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Granted, militaries are usually incompetent when it comes to IT. But this isn't the military, this is the DRDO, which typically includes people like this.

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Sorry about that...I sent the message on a palm pilot with not checking :-)

take a look here http://www.ese.iitb.ac.in/aer2006_files/papers/086.pdf

While local temperatures don't effct the PV Carnot efficiency, the surface temperature of the sun does.

The sun is about 6000K. Locally we are 300K calculate it out and you get a maximum efficiency of about 95% (my mistake...off by 3)

However 80% is a much more realistic end point for consumer grade equipment. Even 50% would bring the cost down to less than ANYTHING out there and provide power for all residential uses plus power a couple of nice electric cars rather well.

Ah, if you are looking at VTK based software, you should look at MayaVi. It lets you do some fantastic scientific visualization and has a neat GUI, too. And oh, you can also do some really cool CFD stuff with it. Check out the screenshots.

Back in the day, I used to be friends with the guy who did this stuff (met him at one of the LUGs). Turns out that he's now a prof at one of the better schools in India.

Anyway, Mathematica rocks, too. There is a lot more that you can do and it has some pretty neat capabilities. Besides, the strength of Mathematica is not merely the engine, it is the libraries and the wealth of demos and code out there.

Ok, fine... This should settle it: Tell me how useful you would consider their library's site to be for reference.

I found Mining the Web useful. It's written by academics, so you'll have to put in a little brain work translating it into implementable patterns, but it gave me a good jump start when I took on a new client that does a lot of crawling and searching.

Ram Sabnis, Senior Chemist of Ascadia, Ram Sabnis is a leader among a very small group of people who can point to a dye-chemistry Ph.D. on their wall. Only a handful of universities in the world offer one, and none are in the U.S. (Sabnis got his in Bombay). He holds dozens of patents from his work in semiconductors (dying silicon) and biotechnology (dying nucleic acids). Which university is that? Come on, why can't they say the name of the Indian university, show a little bit of respect to the institution? Is it http://www.chem.iitb.ac.in/ by any chance?

hehe...that is hilarious...here's what that webpage says: website http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~dbp/ Dream Dr. Phatak's dream is to see a resurgent India catching up with the world using Information Technology as the spring board. He hopes to make IT work for the millions of Indians so as to enable them to lead an honorable, comfortable and peaceful life full of love and harmony. Personal Details Date of Birth : 2nd April, 1948 Early Schooling : In 14 different schools in Madhya Pradesh Engineering Degrees : B.E. from SGSITS, Indore M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, Mumbai Life Partner : Pratibha, Occupational Therapist, Now a home maker Children : Aditya, 30, BE (Computers) Bombay University, M Tech in CSE from IITBombay; Technical Manager, PSPL, Pune Alka (Aditya's wife), 26, Fine Arts Graduate from JJ School, Master of Fine Arts (Ceramics), U Washington Educationist and entrepreneur in fine arts Pradeep, 22, B.E. (Computers) Bombay University Pursuing MS (CS) at SUNY Buffalo Hobbies : Travelling, Reading - Specially History, Day Dreaming about the national future. Giving unsolicited advice to unsuspecting individuals and groups.

Among his hobbies: "Giving unsolicited advice to unsuspecting individuals and groups."

http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~dbp/

..but while I was browsing the IIT site ..i came across this. Seems like they've cornered the CEO/CTO market ;)

Ok, ok. The first satellite launch by an indigenous vehicle was on July 18, 1980: still nearly 25 years ago, hardly news.

This should be the first distance learning programme for higher education in India.

The U.S. military (through DARPA and other agencies) has been funding research on micro-UAVs for years. Not too hard to think about what they would be good for if you change your mindset to try to solve the "problem" of being able to kill people more effectively.

Some interesting links:
Pretty scary justification for "why bother": http://www.darpa.mil/tto/mav/mav_auvsi.html
For those that don't know, an "ACD" is a program where they actually build a working weapons system out of the technology: http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/mavact.html
This is one of my favorate MAV's: http://www.aerovironment.com/news/news-archive/was p62.html
A general links page that shows the amount of research being done in this area: http://www.casde.iitb.ac.in/IMSL/amitay.html
FAS collects a ton of information about U.S. military programs and systems: http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/mav.htm

I haven't heard of any great indian computer scientist. The good ones will always survive.

Qualifications and ability would be all over the map, like they are in every other field. The best are typically as good as the best anywhere else in the world.

How many people graduate from a (technical) university on an average? (As a fraction of all people born a certain year, for example.)

Very, very few. 35% of the population is illiterate (as per the 2001 census). India's Ministry of Education has some stats on primary/secondary education and on higher education (in Indian terminology a graduate degree is a Bachelors and a post-graduate degree is a Masters/Phd)

What you're looking for is the percentage of children graduating from high-school who enroll at a college. Using the census numbers, there were 157 million children under 6 years of age. That's 25 million approximately in any given year. Assuming they all survive to turn 18, you're looking at 75 million children between 18-21. There were 5.13 million people pursuing a Bachelors degree in 1998. The population between 18 and 21 is likely around 60 million because India's population has been growing. That would suggest 10% of college-age kids end up pursing a Bachelors degree, 25% of whom are studying the Sciences. I think the US figure for college enrollment out of high-school is 40%, American Universities graduate 1.2 million students every year, US population is 30% of India's.

Does the government subsidize university-level education in any way, or is a degree only possible to attain only if you are rich enough?

It's subsidized. That said, the public primary/secondary education system in India is a mess. You've typically got to be middle-class before you will even get to school. Most of the rural poor don't have access to an education in English (which is essential at the best colleges). You'll find that most of the people who end up at engineering schools are from the middle-class (about 30% of the population, still a healthy 300 million).

What does a M.Sc. or B.Sc. degree cost you?

Depends on where you go and what sort of scholarship you can get. The most prestigious Universities are the most liberal with their aid. Costs are a fraction of what they would be in the US. You can expect to pay anywhere from USD 100 to USD 1500 a year depending on the location of the college.

What are the most prominent higher-level education universities in the technology sector? Homepage URLs?

The seven IIT campuses are generally considered to be a cut above the rest. The entrance exam to IIT is offered country-wide and people often spend a substantial part of their final high-school year cramming for it. You can start at the Madras campus or Delhi or Bombay . The IIT is run by the Indian government. The entire program would cost $1500 plus room/board. IIT is a general sciences college, not all students study CS.

A comprehensive list of Universities is maintained by the Ministry of Education.

Looking through the web-pages, I see that Indian colleges aren't doing a particularly good job marketing themselves. Do they specialize in any particular fields of technology? What's the teaching like, compared to curriculums in Europe or the US? Are certain subjects and fields emphasized more or less? Are there any major differences in teaching methods? (lectures, homework, group projects, tuition by teaching assistants, etc.)

There is a lot of focus on examinations and remembering/reproducing conce

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from what I read in the article they just recently launched their first satellite
Aryabhatta Satellite (First Indian Experimental Satellite) , Launch Date : April 19, 1975

No offense, but it's very obvious you haven't been a geek very long. We've all battled with graphics cards, serial ports, game ports, parallel ports, sound cards....anyways, here's what you need:

Fucking lameness filter....

Heres the link

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