Is this legitimate? -- I fear not, but who knows?

Sent from: D. Vishal (d.vishal@ktj.in)

Dear Sir,
Indian Institute of Technology,Kharagpur, the oldest and the largest among the I.I.T’s, is ranked among the best engineering institutions in the world. Over the years, this celebrated abode of knowledge has produced brilliant engineers who have made invaluable contributions in the field of science and technology.

Kshitij, the annual techno-management fest of IIT Kharagpur provides a platform for a confluence of students, academia and the industry. While the competitions at Kshitij prove to be the ultimate test of grit, knowledge and skill, the guest lectures and workshops provide an enriching experience for the avid learners. The fest has been graced by the presence of such luminaries who are looked up to for their distinguished contribution in their respective fields.
Following are some highlights of the previous editions of Kshitij :

* Lectures by Prof. Anthony James Leggett (noble laureate in physics 2003), Prof Larry Wall( Father of PERL Programming Language) Prof. Kurt Wuthrich(Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2002), Prof Paul Crutzen(Nobel laureate in Chemistry 1995) Mr. Richard Stallman (founder or GNU Linux), Mr. Roger D. Kornberg (Nobel Laureate Physics 2006),Dr. Klauz Von Klitzing (Nobel laureate Physics,1985) .

* Plethora of workshops on varied topics from next generation technologies by experts, Prof Kevin Warwick (First Human Cyborg), Mr. Nathan Chronister (Ornithopters), CUDA workshop by NVIDIA to forensic science, film-making and Graphology.

* Illuminating exhibitions on wide-ranging topics from next generation technologies by experts, Mr. Dan Roe (Solar Robotics - Kinetic Art), DRDO exhibitions (Missiles, Military Instruments),MIT Media Labs Sense table, Mr. Peter Robinson (Mind reading Machines), British Council (Solar Car),Augmented Reality (AR) Pool, Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University came up with Snake Robotics, Ultra Orb,Globe 4D and many more.


* Guest lectures by Prof. Eric Drexler (Father of nanotechnology), Mr. Jimmy wales (Co-founder of wikipedia), Dr Woodrow Withlow Junior( Director of NASA Glen Research Centre),Mr Phillipe Lebrun( Head of accelerator technology at CERN

* Guest Lecture by Dr. Rakesh Sharma ( the first Indian cosmonaut) and Dr. K. Kasturirangan(Former Chairman, Indian Space Research Organization)

* Guest Lectures by Prahlad Kakkar, Storm chaser George Kourounis and Jeremy Bristow, BBC filmmaker and Emmy award winner.

* Megashows like Pyro-technique show (Automated crackers), Sand Animation (Silica Art) and Pyromania (Sci art from Israel).

* Association with noted Fortune 500 companies like BARCLAYS CAPITAL, CISCO, GOOGLE, SUZLON, INTEL, IBM, HP, ONGC, GE, SYMANTEC etc. apart from some of the biggest names of India Inc. like SBI, HAL etc.

* Total participation of more than 40,000 students from all corners of country encompassing all IITs, IIMs and other leading technical and management colleges of India.

Please View the documentary of our last years fest Kshitij 2011 which was a grand success. The link is :
http://vimeo.com/24044016


The forthcoming edition of Kshitij will be held from January 27th through January 30th, 2012. Keeping up with the tradition of inviting artists with distinguished backgrounds and illustrious careers, I, on behalf of IIT Kharagpur would like to invite you to Kshitij 2012 to conduct a workshop on Problem Gambling.



Hoping to receive correspondence from you

SAB Meeting Notes, Feb 26th 2009

iAct

* investigates the adaptive visualisation of large displays
* uses stereoscopic projector for 3D display
* combine 3D with high-resolution 2D text
* evaluation: game playing, hot wire game, Poggendorf illusion
* results: dimensionality does not affect retrieval, but display size does, reproduced evidence of advantage of procedural memory (Handlungsgedaechtnis)
* "collaboration" is modeled as a group view generated from several private views
* the project organized a workshop. They cooperate with Lufthansa, Fresenius Kabi, Microsoft.

Proposal for Capture (Stricker)

* 3D scene reconstruction from images
* tracking of user's hands etc. using only one spherical camera
* use portable head-up display to augment reality with virtual objects
* do discrepancy checks (CAD data vs. captured images)
* approach: use high quality pictures (lots of data) for image reconstruction (amount of data challenging)

1st Workshop on Context Management

* a day workshop that linked projects Carmina, Perspecting, Take
* also provided repository, website, mailinglist (trac.dfki.de )

MyMory

* investigate context-related work, represent/elicit the user's context (re-contextualisation)
* exploit context for information retrieval
* attention as indicator for relevant context aspects
* MyMory investigatese text documents, technically via annotations and a diary study
* System with 4 level architecture, (i) platform level (e.g. ontology), (ii) service level (e.g. context services, information retrieval), (iii) application level (e.g. Wiki), (iv) appliance level
* Platform was used by other projects at DFKI, too (collaboration developed over the timespan of three full projects)
* attention evidence is collected via a webcam, eyetracker and markings in the document
* implements activation spreading ("entailment spreading" ~ inference)
* represent short term/medium term/long term context
* attention-oriented retrieval engine
* Wiki: manual and automated annotations
* coupling with DynaQ (other project in the department)
* dashboard application: visualise timeline
* experiment: give subjects a task that they have to perform using only a MyMory recording
* experiment: classification of contexts (only used themselves as subjects)
* reported improvements to their relevance feedback and ranking
* performed industrial case studies with Asstel (insurance) and Siemens
* one project member spent a reasearch internship at Microsoft ("scientific exchange")
* i-ducator: detecting of reading modes via eyetracking, published in SIGINT
* Questions: evaluation

Prospecting

* report on the first six weeks of the project
* employ user attention for situated retrieval
* ontology-based information extraction
* represent search experiences/search history
* architecture makes use of attention data, employs EEG and eyetracker
* uses memory model/mental model (long term attention history,
personal information model, information item store, seeking process store)
* evaluation: measure precision & recall
* novelty/understandability extimation
* until now: project team and infrastructure have been established
* Questions from panel: (i) what about privacy of user's data? (ii) EEG - they hope to see relationships between brain activity and relevance of documents, (iii) they collaborate with 'Bremen'

Feedback to my talks

* Check cognitive load theory
* Check whether iterative logic programming (or something like that) allows to usefully combine rule sets (proposal by Paul)
* be more specific about student's mastery, more detailed modelling of mastery (Dimitra)
* slide about assertion level proving - do not use "C" to label the conclusion
* Research question: does knowledge about granularity help student learning? (Erica)
* Need to justify my features (via theories?)

Anonymizing References in LaTeX

The problem: submit a TeX paper where self-references are removed (of course, removing them completely from the source will make it more difficult to create the camera-ready later).

Step 1: duplicate your entries, and attach a suffix (e.g. "-orig") always to one of the copies. Use that one to create the camera-ready later.
Step 2: Take the other copies, and remove all the information except the year of publication. As the author, indicate "\zzz{} ...", where \zzz is a macro defined in the main tex document (\newcommand[0]{\zzz}{}). The \zzz will help to make the left-out references appear at the bottom of the list.

Now each entry is dublicated as:

\inproceedings{paper01-orig,
author = {Real Author},
booktitle = {Real Book Title},
year = {2010}
}

\inproceedings{paper01,
author = {\zzz{} ...},
year = {2010},
note= {$<$ hidden reference $>$}
}

In the submission copy, all references indicate ... as the author. To enable references again for the camera-ready, rename the labels again (e.g. replace "-orig" with "").

Persistance of Lisp Objects

Lisp objects can be written to an ASCII file using save-object.lisp. The file contains instructions for use, for storing "database:save-object 'object' 'filename'" and loading - load as usual, the stored object is in database::*DB-INPUT*. However, this seems to work for only one object at once - the text is appended in the file, but *DB-INPUT* always refers to one item.