Astronomy club organises a movie show

Our correspondent holding the metallic flap.

The Astronomy Club secretaries, Priyanka Dwivedi arranged a movie show in BCJ on 26 August. The real incident based film 'Apollo-XIII' was projected in BCJ at 5 PM. Many teachers were also present at the occasion.

The male conterpart secretary of the group, Sabhya Sachidas also informed that the first even was supposed to be 'Star-gazing' but unfortunately due to weather conditions, it was delayed.

At the end of movie, after almost all the audience left, the covering flap of one of the lights in BCJ Hall fell down without a notice. Fortunately, no one was beneath the metallic flap and no harm was made to anybody.

My Cube in AITians

The very popular 'virtual money' making website (and eventually convert it into real money) is getting popular in AITians. You simply need to register in the website and share your own creation (drawings, paintings, poems etc) for selling and buy others similar intellectual property. It will be in the forms of cubes. To check the site, click here.

• MyCube is a "social exchange", a place where you can exchange information, ideas and content with others yet retain full ownership of what you share, control who you share it with, and determine your own terms of exchange.
• MyCube uses its own virtual currency: "Cubes". These can be used to purchase and sell content. Cubes are tied to the Singapore dollar (S$), with a value of 100 cubes to S$1.

As the site is in beta version, you need an activation code to register (and earn money). For your help, we are providing an activation code.

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This will enable for you also to register the same and propagate your own creations online and that too worth money. In addition to this, if selected, you may even get a training given by the company out of the nation. Enjoy the cubes.

Comp Pracs soft copies

The TE's of Computers have made an online collection of all the practicals' soft copies for the use of coming next generations (especially for taking print-outs in the days of submissions). These pracs are available at the following link.

AIT Comp . blogspot . com

This will save a lot of time searching for the soft copies by students every year in submission and exam days. Though not guaranteed at present (because the work is in progress and is at its initial stages) students are uploading only the fully working pracs. In case any prac found not working, they have also enabled even anonymous comment facility to report error so as to rectify for future uses.

Cooperation is expected from all compies from FE to BE.

The TE's request for the current BE's to kindly submit their pracs also so as they can also be uploaded.

Earlier, this blog was named as AIT Dighi, but due to some technical snam in blogger dot com, it was deleted and now made again with the name, AIT Comp.

OSAC welcomes new recruits

Since few days, as last year, OSAC (Open Source Activity Centre) have been inviting interested applicants from all over the AIT to join the group.

Finally, after tests conducted to filter out the 'creme-de-la-creme', Mr. Prince Mishra (BE Comp), Secretary announces on facebook that 39 out of 110 FEs and SEs were selected. His link to this for further info is here.

The counterpart secretary of the group along with Prince Mishra (BE Comp) is Ruhi Mudgil (TE IT).

Tech Aakriti'11 detailed

The detailed scores of different branches in Tech-Aakriti'11 were as follows:

Source: Avjeet Kumar (TE E&TC), Tech-Aakriti Secretary, 2011

To download PDF for even more detailed result with the winners' names, click here. (File Size: 3.06 Mb)

AIT launches new website

On Feb 24, 2011 in the Annual function of the college (AIT Day), Maj General P N Monga, Chief Signal Officer, Southern Command declared in the Raman theatre of AIT that the new website of the college is now open. After this, the site was showcased on the big screen in front of the population of 1200.

Click here to go on the new website of AIT.

After keeping a lot of points in mind regarding the older website of the college, the need of an entirely new college website was felt. The idea was first proposed by Mr. Tosif Ahmed (BE Comp 2008). After the instigatiuon of this fire, the task was initiated. Mr. Vijay Krishna (BE Comp 2010) designed, managed and prepared the initial content for the website. He also designed the user interface for the website. After this, a special team of ladies and gentlemen was composed among the students of AIT only, to get this job done in a professional way.  Prince Mishra (BE Comp), Paritosh Chhibber (BE E&TC) Nikant Ahlawat (BE Comp), Karan Ranawat (TE Comp), Akshay Sehgal (TE Comp), Pallavi Sandhu (TE E&TC), Nitika Pandey (SE IT), Avinash Kuri (SE Comp) and Sandeep Pal (SE  Comp) were the members of this specialized team. The team have been working hard in the task since long time and the result is here, well in time

One of the major feature of this website is the integration of SIS (Student Information System). This would be a compendium about all the database of students data that is present in the college record from their monthly attendance to complete four years data. Its login system will be open after some time.  The SIS will be dynamic in nature.

In addition to SIS, this site also has separate sections for common notices, departmental notices, event section etc.

Fun Facts

1) About two weeks ago, the work was declared as 'DONE'. But the hon'ble director of AIT asked them to adjust the background color of the site a little before launching it. Though, the work was minor, team decided to do all the labor again from the root level, in an entirely different and better technology. And they finished it all in another single night.

2) Currently, both websites of AIT are functional. This is because the college prospectus for the batch 2011-2015 were printed before the latest website was complete, and hence the URL of only the older site is in the public reach.

3) The new website of AIT itself has a NEWS section. A competition to our news group :P. Click here to see the mentioned news page.

Summing up the tech

After getting over with "Pace-What's your Game" and a declarative statement of Brig. (Retd.) S. K. Lahiri, Director, AIT, that the Pace will keep its dates of opening ceremony unchanged from now on, i.e. 4th of Feb every year, the incharge for sports events, Mr. A. K. Singh, lecturer in Mathematics, and Miss Monika Sharma (TE Comp) Sports secretary (Girls) took a breath of relief on the closing ceremony night.

Soon followed the Tech-Aakriti. The three day war between the branches setteled down on the final night. The closing ceremony was started by screen projection of final CS match (b/w Comp and E&TC) followed by Movie-making shows. And with almost double margin of scores from the runner up E&TC, the Computer students proved that they are the most techie. And the Tech-Aakriti Trophy went to "The Department of Computer Engineering" compensating the loss of Sports-Aakriti Trophy and Culturals-Aakriti (both of which went to E&TC) to some extent.

As planned, came a series of quizes, both internal and external. And finally, the grand opening of the pride of AIT, the "Solutions Tech Fest" was on Feb 21. Hundreds of students all across the Pune and beyond participated from more than 50 colleges and the scenario was an amazing one. Greetings to for a wonderful completion of these events.

After busy 3 days and successful closing of Solutions, AIT Day was celebrated on Feb 24. Many formalities were to be finished this night and the most awaited among them was the "Aakriti Trophy 2011". To almost all the students, it was an assumption as if the sole winner is E&TC, but the shocking news to all was, that trophy was announced being won by Computers. A dream for Computers since long came true under branch heads, Vinay Mor & Himanshu Chaturvedi (boys) and Parina Magu & Tanvi Agarwal (girls).

To be noted that during Aakriti 2010 (last year), Sports trophy was won by Comp, Culturals by E&TC and Aakrity trophy by E&TC. Tech trophy was not provided last year. Even prior to that, Aakriti 2009 was won in joint by Mech and E&TC.

Well, after the AIT Day night celebrations, returned back the normal routine as the Mid-Semester exams were scheduled from March 1. At present, the same exams are in progress.

Fun facts:

1) After bitterly loosing the final match in Basketball against FC Pune, AIT again won the Pace Trophy like previous year.

2) For the first time (as far as our reporters know to the best of their knowledge), Girls entered the dome above the Boys Mess near OBH this year. This was made in accordance of the chess matches under PACE.

3) ENTC-B was an issue during the Sports-cum-Cultural Aakriti and they were allowed to struggle for the Aakriti independently. On the contrary, no one cared that the points divided then became useless when ENTC-B was broken into 4 parts under Tech-Aakriti. A major skip.

4) The Secretaries made it compulsory this time to have subtitles in Movie-Making (PIXELS) due to last year's experience of noise in recording as well as playback of the dialogues and sound effects. Surprisingly, Mech and Comp had wonderful sound recordings. And Comp was the only branch to have SRT file as subtitles. A techy approach indeed.

5) For all the branches, there were two branch heads in Tech-Aakriti. One of them was a boy and the other was a girl. Mechanical was the only team to have both its branch heads as boys i.e. Pradeep Mishra and Nagendra Singh Chauhan. (Click here to view the source).

BAJA 2011, ‘A JOURNEY BY EASY ENGINEERS’

A team of 12 members  was formed under the mentorship of Prof. P.V.Dorlikar in the month of march 2010. The team comprised of students Mech and E&TC. The team has one BE, 9 TEs and 2 SE students sponsored by Brig. A.K.Shukul from TATA motors and RSB transmissions India ltd.
Competing against 200 teams in Delhi and after a grilling interview, the team got selected amongst top 80 teams from the nation. Entire rollcage was fabricated workshop of Brig. Ranjeet Ghosh Commandant 512 ABW. Technical inspection was on 5th January 2011. The minimum compliance required was 60%, but AIT was at 83%.
Reaching Pitampur on 27th of January and technical ‘Inspection Engine and Brake Test OK’ stickers on the 28th. 29th was done. The grid was announced and AIT started the main endurance race on 30th of January. AIT was one of the 25 teams that lasted for two and half hour taxing endurance run. Holding nerves AIT won the cash awards worth 60,000/-.
The team members were Seerat Waraich, Prerna Bharati, Ranjani Rajmahendran, Sahil Grover, Sanajy Bisht, Amit Kumar Sharma, Kedar Chaudhary, Ajay Yadav, Karthik N., Devvrat Singh Rathore, Jitin Kanwar and Anirudh Kumar Shukul. Congrats to the team from AIT-News group.

Back with a bang

Well, after so many days of tiring exams, and starting of the 2nd half of the session 2010-2011, students are filled with new energy and enthusiastic about what's gonna be happen new in the college this semester.

When all the engineering colleges across Pune were promoting for their Tech-Fests, AIT was busy for coming with new ideas of this year's AIT's events. Three consecutive grand events of AIT are coming back to back starting with Pace in the beginning of February, Tech-Akriti "PIXELS" in the middle and Tech-Fest "Solutions" by the end of month.

The opening ceremony of sports event, PACE is going to be held on 4th Feb and closing ceremony is on 7th. Sports secretaries came up with a new mascot though, the tag-line "What's your game" remained unchanged.

Pappu

The Inter-branch Technical War is going be held for the second time after it was invented last year. Tech-Akriti is back with the theme "PIXELS". Its is to be started on Feb 8-10, 2011. For more information and registrations online, click here. To download the PDF poster of PIXELS with events list, click here.

AIT's own Tech-Fest is far more exciting this year. Solution is not only back with new events and theme, but also with a better and cuter mascot of itself, the "Pappu". The Fest is supposed to be organized on 21 Feb and closing on 23 Feb.

In short, AIT's this Feb is busy as following schedule:

1.  Feb 4-7: Pace, What's your Game?
2. Feb 8-10: PIXELS, Back to Basics under Tech-Aakriti
3. Feb 17-18: Gen. B. C. Joshi memorial Inter College Debate, Hammer Away
4. Feb 19: Gen. B. C. Joshi memorial Inter College Quiz
5. Feb 21-23: Tech-Fest, Solutions
6. Feb 24: AIT Day

Eureka Cup: Round 3 - October 9, 2010

Out of the 40 registered teams for the Eureka Cup 2010, only 16 were selected for the Round-II and on further filtering, only 6 teams made to the final round held today. After the selection of the top 3 teams out of these 6, the prize distribution was made in the presence of  the Director  Brig.(Retd) S.K. Lahiri . Later on, our hon'bl Principal, Mr. V.P.Gosavi also gave prizes to the top 2 teams of the previous event, 'Model Making 2010'.

The Eureka Cup was supposed to start at 9:15 AM today but due to some technical failure, it was delayed about half an hour. After the keen observation by a panel of 6 judges, keeping the criteriae of innovation, theories involved, practical implementations, feasibility and presentation, the results were announced.

The incharge of these events and HOD of 'Department of Computers', Mr. S.R. Dhore said that this is only the begining and we hope to implement the innovations presented in future, at least at small scale for testing purpose. He congratulated the organisers of the event, Ritambhara, Surendra, Ranjani, Aniruddh, Avjeet, Prerna and Subroto for successful management.

In today's competition, the first prize (` 3000) went to Aman Jamwal and Sunil Mishra.
Second prize (` 2000) was won by Vinit Sharma, Nitin Grewal, Abhishek Jha and Neeraj Parmar.
Third prize (` 1000) went to Vinay Mor, Pankaj Poonia and Vikas Nehra.

To be noted that the Eureka Cup, inspiring the students is a similar competition at our college level to as that of 'Imagine Cup' organised by Microsoft. May we cry out more "Eureka!! Eureka!!".

BAJA SAE India 2011

The college is again going to participate in the very well known competition of BAJA SAE India. After the splendid performance last year, the AITians seem to be more ambitious this time. As a matter of fact, the college is launching 2 teams simultaneously this time with the representative of a BE and a TE respectively.

The new team of 13 enthusiasts in the arena has 3 girl members also. Good luck teams!

Effervescence - September 2010 issue

The Board of Technology, AIT has finally launched its monthly newspaper by the name "Effervescence .... the spark within". The first edition started with the introductory articles of the Effervescence on the front page and starting with the headlines of BAJA.

"We hope to publicize the technical advancements in our college and outside through this medium" says the editor. Indeed this news-paper will increase the reputation of the college in Pune and outside.

The Effervescence is intended "for private circulation only" at present.

Eureka Cup: Round 2 - October 9, 2010

The results of the round 1 for Eureka cup have been declared and the team members of the selected teams for the 2nd round have been mailed individually. The organisers of the 'Cup' have asked the teams to report in OAC on October 2, 2010 at 5:00 PM.

The presence of at least one member per team is compulsary at the requisite time, failing which, the team will be disqualified. The main issue for the meeting will be the discussion of rules for Round 2. Round 2 is going to be held on 9th October, Saturday at 0915 hours in BCJ Hall.

XP v/s 7 clash: College Wi-Fi IPs to be alotted again

After the drawback of Windows 7 in which, the Wi-Fi secret 36 character key can be made visible just by a simple click on "show characters", the computers department realotted the IPs with the old Physical addresses but with different server address and different security key.

This time, the staff is providing the connections only to those who either have laptops with Windows XP, or Wi-Fi enabled mobile sets. Hence, the students, who already had a connection, but in OS of Vista or Seven, have to contact the IP providing staff again. Regarding the systems with Linux, the news has not yet been confirmed, if they will be allowed to have connection or not.

The users having the latest models of laptops are complaining that they don't have XP and neither their computers are XP compatible. In other sense, they need to edit their BIOS setting against the recommendations of the Laptop vendor companies to make their computers XP compatible, or use VM ware instead of removing their latest OS.

Model Making competition - September 25, 2010

Today,  a model making competition was held in the college campus (Raman Theatre) under the supervision of Tech-Sec, Miss Ritambhara with association of Tech-Akriti Sec, Mr. Surender Malik. The initial entries were about 80 teams for the first round which were shortlisted to just 10 teams in the second round. The event started at 11 AM and second round started at 2:30 PM.

All the teams showed wonderful innovation and a huge participation of FEs. Although an equal enthusiasm was shown by the teams of SEs, TEs and BEs.

College Wi-Fi speed increased to 10 Mbps - September 24, 2010

The college Wi-Fi has been upgraded to 10 Mbps today instead of earlier 2 Mbps. The new setup was over by 6 PM under the staff incharges of Department of Computers. This provides a flashing speed of surfing as well as even downloading speed of more than 700 Kbps.

Here is a video snapshot of downloading about a 5 Mb file within seconds.