Speaker
Ashwin Jacob Mathew is a Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Before returning to academia, he spent a decade in the software industry in India, working in senior technical roles in companies like Aztec Software and Adobe. At Berkeley, he blends his technical background with theory and methods drawn from the social sciences to investigate the infrastructure of the Internet.
Time and Date

Friday, 17 July, 2009; 5.30-7.00 pm
Venue
Centre for Internet and Society, No. D2, 3rd Floor, Sheriff Chambers (Wockhardt Hospital building), 14, Cunningham Road, Bangalore – 560052

If we view the Internet as built environment, rather than an abstract “cloud”, then it becomes critical to consider what the politics of this artifact might be, to understand the politics of the technical systems that enable these flows. More

Organized by:
ACM Bangalore, IEEE-CS Bangalore,
IEEE GOLD Affinity Group of Bangalore,
In-formation Bangalore ACM SIGGRAPH Date, Venue:
Sat, July 18, 4:00 PM,
CSA Seminar Hall,
Department of Computer Science & Automation,
IISc, Bangalore, INDIA, IN

Abstract:
This talk presents a technique for creating abstract representations of modern urban areas. We identify and apply cartographic and cognitive principles to develop a solution that is implemented in the context of a state of art Geographic Information Systems. At the core of our solution is a building facade modeling approach that supports varying degrees of abstraction. This is achieved by introducing a concept of “facade waveforms” and representing building facades as combinations of these waveforms. A Fourier series approximation of the waveforms is used during the rendering processes resulting in an elegant solution to anti-aliasing. The formulation retains the semantic information in the representation that enables meaningful extensions like night time façade generation. The solution is implemented as a pixel shader and therefore leads to a large reduction in texture memory requirement compared to existing building rendering techniques. Additionally, in the case of web based systems there is significant reduction in bandwidth requirement. We highlight the features of the proposed solution with demonstrative images.
Speaker Profile:
Neeharika Adabala is a researcher in the Vision, Graphics and Visualization Group of Microsoft Research India. Her current research focuses on effective visualization of and interaction with information, and use of semantics to improve user-computer interaction. She has worked in Philips Research India, MIRALab – University of Geneva, and University of Central Florida. She has a Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a PhD from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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ACM Tech Talk Abstract

PmcTools in FreeBSD is an innovative measurement platform that uses in-CPU hardware event counters for characterizing system behaviour. PmcTools’ low-overheads, useful features and its ability to collect data under production loads have helped it become an integral part of the performance analyst’s toolkit in FreeBSD. This talk introduces PmcTools. We start with a high-level overview of the goals of the project, and go on to cover the architecture of the PmcTools platform, its programming API and a few interesting aspects of its implementation. The changes to the base FreeBSD kernel needed for PmcTools are touched upon. The talk concludes with a discussion on the possible future directions of the project.

About the Speaker
Joseph Koshy has been a user of FreeBSD since 1994 and a volunteer developer of this operating system since 1998.
He is the author of FreeBSD’s “PmcTools” performance analysis toolset.
Joseph is mentor to two FreeBSD committers and lives in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Date & Time: Saturday, 18 April 2009, 11:00 — 13:00
Registrations Available: 85 out of 100
Registration Deadline: Saturday, 18 April 2009
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March 20:Prabhar Raghavan-Big Thinkers India Series- Leela palace, Bangalore-3 pm onwards

Web search is undergoing an evolution from high-precision document retrieval for keyword queries, to fulfilling the task implicit in a user’s search. We review examples of this in major search engines, then survey the underlying hard science problems both in computer science and in the social sciences.

Yahoo! India Research & Development invites you to the first session of Big Thinkers India Series 2009.
During this session, Prabhakar Raghavan, Head of Yahoo! Labs, will share his insights on Hard Science Problems at the core of Web Search http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/events_09/event_march20_09.htm> .

Prabhakar Raghavan is the Head of Yahoo! Labs. A PhD from Berkley, he is a Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the ACM. Raghavan has authored many textbooks on Algorithms and Information Retrieval and has published over 100 papers. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE.

The event will be held on Friday, March 20th at The Grand Ballroom, The Leela Palace, Bangalore, 3:00 pm onwards.
There is no registration fee to attend the event. Click here to Register for this event. http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/register.html?event1=true

The speakers for Big Thinkers India Series bring with them the expertise and global perspective of the constantly changing world of technology, communities and Internet space in general. It provides a platform for scientists, academia, the government and industry to interact and chart new directions for research. A list of all the past and upcoming Big Thinkers India Series sessions for the year 2007 and 2008 is also available here. http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/

Please do register http://bangalore.yahoo.com/bigthinkers/register.html?event1=true early for this event since reservations are on First Come First Serve basis.

We look forward to your participation.

Event Name: IBM Seminar on Empowering Enterprise Lifecycle Management
Venue: Taj Residency
Category: Education
Start Date: Mar 19, 2009

Visit here:
http://ambatisreedhar.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/an-ibm-seminar-on-empowering-enterprise-lifecycle-management-19th-march-2009/

For more details:

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/default.aspx?culture=en-IN

http://ambatisreedhar.wordpress.com

Thanks

Sreedhar Ambati

Organizer: Google

Date :  28 feb 2009 Bangalore

Venue Details

Google India Pvt. Ltd
No. 3, RMZ Infinity – Tower E
Old Madras Road
3rd, 4th, and 5th Floors
Bangalore, 560 016
India
Phone: +91 80 67218000

For registration : http://www.indiasearchmasters.com/index.php

More details:  http://ambatisreedhar.wordpress.com

Thanks

Sreedhar Ambati

From : Friday, January 09, 2009 at 9:00 AM - Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 6:00 PM (GMT+0530)

NIMHANS Convention Center, Bangalore India

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The Agenda comprises keynote addresses, live demos of new products, panel discussions, technology tutorials, research presentations, investor meets and an open space (called the Demo pit) where 40 of the best products from start ups and industry will showcase.
Jan 9th and 10th : Keynotes between 9 – 9.45 am and 2.30 – 3.15 pm : features talks on topics such as the Industry-Startup Co-innovation initiative launched by the HeadStart Foundation, Green Computing, Roadmap to Indian technology giants in the global arena, Investment opportunities and trends for 2009, speakers include Dr Chandrakant Patel, Fellow, HP Ecosystem Lab, Ashish Gupta, Partner, Helion Ventures and more

Jan 9th – Consumer Product demos on Stage [9.50 am - 11 am ] : Companies selected from nominations received to HeadStart 2009
Jan 9th – Innovation in Consumer Services [11:15 am - 12:15 noon] Mobile VAS business models, Convergence between traditional & new media, New global and local consumer services strategies, includes speakers such as Harish Gandhi, Executive Director, Canaan Partners, Rajesh Sawhney, CEO, Reliance Entertainment, Amit Dayal, VP, Yahoo and more
Jan 9th – Entrepreneur RoundTable [12:15 am - 1:15 pm] VC funding challenges, Building businesses without VC, Shift from Enterprise to Consumer services, Exit strategies, includes speakers such as Jay Pullur, CEO, Pramati, Sanjay Swamy, CEO, MChek, Bhavin Turakhia, CEO, Directi, Sujai Karampuri, CEO, Sloka Telecom, K Srinivasan, CEO, Amagi
Jan 9th – Innovation in action : Interactions with the Demo pit [3.15 pm - 4.30 pm] Interactions on products in mobile, online, entertainment, telecom and healthcare segments and products, includes speakers such as Navin Kulkarni, Business Development Director, Philips, Vishy Poosala, Head of Bell Labs India, Alcatel Lucent, Alok Mittal, Partner, Canaan Partners and more
Jan 9th – Investor networking and Press meet [5.00 pm - 6.00 pm] In the Demo pit and Lounge area

Jan 10th – Enterprise Product demos on Stage [9.50 am - 11 am ] : Companies selected from nominations received to HeadStart 2009
Jan 10th – Software-as-a-Service delivered from Clouds [11.15 am - 12.15 noon] Changing service delivery models with SaaS and Clouds, includes speakers such as Ramesh Loganathan, Managing Director, Progress Software India, Kiran Datar, Managing Director, Cisco-Webex, Arvin Babu, Partner, Greylock Ventures and more
Jan 10th – The Big Opportunities [12.15 pm - 1.15 pm] Talks on innovations and opportunities in Social enterprise, Clean tech and Social media, with speakers such as K Ramakrishna, Founder of Rangde.org and Vice President, Technology, IFMR Trust, an affiliate of ICICI Foundation (talking on social enterprises) and more

Jan 10th – Innovation in action : Interactions with the Demo pit [3.15 pm - 4.30 pm] Innovations in consumer products, industrial automation, retail and supply chain, includes speakers such as Karthee Madaswamy, Qualcomm Ventures, Harsha Angeri, Head Strategy & New Initiatives, Honeywell and more
Jan 10th – Investor panel : Investment trends, opportunities and challenges for 2009 [5.00 pm - 6.00 pm] includes speakers such as RJ Sridhar, Partner, Jafco Asia, Rajesh Srivatsa, Partner, Ojas Ventures, IDG Ventures, Inventus Capital Partners, Varsha Tagare, Intel Capital and Aravind M, Artiman Ventures
Jan 9th, 10th : Technology tutorials [ 10 am – 5 pm ] – Cloud computing delivered by Google, Infosys, IBM, SAP Labs, Rediff, Microsoft; Virtualization delivered by HP Labs; Mobility delivered by Infosys; Search and Social platforms delivered by Yahoo, Google and Infosys.

Hi Folks,

To celebrate the launch of JavaFX (http://www.javafx.com), we are having a JavaFX special *BOJUG* (http://groups.google.com/group/bojug) meet this *Saturday*.

Please find the details of the meet as follows:

Date & Venue:

*Saturday, 20th December 2008*

Starting time: *03.00 PM*

Sun Microsystems India Pvt. Ltd.
Himalaya Conference Room,
Ground Floor, DivyaSree Chambers,

*Sessions:*

JavaFX in all the Screens Of Your Life! , By: Vaibhav Chaudhary
(http://blogs.sun.com/vaibhav/), and Subrata Nath, Sun Microsystems, India

*JavaFX apps- How you write them? How is it truly write-once run
anywhere- Mobiles, Desktops, Dashboards
* Demos
* Internal architecture- How it works..
*.
*. Lots more..

Highlight: *JavaFX* and **Pizzas*** !

If you are planning to attend, please put up your name on the wiki
page at http://bojug.wikispaces.com. Putting up your name will
*ensure* that you get a Pizza and also help in smooth conduction of
the meet

For any queries, please contact me : amitsaha.in@gmail.com

See you!

-Amit

After its resounding successes in its past four editions, Proto.in is back on 23 & 24 january at bangalore to further strengthen its position as India’s premier start-up event. Proto.in has built a reputation of being the one event the entire entrepreneurial ecosystem looks forward to, across the length and breadth of India. Having witnessed successful past editions in Delhi and Chennai and gearing up for the next one in Bangalore, Ravi Narayan, Managing Director of Mentor Partners, and an advisor to proto.in, believes “proto.in is poised to become a nationwide phenomenon.”

Proto.in – A Binding force within the Start-up Community

Over the last four editions, proto.in has showcased over 75 startups of whom many have leveraged the platform to close funding, develop new business opportunities, create media traction and even connect with potential hires.And as Alok Mittal, one of most successful internet entrepreneurs and a leading venture capitalist in india, says “Proto.in has emerged as an integral part of the Indian startup ecosystem.”

The last edition of Proto.in at India’s capital city played host to the 15 most exciting startups in the country amidst an audience that included the most prominent venture capital firms and angel investors to the who’s who in the technology and media circles. Amit Somani, Head of Mobile Products for Google APAC and a distinguished delegate at the last edition, believes that proto.in will be known as one of the pioneers for helping technology entrepreneurs get started in India in years to come.

The last event also saw a slew of new activities that churned out the most innovative ideas amidst a bunch of hyper enthusiastic entrepreneurs. Guess what, its only going to get better (and wackier) this edition.

What’s Special this proto.in?

Apart from the most anticipated Proto.in showcase of india’s top 15 product startups, the fifth edition of proto.in is breaking new ground by letting the audience experiment with entrepreneurship, through a set of globally unique activities for a technology conference under our exciting new initiative – Proto.in Labs.

Proto.in Labs will play host to a set of activities that will engage the crowd like no other indian conference has attempted before. Here’s a sneak peak into the exciting set of activities you’ll experience as an audience in this edition of proto.in:

Shotgun Startups – Teams of technologists, programmers, designers, and product architects compete with each other to build a product in 24 hours, and get them voted by the audience at Proto.in, with one emerging as the winner.

Pitchcamp! – The first pitch that you make, be it an investor, partner, employee or client about what you do, makes all the difference to that first impression. Pitchcamp will be a workshop for startups to help them sculpt their pitch that will sell every time.

Innovation Jam – Ideation is a simpler process. With the success of the process that started last time, at this proto.in, here’s a chance for the entire audience to participate, in chipping and brewing fresh ideas off of their head. If you have a creative block, this will ensure that its flushed out.

Proto.in Conversations – we are not alone. We are a community of entrepreneurs and some of us have tread this path before us, and have valuable experience to share. Listen from fellow entrepreneurs and get that dose of reality driven into yourself on everything from funding to hiring.

Startup Job board – Sometimes, old school works. If you are a startup and looking for people, put up a post. If you are a professional and looking for a job in an exciting startup, take a card and give them a call. Make it happen, when the entrepreneurial energy is flowing all around you.

Be There!

Add to that, an invite only dinner and a startup mixer on both nights to network and meet others in the space.Make no mistake, Proto.in 5th edition is ‘THE’ place to be, if you want to spruce up your entrepreneurship journey.

Startup nominations are closing on December 16. Hurry up!
Event registration opens on December 15.