Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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.
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.
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. Sunday, August 29, 2010
Barcamp Kathmandu 2010
Khanchuwa Jwalanta presented something on liguid dish that does not put you in hang over and i assumed barcamp kathmandu 2010 will be of same type. But its different. Hang over of yesterday's barcamp kathmandu is still on. Many ideas and thoughts that i witnessed at barcamp kathmandu are still playing in infinite loop inside my head. I feel the loop will terminate only when i pour some of the thought about yesterday's event in the blog. But mind it, it is not full coverage of the event and so don't create news out of it. In barcamp style i should say, it is unblog of unconference. ;)
My pick for the event were
1) Crowdsourcing and Microwork in Nepal by msears
2) Sharing for Science by Ankur
3) Story Cycle (katha chakra) by saurav
4) Karma, a Framework for Creating Educational Software by peter.gijsels
5) Nepaluino by ujwal2 and
6) Udder This! by jhusilkira
Due to my son's DPT injection, i reached at event site arround 12 noon only. I was late. Before i reach the venue i knew i missed two of my pick Crowdsourcing and Karma. On the way I thought surumai bolna kati hatar yo khare haru lai as if they were going to miss a train to their home and by the way there is no train system in kathmandu. But its due to me so nobody to blame.
When i entered the hall, it was packed, full, over crowded and no seat available. Event was at the end of Youth and Media. On screen there was Thank You slide and some question answer was going on. Event was rocking. As my next picked session Sharing for Science was on the queue, i came out of hall and talked with some new people and old twitter friends. Bibek Shrestha was floating the idea that we should have frequent some type of developer and designer meetup to share onces knowledge. I totally agreed with him.
Ankur entered the hall shouting next session was his. So i also followed in. But the next session was of Chirag Bangdel with big question Why Art?. Only line i remember from his session is "Science keeps physical body alive but Art keeps one's soul alive". Conclusion is Techno Mani's also should learn art to be human with heart not just brain. Don't ask me the full form of Mani. :)
Then much awaited Sharing for Science started. Ankur shared his idea on establishing science journal library by the help of community. His definition of community just involves Me and You. I won't forget the slide with big hand with index finger pointing out and defining You that includes me too. According to him he has already registered site sharingforscience.org to get feedback and of course support for the idea. He is starting Sharing site with Popular Science and New Scientist magazines. He wants other to help to form the community by sharing some other publication or magazines to s4s. His big plan is to form big national level library later on. I wish him best of luck and i am sure a lots of people already thinking to lend some hand for the s4s community. I am also ready to help.
Then there was lunch break. During lunch i got lucky to put some of my question to Crowdsourcing presenter Mark Sears. My basic question was how will he ensure quality in crowdsourced work. He told me he has two ways for quality control. First way is to have to do same task by multiple people and compare them. Second one is there will be different level of checking by his staff and give points according to their quality of work. Another question was type of work he will bring. My point was spaming and writing fake blog for some product is not very interesting work to do. He is still in process of finalizing the services he is going to offer to the client.
After lunch, i joined session by Ujwal Shrestha about Nepaluino. He demonstrated very interesting projects based on arduino. Then followed by barcamp kathmandu promo video and photo show of its making. It was interesting. Then followed by DUPLICITY. I found that experimental video little disturbing so i won't write any further comment about it. Then session on khanchuwa.com totally refereshed me. Khanchuwa Jwalanta gave totally new meaning of OLPC. :) I really liked his presentation style and idea. Then next session was on "What you wear is not what you smoke" by Subin Shakya. I got good knowlege about hemp through his presentation. It was the first time i have heard about it. Many thanks to subin for this introduction. He is real hemp mani.
As i am also FOSS lover, i attended the session by Abhishek Singh on "How would you celebrate Software Freedom?". He asked to think about ways to celebrate the freedom provided by FOSS. SFD is one of the day when all FOSSians celebrate. His presentation slides were well designed and very pleasing. Final session i attended was by Geshan Manandhar on "Drupal Content Management System - A non technical introduction". His session was much like show case of Drupal where they have been used.
All in all barcamp kathmandu 2010 is great experience and had chance to know so many mani in same event. But there was one suspence till now what happened to Jhusilkira. May be turned into pupa to become beautiful butterfly.
links:
twitter: barcampktm
Session spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AihCxa4ZhLTkdFR6VlBjRkpyaVRXbk9kdDhrSm9uQXc&hl=en#gid=0
Tag for tweet: #barcampktm and #bcktm10
Site: http://2010.barcamp.org.np
Photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=471773&id=525455322
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=254884&id=535101350&page=3
(these photos are not mine. they are owned by respective facebook user)
My pick for the event were
1) Crowdsourcing and Microwork in Nepal by msears
2) Sharing for Science by Ankur
3) Story Cycle (katha chakra) by saurav
4) Karma, a Framework for Creating Educational Software by peter.gijsels
5) Nepaluino by ujwal2 and
6) Udder This! by jhusilkira
Due to my son's DPT injection, i reached at event site arround 12 noon only. I was late. Before i reach the venue i knew i missed two of my pick Crowdsourcing and Karma. On the way I thought surumai bolna kati hatar yo khare haru lai as if they were going to miss a train to their home and by the way there is no train system in kathmandu. But its due to me so nobody to blame.
When i entered the hall, it was packed, full, over crowded and no seat available. Event was at the end of Youth and Media. On screen there was Thank You slide and some question answer was going on. Event was rocking. As my next picked session Sharing for Science was on the queue, i came out of hall and talked with some new people and old twitter friends. Bibek Shrestha was floating the idea that we should have frequent some type of developer and designer meetup to share onces knowledge. I totally agreed with him.
Ankur entered the hall shouting next session was his. So i also followed in. But the next session was of Chirag Bangdel with big question Why Art?. Only line i remember from his session is "Science keeps physical body alive but Art keeps one's soul alive". Conclusion is Techno Mani's also should learn art to be human with heart not just brain. Don't ask me the full form of Mani. :)
Then much awaited Sharing for Science started. Ankur shared his idea on establishing science journal library by the help of community. His definition of community just involves Me and You. I won't forget the slide with big hand with index finger pointing out and defining You that includes me too. According to him he has already registered site sharingforscience.org to get feedback and of course support for the idea. He is starting Sharing site with Popular Science and New Scientist magazines. He wants other to help to form the community by sharing some other publication or magazines to s4s. His big plan is to form big national level library later on. I wish him best of luck and i am sure a lots of people already thinking to lend some hand for the s4s community. I am also ready to help.
Then there was lunch break. During lunch i got lucky to put some of my question to Crowdsourcing presenter Mark Sears. My basic question was how will he ensure quality in crowdsourced work. He told me he has two ways for quality control. First way is to have to do same task by multiple people and compare them. Second one is there will be different level of checking by his staff and give points according to their quality of work. Another question was type of work he will bring. My point was spaming and writing fake blog for some product is not very interesting work to do. He is still in process of finalizing the services he is going to offer to the client.
After lunch, i joined session by Ujwal Shrestha about Nepaluino. He demonstrated very interesting projects based on arduino. Then followed by barcamp kathmandu promo video and photo show of its making. It was interesting. Then followed by DUPLICITY. I found that experimental video little disturbing so i won't write any further comment about it. Then session on khanchuwa.com totally refereshed me. Khanchuwa Jwalanta gave totally new meaning of OLPC. :) I really liked his presentation style and idea. Then next session was on "What you wear is not what you smoke" by Subin Shakya. I got good knowlege about hemp through his presentation. It was the first time i have heard about it. Many thanks to subin for this introduction. He is real hemp mani.
As i am also FOSS lover, i attended the session by Abhishek Singh on "How would you celebrate Software Freedom?". He asked to think about ways to celebrate the freedom provided by FOSS. SFD is one of the day when all FOSSians celebrate. His presentation slides were well designed and very pleasing. Final session i attended was by Geshan Manandhar on "Drupal Content Management System - A non technical introduction". His session was much like show case of Drupal where they have been used.
All in all barcamp kathmandu 2010 is great experience and had chance to know so many mani in same event. But there was one suspence till now what happened to Jhusilkira. May be turned into pupa to become beautiful butterfly.
links:
twitter: barcampktm
Session spreadsheet: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AihCxa4ZhLTkdFR6VlBjRkpyaVRXbk9kdDhrSm9uQXc&hl=en#gid=0
Tag for tweet: #barcampktm and #bcktm10
Site: http://2010.barcamp.org.np
Photos:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=471773&id=525455322
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=254884&id=535101350&page=3
(these photos are not mine. they are owned by respective facebook user)
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Open Exam = Future
A Day before yesterday(2010/08/23), I had an final exam of ITPG-531 Ingredients of Innovation. It is one of my course for my MRes degree. The course was taught by Dr. Jyoti Tandukar. His course material can be found at http://jyoti.tandukar.net/innovation/.
The site is evolving over time. Today it is different than what we had as our course outline :). Today i am not going to cover about what he taught in the class. I want to talk more on exam.
The exam is very different than other final exam i am used to. First difference is it just covers 20% of total marks. 80% was already covered in class work. Another fundamental difference is it is open book, open copy, open Internet, everything open. It is my first experience of so open exam. As i am used to traditional type of exam where questions are extracted from books exercise and class tutorials with little bit of modification. But as its all open i am pretty sure question will not come from those texts. So guessing exam question is little difficult. It can be any thing. It is scary. If you can not guess the question how are you going to prepare for it?
So for preparation, went through some class reading materials but in the back of the mind was it is of no use as they are no coming in the exam. So preparation = no preparation.
Finally exam started and got the question. Great wait was over. Question went like this:
Read the attached article and do a critical review of it in terms of impact of technological development in education worldwide in next 10 years.
I went through the article. I thought it was easy and could finish in 15 minutes. Then Parkinson's Law kicked in. I used whole 3hrs time allocated for the exam. What ever i found critical that i liked and that i did not liked about the article wrote in a file and emailed.
All these are just a background for real motive of writing this blog. Actually while doing critical review, I tried to Google the title of the article and the author name thinking it must have been published in some magazine and assumed there will be e version of it. But to my surprise i could not find it.
So I thought if i can blog it then in future someone can find it here. (Above picture of the article is put with out any permission from the author. :) Actually i don't know who owns the copy right of the question. It could be big debating issue for the next blog.) Someone preparing for the Innovation exam can get hint from this blog.
As I am creating this blog I got an idea. If there is a site where people can blog or upload picture of the the exam paper then it can be great archive for future students. I am thinking about free question bank. Internet technology should help not only to get teaching materials but should help find the questions. Any one interested in this idea?
The site is evolving over time. Today it is different than what we had as our course outline :). Today i am not going to cover about what he taught in the class. I want to talk more on exam.
The exam is very different than other final exam i am used to. First difference is it just covers 20% of total marks. 80% was already covered in class work. Another fundamental difference is it is open book, open copy, open Internet, everything open. It is my first experience of so open exam. As i am used to traditional type of exam where questions are extracted from books exercise and class tutorials with little bit of modification. But as its all open i am pretty sure question will not come from those texts. So guessing exam question is little difficult. It can be any thing. It is scary. If you can not guess the question how are you going to prepare for it?
So for preparation, went through some class reading materials but in the back of the mind was it is of no use as they are no coming in the exam. So preparation = no preparation.
Finally exam started and got the question. Great wait was over. Question went like this:
Read the attached article and do a critical review of it in terms of impact of technological development in education worldwide in next 10 years.
I went through the article. I thought it was easy and could finish in 15 minutes. Then Parkinson's Law kicked in. I used whole 3hrs time allocated for the exam. What ever i found critical that i liked and that i did not liked about the article wrote in a file and emailed.
All these are just a background for real motive of writing this blog. Actually while doing critical review, I tried to Google the title of the article and the author name thinking it must have been published in some magazine and assumed there will be e version of it. But to my surprise i could not find it.
So I thought if i can blog it then in future someone can find it here. (Above picture of the article is put with out any permission from the author. :) Actually i don't know who owns the copy right of the question. It could be big debating issue for the next blog.) Someone preparing for the Innovation exam can get hint from this blog.
As I am creating this blog I got an idea. If there is a site where people can blog or upload picture of the the exam paper then it can be great archive for future students. I am thinking about free question bank. Internet technology should help not only to get teaching materials but should help find the questions. Any one interested in this idea?
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