EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK

Dear Reader,
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
We bring you yet another
tantalizing issue of the ‗expedITe‘.
We are highly exulted in bringing
forth this issue to you. We being in
the crux of our academic and profes-
STAFF
sional constantly explore ourselves
to the subtle nuances of the industry.
We are sure that this magazine will Mrs.V.Muthulakshmi M.E , (Ph.D)
quench the technical thirst of the stu-
dents. It also unveils the Depart- Mr.S.Durai Murugan M.E
ment‘s accomplishments in the past
5 month‘s . We are sure that this
eclectic issue of ‗expedITe‘ gives EDITING
you all that you need and the interest
to be in the pursuit of the develop-
ment of modern technology and the
world in tune with IT. P.Rajesh Kumar III Yr
We express our gratitude to S.Praveen III Yr
our beloved chairman
Thiru Dr. Jeppiaar M.A.,B.L.,Ph.D, M.Rajagopalan III Yr
our Director Dr.Babu Manoharan
M.Mohamed Azharuddin III Yr
M. A. , M. B. A., P h. D, Pr inc ipa l
Dr .Jolly Abraham M.E.,Ph.D, Head B.Karthik II Yr
Of t he Depart ment
Mrs.G.Latha Selvi M.E.,(Ph.D) and A.Meera Mohideen II Yr
our staff for providing us a podium
to express our innovation and more P.Antony Ronald Reagan II Yr
importantly encourage us into out S.Venkatesan II Yr
successful endeavor of completing
this edition of ‗expedITe‘. The edito- Ramnath I Yr
rial team has not failed to embrace
the burgeoning trends in the field of
Information Technology which
would cater to the interest of the COVER DESIGN
readers. We sincerely hope that the
information is complete and accurate
to the fullest of our knowledge. P.Rajesh Kumar III Yr
Kindly write to us or mail
your invaluable suggestions which
would be incorporated in the forth-
coming issue.

The Editorial Board

‘expedITe’

1
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

CONTENTS

S.NO. TOPICS PAGE NO.

1 Graduation Day Report 3

2 Department News 4

3 5
Placement and Training

4 Placed Students List 5

5 Toppers List 7

6 Student Activities 9

7 Sports Activities 10

8 Symposium Winners 12

9 Industry Institute Interaction 16

10 Techno Corner 17

2
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

GRADUATION DAY REPORT

The 12th Graduation Day was held on the 28th March, 2010 at 2.00pm. Dr. Jeppiaar Chairman of
St.Joseph‘s College of Engineering presided over the function and Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar Vice
Chancellor, Anna University Chennai, delivered the Convocation Address. Mr. Ramasubramanian
Viswakumar, Assistant Vice President, Cognizant gave away the Degree certificates to the 1099
students who completed their course.

RESULT

The College has bagged the highest number of University Ranks in Tamil Nadu for the 5th
consecutive year among the 242 Engineering Colleges affiliated to Anna University, in the May
2009 Examinations. This batch of students has secured 59 Ranks with 6 Gold and 2 Silver
Medals. Rank holders were awarded Cash prizes and Silver shields worth of Rs.23.35 lakhs.

Acheivements of 2009 Batch

►No. of Students Passed - 120

With First Class & Distinction - 43

With First Class - 77

►Total Number of University Ranks - 5

1. V.Hemavathi – 9th Rank 2. Srinivas V V – 38th Rank

3. Prasanna Venkatesh V-39th Rank 4. Divya R – 41st Rank

5. Fahumitha Parveen R – 44th Rank

►Recipient of Trust Award - V. Hemavathi

Dr. V C Kulandai Swamy Award

►Placed: Campus Placement - 83

Off Campus - 07

►Doing Higher Studies: Abroad - 10

In India - 20

3
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

DEPARTMENT NEWS

PAPER PRESENTATION

NAME OF THE TOPIC LOCATION

STAFF

Analysis Of Gene Meenakshi Sundarajan

Expression Data Using Engineering College ,
Data Mining Techniques Chennai
Mrs.Priscilla
Babu Analysis Of Gene Karunya University ,
Expression Data Using
MATLAB software Coimbatore.

SEMINARS

NAME OF THE TOPIC LOCATION AND DATE

STAFF

Training program on ICTACT , Chennai from

Janani A essentials of DotNet &
C# 5/10/09 to 7/10/09

KCG college , Chennai on

Sumathi S Workshop on NS2
18/12/09

4
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

PLACEMENT AND TRAINING

The placement and training cell of our college has been organizing
periodical assessment and aptitude tests to improve the verbal and
quantitative skills of the students . This helps the students gain an
in-depth knowledge about the upcoming placement tests and
mentally prepares them to face these tests with increased
confidence , gradually increasing their IQ. This strengthens their
basic essentials in Mathematics as well as in English. These tests
are conducted on a weekly basis thus training them not only in the
technical field but also in aptitude.
Placement training for the pre-final year students will be conducted
from june 2 till june 16.

PLACED STUDENTS LIST

TOTAL NUMBER OF STUDENTS PLACED - 68

31706205010 ANTONY RAJ BHARATH D. B.Tech IT

31706205027 BUSI SANTHOSH BHANU B.Tech IT
31706205038 DHIVYA P. B.Tech IT
31706205047 HARIKRISHNAN K R B.Tech IT
31706205057 KARTHI KISHORE J S B.Tech IT
31706205091 RIYA JOSEPH B.Tech IT
31706205107 SRI JANANI.C B.Tech IT
31706205114 TERESA ANITA.A B.Tech IT

31706205310 SRINIVASAN L. B.Tech IT

31706205046 Hari K B.Tech IT

31706205043 Elizabeth Nithya P B.Tech IT

31706205102 Savitha K B.Tech IT

5
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

Company Placed
Reg No Name Of the Student Degree Branch
In
31706205001 AARTHY C. B.Tech IT
31706205002 ADETHYA S. B.Tech IT
31706205004 AISHWARYA R. B.Tech IT
31706205005 AJINTH G. B.Tech IT
31706205007 ANAND C. B.Tech IT
31706205008 ANITHA S. B.Tech IT
31706205018 ASHWIN KUMAR T. K. B.Tech IT
31706205019 ATHINA MARIAM ALEX B.Tech IT
31706205024 BHARAT KUMAR K. B.Tech IT
31706205026 BHARATHI PRIYA K. M. B.Tech IT
31706205028 CELINA CHRISTY I. B.Tech IT
31706205030 CHRIS ASLIN P. B.Tech IT
31706205031 CHRISTOPHER JEGAM B.Tech IT
31706205032 CINTHIA BEATRICE L. B.Tech IT
31706205035 DEEPESH TARUN B. B.Tech IT
31706205040 DINESH M. B.Tech IT
31706205041 DIVYA B. B.Tech IT
31706205042 DIVYA RAJENDRAN B.Tech IT
31706205045 GITA SARANYA M B.Tech IT
31706205048 HARIBALU V B.Tech IT
31706205049 HARINI K P B.Tech IT
31706205050 HELEN XAVIO MANJU S B.Tech IT
31706205053 JAIKRISHNA S B.Tech IT
31706205055 JUNAITH MEERAN H B.Tech IT
31706205062 KOUSHIC BABU T S B.Tech IT
31706205063 KRUPA SETHURAMAN B.Tech IT
31706205064 LAVANYA E B.Tech IT
MICHELLE PRAVEENI
31706205069 B.Tech IT
CONSTANTINE
31706205070 MOHAMMED NAFEES M B.Tech IT
31706205074 NANDITA N KUMAR B.Tech IT
31706205075 NEETU THOMAS B.Tech IT
31706205077 NISHA R M B.Tech IT
31706205078 PANDEESWARI N K R B.Tech IT
31706205081 POOVIZHI A B.Tech IT
31706205084 PREETHI K B.Tech IT
31706205085 PRIYANKA CHANDNI R L B.Tech IT
31706205086 RAGHAVENDAR C B.Tech IT
31706205087 RAGHAVENDRAN.J B.Tech IT

6
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

31706205097 SARASWATHI.S B.Tech IT

31706205100 SATISH.S B.Tech IT
31706205104 SHARANYA E B.Tech IT
31706205119 VIDYA.C B.Tech IT
31706205122 VIJAYASRI.S B.Tech IT
31706205127 VIVEK.P B.Tech IT
31706205128 YAZHARASI.P B.Tech IT
31706205023 BHARAT KUMAR B. B.Tech IT
31706205039 DHWARAKANTH J. G. B.Tech IT
31706205051 HEMALATHA M B.Tech IT
31706205052 HEMANATHAN R B.Tech IT
31706205058 KAVIYARAJ K B.Tech IT
31706205089 RAMYA JAYAKUMAR B.Tech IT
31706205090 RAMYA .V B.Tech IT
31706205105 SHARMILA.G B.Tech IT
31706205106 SREEMATHI.S B.Tech IT
31706205109 SUBRAMANIAM.S B.Tech IT

PROBABLE LIST OF MERIT SCOLARSHIP AWARDEES

9th NOVEMBER 2010

Toppers (IV Year) BATCH 2006-2010 (UPTO 7th SEM)

S.NO REG NO. NAME TOTAL % OF
MARKS MARKS
1 31706205084 PREETHI.K 4035 89.67
2 31706205119 VIDHYA.C 4021 89.35
3 31706205122 VIJAYASRI 3905 86.78
4 31706205001 AARTHY 3899 86.64
5 31706205004 AISHWARYA 3888 86.40
6 31706205046 HARI.K 3888 86.40
7 31706205031 CHRISTOPHERJEGAM 3862 85.82

8 31706205057 KARTHIKISHORE.J.S 3856 85.69

9 31706205074 NANDITA.N.KUMAR 3852 85.60

10 31706205077 NISHA.R.M 3845 85.44
11 31706205038 DHIVYA.P 3841 85.36

7
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

Toppers (III Year) BATCH 2007-2011 (UPTO 5th SEM)

S.NO REG NO NAME TOTAL % OF

MARKS MARKS
1 31707205029 RAJALAKSHMI R 2530 90.36

2 31707205076 DIVYA.P 2497 89.17

3 31707205125 YUVARAJ KUMAR K 2491 88.85

4 31707205063 NANDHINI C 2456 87.71

5 31707205117 VIDHYA G 2448 87.42

6 31707205015 ARVIND P 2439 87.10

7 31707205116 VENKATESH R 2416 86.28

8 31707205003 ABINAYA SELVALAKSHMI.S 2411 86.11

9 31707205057 MITHUNA S 2409 86.04

10 31707205102 SRI RUDHRA PRIYA J 2404 85.85

Toppers (II Year) BATCH 2008-2012 (UPTO 3rd SEM)

S.NO REG NO NAME TOTAL GPA

MARKS

1 31708205088 PREETHI N 744 9.1

2 31708205119 SUGANYA S 734 9.06
3 31708205044 JANANI A T 730 9.01

4 31708205076 MUTHU LAKSHMI R 731 9.0

5 31708205062 LEELA REXLIN. M.G 726 8.96

6 31708205107 SHERYL VINOTHINY J M 725 8.95

7 31708205004 AKILANDEESWARI K 725 8.95

8 31708205018 BHAVANI K 725 8.95

9 31708205118 SUGANTHY N 724 8.93

10 31708205040 INDU JOSEPH 721 8.90

8
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

Toppers (I Year) BATCH 2009-2013 (1st SEM)

S No Register No Name Of The Student Total GPA

1. 31709205132 VINAYAGAM. R 250 9.62

2. 31709205008 ANUSHA .S .A 240 9.23

3. 31709205069 NANCY WINOLA. E 232 8.92

4. 31709205131 VIJAY SHANKAR .S 231 8.88

5. 31709205026 DHARSHINI .A.S 229 8.81

6. 31709205023 DEEPIKA.D 229 8.81

7 31709205107 SIRUSTI RANI.D 229 8.81

8. 31709205028 DHIVYA.S 227 8.73

9 31709205093 SAHAANA.G.L 226 8.69

10. 31709205054 KRITHIKA.S 225 8.65

11. 31709205130 VIGNESHWARI.V 225 8.65

12. 31709205011 ARUN.B 225 8.65

STUDENT ACTIVITIES
STUDENT INNOVATORS:
Raghavendran Jayasubramanian and Pree-
thi Krishnaswamy have devised an ad-
vanced server, which when coupled with a
mobile phone, makes it easier to navigate
and even track people. The technology that
has been used by the students has some
generic advantages over GPS like the abil-
ity to track indoors, no extra infrastructure,
etc.The young inventors worked in close
association with Bhuvana Jaiganesh, Director, CREST (center for research, education and
training) and Fareed Jawad, a hardware expert, who helped them augment the idea that
was brought to them in a nascent state.

9
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

TCS BEST PROJECT AWARD -2009

Tata Consultancy Services Limited
conducted a college level competition for the
innovative student project award 2009. It in-
volves technical rounds.Two of our passed out
se n io r s o f t he 2 0 0 5 - 2 0 09 ba t c h
Mr.V.V.Srinivas and Mr.S.Navanath partici-
pated in it and presented their project on Web
Authoring and Web Content Management Us-
ing Mobile Phone. On 10th December 2009
they were awarded by Ms.Hema Gopal, Vice
President,Tata Consultancy Services.

They created a mobile phone based technol-

ogy useful for collecting huge amount of heterogeneous data from remote places and updating
all the information in a website. The information updated can be viewed by the user for cor-
rectness using a mobile handset. This project would find its application in the field of surveys
conducted by government or private organization in villages. It considers the problem of port-
ability. Laptops used today are not portable compared to the mobile phones and at the same
time the cost of the laptops are higher compared to the mobile phones. The technology is com-
pletely different from the SMS based technology as the current SMS based technology is used
for sending messages from one mobile hand set to another whereas this project aims at updat-
ing the companies database or the website using a mobile phone. Thus, this project takes the lat-
est advancement in the mobile phone technology to address one of the important real time issue.

Best Student Award:

The best boy and best girl awards for the batch 2006-2010 :
 Mr.T.K.Ashwin Kumar
 Ms.C.Vidya

SPORTS ACTIVITIES

S.Manoj of IV year from our department has achieved the following feats in hockey re-
cently : * Zonals winners.

S.Thanga Krishnan of IV year from our department has achieved the following feats
in kabbadi recently :
* Kongu Trophy III place.
* Vel‘s Srinivasa Tournament III place

10
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

P.KARTHIKEYAN of 3rd year from our department has achieved

great heights in chess tournaments . He has achieved the following ti-
tles recently in his career:
 International master in chess.
 Double grand master norm holder.
 Participated in national under 25 competition and won the 3 rd
place in December 2009.
 Participated in world junior chess champion held at Argentina in
November 2009.
 Won the gold medal in Parvsnath International Raling chess
event at Delhi in January 2010.
 Winner of the TIES tournament at Dindigul in 2010.
 Winner of JETS held in 2010.
K.Arun Krishnan of II year from our department has won in the following :

S.NO TOURNAMENT EVENT PLACE

Decathlon II
TIES
1 110 Hurdles II
4x400m relay II
2 ZONALS Decathlon I
400 Hurdles I
4x400 relay I
3 INTER ZONALS Decathlon I
4X400m relay I
400 Hurdles II

V.HARIBALU of final year from our department has won in the following events:
 KCF International at Loyola-First place,

 Srilankan open chess championship joint second place.

11
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

SYMPOSIUM WINNERS

S.No Name Of The Student Year Name Of The Organizer Place Won
Event
C.John Christopher III B Gaming Sai Ram Engg.
1 II
J.Antony Navin
Balaji M A III A Tresure Hunt Sam's Coll Of Engg I
2 Dhilip Kumar K
3 C.John Christopher III B Gaming Gojan Institute Of Tech I
M.Mohamed Azharuddin
J.Antony Navin
P Arvind III B Adzap Meenakshi Engg.
4 Balaji C L N
II
Balajee K G
Akshath Adithiya O K
C.John Christopher
C.John Christopher III B Super Selector Meenakshi Engg. II
5
J.Antony Navin
M.Mohamed Azharuddin III B Paper Presenta- Jeppiar Engg Coll
6 P Arvind tion I

Balaji M A III A Quiz Savetha Engg Coll I

7
Dhilip Kumar K
8 Dhilip Kumar K III A Psyche Meter Jeppiar Engg Coll II
III B Paper Presenta- GCT Coimbatore
Madhumitha U tion I
9
Mithuna S
Madhumitha U III B Paper Presenta- Meenakshi Sundararajan
10 Mithuna S tion I

Madhumitha U III Dumb-C Sathaybama University

II
11 Mithuna S
Harini S
12 Praveena P J III B Mock Interview Meenakshi Sundararajan II
Mock Interview Sathaybama University I
Circuit SMK Forma
Harini S III A I
13 Debugging
Quiz SMK Forma I
Dance SET College I
Rajarajan III Quiz Jeppiar Engg Coll II
14
Eugene Wilfred
15 M.Mohamed Azharuddin III B Gaming Meenakshi Sundararajan II
Material Hunt Anna University II
Vimal Shankar P III C SRM University I
16
Adzap Sathaybama University I
17 Vivek Parthasarathy III C Gaming Tagore Engg College I
18 Sharanya III C Adzap Vel Sri Rangarajan Engg II
Shabnam Shaik III C Jam Sathaybama University II
19
VJ Hunt Sathaybama University II

12
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

Balajie K G III A Gaming Tagore Engg College

20 I
Jennifer Cicelia A III A Tresure Hunt SRM University II
21
Charumathi M
22 Edward Allan A III A Code War Saveetha Engg College I
Dillip Aroonachalam III A Segmentation Saveetha Engg College
23 I
Fault
Lloyd Walton.C III B Quiz SSN College Of Engg
24 I
P.K.Sangameshwaran
S. Shivani II Quiz Crescent
25 II
Sharon Anne Christian

R.Sharath II C Paper Vivekananda Engineer-

26 I
Presentation ing College
Microsoft Saveetha Engineering
II
Dream Os College
27 G.Divyakala Treasure Hunt Saveetha Engineering I
II A Imagik College III
For And Against Jeppiaar College I
Microsoft Saveetha Engineering
II
28 G.Beulah Jenifer II A Dream Os College
Treasure Hunt I
A.T.Janani II A Madha Collage Stella Maris
29 II
Treasure Hunt Meenakshi Sundararajan
30 K.Niranjan II B I
A.Allen Robbie II A Tresure Hunt Meenakshi Sundararajan
31 II
R.Prasanna Paper Arunai Engineering Col-
32 E.Narrenderan II B Presentation lege I

T.Mano Barathi II Paper Vivekananda Institute I

33 Presentation Of Engg & Tech
R.Sharath
Paper Vivekananda Institute
34 V.K.Kishore Kumar II B Presentation Of Engg & Tech II
Jones Jebaraj
P.K.Sangameshwaran II C Gaming Sai Ram
35 I
Krupa Sethurman IV B Paper Angel College Of Engg
36 II
Presentation & Tech
G. Sharmila IV C Dumb Charade Easwari Engg College
37 I
Priyanka Chandni R.L. IV C Debugging Easwari Engg College
II
38 G.Sharmila

Paper Rmd Engg College II

39 Krupa Sethurman IV B Presentation KCG College
I
Dumb Charades Sathyabama University I
Short Film SSN I
R.Hemanathan IV B Movie Making Jerusalem Coll Of Engg II
40
Eee Realiza Velammal Engg College I
Imagineer R.M.K Engg College I

13
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

S.Jaikrishna
41 IV Adzap S.A.Engg College
S.Prem Kumar II
Mohammed Nafees IV B Adzap S.A.Engg College
42 II
C K Praveen Kumar IV B Adzap Velammal College
43 I
Manigandan V IV B Adzap Velammal College
44 I
Satish M IV C Adzap Velammal College
45 I
Muthuselvam K IV B Adzap Velammal College
46 I
Vinod Kumar K IV C Adzap Velammal College
47 I
Ganesh Kumar K IV C Adzap Velammal College
48 I
Santosh S IV C Paper Crescent Engineering
49 I
Presentation College
Satish S IV C Paper Crescent Engineering
50 I
Presentation College
Prem Kumar G IV A Gaming College Of Engineering
51 II
Ashok Kumar S IV A Gaming College Of Engineering
52 II

53 Balamurali S IV A Gaming College Of Engineering II

Deepesh D IV A Gaming College Of Engineering,
54 II
Guindy
Lingesh N IV C Paper DMI College Of Engi-
55 II
Presentation neering
Kamatchi Arun IV C Paper DMI College Of Engi-
56 II
Presentation neering
Parthasarathy R IV B Hack N Hunt DMI College
57 I
Kevin Paul IV B Hack N Hunt DMI College
58 I
Natarajan S IV C Hack N Hunt DMI College
59 I
Kishore S IV B Hack N Hunt DMI College Of Engi-
60 I
neering
Venkatesan G IV C Quiz Vel Tech
61 II
S.Subramaniam IV A Quiz Vel Tech
62 II
Technical Quiz Ramanujar College I
C.Vidhya IV C
63 Code Debugging Ramanujar College
I
Dumb C Vel Tech I
Riya Joseph IV C Quiz Easwari College
64 I
Raghavendar C IV B Creative Crafting DMI College
65 II
Ruben James T IV C Creative Crafting DMI College
66 II

14
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

Adzap St. Josephs College I

Quiz Sri Sairam College II
Movie Making Jerusalem College II
Mr. Symposium Jerusalem College I
IV A
Paper Gnanamani College
Arun Kumar A
67 Presentation Of Technology I

Debugging Gnanamani College III

Creative Crafting AIHT I
Dumb C AIHT I

IV C Paper Velammal College Of

68 Raghavendran J Presentation Engineering I

Creative Crafting AIHT

I
IV A
69 K Bharath Kumar Adzap Easwari College
I

VIT University II
Vignan‘s Institute I
IV B Paper Velammal College II
Karthi Kishore J S Presentation
70 RMK College II
Koushic Babu T S
Vel Multi Tech I
Crescent University I
SSN College II

Shivani of II yr has participated in the event “Model United Nations” held at

Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 1-2-2010 to 7-2-2010.

The topic for the event was “International Narcotics and Drug Trade” and she

represented the country of Peru.

15
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

INDUSTRY INSTITUTE INTERACTION

INDUSTRIAL VISIT

S.NO INDUSTRY YEAR DATE

1 Parry‘s sugar factory III Yr ‗A‘ sec 12-01-10

GUEST LECTURES

S.NO TOPIC GUEST NAME YEAR DATE

Dr.B.Krishna Kumar ,

1 Presentation on Dept. of Mathematics , II Yr 22-03-10

―Network Queues‖ MIT campus ,
Anna University

16
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

TECHNO CORNER

Technologies That Will then that‘s it – We have our new network providers because they have
iPOD. It is not a biased statement, but to face the burden of handling the
Rock 2010 a truth in some way.The reason that I requests. On the other hand, content
say is because Online Reading is providers don‘t have to pay anything
Looking back at 2009, we can say that
something that every Internet users do to the distributors. As a result, Net-
it was the most interesting time in the
and Tablet provides the best way to work providers would have to in-
web technology ( despite the harsh
consume the Internet content. Though creased their fees. Now, this brings a
economy). The year 2009 boosted the
we might still be working on a Lap- great conflict between the consumers,
potential of mobile gadgets and its
top, Tablet will be the way to con- the providers and the distributors.Net
value in today‘s networked society.
sume digital content. neutrality is all about giving full ac-
We can call it the rise of social aware-
cess to the Internet without any re-
ness of networking and communicat- Net Phone
strictions. But we still need to see
ing.
some agreement between the provid-
We are already seeing the importance
So when we look ahead in 2010, we of Google Voice, which many Ameri- ers and the distributors. Hence, we
will see that the innovation has just cans have enjoyed. We already have a might be able to see some break-
begun. So here are the lists of tech- software like Skype which allows you throughs on Net Neutrality in 2010
nologies, which I think, will rock the which would solve the current prob-
to communicate through the internet
year 2010. Most of the technologies lems.
data line.This demonstrates that peo-
that will be mentioned are related to
ple are still comfortable with voice Cloud Computing
online media and the Internet.
communication and it is not going to
Apple’s Tablet die. We would still want to call our Cloud computing will be the new
friends and families and communi- way of doing business over the inter-
The noises and speculations are too cate. Hence, we might see more ad- net. It will be more of virtual re-
high to ignore the presence of Apple‘s vancement in VOIP technol- sources management, where company
Tablet. If all the rumors are authentic ogy.Though mobile network provid- can optimize his/her resources
and, if by all means, Apple launches ers would have to play a hard battle
the iSlate on 25th January, then it‘s with the VOIP services, the conflict
going to be the thing to talk about in between these two models will end
2010. once we have more and more VOIP
services running in our mobile de-
We must vices.
admit that a
tablet is a Net Neutrality
concept that
has been The rise of Smartphone have sud-
according to needs and dynamic adap-
around us for a very long time. But it denly put a lot of pressure on the mo-
tion to changes. This will allow com-
is still not the consumer device that bile network providers. The online
panies to greatly enhance their prod-
people would die for. But after the content consumption and communica-
ucts and services. Cloud computing
increase in sales and demands of tion have stressed out the network
will also leverage the potential of web
Amazon Kindle and Nook, the market providers. One of the prominent ex-
applications in the Internet and we
is pretty sure that a tablet is soon to be ample is the failure of At&T to meet
might be seeing some great online
the device to have. So at this time, if the iPhone‘s demand. Content provid-
applications for users and also enter-
Apple can bring the device with the ers like Google consumes a lot of
prise solutions.
interface that people are looking for bandwidth. This is not good for the

17
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION
Online TV Online Microsoft Office
YouTube and other online video Microsoft did face a lot of failures in
sharing sites have almost killed Tele- 2009, starting with its slow rise of
vision. The new generations prefer Bing and failure of Windows Mobile
Internet over TV channels. As with 6.5. So 2009 was not the year for Mi-
the music industry, TV channels have crosoft, but we could expect more
understood that going online is the from Microsoft in 2010. It‘s Windows
only way towards future and they 7 have received good reviews, hence
have to jump into this bandwagon in 2010 we
before it‘s too late. may get to
read more
There are
about it. Win-
already many dows Mobile 7
commercial is also on its
channels way, it might
shifting their help Microsoft
attention from gain over their
TV to You- Smartphone market share.
tube or other sites like Hulu. Further,
Google have already announced its But above all, we might get to read
paid content over Youtube and the about Microsoft‘s online OS. With the
new video advertising technology. strength of today‘s computing power
over the Internet, the time is right for
Along with TV, advertising also has Online Office Suite. We have already
to make its way to the eco-system and seen the success of the Google Docs,
we already know of many rumors
so the speculation is high for Online
over Apple and Google coming with Office. Hopefully this will reduce
ways to prevent viewers from skip-
their cost and avoid nagging updates.
ping the ads. This provides great op- The new competition is obviously on
portunity for TV Channels to enter
the Internet.
into the Internet. Hence 2010 will
certainly see hand and hand coopera- Mobile Transaction
tion of the Internet providers and the
Online TV channels. We surely need to get rid of credit
cards and debit cards. They have al-
Augmented Reality ready become less attractive in terms
of monetary transaction. Once mobile
Augmented Reality is going to blow
phones starthandling our financial
people‘s mind in 2010. With the help
details, we will see a huge potential
of mobile computing, GPS technol-
for mobile transactions and mobile
ogy, mobile camera and Google maps,
banking.
mobile applications are going to have
much more power to bring the experi- Mobile application builders have al-
ence to the user than in past. Further, ready started making applications for
the core of the technology will be the enterprise solution by adopting enter-
mobile camera and the placement of prise protocol. For mobile banking
processed information on top of live and transactions to be successful we
streaming contents from the camera. need an enterprise solution over the
mobile network, similar to RIM‘s
We are already seeing some of it with
Blackberry, which will confirm secu-
mobile GPS applications, but 2010
rity over the mobile transaction.
will clearly put these applications on
the top shelf of mobile apps. This will The year 2010 will certainly see the
allow users to get information by inte- glimpse of future‘s transaction mone-
grating physical reality and virtual tary.
world.
Abandonware
Abandonware is a term used to de-
scribe computer software that is no
longer sold or supported, or whose
copyright ownership may be unclear
for various reasons. While the term
has been applied largely to older
games, other classes of software (such
as productivity applications or utility
software) are sometimes described as
such.
Definitions of "abandoned" vary; gen-
erally, it refers to software no longer
available for legal purchase, or of a
certain age. Software companies may
change their names, go bankrupt, en-
ter into mergers, or cease to exist for a
variety of reasons. When this hap-
pens, product rights are usually trans-
ferred to another company that may
not sell or support the software ac-
quired.
In most
cases, soft-
ware classed
as abandon-
ware is not in
the public
domain, as it
has never had
its original
copyright revoked and some company
still owns exclusive rights. Therefore,
downloading such software is usually
considered copyright infringement,
though in practice copyright holders
rarely enforce their abandonware
copyrights.
Several websites archive abandon-
ware for download, including old ver-
sions of applications which are diffi-
cult to find by any other means. Much
of this software fits the definition of
"software that is no longer current, but
is still of interest", but the line sepa-
rating the use and distribution of
abandonware from copyright infringe-
ment is blurry, and the
term abandonware could be used to
distribute software without proper
notification of the owner.
18
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

GANDALF conjures up a DALF is minimal. We estimate that it Web 3.0: user-generated

would not cost more than say 50,000
faster, seamless Internet or 60,000 euros to implement it across networks?
technique an entire network, which is peanuts
European researchers took the con-
for operators.
As the white wizard of Middle Earth cepts of Web 2.0, like user-generated
in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Gan- Most significantly perhaps, the system content and social networking, into
dalf had some astounding abilities. As would give operators access to more the real world. They hope to create
his modern namesake, the IST project clients without having to undergo user-generated physical networks so
GANDALF is set to cast a spell over costly public works projects to lay internets could be set up, by anyone,
the Internet world by offering un- new fibre optic cable. Existing cable anytime. It‘s radical and, surprisingly,
precedented data transfer rates seam- could be used to relay data to the clos- fairly realistic. Welcome to Web 3.0.
lessly over both fixed-line and wire- est access node to clients‘ homes be-
less. fore being converted into a wireless
signal.
GANDALF has developed a ground-
breaking technique to increase data In areas where both fixed-line and
rates by a thousand-fold compared to wireless accessibility exists, the
existing GANDALF system offers additional The internet, Web 1.0, is so incredibly
DSL and advantages. The duality of the com- powerful that even now, almost 20
a hundred munications channels increases reli- years later, we have only begun to
-fold ability. For businesses or public ad- explore its potential. Web 2.0, with its
compared ministrations this is particularly im- YouTube, Facebook, Flickr and blogs
to WiFi. portant. Banks and other companies galore is even younger and shows
The tech- carry out a process called disk mirror- even more potential.
nology also allows data to flow seam- ing, for example, where they copy the
lessly over both wireless and fixed- databases from all their branches. Now, thanks to the work of the WIP
line communications, making the pro- Lost connectivity during mirroring project, we may be on the brink of a
ject the only initiative in the world to can cause major problems but with new internet, a new world wide web.
progress so far in both areas. dual connectivity the reliability is One where users can spontaneously
greatly increased. create their own networks, in minutes,
The project partners developed a tech- and with any kind of data device –
nique using an optical feeder that al- With the GANDALF technique, data mobile or fixed, handheld or desk-
lows data to be sent over cable in a transmissions switch seamlessly be- bound. It means completely reinvent-
format that also allows it to be trans- tween fixed-line and wireless. It is ing the internet, retooling its underly-
mitted over wireless networks. The completely transparent to users. ing technology, creating new operat-
duality of the format ensures that the ing principles and defining wholly
access nodes and the modems in the Testing times new communications protocols so that
homes or offices of end users are all it all works with any technology.
The system can also be used to con-
the same regardless of whether they
nect two fixed-line local area net-
are receiving data via cable, radio or When the internet first emerged, it
works by radio without the need for
both. The upshot is that the technol- assumed devices would be fixed in
new fixed infrastructure, something
ogy is relatively cheap to deploy and place and linked by wires. But that‘s
that the project partners are currently
will ultimately reduce costs for opera- no longer true. A large number of
testing at the campus of the Technical
tors by alleviating bandwidth require- devices are mobile and equipped with
University of Valencia. The same site
ments at the transmitter end, and by wireless communication capabili-
will also be used for other field trials
simplifying the electronics involved at ties.Many of the fundamental assump-
before the project ends in December.
both the transmitter and receiving tions of the original internet have
ends. Those cost savings could then In-lab tests have so far achieved a been superseded and many other pil-
be passed on to end users. lars of the web are simply ad hoc
data transfer rate over both fixed-line
and wireless of 1.25 Gb/s and the pro- (even bootstrap) solutions to discrete
A number of advantages
ject partners are currently studying problems. It all appears rather acci-
dental.WIP wants to change all that,
The major advantage for operators is other capabilities of the system.
reinventing the internet and its under-
that the cost of implementing GAN-

19
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

lying methods in what they cheerfully sponded to during its research. It is a interest in this topic, as I'm of a gen-
describe as disruptive technology. It is radical rethink of the current state of eration that largely grew up with the
revolutionary, radical, but is it realis- the art, but can it replace the internet? Internet while our parents largely re-
tic? main uninvolved (mine are surpris-
The project is not quite there yet, but ingly Internet literate, but most of my
DIY networking it has made enormous progress. The friends' parents aren't). A friend of
project split the multitude of technical mine passed away in early 2010, and
We‘re not looking to replace the inter- challenges into three grand strands:
all of his online musings remain in
net with the flick of a switch. What user applications and interface, rout-
limbo to this day—his Facebook pro-
we‘re proposing is a robust, flexible, ing protocols, and physical technol-
file is still active as if he was still
optimised and above all user-friendly ogy innovations. They fit hand in
around, confusing old high school
set of technologies and standards that glove to allow users to set up the net-
friends.
will mean any user, anywhere, can work, allow the protocols to commu-
identify and network with any nearby nicate with any device, and allow the This prompted us to start looking into
devices. Without any technical exper- devices to keep up with requirements. various sites' policies on deceased
tise whatsoever. It is plug-and-play networking for user accounts and what you can do
grown-up applications. about them—whether you want to
An example helps illustrate the con-
preserve them, delete them, or other-
cept. You live in an apartment build- Remarkably, WIP is already in testing
wise.
ing. You find neighbour‘s WiFi con- phase, using laboratories especially
nections and invite them to join a new set up for the task, with many of the
‗building network‘ with a few clicks. components of the system. Over the
Now you can share and communicate next year, it will finalise some ele-
with everyone.You all have internet ments and integrate them all together.
connections via an ISP, ranging from Finally, it hopes to seed the technol-
1, 2 and 5 megabits/second (Mbits/s). ogy in promising communities to kick
You decide to pool your money and -start its adoption. Facebook may not have been the first
rent a fibre-optic line that handles to create a specialized policy for de-
voice, data and TV for the whole Death and social media: ceased users, but it was one of the
building. Suddenly you all have highest profile because of the way it
10Mbit/s connections. what happens to your life handled the issue. Instead of merely
agreeing to let a family member take
online?
Another scenario. You go to a gig control of the account, the company
with some friends, set up an ad hoc Losing a friend or family member is instead decided to take things a step
network, and you can all communi- painful enough, but imagine the extra, further and let people turn someone's
cate via text, voice or image for the unnecessary jabs when that friend's account into a memorial.
rest of the day, all for free. social networking profile continues to
This is helpful for two reasons. First,
pop up in searches. Or say your friend
It‘s a radical concept that must over- it preserves that user's identity online
was particularly wise or witty when
come some major design flaws of the so that people can come to the page,
posting online, but when you went
current internet. One simple example: read about him or her, and leave posts
back to ref-
an IP address governs the routing of on the Wall in remembrance. To those
erence
information and the identity of the of us who live our lives online, there's
something
recipient. That works fine in wired little more terrifying than the thought
later, the
networks, but what happens if the user of completely disappearing, and we
entire record
moves. Their address has changed, like for our friends who have moved
was gone
not the identity. on to stay around online as well.
without a
trace. However, we don't like to constantly
But if separate values are used for
identity and routing, then this isn‘t a be reminded about that person's disap-
Today, many of us keep our profiles,
problem, even if the user is walking pearance, so when Facebook converts
blog posts, and musings entirely
through a park. We‘ve successfully an account into a memorial, the per-
online, leaving family, friends, and
separated the two functions.That is son in question no longer pops up in
service providers stuck trying to fig-
just one of dozens of challenges the Facebook's friend suggestions
ure out what to do with a deceased
EU-funded WIP project has re- (that would be awkward). The per-
user's digital bits. I have a personal

20
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

son's profile also automatically be-
comes private to everyone but con-
firmed friends, so vandals can't come
by and trash the place without anyone
there to clean up. Contact information
also gets removed, and no one can log
into the account in the future.
In order to do this, family or friends
must fill out Facebook's spe-
cial contact form and include proof of
death (usually a link to an obituary or
a news article). Unlike other social
networks, Facebook actually allows
nonfamily to perform this task, which
is helpful in a situation where the de-
ceased user's friends are more Internet
-savvy than the family. As you can
probably tell from our tone in this
section, we're fans of Facebook's pol-
icy.
work. It would be easier if I or one of Google's Help section. Again, you
his coworkers could do this instead; must be a lawful representative of the
because we can't, we're defaulting on deceased (which means friends are
the side of tact and simply leaving his out) and be able to provide proof of
profile as-is. that authority. You must also include
proof of death and a full e-mail header
Whoever manages to show proof of from the person in question to show
death won't be able to access or edit that the person knew and was in con-
the profile. This wouldn't be so much tact with you.
of a problem if MySpace automati-
cally made parts of the profile private After that, Google needs 30 days to
like Facebook does; since it doesn't, process the documents, but notes that
the next best policy would allow next a "valid third party court order or
of kin to remove things like phone other appropriate legal process" will
numbers and e-mail addresses. get you access sooner.
This part of the policy is especially In this case, we can understand why
strange because of MySpace's admis- Google would have strict guidelines
sion right on the policy page that any- on who can access the account—this
one who has access to the deceased isn't just someone's social networking
user's e-mail account can use the profile, it's access to his or her e-mail,
"Forgot Password" link to retrieve it contacts, and everything else associ-
and then do whatever they want. ated with a Google account.

MySpace did not respond to our re-

quests for further explanation of this
policy.
MySpace also has a deceased user
policy, but let's just say it's less
"robust" than Facebook's. It's more of
a standard policy that doesn't put as Last but not least is Twitter. We spent
much thought into issues like privacy three weeks trying to get in touch with
One benefit to having all of Google's
and searches, but it's there nonethe- Twitter to find out if the company has
services tied into the same Google
less.In the case of a MySpace profile, a policy on handling deceased user
account is that the company's policies
a next of kin must contact MySpace accounts, but the company has not
and procedures generally cover every-
via e-mail with proof of death and the responded to our requests.
thing. Such is the case when a user
user's MySpace ID number (not user-
passes away; Google told Ars that it's
name). In lieu of any official response from
all handled centrally and concerned
Twitter, we'll engage in some in-
"Unfortunately, we can't let you ac- parties just need to go through the formed speculation. It appears as if
cess, edit, or delete any of the content steps once in order to gain access to the company does not have any sort of
or settings on the user's profile your- everything. published policy on this matter. We
self, but we'll be sure to review and have heard from multiple users, how-
Here's the good news: Google says it
remove any content you find objec- ever, that Twitter has just deleted the
won't delete the blog, Buzzes, or any-
tionable," reads MySpace's policy. timelines of users who have passed,
thing at all of the deceased user until
much to the chagrin of friends who
Such a policy has problems, starting someone asks it to. This means that,
would have liked that person's post-
with the next-of-kin requirement. In without any intervention, a friend or
ings to be preserved.
my single, only-child friend's case, his family member's posts will remain
only next-of-kin were his retired par- online indefinitely. We were unable to confirm whether
ents, and they don't use the Internet. this has actually happened, but our
If you don't want them to remain, or if
As a concerned friend, I'm simply not reports indicate it only took place
you need access to the person's Gmail
going to call them up to have them e- whenTwitter was made aware of a
account for whatever reason, you
mail a copy of my friend's death cer- user's passing.
must follow the steps outlined in
tificate to some unknown social net-

21
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

In other words, if Twitter doesn't cakes. This has to be done in the few- Tech News
know about it, it's likely the account est possible number of flips.
will be kept around indefinitely. Twit- Social-networking star Facebook sur-
ter users abandon their accounts all The problem is relatively simple when passed Google to become the most
the time—the person who has it involves only a few pancakes and visited website in the United States
the @joel account last tweeted almost increases in difficulty as the number for the first time last week, industry
two full years ago, for example, and of pancakes rises. In the case or six analysts showed.
his account is still there. We have no pancakes for example, there are
reason to believe this would change 46,080 possible ways to solve the Facebook's homepage finished the
for any other user who drops off the puzzle, which rises to 1.9 trillion pos- week ending March 13 as the most
face of the earth (literally or figura- sible solutions when the number of visited site in the country, according
pancakes reaches 12. Silicon powered
tively), so for now, we'll have to settle to industry tracker Hitwise.
for that. digital computers are programmed to
run every possible permutation until
Computers made from the problem is solved, which accounts
for a very very long processing time.
bacteria However, in the case of biological
systems multiple permutations are run
How about replacing silica computer
simultaneously, thus dramatically
chips with a living organism, such as
increasing the processing speed.
E. coli? Digital computers today are
very fast, however researchers believe In the case of E. coli bacteria, this is The "important milestone," came as
that living computers could prove one done by flipping strands in the DNA Facebook enjoyed a massive 185 per-
day a lot faster and powerful than any code with the help of a flagellin cent increase in visits in the same pe-
other silicon supercomputer. And just protein collected from a salmonella riod, compared to the same week in
to prove the concept, they have cre- bacteria and injected into E. coli. 2009. By comparison, visits to search
ated such a living computer and used Flagellin proteins behave much in the engine home Google.com increased
it to solve a classic mathematical puz- same way as a switching mechanism,
only nine percent in the same time --
zle, popularly known at the Burnt which protects the bacteria when it
although the tracker does not include
Pancake Problem. infects an organism in order to stay Google property sites such as the
alive, by allowing antibiotics immu- popular Gmail email service, You-
nity. This property can be harnessed Tube and Google Maps.
in live computers by presenting the
bacteria with a special antibiotic, Taken together, Facebook.com and
which it must fight by flipping the Google.com amounted to 14 percent
DNA strands of E. coli. If the bacteria of the entire US Internet visits last
is unable to solve the puzzle, then it week. Google has been positioning
cannot gain immunity and will die. challenges in recent months to
The computing potential of DNA far
The pancake puzzle used in the study Facebook and the micro-blogging site
exceeds that of any other material. If
contained only two pancakes and took Twitter by adding the social-
we figure out how to increase that
a lot of time to solve, albeit the bacte- networking feature Buzz to its Gmail
capacity in a practical manner we will
ria had solved it. Therefore, it is able service.
have much more computing power.
to solve puzzles with much more pan-
The Burnt Pancake Problem involves In what could signal an escalating
cakes.
creating a golden pyramid of pan- battle between Facebook and Google,
cakes, with the help of differently This will open the door to a wide vari- the leading social-networking service
sized pancakes that are burned on one ety of biological computing. That celebrated its sixth birthday earlier
side. The goal is to create a pyramidal doesn't mean, however, that we'll be this year with changes including a
structure, in which the largest pancake seeing living supercomputers anytime new message inbox that echoes
sits at the bottom, and all pancakes soon. This won't make your Xbox run Gmail's format. Facebook boasts
are placed burned side down. Each faster. some 400 million users while Gmail
change in pancake size and orienta- had 176 million unique visitors in
tion is considered as a flip, regardless December, according to tracking firm
of the number of consecutive pan- comScore.

22
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

FAST FACTS

 Another name for a Microsoft Windows tutorial is 'Crash Course'!

 Bill Gates' house was designed using a Macintosh computer.
 By the year 2012 there will be approximately 17 billion devices connected
to the Internet.
 Domain names are being registered at a rate of more than one million names
every month.
 E-mail has been around longer than the World Wide Web.
 For every 'normal' webpage, there are five porn pages.
 In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible
unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.
 Facebook reports over 400 million registered users. Were it a country, it
would be the twice the population of Japan.
 One of every 8 married couples in the US last year met online.
 The average 21 year old has spent 5,000 hours playing video games, has ex-
changed 250,000 e-mails, instant and text messages and has spent 10,000
hours on the mobile phone.
 80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women.
 The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute, less than half the
normal rate of 20.
 The first banner advertising was used in 1994.
 The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964
and was made of wood.
 The first domain name ever registered was Symbolics.com.
 The world's first computer, called the Z1, was invented by Konrad Zuse in
1936. His next invention, the Z2 was finished in 1939 and was the first fully
functioning electro-mechanical computer.
 There are approximately 1,319,872,109 people on the Internet.
 There are approximately 1.06 billion instant messaging accounts worldwide.
 While it took the radio 38 years, and the television a short 13 years, it took
the World Wide Web only 4 years to reach 50 million users.
 86.6% of Internet users spend more than 6 hours per week online.
 The first domain to ever be registered online occurred in 1985.
 Symbolics.com is credited with being the first domain name.
 The first Internet Service Provider (ISP) was CompuServe which is now
under control of AOL Time Warner.
 In 2007, Facebook.com was given an estimated value of $15 billion dollars!
 The URL: http://akebono.stanford.edu/ used to be the original home of
Yahoo!
 In 1993, Boeing was the first to discover the Y2K problem.
 One-third of the world population has never made a phone call.

23
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

A SUPER POEM

If a packet hit a pocket on a socket on a port,

and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,

and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
and your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,

says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
but your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,

and the microcode instructions cause unnecessary risk,
then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom.

24
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION
Gadget that Translates
Dog's Language
Want to understand what your dog is
barking? For the first time presented
in 2002, the Bowlingual comes back,
the gadget examines a dog's bark and
then identifies its emotion. The latest
invention was developed by toy-
maker Takara Tomy, which looks
forward to present the toy in August.
Currently the gadget is expected to be
sold only in Japan.
It is
worth
mention-
ing that
Takara
Tomy's
latest
invention
was ini-
tially developed by an audio re-
searcher and a veterinarian. The goal
was to study and then convey the
sound of a dog's bark. The company
claims that its new device is able
to identify and interpret six basic
emotions.
The first version featured a micro-
phone that had to be worn around a
dog's neck. There was also a handheld
unit that read the information sent
from the microphone. The unit then
identified the dog's emotion and
showed the corresponding informa-
tion on its screen. The current inven-
tion includes a more compact unit that
incorporates a speech synthesizer that
audibly informs you about the things
your pet attempts to communicate.
The unit also shows the information
on the screen. You can find more cu-
rious and interesting latest inventions inventions, this one still requires more
here at www.infoniac.com; please
consider checking the links at the bot- information regarding how many
tom of the story.
If the user wants to analyze the infor- early to say anything about longer life
mation later, they can save it. This or improved light quality.
latest invention also features an an-
swering machine function, which al-
lows the user to track the dog's feel-
ings when the owner is away. It is
worth mentioning that in 2002, when
the invention was introduced,
the Time Magazine marked it as
a "Best Invention of 2002." Takara
Tomy even gave several Bowlinguals
to Vladimir Putin for his dogs.
LED Light Bulbs that
Makes Use of Salmon
DNA
Researchers from the University of
Connecticut recently unveiled
their latest invention, which is a long-
lasting LED light bulb that makes use
of salmon DNA.
Scientists added two different fluores-
cent colors to the DNA molecules, the
dyes being spaced from each other at
a distance ranging from 2 to 10 nano-
meters. After the colors were added,
the DNA molecules are spun
into nanofibers. The UV light that
produces LED is then covered with
DNA nanofibers.
When UV light is shined on the
material, one dye absorbs the energy
and produces blue light. If the other
dye molecule is at the right distance,
it will absorb part of that blue-light
energy and emit orange light.
By changing
the ratios of
dyes, one
can adjust
the quality
of light, for
example turning cool white into warm
white. But just like all latest
studying. Besides there is currently no
lumens per watt the salmon DNA
LEDs generate, which is why it is too
Cell Phone with Portable
Microscope for Spotting
and Tracking Diseases
A team of scientists from the United
States developed a portable micro-
scope that is connected to a camera
phone. Their latest invention thus
can be used to diagnose dangerous
diseases in blood and sputum sam-
ples, the latter are obtained by cough-
ing deeply, which allows expelling
the substance from the lungs into a
sterile cup.
It is
worth
mention-
ing
that light
micros-
copy is a
very important tool that can be used to
diagnose malaria, tuberculosis and
other dangerous diseases. The digital
images of cell samples, taken
by camera-equipped lab micro-
scopes can be transmitted via Internet
to specialists at different health cen-
ters for additional studies.
According to one of the latest UN
reports, about 60 percent of people
around the globe use cell phones. The
team realized that cell phone networks
represent an inexpensive and fast way
to convey medical information wire-
lessly. For their latest invention scien-
tists used off-the-shelf parts to create
an inexpensive and portable micro-
scope attachment which connects to
a Nokia N73 phone camera.
Using microscope, researchers can
identify objects that are only 1.2 mi-
crometers across. Red blood cells are
usually from 6 to 8 micrometers
across. In order to take clear picture
of medical sample natural light is
quite enough. Still, scientists decided
to add a battery-powered LED lamp
25
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

and several filters so their gadget job in a hospital with 400 beds. It is step towards creating microchips with
could also work as a fluorescent worth mentioning that in general it biological information that could be
microscope, reports New Scientist. takes about 4 hours for a skilled phar- implanted in humans.
macist to do the same job.
Researchers tested their latest inven-
Panasonic looks forward to sell its
tion against several widespread dis-
latest invention in Europe and the
eases and conditions. They found the
United States as well. Besides, the
results promising, saying that pictures
company has plans to create
of malaria-infected blood were good
other medical robots.
enough to be able to diagnose the dis-
ease. Besides, the system could also
help diagnose sickle-cell anaemia
Acoustic Ear-scanning "The sound the inside of our ear
from blood samples, thus researchers Technology to Help Avoid makes is not the only unique thing
will be able to spot the presence of Theft about an individual. Think of a tree
tuberculosis. where no two leaves are the same" .
Researchers managed to come up with
Robot that Writes Pre- a technology that could pro- Latest Invention: Hum-
tect portable devices such as iPod and mingbird Robot Created
scriptions and Doles Out
mobile phones from theft.
Drugs by Japanese Scientist
Their latest invention uses the acous-
Japanese tech giant Pana- tic fingerprint of the ear, which makes According to a Japanese scientist, he
sonic recently unveiled its latest in- it impossible for other people to oper- managed to create a "hummingbird
vention - a robot able to distribute ate the device. Such technology could robot" able to flutter around in the air
drugs to patients. In addition, accord- be also used to improve the safety by using a fast wing motions. The
ing to a Japanese online news source, features of bank accounts and pass- robot has almost the size of a real
the robot will have the ability to com- ports. hummingbird. It features micro
plete prescriptions. Nikkei Net reports motor and 4 wings that flap at a
that Panasonic's latest invention will Scientists found that it is possible to speed of 30 times per second.
hit the market in a few months. identify a person by the distinctive The latest invention is able to turn
sounds of the ear chamber. In their up, down, left or right by making use
To be able to study researchers used an earphone to on a special infrared sensor. The
write prescrip- send a weak tone in the ear in order to robot weights only 2.6 grams.
tions and dole stimulate hair cells beyond the inner
out drugs, ear. Thus they hoped to make the hair
engineers will cells produce their own sound.
connect the The sound is unique, with the person's
machine eardrum, ear bones and ear shape
to electronic playing a role in producing it.
medical online
records. Thus The latest invention proposed by the
the robot will researchers will allow a user's iPod or
scuttle across Japanese hospitals and mobile phone to instantly identify the
The robot can fly in a figure of 8 more
pick prescriptions for the patients. For "fingerprint" of the owner. Thus with
stably than a real helicopter. The sci-
the past several years Japanese re- the help of anti-theft acoustic finger-
entist looks forward to mount a micro
searchers managed to create a wide print detectorpeople will have the
camera on the robot by March 2011.
range of robots that are already help- possibility to use their gadgets with-
Though little, the robot has cost a
ing people around the world; at info- out worrying that it could be stolen.
stunning 200 million yen ($2.1 mil-
niac.com you can find more news on
Such technology could be used to pay lion). It could be used for various
robots and a wide list of latest inven-
bills or safely carry out different purposes like rescuing people from
tions.
banking transactions by simply put on ruins, looking for criminals and even
According to Nikkei, the robot will a set of headphones or a mobile phone serving as a probe vehicle on the red
need 2 hours to complete the whole to the ear. This technology could be a planet.

26
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

Fast Wireless Internet allows interacting with a myriad of aims at power transmissions in the
options shown on the screen. range of 100 watts. May be the prod-
Connection Using LEDs ucts using WiTricity in future might
be called Witric or Witric's.
A team of researchers from
the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany
has come up with a method of encod-
ing a visible-frequency wireless signal
that comes from light from desk-
lamps, which would make it possible
in the near future to get wirelessly
connected to the Internet by simply The orientation switch makes it
turning on the light. possible for a person to view the con-
tent on the display from any position
It is worth mentioning that visible- at the table. In case there are severable So far the MIT researchers have been
frequency wireless functions by flash- T3 tables, people sitting at different able to power a 60 watt light bulb
ing the lights in a room so little that tables will be able to communicate from a power source that is located
our eye cannot see it. It is worth men- with each other. T3 also allows book- about seven feet away, while provid-
tioning that incandescent and fluores- ing a hotel room or ordering meals at ing forty percent efficiency. This was
cent bulbs cannot flicker quickly a restaurant. made possible using two copper coils
enough, which is why researchers that were twenty inches in diameter
which were designed so that they
decided to make use of LED lights. Witricity
resonated together in the MHz range.
Electricity is today a necessity of One of these coils were connected to a
modern life. It is difficult to imagine power source while the other, to a
passing a day without electricity. The bulb. With this witricity setup, the
conventional use of electricity is made bulb got powered even when the coils
possible through the use of wires. were not in sight.
However researchers in MIT have
devised a means of providing electric- Titanic to return in 3-D
ity without any wires.
3D is the future of movies. USA
These researchers coined the term Today interviewed Avatar director
Despite the fact that LEDs have a James Cameron about this new era of
witricity; which is basically a port-
limited bandwidth, scientists say they filmmaking, and the director revealed
manteau for wireless electricity. This plans to bring a certain unsinkable hit
managed to expand it considerably by principle of wireless electricity works back to theaters in 2012, this time in
eliminating all but the blue light. Theon the principle of using coupled 3D:Titanic.
Internet connection speed, achieved resonant objects for the transference
by the German research team after of electricity to objects without the Because of the success of Avatar —
using their latest invention,use of any wires. A vitricity system and now Alice in Wonderland —
reached 230 megabits per second, studios are scrambling to release as
consists of a witricity transmitter and
which can be compared to high-end many big titles in 3D as possible.
another device called the receiver. Thanks to computer technology, 3D
radio wireless connections. However,
effects can be added to films shot
scientists believe they will be able to The receiver works on the same prin- without the use of 3D-specific cam-
double that speed soon. ciple as radio receivers where the de- eras like Cameron used for Avatar.
vice has to be in the range of the This includes Warner Bros.‘s upcom-
Coffee Table with Built- transmitter. It is with the help of reso- ing Clash of the Titans, a film that
nant magnetic fields that witrecity was not shot in 3D, but is being con-
In Multi Touch Display verted to 3D over an eight-week pe-
produces electricity, while reducing
riod in hopes of capturing more atten-
A company called Digital Touch has the wastage of power. This is unlike tion (and higher ticket sales) at the
recently unveiled the T3-B, a coffee the principle adopted by Nikola Tesla box office.
table that makes use of multi-touch in the later part of the 19th century;
technology, featuring a built-in 26- where conduction based systems were While Cameron was critical of how
inch liquid crystal display that used. The present project on witricity little time some of these conversions

27
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION

were taking, he wasn‘t opposed to the which have previously been the prov-
idea that old titles be converted — as ince of boutique builders like Paxio in
long as the original director is the one San Francisco.
who oversees the process.
The goal is to use the system as a high
-speed testbed for next generation
apps and deployment techniques. "We
want to see what developers and users
can do with ultra high-speeds,
whether it's creating new bandwidth-
intensive 'killer apps' and services, or
other uses we can't yet imagine," said
Google's announcement. "We'll test
new ways to build fiber networks; to
From the interview : help inform, and support deployments
elsewhere, we'll share key lessons
They‘re converting Clash of learned with the world."
the Titans in eight weeks. But I‘m Perhaps the best part of the announce-
guessing six months to a year to do it ment was the "open access" bit. Other
right. We‘re targeting spring of 2012 countries like the UK (through Open-
for the release (of a 3D version Reach) and Australia are working on
of Titanic), which is the 100 year fiber networks that will be maintained
anniversary of the sailing of the ship.‖ by one entity, but open to all ISPs.
Titanic, for its time, was actually a "We'll operate an 'open access' net-
quite technically advanced film. Many work," said Google, "giving users the
of the interior and exterior shots were choice of multiple service providers.
completely computer-generated, as And consistent with our past advo-
was much of the water in the film. cacy, we'll manage our network in an
That offers up some better options open, nondiscriminatory, and trans-
when re-processing the film for 3D parent way."
because artists are working with digi-
tal imagery — not to mention the im-
provements in visual effects and CGI
that have taken place in the ensuing
13 years.
"competitive price" (Google's words),
they're going to take a look at their
own speed/price tier and start asking
some hard questions.
The Recovery Act committed $7.2
billion in broadband investment defin-
ing high-speed access at most 5Mbps,
while Australia is investing $31 bil-
lion in an 100Mbps effort. When you
break it down per capita, Australia is
outspending the US 60 to 1. Google is
sending a shot across the bow—we
need to set far higher standards here
in the United States.
Paper battery
A paper battery based on carbon
nanotubes and silver nanowires could
store an electric charge in a mobile
device. Researchers also claim the
new battery is disposable and that its
shape could conform to the shape of
different devices. A Stanford Univer-
sity researcher said his team has dem-
onstrated conductive coatings for bat-
tery components ranging from super-
capacitors to inexpensive electrodes.
The process could be commercially
available in several years.

Your new ISP as Google ?

People have wondered for years what
Google might be up to with all that
dark fiber it had bought up around the
country. Now, we may have an an-
swer: delivery of open-access, fiber-to
-the-home Internet service at speeds
of 1Gbps. That's right: 1Gbps.
Google has just announced a trial run
of its new scheme, and it's asking city,
county, or state officials to let it know
if they're interested in a pilot project.
In its initial phase, the fiber optic net-
work will serve anywhere from
50,000 to 500,000 people. Google
promises 1Gbps home connections,
It's hard to know how far the company "Paper can now be used as a substrate
plans to take this. Running a national to make functional conductive elec-
fiber backbone is one thing; getting trodes,". The conductive paper was
out in the streets, digging trenches, prepared by coating it with a special
and wiring homes is another. As Veri- nano-ink solution containing carbon
zon's FiOS project has shown, string- nanotubes and silver nanowires,
ing fiber to the home can be hugely which assemble into a thin film of one
expensive. -dimensional structures that adhere to
the fibrous paper surface. The coated
Google stresses that this is an experi- sheet of paper became a highly con-
ment, and it may simply be used as a
ductive storage device, which the re-
proof-of-concept and a data-gathering searchers charged, then connected to
project. Still, it can't help but put at
power light-emitting diodes.
least mild pressure on other ISPs.
Once people recognize that 1Gbps are Batteries can store a charge longer
available in the real world today at a than capacitors but cannot supply as

28
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION
much current per unit of time. Stan-
ford's conductive paper could be used
to build either type, but the research-
ers claim that its high conductivity
and high surface-to-volume ratio
could enable supercapacitors for
electric cars, which depend on quick
jolts of electricity during acceleration.
The researchers also predict that paper
storage devices could be used in mas-
sive arrays to store excess energy
from power grids at night, then redis-
tribute it during the day. In tests, the
Standford researchers were able to
charge and discharge the paper battery
up to 40,000 times, a 10-fold increase
over conventional lithium-ion batter-
ies.
Open Source
Open source refers to a program or
software in which the source code
(the form of the program when a pro-
grammer writes a program in a par-
ticular programming language) is
available to the general public for use
and/or modification from its original
design free of charge.
Open source code is typically cre-
ated as a collaborative effort in which
programmers improve upon the code
and share the changes within the com-
munity.
The rationale for this movement is
that a larger group of programmers
not concerned with proprietary own-
ership or financial gain will produce a
more useful and bug-free product for
everyone to use. The concept relies on
peer review to find and eliminate bugs
in the program code, a process that
commercially developed and pack-
aged programs do not employ.
The basics behind the Open Source
Initiative is that when programmers
can read, redistribute and modify the
source code for a piece of software,
the software evolves. Open source
sprouted in the technological commu-
nity as a response to proprietary soft-
ware owned by corporations.
Proprietary software is privately
owned and controlled. In the com- The hype and benefits of open source
puter industry, proprietary is consid-
ered the opposite of open. A proprie-
tary design or technique is one that is
owned by a company. It also implies
that the company has not divulged
specifications that would allow other
companies to duplicate the product.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI)
Open Source is a certification stan-
dard issued by the Open Source Ini-
tiative (OSI) that indicates that the
source code of a computer program is
made available free of charge to the
general public. OSI dictates that in
order to be considered "OSI Certified"
a product must meet the following
criteria:
 The author or holder of the li-
cense of the source code cannot col-
lect royalties on the distribution of the
program.
 The distributed program must
make the source code accessible to
the user.
 The author must allow modifica-
tions and derivations of the work un-
der the program's original name.
 No person, group or field of en-
deavor can be denied access to the
program.
 The rights attached to the pro-
gram must not depend on the pro-
gram's being part of a particular soft-
ware distribution.
 The licensed software cannot
place restrictions on other software
that is distributed with it.
Why Invest in What is Free?
A software programmer really has his
or her own reasons for contributing to
open source projects. Some may just
be looking for fun or a challenge,
while others are looking to improve
skill and build on their programming
abilities, or they may want to belong
to a group project. In many instances
there is the opportunity to make
money as open source projects can be
funded by government or corporate
sponsors. Unlike commercial projects,
open source projects allow the pro-
grammer's name to be known, which
benefits a programmer's name and
portfolio — which can lead to future
jobs with other funded open source or
commercial projects.
GNOME
Acronym for GNU Network Object
has not gone unnoticed in the com- Model Environment. (Pronounced
mercial world where some corpora-
tions have jumped on the open source
bandwagon. Since commercial soft-
ware is sold for profit, one may won-
der why a company would be inter-
ested in open source projects. In many
cases companies are able to profit
through selling add-on tools or mod-
ules, or paid consulting services and
technical support for the program.
Some Successful Open Source
Projects
Sendmail
Sendmail is an open source mail
transfer agent (MTA) used for routing
and delivery e-mail. The original ver-
sion of Sendmail was written by Eric
Allman in the early 1980s. It is esti-
mated that Sendmail is installed on 60
to 80 percent of the Internet's mail-
server computers.
Apache Web server
Often referred to as simply Apache, a
public-domain open source Web
server developed by a loosely knit
group of programmers. The first ver-
sion of Apache, based on the NCSA
httpd Web server, was developed in
1995. Core development of the
Apache Web server is performed by a
group of about 20 volunteer program-
mers, called the Apache Group. How-
ever, because the source code is freely
available, anyone can adapt the server
for specific needs, and there is a large
public library of Apache add-ons.
Linux
A freely distributable open source
operating system that runs on a num-
ber of hardware platforms. The Linux
kernel was developed mainly by
Linus Torvalds. Because it's free, and
because it runs on many platforms,
including PCs and Macintoshes,
Linux has become an extremely popu-
lar alternative to proprietary operating
systems.
29
EXPEDITE APRIL 2010 EDITION
guh-nome) GNOME is part of the
GNU project and part of the free soft-
ware, or open source, movement.
GNOME is a Windows-like desktop
system that works on UNIX and
UNIX-like systems and is not depend-
ent on any one window manager. The
current version runs on Linux,
FreeBSD, IRIX and Solaris. The main
objective of GNOME is to provide a
user-friendly suite of applications and
an easy-to-use desktop.
SIXTH SENSE
'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural
interface that augments the physical
world around us with digital informa-
tion and lets us use natural hand ges-
tures to interact with that information.
By using a camera and a tiny projec-
tor mounted in a pendant like wear-
able device, 'SixthSense' sees what
you see and visually augments any
surfaces or objects we are interacting
with. It projects information onto sur-
faces, walls, and physical objects
around us, and lets us interact with the
projected information through natural
hand gestures, arm movements, or our
interaction with the object itself.
'SixthSense' attempts to free informa-
tion from its confines by seamlessly
integrating it with reality, and thus
making the entire world your com-
puter.
The SixthSense prototype is com-
prised of a pocket projector, a mirror
and a camera. The hardware compo-
nents are coupled in a pendant like
mobile wearable device. Both the
projector and the camera are con-
nected to the mobile computing de-
vice in the user‘s pocket. The projec-
tor projects visual information ena-
bling surfaces, walls and physical
objects around us to be used as inter-
faces; while the camera recognizes
and tracks user's hand gestures and
physical objects using computer-
vision based techniques. The software
program processes the video stream
data captured by the camera and
tracks the locations of the colored
markers (visual tracking fiducials) at
the tip of the user‘s fingers using sim-
ple computer-vision techniques. The
movements and arrangements of these
fiducials are interpreted into gestures
that act as interaction instructions for
the projected application interfaces.
The maximum number of tracked
fingers is only constrained by the
number of unique fiducials, thus
SixthSense also supports multi-touch
and multi-user interaction.
The SixthSense prototype implements
several applications that demonstrate
the usefulness, viability and flexibility
of the system. The map application
lets the user navigate a map displayed
on a nearby surface using hand ges-
tures, similar to gestures supported by
Multi-Touch based systems, letting
the user zoom in, zoom out or pan
using intuitive hand movements. The
drawing application lets the user draw
on any surface by tracking the finger-
tip movements of the user‘s index
finger. SixthSense also recognizes
user‘s freehand gestures (postures).
For example, the SixthSense system
implements a gestural camera that
takes photos of the scene the user is
looking at by detecting the ‗framing‘
gesture. The user can stop by any sur-
face or wall and flick through the pho-
tos he/she has taken. SixthSense also
lets the user draw icons or symbols in
the air using the movement of the
index finger and recognizes those
symbols as interaction instructions.
For example, drawing a magnifying
glass symbol takes the user to the map
application or drawing an ‗@‘ symbol
lets the user check his mail. The
SixthSense system also augments
physical objects the user is interacting
with by projecting more information
about these objects projected on them.
For example, a newspaper can show
live video news or dynamic informa-
tion can be provided on a regular
piece of paper. The gesture of draw-
ing a circle on the user‘s wrist pro-
jects an analog watch.
The current prototype system costs
approximate $350 to build.
30