R&D Showcase 05

This time there was not as much a workload for R&D showcase as the last time. This time
the work was almost over as the baseline system was working already but still we had to
complete few more things in time and so I had to live in CVIT-3 for quiet sometime. The
days before R&D showcase are always hectic for everyone, even Professors used to
be around CVIT for most of the time. We used to be there till 2:00, 3:00 etc etc...
Vardhman, Sunil, Ajay, Piyush, Jagan everyone was busy in their respective projects.

Vardhman and I discussed each other's project and problems associated quiet a lot for
2-3 times. I almost know what problems he was facing and he too knows about mine. One
night when we were sitting in lab when we had to make the poster for the R&D showcase
I took his phone to take photos. It was appx 2:00 AM . After sometime it started raining.
In the evening itself Nirnimesh was wishing that it should rain. I went to the balcony
behind the old Classroom 8 and Vardhman also accompanied us. We took images of the
rain and the flowing water but due to less light the rain was looking more like noise
in the images. It was quiet refreshing to see the rain when we were a bit frustrated
because of the work.


Shekhar taking a break from Work - D+TR


No break for these guys :(( Sunil mohan and Ajay - GPGPU


Piyush with his mosaicing


Me with the 4 19 inches monitors I used for Display-Wall


The Rain - Refreshing


Masti with Gadgets

After spending some time in the rain we came back to lab to continue and the people
were working as if it did not rain...for them it was just nothing. We stayed there till
4:00 or so and after completing the poster we came back to hostel finally.

The next day was more tiresome as we had to setup the Display-wall properly which we
managed to somehow. Nirnimesh was also busy in making the other project's poster and his
friend jayaram from bangalore had to come at 6:00 for telecon with japan people. I left
for hostel at 6:00 in the morning but nirnimesh was still there. The Showcase was supposed
to start with Kiran Karnik's (NASSCOM) talk at 9:30 with demos for special people from
10:00. We reached lab after breakfast and all at 10:30 and waited till 12:00 and nobody
came :)) .

Then people started pouring in from everywhere. Students from colleges, industry,
professors , our own professors etc. The two days were quiet busy. More can be seen about
the desc of these two days in the other blog.


Our Display-Wall :))


Dr. PJN and Dr. Jawahar on Video Wall


Vardhman and Balu with Vardhman's bluetooth project


Amal using institute's resources - drinking cold drinks


Vardhman and his poster...

Amalgam' 04 and Amalgam success party :)

When we reached our third year we were the batch who had the responsibility of conducting
Felicity 04-05 . But our profs(actually a prof) did not trust us so they told us to show our
might and so we did. We organized Amalgam'04. We made preperations for lots of batch-wise
events like solo,group dance etc and some skits too. It was real fun. There was also one
Qawalli that our batch mates (Paritosh (our cul sec), Gaurav and co were organizing) . I
too got inspired :) and joined them on the day we were supposed to perform.

The event started with the passing batch's (GDIT2K) skit which was awesome. One of the guys
in their batch became a girl and was really looking like a girl and other guys were trying
to patao him (her) . They finally ended with the Kaante song 'jaane kya hoga rama
re' and showed the nostalgic feeling that we have right now (we r leaving insti in few days).
Then other batches came and performed from 'IIIT's story' by 2nd year (Pati etc's batch at
that time - GDIT2K2) in which they showed how an avg student stays up at night and even a
guard does some form of research (IIIT being a 'research' institute) while sleeping in
nights. There was 'The matrix' simulation by some guys of I dont remember which batch but it
was MTech. Our Qawalli was appreciated by all, people went mad seeing the funny songs/acting
etc. It was real fun. After it got over we had few photo sessions of all the people of
our batch.


UG2K batch...the guys and the 'guy' (girl)


UG2K2 Batch...the guard and the student...


The young (UG2K3) rock band of IIIT


Qawalli group - UG2K1


The evergreen Dancing Squad of our batch

After Amalgam's success our profs got sure that we are capable enough to handle Felicity
well and so we were given the duty.

After Amalgam's success some of our batchmates got an idea of celebrating the success to
put more enthu in guys so that we could perform felicity better. So a celebration party
was organized at 'Planet 10' which is located around 2 kms from IIIT close to ISB.
There was middleware project submission the next day , still many people made it to the
party. We guys got together and had fun by playing games like aankh-micholi,
dumb-charades, eating Guavas from the trees inside the premises. The dinner was good enough.
We had a pretty good time there.


Amalgam Party 1 - everyone just chilling out


Amalgam Party 2


Amalgam Party 3 - Team One (Winner :) in Dumb-Charades


Amalgam Party 4 - Team two (..... :) in Dumb-Charades


Amalgam Party 5 - The veggies group


Amalgam Party 6 - The non veggies...


Amalgam Party 7 - The non veggies...


Amalgam Party 8 - The hosts :)


Amalgam Party 9 - After "Eating till I die!"


Amalgam Party 10 - I got only 1/60th of it...The tradition began


PS: Thanks to M$'s picture manager, using which the brightness,contrast was enhanced
to make these pictures visible :)

Felicity in next post...