Dr. Pradeep K. Khosla, an IIT Kharagpur 1980 alumnus,  received a lifetime achievement award on August 31 from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers  at the 2009 Engineering Technical Conference in San Diego.
Pradeep is dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering was recognized for his significant impact on the use of computers in engineering practice and education.  In 2008, Pradeep Khosla was selected to join the prestigious Council on Competitiveness' newly formed effort to improve America's leadership in innovative technology.



The University of California, Berkeley, bestowed the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award in Entrepreneurship and Innovation to visionary Vinod Khosla (Delhi), founder and principal of Khosla Ventures, on September 9th. Vinod Khosla, founder of Sun Microsystems Inc., went on to a venture career at powerhouse Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers before starting Khosla Ventures, in 2004.



This year's recipient of MacArthur Fellowship is L. Mahadevan, a Madras alum.
The MacArthur Fellows Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits. L. Mahadevan is a mathematician who applies complex mathematical analyses to a variety of seemingly simple, but vexing questions across the physical and biological sciences - how cloth folds when draped, how skin wrinkles, how flags flutter, and how Venus flytraps snap closed.


Dr. Shubhendu Mukherjee  of Kanpur  received the  2009 Maurice Wilkes award for his pioneering work on "Soft Errors".  He is a scientist with Intel.  The Maurice Wilkes award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to computer architecture made by someone early in their career. This is recognized as the highest award a "young" computer architect can receive. 

Chandrayaan - I has recently been in the news as the bearer of good news - "water on the moon" Alok Chatterjee, a Kharagpur alumnus was the part of the NASA Jet Propulsion Labs team that designed the Moon Mineralogy Mapper or  M3 instrument responsible for detecting water molecules on the moon's surface.

Chandrayaan - II

Ancient Rome was not built in a day. It took nearly a decade to build the Colosseum, and almost a century to construct the St. Peter's Basilica.

Now a new computer algorithm developed by Sameer Agarwal, a 2000 alumnus of Kanpur can aggregate thousands of tourist photos to automatically reconstruct a three-dimensional virtual city model in less than 24 hours.

"How to match these massive collections of images to each other was a challenge," said Sameer Agarwal, professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. Digital Rome was built from 150,000 tourist photos tagged with the word "Rome" or "Roma" that were downloaded from Flickr, the photo sharing site. The tool is the most recent in a series developed at the University to harness the increasingly large digital photo collections available on photo-sharing websites.

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October 11th
8 AM to 9 AM and 2 PM onwards on Sunday, October 11, are the times set aside
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