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N I S T e – N E W SMessage from the Director

Very recently, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided to put its entirecourse materials, examination papers, etc., of each andevery course on the Internet. Many professors had to giveup their exclusive copyright on such materials to makethis possible. On being asked that if all the coursematerials are available on the net, why would anyone joinMIT, pat came the reply “It is not what we teach insidethe class that matters, it is what we teach outside the classthat really counts”. The past week I had the pleasantexperience of the same. WAVES 2005 brought out thebest from 200 participating students what they have learnt

outside the class. For each faculty and staff member of NIST, my advice is that the studentinteraction outside the class is very important and much is learnt in these situations. Let usmake sure we give enough time and attention to these interactions.

A Very Happy Birthday to NISTe-News. From its very inception this monthly newsletter hasblazed a new trail in bringing latest news from every corner of NIST campus to itssubscribers – students, staff, faculty, parents, alumni, well wishers, etc. This is a positiveenergy newsletter – every month I get my inspiration from reading it. Amidst the gloom ofviolence, mayhem, caste wars, religious disturbances, corruption, etc., spread by the dailynewspapers, NISTe-news stands out as a harbinger of positive news and development andshares the feelings of our students and alumni. Numerous parents have congratulated theEditorial Board of NISTe-News and the Student Volunteers for their yeoman service to bringout the NISTe-news each month. Similarly, many a irritated alumni has sent me email askingwhy NISTe-News was not uploaded on the net on the scheduled date. To all our readers,THANKS and a promise of better things to come.

February 15, 2006 Sangram Mudali

Message from the EditorLast week, when I was doing some work at our Centre of Excellence, Bhubaneswar, two finalyear students from a Bhubaneswar based engineering college visited our centre and wereasking me whether anybody of NIST will guide their B.Tech projects. I talked with them forhalf an hour to get more information about quality of B.Tech/M.Tech projects in the state.Immediately, I discovered that NISTians are really proud of producing the bestB.Tech/M.Tech projects. Our unique system for project submission, evaluation andpresentation is playing the key role for successful quality projects. NIST faculty members aregiving their maximum effort towards this noble and moral responsibility. NIST M.Techstudent Mr Srikant Reddy is leaving India on January 19th for Germany to work for his finalyear project in Phillips, Germany. As per my knowledge, going abroad for M.Tech projects,NIST is the only example in the state.

It's again the time for celebration. Yes! it's the 4th Birthday of NISTe-News. Let's us celebratethe special day by hoping that this will go on for all the times to come with our sincere effortand cooperation as usual. All the Best and many many happy returns of the day to NISTe-News. Thanks to all who have sent me mail/phone wishing Happy Birthday to NISTe_News.

February 15, 2006 Partha S Mallick

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 09:06:03 +0530 (IST)From: "R.G.Banerjee" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]: Greetings to the Editor, Director, entire faculty of NIST.

Respected Sir ,Unfailingly arrives the New year's greetings fromNIST from the day my daughter Ragini became a member of yourteam, and I am always late in reciprocation of the same! I wish members, and my dear students A VERY VERY HAPPY NEW YEAnew, and I fervently hope that the budding engineers, who are goingare on their way with renewed enthusiasm. Why hope, I am honespupils will prove it. I see their contributions in the college magazinfeatures, be it a poem, technical attributes, humour or happenings of treflective of a positive zeal-a power with which they will accomplish say, I feel rejuvenated when I enter the campus. Regards, R.G.Banerj

Subject: E_news Update in Site Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 00:16:32 +From: "Rao Sunkuru-A20986" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sir, I am S. Sunil Kumar Rao of 2000 batch, IT. CurreMotorola, Hyderabad. Every thing is going on fine here and howhole NIST family there. Sir, I am a regular reader of the NISTe_Nas it is not possible for me to get the hard copy of it here. But I fiupdated regularly on the site. And you can also find that some of theuploaded in the site also. Would you please take care of this such tuploaded in proper time and we (those NISTians are staying far fromcopy of the e_news as soon as it is published. Thanks & Regards, Sun

NIST M.Tech project at Phillips, Germany Our M.Tech student Mr Srikant Reddy is leavin2006 for Germany. Mr Srikant will be working at PM.Tech Project. He started project work on the devInterruption Logging Device (AILD) for electric Systems, New Delhi. Now he will be working at Pfurther development and commercialization.

Our Student RepresentativesPreeta Mohanty, Rohan Gupta, Arun Reddy, Rakes

Smruti Sagarika and Amit Kumar Dash

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Placement of the Last Month(From January 15, 2006 – February 15, 2006)

S . No Name of the student Name of the Company1 K. Someswar Rao IBM, Kolkata

2 Aurosikha Patnaik IBM, Kolkata

3 Monalisha Nayak IBM, Kolkata

4 Resmi Rani Patra IBM, Kolkata

5 Ranjeeta Mishra IBM, Kolkata

6 Priyasmita Panda IBM, Kolkata

7 Boyina Modhulaxmi Hexaware, Chennai

8 Deepika Nayak Hexaware, Chennai

9 Smitidhara Swain Hexaware, Chennai

10 Hemant Kumar Behera Hexaware, Chennai

11 Kshipra Rani Pradhan Hexaware, Chennai

12 Suman Panda Wipro BPO, Kolkata

13 G. Vasudevam Wipro BPO, Kolkata

14 Sarita Panda Wipro BPO, Kolkata

15 Kumari Mrinalini Wipro BPO, Kolkata

16 Punit Kumar Tandon 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

17 Lagnajit Sahu 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

18 Prathi Silpa 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

19 Mrinal Nath 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

20 Roomali Satapathy 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

21 Debabrata Nanda 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

22 Sonu T Sekharan 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

23 Smitidhara Swain 24/7 Customer, Bangalore

24 Niketa Dutta Stream, Mumbai, Bangalore

25 Niraj Kumar Stream, Mumbai, Bangalore

26 Jyotiman Prusty Atos Origin, Mumbai

27 Itishree Mishra MBT, Pune

28 Snehalata Panda Alcatel, Bangalore



NIST ToppersHere is the List of the Toppers in therecently published University results.NISTians congratulate all of you.

B.Tech 1st Semester(2005 batch)1 Sandeep Sanu 9.432 Kedar Mukherjee 9.392 Sangram Patro 9.393 Smaranika Behura 9.364 Sourav Kumar 9.294 Siddharth Sankar 9.295 Rahul Kumar 9.255 Rohit Agarwal 9.255 Deepak Kumar Tosh 9.256 Ambika Rani Sabat 9.216 Balakrishna Padhy 9.217 Purnima Kochar 9.187 Amritesh Raj 9.188 Reshma Mullapudi 9.148 Shriyasmin Dash 9.149 Shalini Mohan 9.119 Suchismita Samantaray 9.119 Kiran Kumar Sadangi 9.119 Amit Kumar 9.119 Laxmana Maharana 9.119 Piyush Kunal 9.119 Abhishek Nandan 9.119 Amit Kumar Bhakat 9.1110 Santoshi Prasad Sahu 9.0710 Ruchi 9.07

B.Tech 3rd Semester(2004 batch)1 Nihar Ranjan Sahani 9.552 Chinmayee Ku Panigrahi 9.483 Debasis Panda 9.384 Milan Padhy 9.344 J Rahul 9.345 Sunil Ku Sabata 9.316 Sanjeev Ku Mudali 9.217 Venkatseema Das 9.177 Sidhartha Sankar Rout 9.178 Iswar Prasad Tripathy 9.14

9 Santoshi Jena 9.19 Maneesa Mishra 9.110 Swayamprava Patnaik 9.0710 Sahara Kanungo 9.07

B.Tech 5th Semester(2003 batch)1 Sambit Kumar Sabat 8.771 Deep Sengupta 8.772 Jyoti Prakash Dash 8.72

BE 6th Semester(2002 batch)1 Tanmay Ranjan Kar 6122 Sucharita Das 6053 Boyina Madhu Lakshmi 5884 Hemant Kumar Behera 5824 Geetesh Ghosh 5824 Amrit Mishra 5825 Anuka Bindhani 5796 Ricky Yati Mishra 5767 Sumani Mishra 5738 Prasanna Kumar Sahoo 5709 Lipsa Naik 5699 Alok Kumar Prusty 56910 Rajashree Mishra 565

MCA 1st Semester(2005 batch)1 Roshni Choudhury 7.961 Smita Patnaik 7.962 A. Sreelata Senapati 7.87

MCA 3rd Semester(2004 batch)1 Manas Mohan Mishra 8.842 Kali Prasad Vayinapalli 8.63 Prashant Sikandra 8.56

MCA 5th Semester(2003 batch)1 Archana Sinha 8.532 Itishree Padhy 8.273 Laxmi Prasad Mishra 7.87

NIST Faculty to be Honored atOxford University

Prof. Suash Deb has been awarded theprestigious Archimedes Award for his"tangible & significant" contribution in thefield of Soft Computing. The award,consists of a medal & a citation, which will

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be formally conferred to him at the awardceremony of the World Scientific Forum,to be held later this year at the OxfordUniversity, UK. This is a UK based award,given to the scientists who have beenrecognized for their endeavors both

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Visitors 2005Every year many renowned Professors,Scientists and Academicians visit ourcampus. NISTe-News is giving the list ofour esteemed visitors of the year 2005. 1. Prof. S K Lahiri, Deputy Director, IIT,

Kharagpur2. Prof. Swapna Banerjee, IIT Kharagpur

Prof. Suash Deb,CSE, has been invitedby Prof. N.Mastorakis -

airman, Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Signalocessing, Robotics & Automation toiver an Invited Speech on Machineelligence. Besides that Prof. Deb haso been invited to Chair "a couple ofhnical sessions" in that event. The eventll take place at the Universidad decala, Madrid, Spain.

torial talk at ICDCIT- 2005ST Faculty Dr Partha S Mallickivered a Tutorial talk on Matlab – anential Tools for Engineers at theernational Conference on Distributed

Computing and InternetTechnology(ICDCIT-

3. Prof. D Mukhopadhyay, JadavpurUniversity

4. Prof. R K Mishra, Registrar, BijuPatnaik University of Technology

5. Dr Maharshi Yogiraj, HYL Club,Hyderabad

6. Dr Chandrasekhar, Director, CEERI,Pilani

7. Dr C P Ravi Kumar, Vice President,Texas Instrument, India

8. Prof. Omkar Nath MohantyHon’ble Vice Chancellor, Biju Patnaik

University of Technology9. Dr Subhas Chandra Bose, Scientist,

CEERI, Pilani10. Dr. Bharadwaj Amruther, IISc,

Bangalore, 11. Dr Subhankar Das and Aditya Desai,

KARMIC, Bangalore12. Prof. Arun Panda of IGIT, Sarang,

Orissa 13. Mr Parag Gupta, Hon’ble RDC,

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2005) held at KIITCampus, Bhubaneswaron December 21, 2005.The Conference wasinaugurated by theHonourable Chief

nister of the state Sri Naveen Patnaik on same day and the Conferencetinued till December 24, 2005. The

torial which was based onndamentals, Programming, Application,delling and Simulation in MatLAB and

o, live examples using Simulink.

Berhampur14. Dr Rameshchandra Chau Patnaik,

Hon’ble MLA, Ganjam15. Mr C P Pujari, General Manager of

Paradeep Phosphates16. Prof Trinath Sahu, Berhampur

University17. Dr R K Mishra, Sambalpur University

Inauguration of AuditoriumNIST auditoriumwas inaugurated

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ipped with latest audio visualipment to add punch to classroom

ching, conferences, etc.

llowships granted to NISTians ISTians got the fellowship to attend the

th International Conference on VLSIsign and 5th International Conference onbedded Systems held at Hotel Taj

ishna, Hyderabad from January 3-7,06. Here is the List of Fellowshipipients. Dr Ajit K Panda, Faculty, NIST Mr M Suresh, Faculty, NIST

Madusmita Panda, M.Tech, Final Yr.

Workshop onportunities in Engineering andientific Research

ST organized a Workshop onportunities for Scientific and

Prof Niranjan Das emphasized onInfrastructural Development ofengineering institutes. Prof B B Panda ofthe Department of Botany, BerhampurUniversity, clearly explained how to writeproject proposals, etc. Prof B S Patra,Principal of EAST, discussed the various R& D issues of the state and Dr Ravi PReddy, Deputy Director of NIST presentedthe NIST R&D activities. In the afternoon,there was a panel discussion regardingissues and bottlenecks in doing research inOrissa. In his closing remarks, Dr. RaoAiyagari, encouraged all young facultymembers to immediately take up researchwork and there is no constraint of fundingissues.

Industrial training for NIST studentsStudents of 6th Semester of EIE haveundergone a practical training programmeon Gas Chromatography, LiquidChromatography, Polarimeter and variousother instruments for two days fromJanuary 5-6, 2006 at Technology SupportCenter for Kewra Industry at Berhampur.NIST faculty Mr Satyabrata Dascoordinated the training program.

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gineering Research at NIST campus onuary 27, 2006. The workshop wasrdinated by the R&D coordinator, Dralendu Patnaik and was inaugurated by

. V. Rao Aiyagari, Advisor & Head

Technofest 2005-NISTians achievementNIST students have shown their talent inthe Technical Festival of Biju PatnaikUniversity of Technology held inDecember 2005. 70 students from NISTparticipated in various events. Here is thelist of students who bagged prizes: PankajBasu (Debate- runners-up) Rakesh Parida(Quiz-runners-up), Y Umakant (Quiz,runners-up), Jitendra Ku Mishra(Badminton, doubles-winner), BibhutiBhusan Sabat (Badminton, doubles-winner), Sunil Kerkette (Lawn Tennis,

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doubles- runners-up), Gourav Rath (LawnTennis, doubles- runners-up), BinataMurmu (200 meter race – winner), BinataMurmu, Shreeta Jena, Shilpi Mohanty,Kamal Khilo(100*4, relay – winner). Thisis the first time that NIST has won such alarge tally of medals in any studentfestival. NIST faculty Mr G V KiranKumar, Mr Pallav Kumar Kar, Mr MinakhiMishra, Mr Deba Durlabh Pattnaik and MsBasanti Patro coordinated the variousevents on behalf of NIST. The other eventsof Technofest 2006 held at NIST campussuch as Technical Paper Presentations,Lawn Tennis, Basketball which wereorganized by Mr Vinay Das. NIST Basketball team players are: Amartya Banerjee,Subhendu Gouda, Vikramditya Mishra,Abhishek Mahapatra, Sumit Parida(8th

Sem), Sandeep Kumar Swain, SatyaPrkash Rath, Arjyalok Tripathy, Suprakashsen(2nd Sem), Sakti Ashish Prasad(6th

Sem), M Izaz Baig, R Hari Prasad(4th Sem).

TREKKING - 2006TREKKING–2006 was successfullyorganised by NIST Students, Faculty andStaff members on February 5, 2006. OurDirector Prof Sangram Mudali flagged offthe TREK-2006 at 9:25AM atRAMAIHYA PATNAM and the

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were girls. Among the staff and facultymembers, Mr Sidhartha B N, Mr IndraneelMukhopadhyay, Mr Debanand Kanhar, MrMinakhi Mishra, Mr B S Rout, Mr AshokSahu, Mr Prasanajeet Mohanty, MsBasanti Patra and last, but not the least MrVinay Das participated in the TREK-2006.

Republic Day celebration at NISTRepublic Day was celebrated at NIST campus

and at NIST Hostels on January 26, 2006.In the NIST campus, Mr. JagannathMohanty, Faculty, hoisted the nationalflag. In Hostel 4, NIST faculty and HostelSuperintendent, Mr M Suresh hoisted theflag. All other staff, students, and facultymembers were present. The program endedby distribution of sweets.PPT Training by Time, BBSRPre Placement Training-2006 was given byTIME, Bhubaneswar on January 21, 2006at the Galleria. The Training started at2PM and continued till 9PM. The trainingwas for the 6th Semester (B.Tech), 1stSemester(M.Tech) and 4th semester(MCA)students. NIST Pre-Placement Coordinator

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articipants were received by ourlacement Director Ms. Geetika Mudali atOPALPUR BEACH at 2:30PM. Theistance covered was approximately 20ms along the Bay of Bengal beach. Morean 150 students of 2005 batch

articipated among which a large number

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Sudhir Panigrahi coordinated thening Program.rance policy: working for us

dear student Sri Asim Abinash Pandared in this month last year. Allents of NIST are covered under therance Nagarika Surakhya Policy. Asthe policy a sum of Rs. 80000/- was to Sri Abhya Kumar Panda father of Sri Asim Abinash Panda. Weeciate the kind help of Mr. Sisirar Das of Oriental Insurancepany.

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As part of its social commitment, NIST isproviding training to the students of southOrissa on various job oriented courses likeCertificate Course in Electronics Repair &Maintenance, Certificate Course in BasicComputer Skills, Certificate Course inComputerized DTP, Certificate Course inComputer Maintenance, Certificate Coursein Workshop Practice (Lathe, CNCMilling, Welding, Carpentry). Fromamong the 250 applicants, only 25 studentswere selected based on merit-cum-economic criteria. The training has startedfrom February 8, 2006 at NIST campus.This training course is free of cost andeach student is given a monthly stipend ofRs. 800/ to enable them to pursue thecourse. Mr. Asheesh Tripathy, Mr. SagarSikdar, Mr. RK Dash and Mr. B Rout arethe respective Coordinators of each course.

It is still singing in the mind. On twowonderful days, February 10th and 11th,2006 when WAVES of joy and cheerflowed in the campus. The songs, dances,du b-charade, quiz, skits, etc., were just

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the proverb "where there is a will there is away" and consciousness is awakenedamong the students to keep the name of thecollege up. The dance items by the facultymembers shows that age is not at all abarrier to expose one's talent. The Dandiyadance by our Placement Director Ms.G etika Mudali and her group was really

captivating. The hardwork done bystudents, staff and faculty members trulym de the programme successful. Students

had put up different stalls of deliciousfood. The Chief Guest gave away GOLD
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batch whichgraduated in theyear 2005, viz., thetoppers of B.Tech,M.Tech and MCA.The Prizes for thehostel indoor gamesand literarycompetitions were

so distributed on the same day. The showded with the fashion show. It was onceain proven that if needed NISTians can Bollywood stars, models, dancers,

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om January 20-21, 2006. The show wasrganised by Swastik Creatives, a Non-overnment Organisation. Around 50articipants were there. NISTians baggedne Gold medal for the best Marigoldhibit. Congratulations to the NIST

ardener Sudhir Kumar Sahu.

rained by EDII, Ahmedabadr Partha S Mallick attended a trainingrogram on Faculty Development onntrepreneurship at Bhubaneswarrganized by the Entrepreneurshipevelopment Institute of India (EDII),hmedabad. It was an in-house trainingr 13 days from January 30 – February

1, 2006. EDII organized the workshop athubaneswar for the first time where manyculties from other engg. colleges ofrissa participated. This is one of ourany steps to produce entrepreneurs.

esearch Paper Presentedr Arun K Padhy presented a postertitled “ Chalkones: Ideal molecules foron-linear optical properties” at theational Symposium in Chemistry-8 held IIT, Bombay from February 3-5, 2006.

r Sukant K Tripathy presented hissearch paper in the National Conference

n Signal Processing and CommunicationsPCOM-2005) held at Sreenidhi Institute

f Science and Technology, Hyderabad onecember 5-6, 2005. He has also presented

Mr Arup Goswami presented a researchpaper titled “Generation Reliabilityevaluation using fast fourier transformmethod including planned maintenance” -held at Erode, Tamilnadu on January 4-6,2006.

An Inspiring Letter…To: Prof Sangram Mudali, Director. Respected Sir, I am conveying mypleasure with deep gratitude inacknowledging your New Year Greetings,I also convey my good wishes to yourfaculty members who are not only sincerein teaching the academic subjects but alsokeen to develop the sense of discipline andpunctuality among the students. I am proudof being a parent of a NISTian. ThankingYou. Yours Sincerely, Md. IbrahimMollah, Finance Manager, Sales andMarketing, Mahanadi CoalfieldsLimited, Sambalpur, Orissa.

PICNIC 2006The onset of the New Year turned out to bea memorable one for the NIST faculty andstaff. Amidst their busy schedule it was atime for joy, thrill, and music. Presence ofDirector, Placement Director made it moreattractive. It was a picnic trip organised bythe NIST staff and faculty on January 8,2006 at HARBHANGI, which is a beautifulscenic spot and about 90 kilometers fromBerhampur. The day started with breakfast,variety of games, followed by the deliciouslunch. One can never forget the enthusiasmof all the participants. Thanks to Mr.Premeswar Rao and Mr. Minakhi Mishrafor organizing the event.

Employment Oriented Program NIST organized an awareness campaignfor Employment Oriented Programme indifferent colleges/schools of undivided

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Koraput districts. The Coordinators of theprogramme Mr Asesh Kumar Tripathyand Mr Ashok Sahu traveled 800 kms offour districts Koraput, Jeypore,Nabarangapur and Malkangiri. During thisvisit they covered 29 colleges and 10schools for the orientation programme. Theenthusiasm and response of the Principals,Teachers and Students of thecolleges/schools was quite encouraging.Here are the names of few colleges wherethe programme was held Vikram DevCollege, Jeypore, Aeronautics College,Sunabeda, Saraswati Vidya Mandir,Damanjodi, Nabrangpur College,Nabarangpur, Balimela College of Sc. &Tech, Balimela, D.A.V.College, Koraput,G. Mahavidyalay, Pottangi.

Workshop for M.Tech studentsTeaching Workshop for M.Tech studentsstarted on February 15, 2006 at AdvancedResearch Building, NIST. CourseCoordinator (B.Tech) Dr Arun KumarPadhy inaugurated the workshop. Theinaugural function ended with thedemonstration class of Dr Ravi P Reddy onTeaching Workshop. Dr Partha S Mallick,Course Coordinator (M.Tech) and Mr G VKiran Kumar, Batch Coordinator ofB.Tech final year attended the Workshop.

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Mr. ebadurlabha Patnaik joined us inDecember 2005, inthe Dept. of ComputerScience as a faculty.He did his MCAfrom TridentAcademy of CreativeTechnology, BBSR.

He worked as a Software Engineer atGenesis Microlink, New Delhi. His area ofinterest includes JAVA, J2EE.

Ms Raj Laxmi Pradhan joined us inDecember 2005, in theDept. of ComputerScience as a faculty.She did her M.Sc inChemistry from BhanjaBihar University &

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Dr Asim Kumar Kunduhas joined us in thedepartment of ComputerScience in January 2006.He is a B.Tech from IIT,

aragpur and MS from University ofuthern Illinois, USA. He has more thanhteen years of technology expertise inlecommunication industry, especially in areas of Project Management of IOS

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Trupti Rekha Panda joined us inmber 2005, in the Dept. of Computerce as a faculty. She did her B.Tech

MITS, Rayagada. Her area ofested is in JAVA programming.

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beyond my knowledge base not only when I grew up but also when graduated. I was firstacquainted with this term while at Stanford University, USA at this period during themid-nineties of last century. However, today my 14-year old niece is familiar with this. Unfortunately, in India, more than the love it is the so called moral guardians of oursociety & their activities which make the headlines during, before and after theValentine’s day. What are those activities?

The 5 star & deluxe hotels being raided, shops selling greetings cards being smashed,demonstrations outside even major colleges especially in South Mumbai & New Delhi.

In other words, rather than love it is these violence, demonstration & disruption of normallife which are hogging the limelight. The purpose for resorting to violence revolvesaround frightening the young couples and discouraging them from expressing their lovefor each other on that particular day. The reason – the particular aspect of Valentine’sday, according to these protesters, will lead us towards the so called McDonaldisation ofour society. Therefore the (implicit) advise is : you are entitled to say “I love you” toexpress feelings for your sweetheart on 364 days of the year but the 14th February ofeach year must be kept dry so far as love is concerned.

BASED ON MY OWN OBSERVATIONs in India (mostly Kolkata) let me providewith a snapshot of the Valentine’s day:

Youths celebrate the V-day with ecstasy and elation. Their adrenalin is seen to bebelieved.

Young lovers/spouses exchange greeting cards and roses & sometimes supplement itwith a candle-lit dinner. The day witnesses a heavy rise in the price of flowers.

Though flowers, particularly rose comes at a premium, superior varieties like first redand passion, as I have seen, sell like hot cakes.

There are some others who present gifts like perfume and soft teddy bears to theirbeloved ones. In this way, each one of them tries to outdo each other and exceed theexpectations of their respective valentines.

The chocolate sales (at various chocolate boutiques) reaches unprecedented heights.Now my question to the so called moralists of our society- What is vulgar amongst all ofthe above? And if they indeed are, then what should be their role when just one monthafterwards, the same set of young couples will play holi with each other during themonth of March & express romance? Will we call it indecent? Shall we holddemonstrations in front of the grocery/stationary shops who sell Aabir/different colors forthat purpose? Logically, if exchanging roses, perfumes etc. on a particular day of the yearcan be characterized as indecent, exchanging color on faces, can’t by any means, becalled otherwise. Just as playing Holi isn’t confined amongst the spouses/lovers, so alsoValentine’s day. Today people buy Valentine gifts not only for their respective spouses orgirlfriends but also for other members of their families. In other words, the day is beingincreasingly perceived as an occasion to express universal love.

Love was never alien to Indian culture. At the same time it is true that love can’t be aone-day wonder. Hence the rational behind the celebrations of a particular day of the yearas dedicated to love is open to debate. And that is why the values behind the Valentine’sday, according to many-a-persons, does not have much significance and/or relevance tothe local cultural context. But with celebrations year after year, it has started developing



its own cultural root in India. However, the McDonaldisation of Indian culture as is beingfeared, is an absurd proposition. Just as NIST wore a festive look with our students aswell as most of the faculties (barring of course, a very few like me) were at their colorfulbest during the (2) WAVES days and reverted to the traditional atmosphere/appearanceonce it was over, so also any particular day when everybody takes a break from today’shectic schedule and participate in something special. My observation tells that the sameset of young couples in Kolkata, who exchange roses, cards etc. on 14-th February andeven have dinner at restaurants of five star/deluxe hotels, can be spotted during the DurgaPuja wearing traditional dress’ and offering prayers before the Goddess. In other words,the deeper Indian instincts never disappears.Therefore, those moral guardians of our society are advised not to take the law into theirown hands and disturb the peace. They should definitely uphold the Indian tradition butnot by resorting to violence and creating a fear psychosis. Don’t perceive the Valentine’sday as cultural imperialism but promote the Indian culture peacefully and win over thehearts of the youths. And of course, don’t loose faith on our youths.

Student’s CornerA Look at NIST Dilshad Ayubi 2nd YrThe ways coming hereare little bit twisted. It is our college known as NIST. Entering the main gate a huge building which is wide The lecturer complex hallcan be called as engineer's paradise.Crossing the workshop site for the sports. You can watch NIST’s Bhupati and Sania’s courts Have a look! it shines like the Sun. It’s not Pentagonit is our Octagon. From the highway there is a point of attraction. Hey dear! This is Galleria under Construction.

Mom - it's you. Manish Kumar Mom - it's you,who inspires me to rise for the occasion,tells me to move further & furtherand do for the sake of the nation,no doubt there’ll be a number of hurdles,

but even then I’ve to find my destinationMom - it's you,whose eyes as my eyes perceive thosewho are needy and helpless,tears as my tears flow for thosehaving nothing except their loneliness,finally you say, leave a lesson for thosewho are in this world causeless.Mom - it's you.

December Thirteenth R G Banerjee(A poem from Papa on his daughters B’day)This day you were born!Almost middle of the last calendar page.December! Festive of Christmas!You preceded Santa Claus! That's great, nomatter, his age!Every birth, every sending of HimHas a purpose, none is sent for nothing. It's something more than eat, live and earnAnd that something you have to find, thereasons for your being.Close in on your aims, thus ahead you goOur best wishes shall always remainSpelt, or unspelt, Nature conserves, neverallows to forgo.



The Cacophony within! Sidharth Panigrahi and Jeetendra Ku Dash, 3rd Yr.Posters burnt, display of banners and layout on a high. Good morning India! You arewatching the highlights of the Ganguly controversy. The recent exclusion of SauravGanguly from Indian test squad has raised the eyebrows of many, and for some it may bea welcome to dream of a young hassle free team. Strikes, protests, mini revolts on actionright now. If it is politics which showed the exit for dada, what will you term theseactions right now to bring him back? That’s petty politics! For the media it is a greatnews to be blown out of proportion. But where are we heading right now? If the sameenergy, same revolts were carried out to change politics, then at least the CPI's wouldhave been more alert to perform their duties and take West Bengal out of their legalcrutches. Where will be the solution when politicians(of ruling party) are involved insuch kind of actions? The worst part of all is that, the media which claims to be thepurest, transparent network of the country is 'mishandling' such issues by conductingpublic polls and stating the sympathy by experts. Instead of being flexible, the media isso elastic that the maximum tolerance has already been exceeded. It is shocking to seemedia competing for TRP's and publicities. And those competitions are beingundercovered by taglines like 'breaking news', 'alert','is this justice' and various operationsexposing out the hiccups in our country. Yes, these are good in providing justice andensuring flexibility of governance. But, these too have a limit. Where is the news ofSarabjit Singh? or has that gone cold? If Ganguly scores a century today, reports flood inwith his career statistics showing how good he is. The next day if he scores a duck, anunanimous solution of his expulsion suddenly blinks on every media. In fact, it is themedia that amplifies our interest in any topic. And instead of being sensible, it is simplyeating ripe mangoes by selling 'fresh and served hot' news. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar mighthave never dreamt this type of image of media in his life. It is time to change theconstitution. No bills should be made. It is time for the President to act up and crackdown on the useless extension of media reports. Perhaps then our pre-victoryexpectations may die out and our country can achieve more success.

KALEIDOSCOPE Rakesh Parida, 6th Semester‘Let not ambition mock their useful toil,Their homely joys and destiny obscure;

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile,The short and simple annals of the poor. ’

-Thomas Gray 1716-71: Elergy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751)I am sure you find it hard to identify with the above sayings by Mr. Gray. Sodid I. Now, Mr. Gray, do you really think that in this so called fast paced, one clhave a moment to ponder about the annals of the poor? Nah! I am sure most of watch a game of cricket rather than a slow, tedious documentary on the slMumbai’s by lanes. In view of the renaissance Kaleidoscope is undergoing, it has into one such dreary experience and show you how annoying the poverty of India The month of January always has been a month that makes me feel proud to be significantly India adds another republican year to its calendar this month each yeanot just a national holiday but also a rare opportunity when Doordarshan gets a The day beams with pride with young Indians marching in perfect columns integrity, sovereignty and all those hyperboles. (Gee! I am already getting some

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So on this sanctified day I was most unfortunately confronted with an unwelcome individual. Oneoften doesn’t enjoy the beauty of driving on Berhampur roads. Add the torment of the roadsidevendors to it and you get the picture of what I am talking about. So on the pious occasion of Jan26, a small boy runs up to me and pokes a bunch of the Tricolor at my face. The boy, I presumeto be aged around ten, was heavily sun burnt. The fellow surely seemed as if he could use somefood. Barely able to dodge the traffic, he blurts up, ‘Bhaina, would you care for some flags?’Already incensed by this unsolicited termination of my privacy, I answered back, ‘Who let youonto the bus? And what is this you are trying to sell? Plastic flags!’ The boy determined to havehis customer told me that if I could buy one I could get the other one for free. Now at this point oftime, I was really amazed at the manner at which this little brat was bringing disrepute to ouresteemed insignia. I couldn’t help but be exasperated about how this particular hawker could sellIndia of and that too, two for the price of one??? (And the flags weren’t even made up of ourGandhi’s beloved Khadi!) I questioned the boy’s identity to which he replied that he was Ramu. Iasked Ramu, whether he was aware of the significance of the day, Jan 26? Whether he was awareof the number of armed forces protecting this particular flag at the border? Whether he was awareof the whole lot of freedom fighters laying down their lives clutching the flag in their fists? Evenour beloved mascots, Tendulkar and Sehwag (God bless them!) are not being permitted to sporttheir tricolors on their gear. I asked that boy that whether he was more treasured than the LittleMaster that he could sell off our tricolor? The already timid boy, shaken by this startling outburstof his customer, replied that I could now have three flags for the price of one only if I could loosethe devotion talk and seal the deal as soon as possible. The reply certainly incensed me furtherand compelled me query him about the reason why he was so single-mindedly selling of hiscountry? He replied, ‘Bhaina, I have a father and a crippled mother. I have two sisters who sit atthe pavement with them. My father makes real nice flags. Unfortunately his skills are useful ononly two days of the year. The flags I sell today will be probably enough for my mother’smedicine and the family’s food. My father can make about 400 flags today with the help of mysisters which if I can sell would bring in at least a thousand rupees. Unfortunately people unlikeyou don’t care for the flags anymore so business is difficult. I usually ply my trade at thisjunction. Usually my flags are way better than the flags Muna my rival sells at the next junction. Iam good at selling and I am sure that I’ll sell the whole bunch today. That will take care of theproblems for the next month. And if I am lucky I can save a few more for the summer too. Bhaina,would you care for some flags?’ There many puzzles that life often confounds us with. More often than not we fail to decipherthem in their appropriate meaning and get entangled in the essence of it all. That morning Iassured myself that I was doing the right thing when I bought about 10 flags from him. Ramu wasquick to assure me that I was making a nice bargain by paying only 20 bucks for them all. I hopethat we can have some more days of these so called displays of National Integrity where peoplelike Ramu can earn another month or so in their lives. I was still questioning the meaning of it allwhen I was watching Doordarshan’s prime time Republic day Parade with Abdul Kalam salutingoff the military supremacy of India. Somebody tells me that 40% of India’s GDP is spent ondefense resources. Will someone say that to Ramu?Disclaimer: The ideas and opinions aired above are the sole views of the author and in no way

reflect those of the organizations associated with the author.

KALEIDOSCOPE heartily congratulates NISTE-News on yet another year of readersatisfaction. Great to see that honest perspiration reaps true rewards.Have anything to say about us??

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Wedding… Arpita and Ritwick of 1998 batch tied the wedding knot on January 22, 2006 in Howrah,Kolkata. At present, Arpita is working with at TCS, Kolkata and Ritwick is working asConsultant, Technology Advisory Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Kolkata.

Debasish and Suchismita, of 1998 batch tied the wedding knot on January 23, 2006 atRourkela. Both Debashis and Suchismita are working at Pune in Satyam and IBMrespectively.

Our 1997 batch student Sulata Maharana got married to Mahendra on January 23, 2006at Aligarh. At present, Sulata is working with ICT Group, Automation Division, TataSteel, Jamshedpur.

Interview(Here is an Interview of Padmalina Kabita, 2001 batch, IT, orking in InfosysTechnologies Limited, Bhubaneswar)From: "padmaleena kabita" <[email protected]> ENews: Please Introduce yourselfKabita: I'm Padmaleena Kabita from 2001 batch. CurrentlyWorking with Infosys Technologies Limited.

ENews: About your Sweet Memories of NISTKabita: This question will have an endless answer if you ask me. cafeteria, Hostel celebrations and many such events will always Every Single moment spent at NIST was memorable in itself.

ENews: Some Enriching Experience at NISTKabita: Right from the inception of ISTE Student Chapter, I involved with it. But "SANKALP-2004" made me learn the basichandling the mass and the essence of Team Work. Being a StudNISTe-News, Organising Fashion Show for WAVES-all these acmade me grow as an individual.

ENews: Any advice to Juniors?Kabita:Here is a small piece of description of what NISTians can b"N" –Navajo (Spanish), "the people with big fields" . NISTians mNova (Supernova)"I" -Iroquois a group of tribes, who formed a confederation. forward to target infinity."S"-Savoir faire "to know how to do"; knowledge of correct action."T" -Telekinesis (causing objects to move by mind power). As NISTians, you should always strive to achieve excellence in wha

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From: <[email protected]> To: [email protected]: this is tapaswini from satyam. Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:52:10 +0530Sir, Hope you must be fine with all your tensions regarding placements. This is Tapaswini fromSatyam, Pune. We are still under training. It is around 72 days to our training. The training groupat Pune consists of only 27 NISTians. Now our second phase training has started, which is basedon Data Warehousing. In the 1st phase we have been taught DS, OS, and DBMS. It was good.But it would have been better if we non-CS students would have refreshed with some basicknowledge. Now the 2nd phase Oracle training is completed. And data warehousing has startedbefore 2 days. The entire faculty who are coming to teach us are saying that there is a good levelof knowledge within our students. And all of them are agreeing that we a have a very good teamspirit in us. This is a brief description about our training. On Job training is compulsory, so allthe bunkers are now regular class comers. And our class timing is from morning 8.30 to evening7PM. What about NIST and our NISTians? I am finishing the letter here as it will be verydifficult on your part to devote a long time to read this long letter. With regards and best wishes,TAPASWINI MISHRA, ELTP-367, MANIKCHAND IKON, SATYAM.

From: <[email protected]> To: [email protected]: hello sir Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:54:25 -0800 (PST)Hello sir, I am Soumya Ranjan Biswal of batch 2001-05. Sir, I was selected in for admission inCHRIST COLLEGE, Bangalore for my MAT score. I was in Bangalore from July to December.My classes began on 1st July and I left NIST exactly on June 29th after giving my B.Epresentation. Now I am in THAILAND. Yes sir, my MBA program was a twinning program thatmeans 6 months in Bangalore and rest 18 months in Thailand. The course is really difficult, butthanks to the assignments and exam nights at Berhampur the habit of staying awake is still alive.Presently I am in ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY, BANGKOK. It’s an international universityand I'm the only Oriya person here. You will be surprised to know that XLRI, JAMSEDHPURhas also tied up with this university. I am lucky to get in such a good university. All the rich andfamous people of Thailand are the students of this university. Sir a request to you, a lot ofstudents don't know about this program so if you will kindly announce about this program to allthose who want to pursue MBA, will be a very good for them. Soumya.

From: "Ruchika Dora" [email protected]: [email protected] Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:08:44 +0530Good Morning Sir, Wish you A very happy new year. This is Ruchika from 2001-2005 pass outbatch. We are having our training at Infosys, Mysore and will be finishing it by March 7th. Thenwe will be getting our posting based on our performance during the trainings. The schedule’sreally very hectic and we remain in our lab most of the time. Heard that there was a Alumini get-together at Bangalore yesterday(Friday). We are having our finals so none of us could attend it.Sir, I had mailed Reshma Rout(Infosys Technologies Limited) . She is now at California andasked me to tell you to mail her. It was really very hard coping up at NIST and so we are havingno problems with the schedule here. An added advantage for NIST students. The rest is fine andour students are doing fine here. Thanking you. Ruchika Dora, Software Engineer.

Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:44:15 +0530 From: <[email protected]>To: [email protected] Subject: Respected SirRespected sir, This is Surajeet Mishra from 2004 batch. Well I am writing a mail after a longtime. Well last two years have been really hectic. After I passed out I joined XIMB. I will bepassing out in March with a major in Finance. Life in a MBA is like driving in Formula-1. But 4years in NIST has made me ready for the grind. I remember I always used to crib about thenumber of assignments we used to get at NIST. But in my MBA I realised the importance of







those assignments. I would always appreciate our IT syllabus. The management papers we had inour course helped me a lot in my MBA here. There is a good news as well. I have got throughEarnest & Young in my placements here. It’s a top5 consultancy firm in the world. I would like tothank all my teachers in NIST as they have a major contribution in this. Please convey my regardsto Mudali sir, Reddy sir, Panda sir, Jagannath Mohanty sir and all. Surajeet Mishra, XIMB.

To: "partha mallick" [email protected] Subject: Happy New Year From: <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 13:16:12 +0530Dear Sir, I am fine here. Hope the same with you all there. Now I have improved somewhat.Hope, I can also do something as others. Now a days no fear, no hesitation, nothing. Quietconfidence on myself. Now a days trying to give much stress on Higher Study (GATE). Let’s seewhat happens. Hope my juniors are doing fine in campus recruitment. I can suggest them, whowants to come into Hardware area, they should concentrate more from now. Because when Ijoined, I faced a lot of problems. I don’t want to repeat the same problem to my Juniors. They cango into datasheet with detailed understanding as well as applications. Everything is available inthe Internet. That is the easiest method to get clear idea of Hardware. Initially it may be quietdifficult but after sometime they will have much confidence. How about you, how is your lifegoing on. what about Panda sir, Abhro Sir and others. Bye, take care With Best Regards SusantaKumar Patro, Graduate Engineer, Larsen and Toubro LTD.

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 00:38:17 -0800 (PST) From: <[email protected]>Subject: Good news To: "partha mallick" <[email protected]>Good afternoon sir, Sir here is a good news for you. You are expecting hard work from yourstudents and things are going according to your expectations only. The good news is my companyselected me to send Germany for training (Period of 2 months). This is all because of your effortson us. Probably I am going to fly on 19'th of this month. Everything is fine here and I will keeplet you know everything. Thanking you.Yours' obediently, Srikanth Reddy.

Let us Foster Enterprise Prof Suash DebThe common trend across the world R&D fraternity is to carry out research and get theinnovations published. The Publish or Perish policy of the scientific world stands in the way ofthe scientists from establishing close contacts with the commercial ventures. And it is also a normthat faculties of most of the universities/institutions do not get leave for joining as Director inprivate companies. They have to resign and join. That is academics and industry, for collaborativepurposes, are being seen mostly as mutually exclusive. These mindsets stand in the way of oursociety, in most of the cases, from enjoying the benefits of the innovations of our scientists.However, the need of the hour, I strongly feel, is to identify important national projects whereresearch, business world and the society as a whole – all have a stake. And this necessitatesnetworking between researchers, commerce & industry. It is of paramount importance to open aCentre of Enterprise. The basic purpose of the centre is to drive forward a vibrant culture ofentrepreneurship, not only throughout NIST, but also across the city of Berhampur. The primaryobjective would be to create more entrepreneurs amongst students and researchers and it shouldtrain them so that they are better equipped to manage the future business world. It is said that a spirit inherent inside a person makes him/her an entrepreneur. The role of theEntrepreneurship Cell would be to ignite that spirit. This is especially true for the existingscenario when the no. of government jobs are constantly dwindling and the private sectors canhardly accommodate a fraction of the total no. of engineers graduating each year. The eastern partof India, unlike its southern or western counterpart, is not known for embracing the “Be YourOwn Boss” attitude. NIST Entrepreneurship Cell can play a pivotal role in arresting that mindset.

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Conference PaperSuash Deb, On A New Class of Features for Machine Vision Applications - Accepted forpublication in the Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Intelligent Systems & Networks, to beheld at Centre for Ad. Technology, Haryana Engineering College, Haryana, on Feb. 24-25, 06.

Conference/Workshop attended• Dr Ajit K Panda and Mr M Suresh attended the 19th International Conference on VLSI

design and 5th International Conference on Embedded Systems held at Hotel Taj Krishna,Hyderabad from January 3-7 , 2006.

• NIST faculty Mr. Rabindra Kumar Shial, Mr. Priyadarshi Sadangi and Mr.Chandan Kumar Behera, faculty members of Computer science and Engineeringattended the "Eighth International Conference on Information Technology", organised byOrissa Information Technology Society (OITS), in collaboration with Institute of Physics,Bhubaneswar, on December 20-23,2005. In the conference, the technical programsconsists of ten parallel sessions in twelve technical areas, such as Distributed computing,Internet & QOS, Networks & protocols, Software Engg., Computer Security, Datamining, Algorithm & computability, logic, computer vision, Natural language processing,Bioinformatics and Scientific Computing. The CIT-2005 was inaugurated by Prof. DhirajPradhan, University of Bristol, U.K.

• NIST Faculty Mr B Srikrishna and Mr Goutam Ganguly attended the Tutorials of theInternational Conference on Distributed Computing and InternetTechnology(ICDCIT-2005) held at KIIT Campus, Bhubaneswar on Dec 21, 2005.

• Ms.Tripti Mund and Mr. Dipti Ranjan Lenka participated in English LanguageTraining Programme organized by Biju Pattnaik University January 10-13, 2006. Prof KGilmour from University of Southern Illinois, USA imparted the training.

New Arrival: Software/Hardware• Computer Numerical Controlled(CNC) machine has reached us last month. It is

another modern equipment added to NIST Mechanical Workshop. This machine can beuseful for all engineering students. Interested persons are requested to contact NISTFaculty Mr Sagar Sikdar or Mr Manabhanjan Sahu or Mr. Basant Kumar Mahapatra.

• Spartan II, FPGA Board is now available in VLSI Lab. Interested person may contactwith Dr Ajit K Panda.

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It is the continuous effort of every NISTian which has brought NIST to limelight. Thisissue of NISTe_News will focus on one such NISTian whohas metamorphosed from a student of NIST to one of themost respected teachers of NIST. He is Mr Bhawani SPatnaik, Senior Faculty of Electronics and CommunicationEngineering department. He is the only son of Late Mr.Santosh Kumar Patnaik and Mrs Binodini Patnaik. Hisnative place is Berhampur, Orissa. He is one of the brilliantstudents of our first batch (1996-2000) who joined NISTDevelopment Center at New Delhi and worked on a numberof projects. Mr Bhawani is one of the resource persons of

NIST who are responsible for most of its technical innovations. Presently he is headingthe software development team at NIST Technology Consulting Services (NTCS). He isan active member of NIST Summer Training Program, Software Development Group,Robotics and Advanced Instrumentation Group. He is very keen to introduce EmbeddedSystems to the students of Orissa. His hobbies includes programming, reading books andlistening to music. We wish him all the best for his future.

Photograph of the Month……CHILDREN OF NIST STAFF AND FACULTY(by Mr. M Suresh, Faculty)

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