B School course content

I think b-school course content per se, is huge considering the time that is given to complete it. There can’t be an MBA course running for three, four relaxed years because that would eat into an individual’s productive life. So there is no other way except to stuff courses into three-month periods. I am told that MBA guys do 9 subjects in 3 months! That’s an astounding 54 courses in two years. The whole engineering syllabus spread across 4 years is just 50 courses* including practical-courses that are relatively easy to handle.

Growth as Objective

One should not take growth as an objective for himself, it is basically a by product of doing things right. Fundamental errors get made when people do optimization with growth as the objective function.

Bloglet

I had been using the services of www.bloglines.com to keep up with various blogs that I used to check out. Now I found a new service at www.bloglet.com which allows me to get blog updates on to my mailbox. This is seem to work for me fine. I could not get Info Aggregator work for me as it is based on a RSS to IMAP conversion and firewall had blocked IMAP port. So I am currently shifting my subscriptions to new service at ‘bloglet’.

Visit to Ahmedabad

I haven’t been blogging for the past three four days. I had been to Ahmedabad to meet a dear friend of mine who is studying at IIMA. I should say that the IIMA campus is just awesome. It looks really beautiful in dimly lit light in the night. There I heard about the some really great Prof’s like Raghuram, C. Ravi etc, just did not get a chance to meet them. Made me feel like I want to learn from some many things from great guys like those.

Lot of my notions got validated/discarded there. My friend was right about what they teach @ IIMA. They teach you how to think. The exam of CAT is to check in the person the basic aptitude for thinking and the capability and courage to take an strenuous course like the one at IIMA.

My visit served the dual purpose of meeting my friend and get a peek of life @ IIMA. Also had a chance to visit some of the Gujarati clubs which organized garba there for navratri and eat some delicious Gujarati food.

Seven New Grand challenges for Computer Science

From since when I was very young I was always very fascinated with electronics, gadgets.Radio was one device which was all the more fascinating to me. When I made the decision to do engineering my orient was to do a electronic engineering from a premier college in the country. Later I joined for Computer science program as either I had an option for this or to go for Electrical Engineering. At college while in the CS programe I was always oriented more towards electronics subjects and still no doubt I still relish those. But if I ask myself now again to make a choice between computers/electronics engineering. I find computer science much more fascinating than electronics, especially core subjects like Theory of Computation, Operating systems, Algorithms. I am not a master in these subjects but still they are really fascinating.
The list of favourite non core CS subject is just endless – Image Processing, Multimedia, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining.
There is so much in the area of Computer Science that is to be discovered/solved.

Roland Piquepaille’s mentions about an article called Seven New Grand Challenges for Computer Science

In Vivo In Silico (IVIS): This project is focused on modeling real-life events in silicon to experiment with virtual organisms.

Science for Global Ubiquitous Computing: In 20 years, computers will be everywhere and globally interconnected. Researchers think that this worldwide network will be seen as a single Global Universal Computer (GUC). The goal is to define the theories behind this future GUC.

Memories for Life: The amount of data that we collect, pictures, films, e-mails, is growing at a growing rate every day. This project wants to find ways to securely store and search all of these data.

Scalable Ubiquitous Computing Systems: This is an approach to solve future problems coming from growing computing complexity created by increasingly networked computers and Internet’s proliferation, leading to the integration of organic models.

Architecture of Brain and Mind: This project wants to know how our brains are working. But even the proponents of this plan are not sure it can be done in 15 years.

Dependable Systems Evolution: With computer viruses and worms causing increasingly severe threats to everybody, this project wants to build “dependable, secure and trustworthy computer systems.”

Journeys in Non-Classical Computing: This is an attempt to build complex computer systems by using nature and biology as sources of inspiration