Mata Jain Kaur Public School, Ashok Vihar, New Delhi is organising its Annual Computer Symposium on Friday, 20 July 2007. The Symposium will have the following events:

Category A (XII and below)
Quiz 1 Team 2 Members
Progeamming (C++, VB) 1 Team 2 Members
CEO Hunt 1 Team 1 Member

Category B (X and below)
Mobile Phone Website 1 Team 2 Members
Treasure Hunt 1 Team 2 Members
Vedeo Editing 1 Team 2 Members

Category C (VIII and below)
Junior Quiz 2 Teams 2 Members
Futuristic Gizmo 1 Team 2 Members

Category D (V and below)
Cadet Quiz 1 Team 2 Members
Create a movie 1 Team 2 Members
Smart Kid 1 Team 2 Members

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Please give your name in the comments to form Exun Team for the same before July 12, 2007.

Further Details available at http://www.mjkpsdelhi.com

Hey guys

Ordinatrix 2007 is being organized by Tagore International School. Very creative events. All those of you who would like to take part comment and also tell me the event you wanna take part in. The event is on the 24th of July.

They basically have five events:

• Present@trix
• Movie@trix
• Anim@trix
• Tunes@trix
• Ngage@trix

Check out the rules and regulations before you comment
Ordinatrix

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effects by sid.

Safari coming to windows!!!!!!!!!!!

Suddenly, on the wall beside them, projected images appear. Video clips. Sounds. Information directly relevant to their discussion. And all made automatically available, where and when they need it most.

This is the vision for the University of Kentucky’s Ambient Virtual Assistant, a real-time grid application framework for managing grids that combine multiple sensors and output devices.

“You could think of AVA as a large-scale surveillance system, but it’s much more than that,” explains Hank Dietz of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments.

“The concept is to have the ambient environment constantly monitoring what’s going on, not just recording, but intelligently reacting to what it sees and hears.”

Microsoft Surface is actually a Windows PC inside a black table base with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame and is powered by Windows new Operating System Vista. Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen and users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special bar-code labels on top of it. Surface also has Bluetooth 2.0, wired Ethernet 10/100 and wireless 802.11 b/g for connectivity.

The technology behind Surface is called Multi-touch. It has at least a 25-year history, beginning in 1982, with pioneering work being done at the University of Toronto (multi-touch tablets) and Bell Labs (multi-touch screens). The product idea for Surface was initially conceptualized in 2001 by Steven Bathiche of Microsoft Hardware and Andy Wilson of Microsoft Research. In October 2001, a virtual team was formed with Bathiche and Wilson as key members, to bring the idea to the next stage of development.

A version of the device was used in the 2005 Science Fiction movie The Island, which was used by Sean Bean’s character “Merrick”. Surface was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 29, 2007 at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California. Surface Computing is part of Microsoft’s Productivity and Extended Consumer Experiences Group, which is within the Entertainment & Devices division.

Prices will reportedly be $5,000 to $10,000 per unit. However Microsoft said it expects prices to drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in 3 to 5 years.

Here’s a link to a demo video of Surface on Youtube:-
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VfpVYYQzHs

Source: Wikipedia,

While surfing, I just stumbled across this. It is quite interesting to say the least.

Researchers at Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), working in conjunction with professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka University, have developed a device that uses waves to draw text and pictures on the surface of water.

The device, called AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), consists of 50 water wave generators encircling a cylindrical tank 1.6 meters in diameter and 30 cm deep (about the size of a backyard kiddie pool). The wave generators move up and down in controlled motions to simultaneously produce a number of cylindrical waves that act as pixels. The pixels, which measure 10 cm in diameter and 4 cm in height, are combined to form lines and shapes. AMOEBA is capable of spelling out the entire roman alphabet, as well as some simple kanji characters. Each letter or picture remains on the water surface only for a moment, but they can be produced in succession on the surface every 3 seconds.

Researchers at Akishima Laboratories have developed similar devices in the past that used waves to draw pictures on the surface of water, but those devices had trouble producing letters with straight lines (such as the letter K). Additionally, it took the previous devices up to 15 minutes of data input time to produce each letter.

The newly developed technology uses improved calculation methods for controlling the wave generators, relying on formulas known as Bessel functions. In addition to being able to draw letters consisting of straight lines, the input time has been drastically reduced to between 15 and 30 seconds for each letter.

Akishima Laboratories expects the technology to be incorporated into amusement devices that combine acoustics, lighting and fountain technology, which they hope to see installed at theme parks and hotels.

Source: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/07/device-uses-waves-to-print-on-water-surface/