The Unfortunate Incident of Last Friday

Some of my friends and I were just generally talking about the unfortunate rioting and violence that occured in Bangalore last Friday in response to Pastor Benny Hinn's "Pray for India" program. It suddenly struck me that people who were the safest were probably the ones who attended Benny Hinn's program, which I believe continued as though untouched by all the violence that had occured outside on the streets of Bangalore. Isn't that ironic? Because it shows how ineffective the violent tactics used by those gung-ho groups of people on that day was. It caused totally unnecessary and in some cases irreversible damage to property and life and caused major inconvinience to people who were just going about doing their day to day work. Quite unfortunate I think!

To Be Wise: Fiction

A bit of fiction:

Is it possible to be 'wise' overnight, without having to walk on the fire-stones of experience? Rajdeep wanted to find out. He constantly dreamt of going to sleep at night and waking up the next morning with all the wisdom in the world. He felt he lacked the ability to make good decisions, the ones that come only with experience. But he knew he was a long way to getting the experience he would need to feel he fitted with the world. He did feel that his peers were a lot wiser than him. They were knowledgeable in the things that mattered the most. So what if they didn't watch cricket until three in the morning to see a thrilling match. They knew that at that stage in their lives, their career was what mattered. There would always be time for play and enjoyment later. This line of thought though was lacking in Rajdeep, or atleast so he thought...

[to be continued...]

I am Published!

A paper about my M.S. thesis work, written with my thesis advisor ( ECE Department, NJIT), Dr. Sotirios Ziavras, has been published in the December issue of International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (formerly Parallel Algorithms and Applications). The paper - "FPGA implementation of a Cholesky algorithm for a shared-memory multiprocessor architecture" discusses the architecture and implementation of a multi-processor shared-memory system on a single Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) device. A parallel version of the Cholesky algorithm for factorizing matrices was then implemented and executed on the above archicture. The test results of the latter are also discussed in the same paper.