Editorial Committee

Faculty In ChargeProf. Ramesh Babu H.S. (chief editor)

Prof. Marigowda C.K. (Sub Editor)

Content & EditingNethra H. P. 6th Sem

Cladia M. Correa 4th Sem

Print Suhas M. 8th Sem

Sandeep Bhat 8th Sem

DesignReshmi Nair C. K. 6th Sem

Sudarshan Subramanian 4th Sem

HArsha Bhat 4th Sem

Acharya Institute of Technology

Dr. Acharya Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Road, Bangalore - 90

DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

MOTTO“NURTURING EXCELLENCE”

Message

At the very outset please accept my congratulations on your efforts to bring out the Ist Edition of “PRASTHITA” of the Dept. of Information Science & Engg. which will provide a media for stu-dents to express their views and inculcate enthusisum for creativity in writing.

My blessings will always be there in every venture of the dept.,and my wishes to the department to take up many such ven-tures for the benefit of the students fraternity.

-Sd/- (Shri. B. Premnath Reddy)

Chairman, Acharya Institutes

chairman's message

Message

It is indeed a matter of joy that Dept. of IS & E, AIT, Bangalore is bringing out its 1st Edition of “PRASTHITA” for the academic year 2010-11 It’s nothing but a team work with dedication, determination and discipline that lead to successful release of the magazine.

-Sd/- (Dr. G. P. Prabhukumar)

Director, Acharya Institute Of Technology

director's message

Message

I would like to send my best wishes for the success of “PRASTHITA” being released for the year 2010-11. I wish the students and the staff to take up such activities for benefit of the students. I congratulate all those who have strived hard in bringing out the magazine.

-Sd/- (Dr. H.D. Maheshappa)

Principal , Acharya Institute of Technology

Principal's message

HOd's message

I am very happy to present the Ist edition of “Prasthita” the departmental magazine for the aca-demic year 2010-11. “Prasthita” is the brain child of the students and staff of IS & E with an objective of creating platform for the students & staff of the department for showcasing their knowledge in form of articles in “Prasthita”

I am in depth thankful to Shri B. Premnath Reddy, Chairman, Acharya Institutes, Smt. Shalini Reddy, Director(Admissions) for all the support and en-couragement extended in the activities of the dept. and in bringing out “Prasthita”. My sincere thanks to Dr. C. Vijaykumar, Dr. G.P. Prabhukumar and Dr. H.D. Maheshappa for their support.

-Prof. Ramesh Babu H.S.Prof. & HOD, Dept of IS & E

About prasthita..... Prasthita in sanskrit means “THE RISING”. Prasthita is the mirror of the young minds of the Department of Information Science and Engineering. The name so suggests that students of this department are always looking forward to rise in all aspects of engineering. This provides not just a platform, but also a place to exchange the flourishing ideas among the students.

Prasthita will always be a front runner for initiating discussions amongst students and the corporate world as well as the literary world.

The main objectives of Prasthita is: • dedicated towards the attainment of a healthy environment for

education, research and service. The magazine is a forum for criti-cal discussions on topics of variety in a constructive medium.

• to strive hard to bring to its readers, expert contribution from the department. We also hope to provide younger generation of our readers with a chance to interact with specialists in all fields of academia and information technology.

• to be of the students, written by students, for the students.

AcknowledgementThank you….

We would like to acknowledge and extend our heartfelt grati-tude to Shri .B.Premnath Reddy(Chairman,Acharya Institutes),Mrs Shalini Reddy,Director (Admissions), Dr. Vijayakumar C. (Director HR & IA), Dr.G. P. Prabhukumar (Director, AIT) and Dr. H. D. Maheshappa (Principal, AIT) who supported us throughout the pro-duction of this magazine.

We would also like to warmly acknowledge Prof. Ramesh Babu H.S,(HOD,ISE) for his guidance and input in the making of the mag-azine.

Of the many people who have been enormously helpful in the preparation of this magazine,we are especially thankful to Prof. Marigowda(Assistant Professor,Dept of ISE) for his help and support in guiding us through to its successful completion. We would also like to express our gratitude to our fellow students for their valuable contributions.

And especially to God, who made all things possible.

-EDITORIAL TEAM

ise faculty profileProf. RAMESH BABU H.SPROFESSOR & HOD

Mr. C.K. MarigowdaAsst. Professor

Mr. Sudarsanan D.Asst. Professor

Mr. Umapathi G. R.Asst. Professor

Mr. Mahesh G.Asst. Professor

Mrs. V. Usha KumariAsst. Professor

Mrs. VasanthlakshmiAsst. Professor

Mr.s. Sushma T. M.Asst. Professor

Mrs. Kala VisheshAsst. Professor

Mr. Yogesh N.Asst. Professor

Ms. Prathibhavani P MAsst. Professor

Mr. Surendra Babu K.N.Asst. Professor

Mr. Hemanth T. D.Asst. Professor

Mr. Sathish S.Asst. Professor

Mr. Chayapati A RAsst. Professor

Mr. Arun K. H.Asst. Professor

Mrs. Tanuja K.Asst. Professor

Mrs. Chaitra B.Asst. Professor

Mr. Nagaraj NaikAsst. Professor

faculty achievements1. Prof.Ramesh Babu H.S. has published a paper on “A Perspec-tive on Estimation of Available Capacity in Wireless Networks” with specifications “Mobile Wireless Middleware, Operating Systems, and Applications Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications”.

2. “Performance Evaluation of CAC Algorithm for Multiple Class Traffic in NGWN”, Ramesh Babu.H.S, Dr.Gowrishankar, Dr.Satyanarayana P.S , IAENG International Conference on Com-munication Systems and Applications ( ICCSA 2010),Hong Kong, 17-19 March, 2010.

3. Prof.Ramesh Babu H.S. has published a paper on “An Intelligent Call Admission control decision mechanism for Wireless networks”.

4. “Comprehensive study on Tools for performance measurement of Wireless Networks”, Ramesh Babu.H.S, Gowrishankar, Satyana-rayana P.S, International Journal for Wireless Engineering and Tech-nology

5. “QoS provisioning Recurrent Neural Network based Call Ad-mission Control for beyond 3G networks” Ramesh Babu H.S, Dr.Gowrishankar , Dr.Satyanarayana

6. “Call Admission Control for Next Generation Wireless Net-works using Higher Order Markov Model” Ramesh Babu H.S, Dr.Gowrishankar, Dr.Satyanarayana P.S

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7. “An Intelligent Fuzzy Neural Call Admission Control mecha-nism for Guaranteed QoS in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks” Ramesh Babu H.S, Dr.Gowrishankar, Dr.Satyanarayana ,IAENG International Conference on Computer Science (ICCS’10), Hong Kong, 17-19 March, 2010.

8. “Unified Performance and Availability model for Call Admis-sion Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks’’ Ramesh Babu H.S, Dr.Gowrishankar , Dr.Satyanarayana P.S ,International Journal of Communications, Networks and System Sciences, Sci-entific Research Publishing, USA,

9. “A Survey on issues and challenges in 4G wireless networks”, Prof. Mahesh G., at National Conference on Wireless Control and Communication Technology organized by Dr. Ambedkar In-stitute of Technology, Bangalore.

10. Prof. Prathibhavani P M “ Avoiding Congestion Collapse by Border Patrolling” ,International conference on Intelligent De-sign and Analysis of Engineering Products, Systems and compu-tation, 9th and 10th July 2010, Sri Krishna College of Engineer-ing and Technology Sugunapuram, Kuniamuthur, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.

11. Prof. Prathibhavani P M “A secure Aggregation Protocol(sap)”, National Conference on Emerging trends in in-formation Technology(NCEITI-11),10th to 12th March 2011, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, Bangalore-560074

12. Prof. Prathibhavani P M “A secure Aggregation Protocol for PRASTHITA 13

cluster-based wireless sensor networks with direct sink access” National Conference on Recent Trends in Computational Scienc-es and Engineering,(NCRTCSE-2011),12th February 2011, KVG College of Engineering, Sullia-574327.

13. Prof. Prathibhavani P M “Advanced Hybrid, Energy Ef-ficient Distributed clustering approach for Ad-Hoc sensor net-works” National Conference on information processing, Com-munication networks and Embedded Systems(NICE-2010),22nd to 23rd December 2010, Acharya Institute of Technology, Banga-lore-560090

14. Prof. Prathibhavani P M “A secure Aggregation Protocol for cluster-based wireless sensor networks with direct sink ac-cess” National Conference on Emerging Technology in Comput-er Science(NCETCS-2010),26th to 28th August 2010, Atria Insti-tute of Technology,Bangalore-560024

15. Prof. Prathibhavani P M ”Border Patrolling(B P)”,A Na-tional Level Conference on “Advances in Recent Trends in Com-puting (ARTCOM-2010)” ,15th and 16th January-2010, Shri An-nasaheb Dange College of Engineering & Technology, Sangli, Maharashtra.

16. Prof. Prathibhavani P M “Congestion Avoidance Protocol (CAP)”, A National Level Conference on “Computing Commu-nication and Technology (CCT-2010)”, 21st,22nd and 23rd Janu-ary-2010,R V C E ,Bangalore, Karnataka.

17. Prof. Sathish S. “WEB-LLD: New Style of creating LLD for web based design” in the “International Conference on Computer

Science & Information Technology” held at Dept. of Information Science and Engineering, RLJIT, Bangalore on 17h & 18th, Sep-tember, 2010

18. Prof. Tanuja K. “Kannada Word Assortment for Proficient Exploration in an Image Document Anthology” was presented at the National Conference on “EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES” in Computer Science” organized by Atria Institute of Technology, in 2010

19. Prof. Vasanthlakshmi M. and Prof. Prathibhavani P. M. presented a paper on “Hausdorff Clustering Energy Efficient Data Aggregation protocol (EDAHC)” at National Conference on Emerging Technologies in Computer Science(NCETCS - 2010)” on 28th August, 2010 at Atria Institute of Technology, Bangalore.

About steigen- student forum

Mission

To ignite young minds with innovative ideas and “excel their skills”, by providing a platform to their knowledge and guiding them to achieve their goals.

Objective of Student Forum

Motivating students for excellence through the student forum STEI-GEN. It is the mantra of IS&E department which ignites the young minds with innovative ideas and “excels their skills” there by providing a platform to update their knowledge and guides them to achieve their goals; prepar-ing them to participate in various paper presentation programs, to enhance their interpersonal skills, motivating them in all aspects to participate in national and international seminars and such talent-seeking activities.

Forum Objectives

i. An attempt to increase the Teacher-Student Association for departmental activities, achievements and goals.

ii. Activities to introduce Team Spirit to encourage Technical and curricular skills of every Student.

iii. Step in the growth and display of talents of youngsters.

iv. Create platform for enhancing student - industry interaction.

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Forum Activities

Guest Lectures by industry expertsGroup DiscussionTechnical Paper PresentationTechnical QuizDebate on technical issuesMock interviewIT Fest- State Level / National Level

STEIGEN Activities Held during Odd Semester, 2010

TECHNICAL CROSS WORD

VISUALISATION

LOGICAL REASONING & ANALYSIS

RACE TECH

STEIGEN Activities Held during Even Semester, 2011

Aptitude & Puzzles

General & Technical Quiz

IQ Panel Ladder (IPL)

Virtual Interview Panel

steigen 2010-11

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index

Index..................................................................18Article Section...................................................19Student Sketches................................................37Photo Section.....................................................39Student Achievements.......................................43

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Articles Section

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Michelangelo

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Dearest $love, I woke up in the morning to find every bit in my body wait-ing to be with you. It has been a very long wait for today. Al-though my heart has only your image, my brain has split itself into many threads each executing only your command.

I remember the first day we met. Our hearts reached con-sensus without any external memory. I was a dangling pointer containing your address but no ownership over you. As I tried to deference the location, I crashed. There were not one but many clients trying to connect to you. But this did not deter me. I relent-lessly tried to reach you. My messages to you were sent through different routers but they were all prevented from reaching you. All my SYN packets were dropped. When finally I decided to close my connection, I received your ACK. The very thought of being preempted made my heart bloom like the heat generated by a million processors all in busy-wait. When you saw me you realized that I was not a spurious host. I was a trusted source as I was linearly separable from the rest.

TECHNICAL LOVE LETTER

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But when our class separation decreased I saw more dis-tinct features. owever, I could neither decode your enciphered smile nor track your mosaiced lips. Your gaze brought me to your frontal view nullifying my external parameters. I stared at you as thousands of thoughts enqued in my memory waiting to be dequeued. No amount of data mining could have extracted the three simple words that you said to me then. Within no time, all my thoughts automatically dequeued. Those evergreen images registered in my mind instantly even though infinite amount of images would have been impossible to reconstruct the scene. It is on this day last year that we first met. My memory of the day has never got corrupted and when I think about you I also think about the first time that I met you. Compile me into you and I promise to link with you. I will load both your sorrows and hap-pinessequallyall my life.Always yours,

Harjeet..6thSem A Section

“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” Anne Frank, DiaristPRASTHITA 22

The Nuts And Bolts-[Technology Behind] Social networking is the art of connecting with those who share common interests. With the word “Social Networking”, the only thing which strikes everybody’s mind is ‘Facebook’. This website is the world’s largest social networking website, with about 500 million users. On the front view, the site looks so user-friendly but Facebook’s inner workings, its architecture and fron-tend/backend infrastructure, the nuts and bolts that hold Facebook together is diversified.

Facebook uses a variety of services, tools, and programming languages to make up its core infrastructure. At the front end, their servers run a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack with Memcache .Let’s take a closer view.

Linux & Apache

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system kernel. It’s open source, very customizable, and good for security. And Apache is the most popular open source web server in use. Face-book runs the Linux operating system on Apache HTTP Servers.

EvEr wOndered , How Facebook WORKS?

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MySQL

For the database, Facebook utilizes MySQL because of its speed and reliability. MySQL is used primarily as a key-value store as data is randomly distributed amongst a large set of logical in-stances. These logical instances are spread out across physical nodes and load balancing is done at the physical node level.

PHP Facebook uses PHP because it is a good web programming language with extensive support and an active developer commu-nity and it is good for rapid iteration. PHP is a dynamically typed/interpreted scripting language.

Memcache Memcache is a memory caching system that is used to speed up dynamic database-driven websites (like Facebook) by caching data and objects in RAM to reduce reading time. Memcache is Face-book’s primary form of caching and helps alleviate the database load. Having a caching system allows Facebook to be as fast as it is at recalling your data. If it doesn’t have to go to the database it will just fetch your data from the cache based on your user ID.Facebook’s backend services are written in a variety of different programming languages including C++, Java, Python, and Erlang.

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Thrift (protocol)

Thrift is a lightweight remote procedure call framework for scalable cross-language services development. Thrift supports C++, PHP, Python, Perl, Java, Ruby, Erlang, and others. It’s quick, saves development time, and provides a division of labour of work on high-performance servers and applications.Scribe (log server)

Scribe is a server for aggregating log data streamed in real-time from many other servers. It is a scalable framework useful for logging a wide array of data. It is built on top of Thrift.

Cassandra (database)

Cassandra is a database management system designed to han-dle large amounts of data spread out across many servers. It powers Facebook’s Inbox Search feature and provides a structured key-val-ue store with eventual consistency.

HipHop for PHP HipHop for PHP is a source code transformer for PHP script code and was created to save server resources. HipHop transforms PHP source code into optimized C++. After doing this, it uses g++ to compile it to machine code.

Abhishek Singh,2ndSemester, B section

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1.Be Trustworthy Trust is the basis for almost all the relationships in your life. Without trust, it's impossible to create healthy and productive environments, either with work or personal situations.

2.Inspire People to Work Toward The Vision In any sort of management role, it is quite common to hear people refer to the "big picture". This is just a cliché way to describe creating and inspir-ing a vision.

3.Be Self Aware and Insightful About Your Impact On Others One of the most important qualities of good leadership is that the in-dividual is aware of him or herself ... their abilities and the impact that they have on others

4.Accept Responsibility for Your Actions Those who have qualities of good leadership never pass the buck. In fact, the best leaders will not only take responsibility for their own mis-takes, but also shield their team from negative consequences, going to bat for them.

5.Lead versus Manage There is quite a fine line between these two styles. While a leader may certainly manage, managers rarely lead. Developing the qualities of good leadership found on this page and over at them What Makes A Good Leader page, will enable you to understand this minute difference, most of which has to do with your attitude and how you truly value those who you work with.

6.Have High Self Worth and Self Esteem You might not think that how you feel about yourself has a whole lot to do with how others perceive you or how effective you can be at taking

leadership Qualities

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to do with how others perceive you or how effective you can be at taking charge of a group situation. However, it would be a huge mis-take to make this assumption. Every individual is either their own best friend or their own worst enemy.

So totally,L- Large heartedE- EnthusiasticA- AdventurousD- DaringE- EntertainingR- ResourcefulS- Straight forwardH- HonestI- IntelligentP- Popular

Nethra H. P.6th Sem, A Section

FriendshipFriendship is something to hold on toBut for me that’s not the caseCause I don’t feel I need to keepSomething that can’t be erased

I am sure of what I haveCause with you I have no doubtFor what we’ve built, can’t ever failIt’s what I care about

I find it hard to describeThis thing that we shareEspecially when there’s nothing elseThat ever could compare

For you’re the “U”, and I’m the “S”And forever that will beCause together we make “US”, and soYOU COMPLETE ME!!Divya B.C.4th Sem, A Section

“No one is use-less in this world who lightens the burden of another”

Charles Dickens

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How they got derived…

There are many companies / brands / products whose names were derived from strange circumstances/things/happenings.

Google The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of infor-mation the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named Googol’, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders- Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’ …thus the name.

Apple Computers It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 O’clock that evening.

Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ‘mail’ and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” – the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Yahoo! The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive in appear-ance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and PRASTHITA 28

Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Microsoft Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.

CISCOIt is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco .Hewlett Packard Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Pack-ard-Hewlett.

Intel Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new compa-ny ‘ Moore Noyce’but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

ORACLE Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the proj-ect was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to helpuse the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RD-BMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sourabh Majumdar8TH Sem, Sec B

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SMART QUILL

Smart Quill is slightly larger than an ordinary fountain pen. Us-ers can enter information into these applications by pushing a but-ton on the pen and writing down what they would like to enter .The SmartQuill does not need a screen to work. The really clever bit of the technology is its ability to read handwriting not only on paper but on any flat surface – horizontal or vertical. There is also a small three-line screen to read the information stored in the pen; users can scroll down the screen by tilting the pen slightly. The user trains the pen to recognize a particular handwriting style – no matter how messy it is, as long as it is consistent, the pen can recognize it. The handwritten notes are stored on hard disk of the pen. The pen is then plugged into an electronic “inkwell”, text data is transmitted to a desktop comput-er, printer, or modem or to a mobile telephone to send files electroni-cally. Up to 10 pages of notes can be stored locally on the pen. A tiny light at the tip allows writing in the dark. When the pen is kept idle for some time, power gets automatically off.

PRAVEEN KUMAR8th Sem, Sec A

India …as i saw it in the year 2050 One evening I went for a walk in the woods when suddenly I stumbled upon a cave. The cave was blocked by a big boulder. With great effort and force,I managed to remove the boulder. On entering PRASTHITA 32

on the door was written , “Enter inside”. On entering inside,I saw a big electronic panel and there was a button on which was written ,”Press me”. With cold and deft fingers,I pressed it and immediately I was sent 50 years in the future. Yes ,it was a time machine. Sud-denly 5 robots leaped on me and with a laser beam they arrested me and took me to their emperor, “ The so called Master Robo”. He had thousands of attachments on his metal body and had the intelligence of 90 thousands robots and infact he had a computer for his head. On seeing me he remarked ,” Oh! Anotherof those foolish,repulsive hu-mans who created us? Take him away to the prison of humans where all the earth’s human beings are locked.Then he addresses the other robots and said ,” I don’t know how this human got away without dy-ing when we spread radiation bomb on the whole earth and captutred all the humans ?” Next, I was taken to the big prison where I saw a few thousands of people only. Later I got to know that the rest of earth’s population had died in the radiation bomb and infact each day one or the other was dying of hunger, thirst and pure torture by man’s own creation. Every one had to do mining in prison to get fuel which was used as food by the robots to work else,he or she would be burst instantly by the lasers of one of the robots. No onbe had any ray of hope were so helpless that they had nothing to do but weep all the time and pray to God. People were used to losing their dear ones everyday. Several computers were watching everyone and anyone who was seen rest-ing even for a second was blown to bits by the computer which was programmed to do so. Man had nothing to do but himself to destiny. He was eventually governed by his own creation. I was horrified and most of all bewildered and shocked by all this that I quickly returned

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back to the present,rushing to tell everyone what was awaiting them in the future and how they could avoid getting into that kind of plight. Just as I came out of the cave,I heard an explosion right behind me, I rushed back only to see that the time machine had burst. Now no one will see the truth in my story and would think that it is a made up story or probably I was dreaming it all and hallucinating evrything. But Oh God ! Do believe me,it is very true. But no one,believes me and soon we will be also enslaved by those ‘tins cans’ as I call them. If only some one would believe me , if only…..if only………

Bhavesh Bhansali6th Sem , A Sec

The Power of the Printed Word

I have often wondered when writing a book review…….how many people are really going to browse through the page? It is really a sad territory to tread on. There is no mincing matters here. An indi-vidual's intimate relationship with books is a thing of the past. I am speaking in generic terms, there will always be exceptions and thank God for them. When I am talking of books I am of course referring to those that are meant for bringing happiness and contentment. As far as information and research is concerned, I accept the supremacy of the internet as far as convenience is concerned. If you just care to give a search on google on this topic you will be surprised at the number of people who actually sound intensely anguished that their children, or the 'young generation' for that matter have been overtaken by the internet and other audio-visual media. It

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is my opinion that 'today's generation' is just a convenient and ready ploy for transferring responsibility that should ideally be one's own. It is impossible to miss out the irony of complaining about the inter-net on a website. Why not get the precious opinion printed if it really matters that much. Can you think of the last time when you have presented someboy a book for a gift? Even if the thought does cross your mind, you will pause and weigh the option again and again. Does he like books…Will he have the time…and so on and so forth. Finally you end up with something that is fairly neutral as far as taste is con-cerned. Safe choice no doubt but not as expressive of thoughtful care as a book in any way. There can be nothing more painful for a book lover than to watch somebody read an e-version of a favourite masterpiece. It is completely devoid of the sensuous pleasure of touch, of turning the pages, of lying down on the couch with the feet curled up. You see, the pleasure of reading books is not limited to the mind alone. True, the primary aim is mental stimulation, in whatever form, but then sometimes the vehicles are more sensory for all you know. A book is a personal possession, at least at the moment of reading it and it has the capability of transporting the reader to the world that the covers contain within them. It is not something that any e-environment will be able to create. But the most important and yet the most obscure reason for this trend of books losing favour happens to be a contemporary lack of imagination. It would not be wrong to say that the break-neck pace of modern life has been responsible in generating an apathy that has overtaken the normal processes of thought. Add to that a lack of pa-tience and you have a more or less complete answer. It is precisely

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thought and imagination that books seek to inspire and what good is reading if you lack both.

Nikitha Singh4th Sem, A Sec

All I remember is… (A poem about IT)

A computer was something on TVFrom a sci fi show of note.A window was something you hated to cleanAnd ram was the cousin of goat.

Meg was the name of my girlfriendAnd gig was a job for the nights.Now they all mean different thingsAnd that really mega bytes.

An application was for employment.A program was a TV show.A curser used profanity.A keyboard was a piano.

Memory was something that you lost with age.A CD was a bank account.And if you had a 3 1/2” floppyYou hoped nobody found out.

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Compress was something you did to the garbageNot something you did to a file.And if you unzipped anything in publicYou’d be in jail for a while.

Log on was adding wood to the fire.Hard drive was a long trip on the road.A mouse pad was where a mouse lived.And a backup happened to your commode.

Cut you did with a pocket knife.Paste you did with glue.A web was a spider’s home.And a virus was the flu

I guess I’ll stick to my pad and paperAnd the memory in my head.I hear nobody’s been killed in a computer crash,But when it happens they wish they were dead.

Sourabh Majumdar8th Sem, Sec B

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Student sketches

Ayush Agarwal, 4th Sem, Sec A

Sameerah Md. Amin, 4th Sem, Sec B

Rashmishree, 6th Sem, Sec B

Ayush Agarwal, 4th Sem, Sec A

Ayush Agarwal, 4th Sem, Sec A

8th A

8th B8th B

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6th A

6thB

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4th A

4th B

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Student Achievements

Old dominion university projects The students of 6th semester are working on research projects uner the guid-ance of Dr. Ajay Gupta, Director of Computer Resources, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA and Prof. Prathibhavani P. M., Asst. Prof., Dept. of ISE, AIT. The research projects undertaken are:

Principal, staff and students doing projects under ODU along with Mr.Ajay Gupta.

1. Optimal Number of Clusters in Dense Wireless Sensor Networks. a. Ravikanth b. Zeeshan Ali c. Rajneesh Prakash d. Sindhu e. Sushma.

2. Partial Data Aggregation using Wireless Sensor Networks a. Mridula b. Manara R c. Deepa P.K. d. Jayanth.PRASTHITA 43

3. Attribute Awareness Data Aggression Using Dynamic Routing in WSN (ADADR) a. Sandeep b. Roshan c. Karthik C d. Thilak N

4. Optimal Number of Clusters in Dense Wireless Networks. a. Nikita B Soni b. Nethra H. P. c. Harjeet Singh Rathod d. Divya Ravali

• Atul C. George of 6th sem won the Ist Prize in “Movie Making competiton” held at Jain University in 2010.

• Manas Sharma and Jason of 8th sem have been selected for University of Strath-clyde, Glasgow, U.K. for MBM course.

• Reshmi Nair C.K. of 6th sem, represented the Karnataka State NET BALL team in the recent matches held.

• Singadi T. Shahshikrian & Santosh S.of 8th sem presented Paper on “BOKODE” on 4th May, 2011 in AIT,and bagged the IInd Prize.

• Roshan S., Sandeep Gopal Bhandari, Thilak N., Karthik C. of 6th sem present-ed paper on “Atrribute - aware data aggregasion using dynamic routing in WSN” on 31st March, 2011 in AIT, Bangalore.

• 2nd Prize in Quiz TECHNOCRACY’11 at EC dept. state level symposium, AcIT along with prabhash kumar 4th may, 2011

• Gyan Raunak of 8th sem achieved the following: • 2nd Prize in Quiz TECHNOCRACY’11 at EC dept. state level sympo-sium, AcIT along with Prabhash kumar 4th may, 2011 • Second prize in “GD & Mock Interview” held by student forum STEI-GEN, Dept. of Information Science & Engg., Acharya Institute of Technology, Banga-lore. • Second prize in “EXTEMPORE competition” held by student forum SPECTRA, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engg., Acharya Institute of Tech-nology, Bangalore(26-Mar-2010). • First prize in “Aptitude & Group Discussion” held by student forum SPECTRA, Dept. of Electronics & Communication Engg., Acharya Institute of Tech-nology, Bangalore(26-Mar-2010). • Got 92 percentile in elitmus All India Test for pan-India placement oppor-tunities• Arun M.C. of 8th Sem, is qualified in GATE 2011.

7th ISTE Student Annual Convention(held on 11th March 2011 at Cambridge Institute of Technology, Bangalore)

Technical QuizFirst Prize 1. Gyan Raunak 8th Semester, Sec A2. Prabhash Kumar 8th Semester, Sec B

Debugging ContestFirst Prize Suhas 8th Semester, Sec AThird Prize Srinivas M 8th Semester, Sec B

AnimationFirst Prize Srinivas M 8th Semester, Sec B

AptitudeFirst Prize Vivek Vardhan 8th Semester, Sec B

PRASTHITA 45

student toppers ( odd semester 2010-11 )

SUMA B U BHARATHI M. SANGEETHA A

RAJNEESH PRAKASH BHAVEESH BHANSALI KEERTHI KUMAR

CHETAN R. VIDHYASHREE H.R. CHARISHMA DEVI V.

7TH SEMESTER

5TH SEMESTER

3RD SEMESTER

PRASTHITA 46

Name Class/SecArun. M. C (Secretary) 8AAdarsh. M. E 8AAbhishek. A. S 8AAshok. M 8AGyan Raunak 8AJanardhan Babu A 8AJavid. K. Karangi 8AKarthik. M. Rao 8AKeshava Murthy 8AKushal. K. R 8ARavi Kiran 8ASandeep Bhat 8ASuhas. M 8AMurli L 8BRajesh 8BSangameshwar 8BSantosh. S Devanga 8BShashi Kiran 8BSrinivas. M 8BSuresh Reddy 8BYugendra. D. Gowda 8BAmritha S 6AAnil Siddartha 6ABhavesh Bansali 6ADarshan 6ADeepa P K 6ADivya 6AGyansheel Kumar 6AHarjeet Singh 6AHeera 6AManasa R 6AMridula S Tunga 6ANaveen Patil 6ANethra H P 6ANikitha B. Soni 6ARajneesh Prakash 6BRashmishree 6BRavikanth 6BReshmi Nair C.K. 6BShafiya 6BShashank Pandey 6BSindhu S 6B

Suraj 6BSushma 6BYashaswini 6BYashoda 6BDhananjaya 4BAbhishek prakash 4AMd. Afzal 4AAkriti 4ACharisma 4AChetan 4ACladia M. Correa 4AHarsha Bhat 4ANagdev 4ANikhil Kumar 4ANikita Singh 4ARajeev Kumar 4BRavindranath 4BRohit 4BSaif 4BShruti 4BSudarshan Subramanian 4BViraj 4B

steigen co ordinators (2010-11)