Quote that describes my ultimate goal

"The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have, and in the end you may find out that you may have less than what you thought"
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

Saturday, October 19, 2013

The next big thing. Gesture Recognition is in fact the future of computing at every level.

Camera Lets Blind People Navigate with Gestures | MIT Technology Review

For the most part of it, HCI has been used either to make user friendly experiences available or just to tweak how we interact with the systems. I feel aiding the visually impaired is and will remain the primary goal for HCI and luckily enough i had the honor of being attached to one such project at CVIT, IIIT-Hyderabad. During the same time, a MIT conference on Engineering the eye was also catering to the same need for visually impaired. This is the next big thing, when you use technology to do the impossible, give vision to a visually impaired person.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

University Shortlisting

I had been occupied a little for a past few weeks making amends for the final camera ready paper to be presented at SEMCCO 2013, which will be published in LNCS, Springer. Now, the most important task at hand is to shortlist universities for the upcoming Fall 2014 session. I have been working on an extensive list on CV related programs at various universities, and have narrowed down my area of concentration to about 30 universities. Next i have to take into consideration other factors like area, fee structure etc to come up with my list of 10-12 schools where i would be applying. I am almost done with my generic SOP, into the 10th iteration and need to mould it into university specific SOPs. So the cardinal thing I have to do now is to finalize the list of those 10-12 schools and speed up the process for applications.