Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Full Moon

Full moon shot on Buddha Jayanti. © Ritesh Man Tamrakar

Sunday, May 15, 2011

KU Interns Selection

From 2011/05/06 to 2011/05/11, Different software company giants were at Kathmandu University. Their main aim was to attract good interns to their company. They presented about their history, client base, work area, technology they use, plus point to join their company and their expectation from interns.

List of the software companies:
1) IT Himalaya - Procit Nepal : ithimalaya@yahoo.com, ph 4415984
2) FocusOne Presentation
3) Language Technology Kendra Presentation
4) NepaSoft Presentation
5) Javra Presentation
6) Deerwalk Presentation
7) D2HawkeyeServices : http://d2hawkeyeservices.com/, ph 4435625
(Some of the presentation are missing in above list. I will add when they made them available to me)

I must say Mr. Manoj Shakya has done very good job by arranging such presentation for KU computer students. In my view, those presentations are very informative for the students. Now they have got some glimpse of industry they have been preparing for last 4 years. My one suggestion is DoCSE of KU should try to have such interaction for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students as well. I think it will motivate the students and help them prepare them-self for the industry.

On 2011/05/11, six companies except IT Himalaya also took interview of the students for internship selection. I don't know what question has been asked in the interview. But i am sure one think they might have looked for is how motivated are they to learn new things. All the best to all the students for their internship and bright future.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

PJClub My Photo



PJClub has announced winners yesterday of their photo competition. I did not win. Here are my submission to the competition. Wish me luck for next time. All picture are © Ritesh Man Tamrakar

Master's Defense

On May 8th, 2011, There was Thesis Defense of Graduate Batch 2008 DoCSE at Kathmandu University. Here i am not going to cover what they have presented but cover question being asked after presentation by external as well as internal evaluators. I think it will be interesting and helpful to those who are thinking for Masters Thesis Defense at KU. :)

There was three defense:
A) Thesis Title: Interactive Voice Response as an Alternative to Access Database
Presenter: Sugat Sikrikar
Dr. Subarna Shakya (External Evaluator) asked following questions:
1) What is the difference between Voice, Sound & Speech?
2) Can you tell me frequency range of human voice?
3) Do you know other types of database other than RDMS?
4) Is your database normalized? In which form is it? 1NF, 2NF, 3NF
5) What is your contribution?
6) What are your references? Does it have research papers?
7) What is new innovation in your work?
8) Is it project or thesis?
9) What is Use Case diagram? Why have you used Use Case Diagram?
10) Does your system needs internet? Is it tested using Internet?
11) Have you done cost benefit analysis comparing with other probable solutions?
Other suggestions:
12) Why abstract is one and half page long? It should be short.
13) Diagrams in the report should be clear and computer generated. It should not be hand written.

Suggestions by Dr. Sanat Bista:
1) Use author date format for reference citation.
2) List the literature reference for further application.

Questions by Mr. Niraj Shrestha:
1) Since you are directly updating tables using phpmyadmin, How to populate multiple data tables?
2) Is multiple admin possible in your system?

B) Thesis Title: Implementation of IPv6 in Nepal
Presenter: Bikash Shrestha
Dr. Subarna Shakya asked:
1) What is your contribution? IPv4 and IPv6 is already there.
2) What are the drawbacks while implementing in Nepal?
3) What is the difference between class A, B & C?
4) What do you mean by multicast?
5) In Microsoft, What is new?
6) Where is a comparative study?
7) Do you need to change everything to implement IPv6? Is there other alternative?
8) What is security part in IPv6?

Mr. Purushotam Kharel asked:
1) In Slide 22, What do you mean by quality of service in IPv6?
2) Do you have any specialized type of question in research questionnaire?
3) What are the various tools & techniques that you have used?

C) Thesis Title: Nepali words sense disambiguation using adapted lesk algorithm
Presenter: Udaya Raj Dhungana
Dr. Subarna Shakya asked:
1) What is N. Shrestha's contribution and your contribution?
2) In your work only system accuracy is checked, What is computing accuracy level?
3) What is the benefit to the customer using lesk algorithm? Why have you chosen it?

It is not so easy to defend Master's Thesis. Looks like, needs a lots of preparation.

Objective: Three ex

To share my three ex:

ex·pec·ta·tion/ˌekspekˈtāSHən/Noun

1. A strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.
2. A belief that someone will or should achieve something.

ex·pe·ri·ence/ikˈspi(ə)rēəns/

Noun: Practical contact with and observation of facts or events.
Verb: Encounter or undergo (an event or occurrence).

ex·am·ple/igˈzampəl/

Verb: Be illustrated or exemplified.
Noun: A thing characteristic of its kind or illustrating a general rule.