director of Macworld): Best Twitter source for fair-minded information about Apple and its galaxy of products
4. Rafe Needleman (Editor of Webware): For Web 2.0, cloud computing, and Silicon Valley startup information, Rafe has it covered; doesn’t post as often as some of others on this list but nearly everything he does post is worthwhile
3. Dave Zatz (Digital lifestyle writer): Great perspectives on gadgets and digital lifestyle technologies; Twitter has a lot of big-name gadget writers but none of them post as much relevant content on Twitter as Dave
2. Padmasree Warrior (CTO at Cisco Systems): The highest ranking tech executive you’ll find on Twitter (who actually posts useful stuff); offers an inside look at a high-ranking IT executive and she regularly shares astute observations about the direction of tech, the economy, and the world at large
1. Harry McCracken (Editor of Technologizer): Former PC World editor has rapidly–and successfully– refashioned himself as a Web journalist; he writes early and often on a wide variety of tech subjects and no techie on Twitter has a better wheat-to-chaff ratio than Harry. That’s why he made No. 1.
Emotional,Intelligent and Multi-talented bots
Cirruculum and Technology
Affordable bit-mapped displays brought GUI interfaces into widespread use, gave us the new field of human-computer interaction, and led CS departments to introduce courses in computer graphics and HCI.The maturation of networking technology that led to the Internet and the Web also spawned a whole spectrum of new courses, from the nuts and bolts of network protocols to the social impacts of online communitiesAdvances in sensing,actuator, and power technologies are fueling an explosion in robotics comparable to what microprocessors did for computing three decades ago.
Robotics Now
Comparing today’s state-of-the-art industrial robots—priced at tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars—to 1970s era mainframes, while consumer robots resemble 1970s microcomputers: crude, underpowered,and of interest mainly to hobbyists who enjoy tinkering with technology for its own sake. Today’s consumer robots include a variety of kits (Lego Mindstorms, VEX Pro etc.), limited but intriguing toys (Wow- ee’s Robosapien, many more in Japan), and one astonishingly successful vacuum cleaner: the Roomba; more than five million Roombas have been sold.More recent examples include a Python-based programming course using the Parallax Scribbler,1 and a variant of Alice (http://www.alice.org) that can simulate an iRobot Create.
What is expected from us
Machine vision,probablistic localization and navigation,kinematics calculations,grsash path planning,multi-robot coordination and human robot interaction.Real Robotics involves deep,computationally demanding algorithms.Who in 1971 would have loked at the first intel microprocessor and predicted eBay,wikipedia.Google Earth or Facebook.Future of Robotics is accelerated by development in computer graphics.Graphics specialities include web design,game design and graphical presentation of information or GPU programming.Better algorithms for perception and manipulation and high-level frameworks for robot instruction will enable robotics application development.
Future of Mobile GamingThe first game that was pre-installed onto a mobile phone was Snake on selected Nokia models in 1997Nokia tried to create its own mobile gaming platform with the N-Gage in 2003 but this effort failed mainly because, at the time, the convergence of a cell phone and a handheld gaming platform did not mix.Today, cell phone games have come a very long way. Their graphics are about the same as you would expect on a 4th or 5th generation game console (which may not seem like a very big improvement yet is considered one because the game is being played on a cell phone). Cell phone games now tend to take up a large amount of memory on cell phones, which is part of the reason why they still are not too popular. Still, certain games such as "Tetris" and "Solitaire" are somewhat popular cell phone games.A Multiplayer mobile game is often a re-branding of a multiplayer game for the PC or Console. Most mobile games are single player mobile games perhaps with artificially intelligent opponents. Multiplayer functionality is achieved through:InfraredBluetoothGPRS3GWi-FiAIMMSWireless LAN
Passion Continues
Future of Programming
Future of Programming
Programming -set of expressions to solve a taskAlgorithm- a technique/method to solve a problem.Cobol (1959)->Basic (1964)->Fortran 66(1966)->LOGO(1968)->GW-Basic (1983)->C(1980)->C++(1983)->Java 1995->Go (2009) by Google.We are moving towards parallel programming.CUDA in demand.All the programs have to be coded again ??YES!!
What is the future??
Python people say “Python is a high level language, C and C++ are low level languages.”??CUDA(Compute Unified Device Architecture),NVIDIA people say “We are the future”??Algorithm is the future??Parallel Algorithm?
Tim Berners-Lee calls for free internet worldwide
The inventor of the Web has called for everyone to have access to his creation for free.Tim Berners-Lee said that he would like to see everybody given a low-bandwidth connection "by default".Currently, he said, just one-fifth of the world's population has access to the web."I would like to see people enrolled in a cheap data plan by default. I would like them to get it for free.""I initially assumed you should get them water first, you should get them healthcare and then it is the luxury of getting the web," he said."Not being a part of the information society is a really important thing."Sir Tim also used his speech to outline his stance on other concerns he has about the future of the web including privacy and net neutrality, the principle that ensures that all web traffic is treated equally regardless of the type or origin."Of course a lot of companies would like to limit the pages you get.""The moment you let that net neutrality go, think what you lose: you lose the web as it is, that you can click on a link and go anywhere."
Timeline of Technology
Web revolution
1988 Over 45 million PCs are in use in the United States.1990 The Internet, World Wide Web & Tim Berners-Lee1993 At the beginning of the year only 50 World Wide Web servers are known to
exist1994 YAHOO is created in April, 1994. 1995 Java is introduced,Amazon.com is founded by Jeff Bezos,EBay is
founded by Pierre Omidyar,Hotmail is started by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia.
1997 Microsoft acquires Hotmail1998 Google is founded by Sergey Brin and Larry Page on September 7, 19982001 Bill Gates introduces the Xbox on January 7th 20012004 Facebook launched in February 2004.2005 YouTube was launched early in 2005 Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed
Karim.September 12: eBay acquires Skype2006 Skype announces that it has over 100 million registered users. Twitter
launched publicly.2007 October 9 when Google, Inc., acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion in Google's
stock2010 July when Facebook had more than 500 million[5] active users .20XX It's your story!!!!
Bottleneck of Architecture
Bus speed??Processor's speed??Algorithms?Power problem?
What ifs
1.GMAIL site is down and google regrets all the data got corrupted :P ????
What ifs
Facebook was in red and pink :) ???
What ifs
TV channels are broadcasted online?
What ifs
Google Maps is peeping into your privacy :P ???
Improvements on the webA customer view :)
1.Google2.Facebook3.Yahoo4.Orkut5.GMAIL6.NITDGP.ac.in :):)
A Dream come true on the web
Express your dreams it may be wicked,unusual,anything...you picture about
the internet ??
Thank you all :)
