Archive for the ‘Live Blogging’ category.
LiveBlog: Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan’s address at VLSI Conf Pune
(This is a live-blog of the keynote address of Prithviraj Chavan, CM of Maharashtra, at the 26th International Conference on VLSI Design that is currently going on at the Hyatt, in Pune. For those who didn’t know, Prithviraj Chavan is an electrical engineer from BITS Pilani and Univ of California, Berkeley.) The semiconductor industry in [...]
Event Report: Turing 100 @ Persistent – The Theory of Computation
This is a liveblog of the Turing 100 @ Persistent Event. The Turing Awards celebrate the achievements of some of the most influential computer scientists. Unfortunately, a lot of the professionals and students in computer science are not well versed with the work of Turing Award winners, and since this year is the 100th birth [...]
SEAP Book Club Report: “Good to Great”
This is a liveblog of the SEAP Book Club Meeting on 7th July, where Gaurav Mehra, co-founder and MD of Saba Software, talked about the book Good to Great by Jim Collins. The SEAP Book Club meets on the first Saturday of every month at 10:30am in Sungard, Aundh. This book is the second in [...]
Event Report: Dr. Ramesh Raskar of MIT Media Lab
(This is a live blog of the talk given by Dr. Ramesh Raskar, of MIT Media Lab in Pune. Since this is a live-blog, it will not be as well structured as a regular article, and might contain more-than-normal grammatical errors.) About EyeNetra EyeNetra is a very small, cheap device (that costs less than Rs. [...]
Event Report: CarWale.com CEO Mohit Dubey
(This is a live-blog of the TiE Pune talk by Mohit Dubey, Founder and CEO of CarWale.com. This is essentially an unorganized collection of interesting/insightful statements made by Mohit during his talk.) “Carwale.com, the story so far: Started in 2005, seed funding in 2006, hit break-even point in 2007, series A funding in 2008, got [...]
Event Report: “Amplify Mobility” event on Mobile Tech at Bharati Vidyapeeth
This Saturday, there was a day-long event on mobile technology organized by Amplify Mindware, a group of educational institutions housed at Bharati Vidyapeeth. This is a live-blog of three of the talks at the event; (which is unfortunately being posted with a 2-day delay because my internet connection did not work at the venue.) There [...]
TechWeekend LiveBlog: NoSQL + Database in the Cloud #tw6
This is a quick-and-dirty live-blog of TechWeekend 6 on NoSQL and Databases in the Cloud. First, I (Navin Kabra) gave an overview of NoSQL systems. Since I was talking, I wasn’t able to live-blog it. When not to use NoSQL Next, Dhananjay Nene talked about when to not use NoSQL. Main points: People know SQL. [...]
LiveBlog #tw5: Intro to Functional Programming & Why it’s important
This is a live-blog of TechWeekend 5 on Functional Programming, with talks by Dhananjay Nene (Why FP), Baishampayan Ghose (Clojure) and Bhasker Kode (Erlang)
Cloud computing – Report of IndicThreads Conference on Cloud Computing 2010
(This is a live-blog of the Indic Threads Conference on Cloud Computing, that’s being held in Pune. Since it’s being typed in a hurry, it is not necessarily as coherent and complete as we would like it to be, and also links might be missing. Also, this has notes only on selected talks. The less [...]
Live-Blog: Overview of High Performance Computing by Dr. Vipin Chaudhary
This is a live-blog of the talk on “Trends in High Performance Computing” given by Dr. Vipin Chaudhary, CEO of Computation Research Labs (CRL), the makers of the Eka supercomputer