MICROSOFT STUDENT PARTNER...SOUNDS GREAT HUH??

 wondering how can u become an Microsoft student partner(MSP)??


Program Overview: The Microsoft Student Partner Program recognizes top young minds from around the world that are passionate about technology. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to develop real-world skills to help you succeed in your future career, to help others learn about the technology of today and tomorrow, and to connect with other like-minded students, all whilst having a ton of fun along the way. The tenure is for 1 academic year and can be renewed by the MSP India Team if the MSP has acceptable performance and continues to meet the eligibility criteria.
 What is a Microsoft Student Partner?The ‘ideal candidate’ would be a passionate and enthusiast individual who wants to learn about new tools and technologies. You would need to have a whole range of skills including excellent time management, organization and communication skills to ensure that you could host successful campus events. An MSP should be comfortable and confident presenting in front of large audiences of both students and faculty members. General marketing skills come in very handy in order to allow you to articulate your ideas effectively when presenting. MSPs are social, friendly and approachable individuals who like to meet new people. You will require the ability work as a team as well as use your own initiative. In summary, MSPs are innovative and creative students who are extremely passionate about technology and who like to help others.
 

MSP India Program

2011-2012 Academic Year Selection Process

• * The deadline for registering for the 2011-2012 Academic Year has elapsed.
• * Results are available in the Docs section of http://www.facebook.com/microsoftindiastudent

• * Selected candidates have already received email about the next steps. 

• * The MSP selection process for 2012-2013 in India will begin around June 2012. Please visit this page again at that time for further details. If you wish to apply for the MSP program in India, please do not submit applications to other countries- those applications will not be considered.

Disclaimer: This is a voluntary program for students and does not involve any fees. It is neither a course nor an internship.


Eligibility: To consider applying for the MSP Program, you must be:

• * Over 17 years of age. 
• * Currently studying a full-time Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or Design (STEMD) course at an officially recognized University/College in India.
• * Bachelor's/Master's Degree student who will complete the course during or after May 2013.

Competencies: A good MSP is one who has the following basic qualities:

• * Technical competencies
• * Passionate about software
• * Quick learner
• * Respected by peers

Community-building competencies:

• * Enthusiastic about technology
• * High level of social activity, both online & offline
• * Can organize college and city-level events

Fundamental competencies:

• * Passionate about Microsoft technologies
• * Confident & outgoing
• * Good rapport with faculty
• * Willing to share knowledge & eager to uplift self and peers

Responsibilities: If you get selected as an MSP, here's an indication of some of your short term goals:

• * Learn & implement emerging technologies like Windows Phone 7 apps using the free tools & emulator.
• * Conduct at least 1 technical session per month in a Student Tech Club.
• * Participate and drive entries for Imagine Cup.

If you get selected as an MSP, here's an indication of some of your long term goals:

• * Promote and build your city-level Microsoft Student User Group
• * Organize city-level events like DreamSpark Yatra by collaborating with other MSPs
• * Mentor other MSPs

Benefits: As an MSP, a host of benefits are available:

• * Welcome letter
• * Special MSP events conducted by Microsoft
• * MSDN subscription after successful completion of probation period
• * Rewards & Recognition for top performers
• * Networking opportunities
• * Technical training & resources
• * Specific Microsoft events
• * Interactions with MVPs & Microsoft Employees
• * Internship & Recruitment announcements for top-performers

Contact Us:

• * For queries regarding the MSP Selection process for 2011-2012 in India, post these on http://www.facebook.com/microsoftindiastudent
• * If you wish to apply for the MSP program in India, please do not submit applications to other countries- those applications will not be considered.
• * For other questions regarding the MSP India program, email newmsp@microsoft.com

IBM Research India I-CARE 2011 & IBM Centennial Colloquia

I-CARE 2011 & IBM Centennial Colloquia

IBM Research – India is pleased to announce the 3rd IBM Collaborative Academia Research Exchange (I-CARE) workshop on October 13, 2011, in New Delhi. I-CARE 2011 will be held in conjunction with IBM’s Centennial Colloquia, and will have the theme: “India 2020 – Challenges and Opportunities”.
As India continues on her growth path, there are many new opportunities and challenges related to building a better nation in a smarter and sustainable manner. This year’s I-CARE and Centennial Colloquia will provide a forum to explore new frontiers in technology to address these complex challenges and leverage new opportunities. Eminent speakers from the academia, industry and government will take part in the event, thus providing a rare opportunity to the participants to learn about various scientific and industry advancements, innovative solutions, and new research directions. I-CARE 2011 will be organized along four tracks as described below:

Track - I	Smarter Cities: Solutions for energy, traffic & transportation and public safety, including sensor networks and cyber-physical systems.
Track - II	Services for Emerging Countries: Innovative models and technologies for delivering services to citizens and improving services quality
Track - III	Programming Languages and Software Engineering: Automated software quality tools (testing, debugging, etc.), empirical software engineering
Track - IV	Next Generation Systems: High Performance Computing, scalable/distributed architectures, network/cloud computing, and data centers

Poster and Demo Submissions

Faculty members, researchers, students (graduate and undergraduate) from technical, management and design streams are encouraged to submit their abstracts (limited to two pages for each abstract), with details of the poster or demo – title, author name, author title (Faculty/Student enrolled for PhD/MTech/BTech./MBA) to the link here (link resides outside of ibm.com). Note, you need to create a login at EasyChair for submission if you don't already have it.
For each selected poster or demo, a partial travel stipend (Rs 3000/-) will be provided to out-station students (i.e., other than Delhi) to help defray workshop attendance costs (travel, lodging etc).

Submission Guidelines

All submissions will be screened by the I-CARE Program Committee. Authors of selected submissions will be invited to I-CARE for presenting the work as a poster.
All submissions should contain sufficient information for the reviewers to make a fair evaluation on how the material applies to the targeted audience. You are not expected to create a poster at this time.

• Please ensure that you submit your work to the right track, as per the instructions below.
• Entries must be the original work of submitters. References to previously published work should be explicitly acknowledged.

Formatting Instructions

Submissions must be formatted in the ACM proceedings format, using one of the templates available at www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html (link resides outside of ibm.com). Templates are available in Word and LaTeX (version 2e). For the LaTeX formats, you may use either the standard style or the SIG-alternate style.

Page Limits

• Maximum of TWO (2) Letter/A4 pages in the above format. This includes all parts of the paper: title, abstract, body, and references.

Submission Instructions

The submitted papers must be in pdf or doc (Microsoft Word) formats. It is essential that they print without difficulty on a variety of printers using Adobe Acrobat Reader or Microsoft Word. Submission should be done through EasyChair at www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=icare2011 (link resides outside of ibm.com)

Advice on preparing the submission

Your submission will be used by the selection committee to determine if your topic is selected for poster presentation at the I-CARE. Clearly, your abstract has to be as good as it can be, but writing a good abstract is not easy. Following some simple guidelines can help you write the very best abstract possible -- one that will optimally represent your presentation, and one that will provide you the best opportunity to present to an audience at I-CARE and share your knowledge, experience, and insights. Some thoughts and suggestions for writing a compelling abstract can be found here.

Important Dates

Poster/Demo Abstract Submission: August 16, 2011
Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2011
                                                                                                                              src:IBM research website

Tech Quiz Series- 2011 (2)

Again,what is this all about??

  PLZ NOTE:post ur answer in the comments below.Plz note that the scores of regular participants will be kept track of and announced in hall of fame periodically.

Dear Bill Gates,teach me too!!!

1. Bill Gates earns US$250 every second, that's about US$20 Million a DAY and US$7.8 Billion a YEAR!

2. If he drops a thousand dollar, he won't even bother to pick it up bcoz the 4 seconds he picks it, he would've already earned it back.

3. The US national debt is about 5.62 trillion, if Bill Gates were to pay the debt by himself; he will finish it in less then 10 years.

4. He can donate US$15 to everyone on earth but still be left with US$5 Million for his pocket money.

5. Michael Jordan is the highest paid athlete in US. If he doesn't drink and eat, and keeps up his annual income i.e. US$30 Million, he'll have to wait for 277 years to become as rich as Bill Gates is now.

6. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37 th richest country on earth.

7. If you change all of Bill Gate's money to US$1 notes, you can make a road from earth to moon, 14 times back and forth. But you have to make that road non-stop for 1,400 years, and use a total of 713 BOEING 747 planes to transport all the money.

8. Bill Gates is 40 this year. If we assume that he will live for another 35 years, he has to spend US$6.78 Million per day to finish all his money before he can go to heaven.

Last but not the least: If Microsoft Windows' users can claim US$1 for every time their computers hang because of Microsoft Windows, Bill Gates will be bankrupt in 3 years !!!!!!! !!!!

Tech Quiz Series- 2011 (1)

What is this all about??

 PLZ NOTE:post ur answer in the comments below.Plz note that the scores of regular participants will be kept track of and announced in hall of fame periodically.

Humbly they announced "We just hacked SONY"!!!

 Recent past:
In mid April 2011, Sony Computer Entertainment was subjected to external DDoS attacks. To further complicate matters, roughly a week later (on 4/20/11), the PlayStation Network was again attacked, but more severely.

Now:
A prestigious hacker group "LulzSec" announced  that they had gained access to SonyPictures.com and stolen over 1 million accounts, passwords and sensitive user information. Shortly after the news broke, copies of the compromised data were surfacing on filesharing websites and BitTorrent trackers including The Pirate Bay.

The group left a message on PasteBin revealing the full extent of the intrusion, which includes thousands of email and password combinations, personal information (including names, addresses, dates of birth and phone numbers), nearly 3.5 million "music coupons" and over 60,000 "music codes". The group also announced that Sony's security was overcome by a simple SQL injection attack.

In a statement, the group said: "SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the most primitive and common vulnerabilities, as we should all know by now. From a single injection, we accessed EVERYTHING. Why do you put such faith in a company that allows itself to become open to these simple attacks?"

The group also stated: "Every bit of data we took wasn't encrypted. Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext, which means it's just a matter of taking it. This is disgraceful and insecure: they were asking for it."

The group has released much of the plundered data, though these only contain a small amount of the compromised data. Full databases have also been posted online, along with a database layout text document to aid the extraction of data. The database contains both military and government email and password combinations, and also admin accounts to Sony Pictures Online.

The following excerpt was taken from the "FILE CONTENTS.txt" document that accompanies LulzSec's limited release:

Contents of our plunder:
## Sony_Pictures_International_AUTOTRADER_USERS.txt ##- In this file you will find just under 12,500 customers of Sony;this includes dates of birth, addresses, emails, full names,passwords, user IDs, and personal phone numbers.
## Sony_Pictures_International_COUPONS.txt ##- In this file you will find just under 20,000 Sony music coupons;please note that there are 3.5 million coupons to take - get them!!
## Sony_Pictures_International_MUSIC_CODES.txt ##- In this file you will find just under 67,000 Sony music codes;they're like magnets,i simply have no idea how they work.
and much more...

I havnt been mentioning some 20 more file names showing some pity to Sony!!

Future:
Well..dear SONY we didnt expect this from you. By the way  hats off to you LulzSec!!This is what a white hack means. LulzSec just exposed Sony's vulnerabilities and thats all.

PLEASE NOTE:This article is dedicated to my friend who was just boasting about SONY:-)

Tech Quiz Series- 2011

   I am happy to announce that i will be starting the TechnologyIntersect Quiz Series-2011 shortly  for all the quiz enthusiasts very soon...