Met Sherif at a local ATM today, after a long time. He is former CTO of Sun’s India Engineering Center and he is the role model for many of my IEC activities today. His company is doing a great job by enabling professionals acquire right skills for further growth. A much needed service for IT …
Monthly Archive: June 2007
Jun 29 2007
Busy weekend ahead
My original plan for the weekend is to visit my parents. I also planned to visit Hinduja and her new born son. That was the plan until two days ago. Now, I get off the train in Bhimavaram by 5.30am on Saturday, about 20km from my parents’ place, and I reach them only by 8.00pm …
Jun 27 2007
Sun Constellation System
Sun Constellation System, the open petascale computing environment, is here. Among other things, it features Sun’s N1 System Manager for monitoring and management. Datasheet for Sun Constellation System is here. Being built on open standards and components, this technology has potential availability to research and academic communities across the world.
Jun 25 2007
Hyderabad Open Solaris Group meeting
On Saturday, we conducted the meeting of Hyderabad Open Solaris User Group (site, forum.) This group is still in infancy stages and I am assisting the group to come up to speed. The venue is Kamma Sangham building at Ameerpet. We started the meeting by 3.00pm. It was raining a bit on the day, hence …
Jun 25 2007
Sunita Williams: Back from space
Sunita Williams is safely back from space, after her return trip delayed a few times due to technical and weather conditions. Probably this is the most viewed and covered news item in India in the last week or so. Sunita, the NASA astronaut of Indian roots, is sure going to inspire many children in India. …
Jun 18 2007
Safari at a million mark?
This news item says that there are more than a million downloads of Safari web browser for Windows. I am not surprised. I am one of those enthusiasts and downloaded this browser for my dual boot (Solaris/Vista) laptop. In fact, the only two downloads from the Vista boot are Firefox and Safari. My personal preference? …
Jun 18 2007
On Mentoring and SEED
Nature magazine recently published an very good article titled “Nature’s guide to mentoring.” This article outlines the key benefits of mentoring programs like Sun’s SEED program. The article talks about the benefits of mentoring in research and scientific community. The same benefits can be extrapolated to thought leadership in industry research, product development and engineering …
Jun 14 2007
New Curriki and its Blog interface
Curriki has a new and updated wiki look and content. Now they have a blog interface for the members. I just checked the interface and added my first blog entry on Curriki. The site looks better now.
Jun 14 2007
SEED Participants Selected
Katy announced SEED participant selections for the upcoming SEED terms. SEED Program, in a nutshell, is Sun’s worldwide employee mentoring program. Out of 69 selections announced worldwide, Sun’s India Engineering Center at Bangalore bagged selections. Over a period of 6-12 months, these participants are paired up with best leadership minds in the company. A formal …
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