TechNayak

Location : IIITB Bangalore

Open house was held in iiit Bangalore and I was there first hand to witness all the innovation. The project expo mainly featured in house projects and had a lot POC’s and some really neat projects as well. I shall mention a few which i thought were really innovative concepts.

First there was Shiksha which was a site targeted towards kids between the age of 3 and 12. All the essentials like arithmetic, coloring, English were covered. Though very primitive in its outlook, it could go on to become really popular amongst schools and parents. I really appreciate Mandar and Srinivas who explained an DSP project so well that, even I, who shudders at the thought of resistors and capacitors, understood exactly what they were saying.

There were a lot of Geographic Information System based projects, starting with “where am I” team, which consisted of Prateeksha, my very good friend and team mate in the samparkh project. The application helped visually challenged people establish their location by connecting their GPS enabled mobile phones to a geographic database. There was also the GeoSearch application which searched for utilites in an area, and also performed cleaning up of search queries for more effective searches. Another Geo project involved GeoClustering basically helping in identifying clusters amongst geotagged facilities, so if you were to look at the cluster of ATM’s in your locality you would a get a cluster of them, such a project will definetely help as BI resource for marketing decisions.

Another project called Logic Fence was an effort to put constraints on an application from outside the scope of the application. The contraitnts are written ina seperate file, and is insulated from the programmer, when the application runs, the logic fence enforces all the constraints on the application, even if the developer did not code it. Great project when the constraints ina project are always changing. It can even be a great boost to the AOp world where you can write the constraint across the length of the application.

Then there was the ERP that used linear modelling of problems rather than the traditional probablistic model. The ERP was pretty extensive and is an ongoing project in iiitb. There was also GRACE which was a database designed to efficiently store graphs and nodes.

The pick of the day definetely had to be iChess, Inverse Chess in short, the game involved playing chess in reverse startign only with two kings. The game looked really well planned and also with predefined rules. Ichess will be big if marketed properly.

Well thats my wrap up of open house. If i have completely missed the point in some projects or have intrepreted then wrongly, then pardon me for my ignorance.