Special Interest Group - High Performance Computing

A special interest group about 'High Performance Computing' was initiated by the SB on Thursday' 10th Jan'08. The need for High Performance in today's world was stressed in the opening by T.L.Prasanna,a final year student of CSE and ex-Chairperson,IEEE SB NITW. Goutham, a second year student of EEE shared his knowledge and ideas on his related area of interest, Quantum Computing. Several students as well our Branch counselor, Prof. DVSS Siva Sarma, became a part of the discussion which was more than an hour of new concepts in computing, limitations of the Vlsi technology and the vast pool of opportunities which lie in this domain. It was decided that the discussion would go on every Thursday at New Academic Block(NAB) and interested students should come, share and learn together.

Some of the photos of the event are shared below. To view the images in a larger size, click on the image.

Robotics Tutorial - 7 January 2008

A much awaited and planned event concerning robotics unleashed the IEEE string of activities for the year 2008. Thee event received an overwhelming participation from the tech-enthusiasts who wanted to know about the long & short of building one's own robot. Our Treasurer, M.Sai Krishna who is himself into robotics and has participated in several contests inside and outside the campus, took charge of the event. The presentation kicked off with the an explanation of the problem statements of the robotics event to be held in NIT Warangal's forthcoming techfest Technozion. He introduced the students to most of the mechanical parts, like the gears, motors etc. as well as the underlying circuit concepts that govern a robot's functioning, with the help of real models, pictures, videos, slides. Apart from the technical aspect, even the cost of many of the equipments was discussed which clearly rammed the popular belief that robotics was an expensive task.Students were encouraged to take steps in the direction of building robots and simple and useful tips like using tiffin boxes for the main body, pencil boxes for remotes made it sound like a child's play. The event closed with a some queries and invitation to students to participate in more and more discussions on the official robotics blog of IEEE Student Branch, NITW, www.ieeercnitw.blogspot.com.IEEE SB is planning to get new robotics equipment for the members so that they can form a robotics interest group and get started with the work.The students are requested to share their experience of the event and also give feedback for the betterment of SB's activities.
Here are a few of the photos of the event. To view the images in a larger size, click on the image.