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ResearchAndYou.com : A Computer Science Community Portal By Microsoft Research India

Ajay Pathak — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:06:00 +0000

Microsoft Research India today launched ResearchAndYou.com, a computer science (CS) community portal at TechVista, its annual research symposium. The portal was unveiled by Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. Coinciding with the lab’s fifth anniversary celebrations, the launch of this portal will bridge the gap between the small number of CS researchers in the country and the large pool of potential research talent at the Bachelor’s degree level. ResearchAndYou.com has some of the country’s leading academics and researchers as mentors and aims to achieve the following:

Provide a forum where students across India can access the country’s leading researchers to seek guidance and information to start a career in research
Clarify and demystify what research actually means vis-à-vis product development
Attract students to take up advanced studies in CS
Help students choose a career in research.

ResearchAndYou.com will provide students with an interactive forum where they can connect with researchers and faculty from fields of their interest to ask questions, explore research opportunities and understand the state-of-the-art. The portal will also serve as a single source of information for resources in different disciplines of computer science and related areas, with links and pointers to different kinds of information, including reference material, research papers, events and conferences, and research news.

TechVista 2010 was inaugurated by the Chief Guest, Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India. The morning session of TechVista also saw a Distinguished Address by Turing Award recipient Professor Adi Shamir, Weizmann Institute of Science, a panel discussion on The Future of Computing and Computer Science featuring four Turing Award recipients, and talks by Dr. Rick Rashid, Senior VP, Research, Microsoft and Dr. P. Anandan, MD, Microsoft Research India.

Dr. P. Anandan, Managing Director, Microsoft Research India.

Research, innovation and technological leadership are closely related and interdependent. While India has great talent, it is yet to realize its potential to be a world leader in research. We hope ResearchAndYou.com will be a great resource in helping aspiring researchers.

Dr. Richard F. Rashid, Senior VP, Research, Microsoft Corporation, Said

Access and exposure to world class research and researchers from an early stage in education is critical in motivating students to look at a research career, which in turn is critical to developing a rich research talent pool. ResearchAndYou.com seeks to address this issue.

Facebook Fellowship Program

Ajay Pathak — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 02:57:52 +0000

World’s numbers 1 social networking website has announced fellowship program to support Ph.D student in the 2010-11 school years. Facebook interested in a wide range of academic topics, including the following topical areas:

Internet Economics: auction theory and algorithmic game theory relevant to online advertising auctions.
Cloud Computing: storage, databases, and optimization for computing in a massively distributed environment.
Social Computing: models, algorithms and systems around social networks, social media, social search and collaborative environments.
Data Mining and Machine Learning: learning algorithms, feature generation, and evaluation methods to produce effective online and offline models of behavioral signals.
Systems: Hardware, operating system, runtime, and language support for fast, scalable, efficient data centers.
Information Retrieval: search algorithms, information extraction, question answering, cross-lingual retrieval and multimedia retrieval

Eligibility Criteria

Full-time Ph.D. students in topical areas represented by these fellowships who are currently involved in on-going research.
Students must be in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, System Architecture, or a related area.
Students must be enrolled during the academic year that the Fellowship is awarded.
Students must be nominated by a faculty member.

Application Checklist and Instructions

The application must include:

1-2 page research summary which clearly identifies the area of focus and applicability to Facebook. Please reference the topical areas above.
Students CV (with email, phone and mailing address). Please include applicable coursework.
Minimum of 2 letters of recommendation (one must be from the faculty sponsor).
The name and CV of the faculty sponsor.

All of the above information must be submitted as a PDF to fellowships@facebook.com.

Award Details

Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year.
$30K stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year).
$5K per year toward conference attendance and travel.
$5K toward a personal computer.
Opportunity to apply for a paid summer internship.
Recipients are responsible for the taxation on any funds.

Important Dates

Friday February 15, 2010: Applications for fellowships must be submitted in full.
Monday March 29, 2010: Award recipients will be notified by email of their acceptance.

Selection Criteria

Eligibility of applicant.
The quality of application.Applicability of the project or study to Facebook.
Other criteria as decided by Facebook in its sole discretion.
Facebook complies with all equal opportunity laws

Facebook Fellowship Program Website

Complete National Geographic Magazine From 1888 to 2008 Available in 160 GB Hard Drive

Ajay Pathak — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:36:06 +0000

National Geographic has compiled every edition of there magazine from 1888 to 2008 in a 160 GB hard drive. This definitive collection of every issue of National Geographic magazine, digitally reproduced in stunning high resolution, brings you the world and all that is in it. Use the advanced interface to explore a topic, search for photographs, browse the globe, or wander on your own expedition.Access all of the maps, photos, and magazine issues found on the DVD collection in one external hard drive. Browse and search the entire collection without needing to swap out DVDs. Lightweight and travel-friendly, the hard drive is just 3" x 5" and requires only a USB connection. We’ve left plenty of hard disk space to accommodate future upgrades. We’ve also allocated approximately 100GB of hard disk space for your own personal use.

The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive Features

Rediscover every printed page—every article and advertisement, and thousands of photographs—from 1888 through 2008
Reference hundreds of the magazine’s classic maps digitized as part of the magazine’s archive for the first time
Use Geobrowse—a visual geographic search tool—to find articles, photographs, and maps about the location you choose
Browse special "read lists" from National Geographic or personalize your archive by creating and saving your own lists of favorite articles
Test your knowledge of subjects including exploration, the environment, geography, history, cultures, and more with a trivia game that links to related articles
Includes a bonus DVD with tips on how to take better photographs, an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at how National Geographic Magazine is put together, and interviews with NGM photographers revealing the backstory behind their famous photographs
USB cable included
Partitioned hard drive includes separate space for 100GB of your personal files

The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive is not shippable outside of the U.S. and Canada. Please also allow an additional 1-2 weeks for delivery.

Purchase The Complete National Geographic on 160-GB Hard Drive

Participate In Online Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz test

Ajay Pathak — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:42:00 +0000

Most of us get a lot of Spam and Phishing E-Mails delivered to our E-Mail, but if you are to ask to spot the difference between a legitimate e-mail and a phishing scam sitting in your in-box? Then according to sonicwall most of the internet users won’t be able to spot the difference. To help internet users sonicwall has a free online test for Phishing and Spam IQ questions. sonicwall offers a series of E-Mails asking users to identify them as Phishing, Legitimate or No Answer.

According to Sonicwall, only 59.4 percent of test takers so far this year have been able to properly identify a legitimate e-mail, compared with 77.8 percent of the test takers in 2004. And this year, only 7.4 percent of test takers were able to correctly identify and categorize every e-mail they were presented. The good news is that people are better at spotting a likely phishing scam. This year 86.1 percent caught the scam, as opposed to only 69.2 percent in 2004. via [CNET : Online quiz tests phishing knowledge]

Instructions: To begin click the "Start the Test" button below. Each question will be displayed one at a time in a browser window and you decide if the e-mail is a "Phish" or "Legitimate." When you have completed the test you’ll get a score along with a chance to see "why" a question was a phish or legitimate.

Participate In Online Phishing and Spam IQ Quiz test

Mathematica 7 A Complete mathematical software system includes human genome

Jay Pathak — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:02:12 +0000

Wolfram Research has developed Mathematica 7, its a new version that contains computational software for Mac OS X and other platforms. Mathematica is well known for science, engineering and technical computing from long time. Wolfram has developed more than 500 new functions in the new version named Mathematica 7.

Its a more improved version with lots of function includes image processing, parallel High Performance Computing (HPC) support, on-demand accurate data and other major functions. Mathematica 7 has come up with the list of improved functions for various fields it contains charting and 2D & 3D data information visualization; vector field visualization; spine support including NURBS; statistical model analysis; discrete calculus, sequence recognition and transcendental notes, improved Boolean computation with special math functions, solvers, statistics libraries, import and export filters and more with the variety of computable data sources, including the complete human genome, weather, astronomical, GIS and geodesy data. Its new string alignment functionality improves Mathematica’s ability to find, analyze and visual gene sequences.For the Mathematica 7 the Mac version of the software requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and costs approximately $2,495,Its available in two version government and educational. Wolfram’s developed Mathematica 7 can automatically take advantage of multicourse processors in some cases, but users can also explicitly direct the software to run multiple tasks in parallel on separate cores too. Support for four cores is standard, but more can be used as well.

How to install Mathematica 7 on windows -

The Wolfram Mathematica Setup dialog appears on your screen. Click Next
By default, Mathematica is installed in the directory C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\7.0.
Mathematica is configured to automatically install all optional components. Otherwise select or deselect according to your choice or requirement.
Click Next to add Mathematica shortcuts to the Start menu in the Wolfram Mathematica folder.
Now Click Install to install Mathematica after installation click finish.
Mathematica starts up and a dialog box appears. Enter your name, organization, and password
A registration dialog box appears. Click the Web button to open your web browser to your customized registration page

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Attend Web Chat Session With Intel on Multi-threading best practices and challenges

Ajay Pathak — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:30:08 +0000

Intel® Software Network presents an exclusive opportunity for you to interact with Intel experts. Chat with Intel experts on topics that are of interest to you. Understand new technologies that will help speed your development cycle and reduce time to market. And all this from the comfort of your home or office!

Multi-threading best practices and challenges
Dec 4th 2008, 2.30pm – 4pm

We are witnessing huge changes in computing. Single cores are passé. Scaling of applications will depend on your ability to efficiently program for multiple cores. It’s time to think parallel and get equipped with the skills that will help you to provide competitive advantage on multi-core platforms.

So if you would to like know more or if you have any specific questions on the below topics, find answers by talking directly to the Intel experts. This chat session will focus on:

Intel Multi-core platforms
Multi-threading – best practices and challenges
Tools to identify threading related issues

Register for Multi-threading best practices and challenges chat session!

2007 World University Rankings

Ajay Pathak — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:55:29 +0000

2007 RANK	2006 RANK	INSTITUTION NAME	COUNTRY
1	1	HARVARD	University United States
2	2	University of CAMBRIDGE	United Kingdom
2	3	University of OXFORD	United Kingdom
2	4	YALE University	United States
5	9	Imperial College LONDON	United Kingdom
6	10	PRINCETON University	United States
7	7	CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Caltech)	United States
7	11	University of CHICAGO	United States
9	25	UCL (University College LONDON)	United Kingdom
10	4	MASSACHUSETTS Institute of Technology (MIT)	United States
12	12	COLUMBIA University	United States
12	21	MCGILL University	Canada
13	13	DUKE University	United States
14	26	University of PENNSYLVANIA	United States
15	23	JOHNS HOPKINS University	United States
16	16	AUSTRALIAN National University	Australia
17	19	University of TOKYO	Japan
18	33	University of HONG KONG	Hong Kong
19	6	STANFORD University	United States
20	35	CARNEGIE MELLON University	United States
20	15	CORNELL University	United States
22	8	University of California, BERKELEY	United States
23	33	University of EDINBURGH	United Kingdom
24	46	King’s College LONDON	United Kingdom
25	29	KYOTO University	Japan
26	18	Ecole Normale Supérieure, PARIS	France
27	22	University of MELBOURNE	Australia
28	37	ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE	France
29	42	NORTHWESTERN University	United States
30	40	University of MANCHESTER	United Kingdom
31	35	The University of SYDNEY	Australia
32	54	BROWN University	United States
33	50	University of BRITISH COLUMBIA	Canada
33	45	University of QUEENSLAND	Australia
33	19	National University of SINGAPORE	Singapore
36	14	PEKING University	China
37	64	University of BRISTOL	United Kingdom
38	50	The CHINESE University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
38	29	University of MICHIGAN	United States
40	28	TSINGHUA University	China
41	31	University of CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles (UCLA)	Unites States
42	24	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)	Switzerland
43	38	MONASH University	Australia
44	41	University of NEW SOUTH WALES	Australia
45	27	University of TORONTO	Canada
46	70	OSAKA University	Japan
47	66	BOSTON University	Unites States
48	69	University of AMSTERDAM	Netherlands
49	43	NEW YORK University (NYU)	United States
50	46	The University of AUCKLAND	New Zealand

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ResearchAndYou.com : A Computer Science Community Portal By Microsoft Research India

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