NITK Computer Engineering

11/09/2017

Venkat Panchapakesan Memorial Scholarship - Selected students will receive a financial award of 750 USD towards tuition and education related expenses, and will be invited to visit the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, USA. Selected students will also have an opportunity to submit a proposal, and potentially receive a funding of up to 225 USD to spend on growing computer science in the local community.

31/12/2013

Happy New Year!

18/11/2013

New supercomputing record! Scientists reach 14.4 Petaflop sustained performance on IBM BlueGene/Q "Sequoia," one of the fastest supercomputers in the world.

Learn more and find out why bubbles were involved: http://ibm.co/1btd8QQ

Scientists “Burst” Supercomputing Record with Bubble Collapse Simulation. 5,000 bubbles are simulated using IBM BlueGene/Q “Sequoia” at 14.4 Petaflop of sustained performance. Destructive capabilities of collapsing bubbles are increasingly being studied in areas ranging from treating kidney stones a...

21/10/2013

While the update's going down without a hitch for the vast majority of people, many would-be upgraders are running into errors that are slamming the brakes on their Windows 8.1 aspirations.
check dis out

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2056292/windows-8-1-launch-weekend-plagued-by-some-show-stopping-installation-issues.html

02/10/2013

The Wharton School performed a survey to determine the top 30 innovations of the last 30 years. The list is presented below.Some of these innovations are the technologies that computer scientists had a direct hand in developing. For the remaining innovations, computer scientists played an important support role, developing control software for technologies like mobile phones, DNA testing and sequencing, MRI, microprocessors, and robotic surgery.

The majority of the provided list would not exist without computer scientists.

Internet, broadband, WWW (browser and html)
PC/laptop computers
Mobile phones
Email
DNA testing and sequencing/human genome mapping
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Microprocessors
Fiber optics
Office software (spreadsheets, word processors)
Non-invasive laser/robotic surgery (laparoscopy)
Open source software and services (e.g., Linux, Wikipedia)
Light-emitting diodes
Liquid crystal display (LCD)
GPS systems
Online shopping/ecommerce/auctions (e.g., eBay)
Media file compression (jpeg, mpeg, mp3)
Microfinance
Photovoltaic Solar Energy
Large-scale wind turbines
Social networking via the Internet
Graphic user interface (GUI)
Digital photography/videography
RFID and applications (e.g., EZ Pass)
Genetically modified plants
Bio fuels
Bar codes and scanners
ATMs
Stents
SRAM flash memory
Anti-retroviral treatment for AIDS

23/08/2013

26/06/2013

It's here. The new 4th Generation Intel® Core™ processors arrives in India today.

04/04/2013

NITK IEEE Presents Revelation : For First years By First Years
First Event Today At 5:30 pm
Venue : MB L206

***TECHNOQUIZ***
First Round will be MCQ based questions.
Entry is FREE. Teams Of TWO. Prizes for winners.
NO SENIORS. SO YOU CAN WIN EASILY.

29/01/2013

A new salary survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) shows that engineering majors dominate the list of college degrees that pay the highest salaries to new college graduates. Of the ten majors with the highest starting salaries, six are in some branch of engineering, including computer engineering, in the no. 1 slot at $70,400, chemical engineering, no. 2 at $66,400 and aerospace/aeronautical/astronautical engineering, no. 4 at $64,000. The no. 3 highest-paying major is computer science, at $64,400.

A new salary survey shows that engineering majors dominate the list.

29/01/2013

Google Announces Pwnium 3 competition with $3 million in Rewards.
http://news.thehackernews.com/google-announces-pwnium-3-competition-with-3-million-in-rewards

Google has announced the target for its third Pwnium hacking contest with $3 million in Rewards

10/01/2013

About Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award...

Visit : http://www.techpedia.in/award/

07/01/2013

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