Recently by Ramesh Rao
"Manny Farber, A Critical Eye For Termite Art "
By Ramesh Rao
| I was at a gathering in remembrance of Manny Farber at his studio in Leucadia yesterday. Manny passed away on August 17th at the age of 91. A tribute to Manny Farber, that Jean-Pierre Gorin, put together about two years ago, was the first content created at Calit2 in 4K. Manny's detailed paintings have always struck me as being especially evocative when displayed at high resolution on the big screen in Atkinson Hall. At a gathering yesterday at his studio and home, his many students, friends and friends of friends got a chance to remember his remarkable accomplishments through many conversations. One can gather a sense of the extraordinary life he lived by reading his obituaries that have appeared ... |
Communicating in a Crisis
By Ramesh Rao
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Am at a meeting organized by the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation in association with the National Academies and the US Department of Homeland Security. There is a great Family Disaster Plan and Survival Guide distributed at the meeting. You can download a PDF at http://www.sdcounty.ca.gov/oes/docs/FamilyDisasterPlan.pdf. We are being walked through a hypothetical attack on North Island. |
Embedded twits
By Ramesh Rao
| In the post web 2.0 world of news reporting, twitters might find jobs as "embedded twits" just like today's embedded reporters. Pearls of wisdom being cast about at the NET TECH meeting on Self Response to Emergencies at Stanford. |
Here today and here tomorrow
By Ramesh Rao
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Prime Minister Singh's remarks after securing the necessary votes on the "Vote of Confidence." http://www.hindu.com/nic/pmspeech-confidencevote.pdf Perhaps my most memorable celebrity moment was an opportunity to exchange a few pleasantries with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at a reception in Blair House. This was about two years ago when he was in DC to secure the US-India Nuclear agreement. Today his government proved it had the votes to ensure passage of the agreement in the Indian Parliament. It was a cliff hanger and the PM's comments are worth reading.... Lapsing back into my own reverie, we in Calit2 have been looking for ways to help pave the way for a high level engagement ... |
Undergrad research
By Ramesh Rao
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Sitting in on the undergraduate research presentations very well put together talks. Nice diverse collection of topics. I wish more of our researchers and program development folks were here.
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NIT Trichi - a blast from the past
By Ramesh Rao
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Just got back from spending a week at the National Institute of
Technology at Trichi. Used to be the Regional Engineering College. Visit
was related to being named a distinguished alumni. Spoke with or
addressed students, staff, faculty, alumni but couldn't reschedule in
time to meet with Chairman of the Board of Trustees.
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Virtual wind tunnel at SJTU
By Ramesh Rao
| The Aerospace School at Shanghai Jao Tong is gearing up to help with a massive new government investment of more than $10 Billion in aircraft wing design. The program pulls in people from Instrumentation, Computer Science, Automation and Mechanical Engineering. SJTU is planning to build a virtual wind tunnel to help with this. So far they have three Christies front projecting on a semicircular 10 ft. high wall and another Christie backprojecting on a 6 by 8 Stewart screen. There is a 1 Gbps optical network that threads through the campus and out to parts of greater Shanghai to interconnect their vis node with a supercomputing facility in town and with other parts of campus. Tech support ... |
Arrived in Shanghai
By Ramesh Rao
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And I can roam on to a local CDMA network. Blackberry 8300.
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Old Quarrelsome couple
By Ramesh Rao
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Uneventful transit through SFO but for a really old, loud and quarrelsome couple and an inventive young Mom who had found a way to strap her infant boy's child seat atop her roll on for a cool new form of transport. Wish I had a camera on my Blackberry |
On my way to Shanghai
By Ramesh Rao
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No surprises so far. Weather to the west looks good.
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