Speaker: Marnie Webb, VP / CompuMentor, NetSquared – Technology Challenges of Non-profits – June 9
June 5, 2006
Marnie Webb
VP / CompuMentor, NetSquared
“Technology Challenges of Non-profits”
Friday, June 9, 12:30-1:30pm
Classroom 4 (Sunnyvale)
This week, we are pleased to have Marnie Webb of CompuMentor / NetSquared joining us for the TechDev Speaker Series. If you’ve ever wanted to talk about how to leverage your technology skills for social good, you should definitely stop by for this talk, which we hope to be more discussion than lecture. Marnie describes her talk as follows:
“At this Friday’s meeting, I’d like to talk about the ways that nonprofits are currently using Yahoo! tools (examples pulled from our case studies and from the results of a social media survey we’ve just completed). Then I’d like to share the kinds of problems that nonprofits are trying to use technology to solve – many of these have to do with data visualization but may also include simplified publishing, pushing a variety of issue-based information to a wide spread constituency, and ways to keep in touch with a wide spread constituency.”
As always, please RSVP so we can plan logistics appropriately.
Bio:
Marnie Webb is the Vice President of Knowledge Services at CompuMentor. She works towards optimizing TechSoup and TechCommons, CompuMentor's knowledge-focused services, to help address the nonprofit sector's systemic technology challenges. She focuses on increasing these programs' impact through collaboration with and stronger integration of all of the sector's key players.
She is one of the driving forces behind the TechSoup NetSquared initiative to increase nonprofit effectiveness through the use of web-based social tools. Marnie is a frequent speaker and writer on nonprofits and technology. Her areas of focus include Internet Strategies, online communication, and advocacy.
IITB Speaker Series: ‘A New Direction in High Performance Computing’ by Narendra Karmakar
May 15, 2006
IIT Bombay San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Announces
Speaker Series 2006
This is the first of a series of Speaker Events planned in 2006. This event is a networking event followed by presentation with audience participation.
Topic: A New Direction in High Performance Computing
Speaker:Narendra Karmarkar
Science and Technology Advisor to Chairman, Tata Group
BTech EE '78, MS CalTech '79, PhD Berkeley '83
Date: May 18, 2006
Time: 6.30 PM to 8.30 PM
Place: TiE Silicon Valley Office,
2903 Bunker Hill Lane, STE 108,
Santa Clara, CA – 95054
Entrance fee: $10 (No online registration, payment at the event location; refreshments will be served)
RSVP: balaji@iitbombay.org
Miss this and you will regret it! Don't be late!
Narendra Karmarkar
Dr. Narendra Karmarkar is well-known for the Karmarkar algorithm for linear programming which was announced in 1984 and which made headlines not only in scientific publications but also the mass media. His algorithm and its variations are preferred over simplex. The method used in his algorithm has revived interest in interior methods, which are currently an important area of research in mathematical programming.
He has worked at American Microsystems, IBM San Jose, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Princeton University, and TIFR Bombay. Among several awards, he has received, President of India Medal, Fellow of Bell Laboratories, Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay and UC Berkeley. He has 6 patents to his credit. Dr. Karmarkar is regularly invited to make presentations in important international conference in his field of interest.
PanIIT – Canada Organization Hosting North America IIT Alumni Conference in Toronto this summer
May 11, 2006
PanIIT Regional Alumni Conference in June 23-25 in Toronto is being held at a wonderful Canadian Resort this Summer.
Rabiz Foda, Conference Chair-person would like you all to come and enjoy the warm canadian hospitality. I suggest you combine this trip with family vacation to Canada this June. This opportunity will bond all twelve alumni population centers in North America: USA and Canada — under a common banner.
Details at: http://www.iitac2006conference.org
‘Getting under the hood of an acquisition’ – Fireside Chat with Nimish Mehta – Sun, May 14
May 2, 2006
We are very excited to have Nimish Mehta as the guest speaker for our next fireside chat event on May 14th, 2006. Nimish will speak from his years of experience working at companies like SAP, Siebel Systems and Oracle where he has overseen many acquisitions.
If you are an entrepreneur with a small startup and trying to figure out the best exit strategy for your company, then this is a must attend event. You will get to know what happens on the other side of the table, what is it that the potential acquirer is looking for. It should help you decide on what signals to send out and what not to. Also, learn how to strengthen your case against a possible competitor.
The event will start off with a formal talk by Nimish but we are hoping that there will be a long informal Q&A session where Nimish will take your questions. So, bring your inquisitive self to the table. The event details including registration, directions, schedule can be accessed from http://bayarea.iitdef.org/UpcomingEvent.
Yours truly,
Gaurav Garg
IITDEF Bay Area Team
IIT Delhi/Yahoo! Speaker Series presents:
Steve Gillmor
“GestureBank and the Gesture Economy”
Friday, April 28, 12:30-1:30pm
This week, we have Steve Gillmor joining us for the TechDev Speaker Series. Along with Dave Sifry of Technorati, Steve Gillmor was behind the spec for attention.xml (http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/attentionxml), an open standard built on open source that helps you keep track of what you've read, what you're spending time on, and what you should be paying attention to. Steve also co-founded AttentionTrust.org (http://www.attentiontrust.org/), which was profiled in TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/?p=100) but has since moved on to the concept of the “Gesture Economy” – for a detailed explanation of gestures in Steve’s inimitable style, be sure to read: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/?p=189. If you never quite got what attention was, I offer this quote from Steve: “Gestures are the monetization of attention” (http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/?p=236). Come find out what that means!
Bio:
Steve Gillmor heads the Gillmor Gang podcast (http://gillmorgang.podshow.com/), a contributing editor for ZDNet, and a contributing writer for Release 1.0. His widely-read blog is at http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gillmor/. Steve will be speaking at ad:tech in SF this week and at the Syndicate conference in NY next month (“It’s the Gestures, stupid!”).
Speaker: Wagner James Au, aka Hamlet Linden, Embedded in-world journalist in Second Life – “In-world Journalism in Second Life”
April 13, 2006
IIT Delhi/Yahoo! Speaker Series presents:
Wagner James Au
aka Hamlet Linden
Embedded in-world journalist in Second Life
“In-world Journalism in Second Life”
Friday, April 14, 12:30-1:30pm
This week, we have Wagner James Au (aka Hamlet Linden), the embedded in-world journalist in Second Life (see his “New World Notes” blog at http://nwn.blogs.com/ ). In this role, James covers the virtual world of Second Life as a full-time journalist. James will be taking us through what it’s like to be a journalist in a purely virtual world with a live demo of Second Life. Incidentally, James runs his own speaker series within Second Life and recently hosted Larry Lessig for an in-world interview (http://news.com.com/Larry+Lessig+visits+Second+Life/2100-1043_3-6028916.html). Aside from his work with Second Life, James has written regularly for publications like Wired and Salon.
IIT Delhi and Yahoo! present: the Yahoo! Speaker Series
April 12, 2006
In an exclusive deal reached with the IIT Delhi Bay Area Chapter, Yahoo! is opening up its regular Speaker Series to the IIT Alumni. These talks are normally reserved for employees, but Yahoo! will reserve 20 seats for each talk, on a first come, first served basis, to the IIT Alumni.
These talks sometimes happen as frequently as every week, and we'll include information about the upcoming speaker in our weekly newsletter, on our website, as well as on this blog. All you need to do is send us an RSVP, and wait for the confirmation email for instructions!
Faculty positions open at IIT Delhi!
April 11, 2006
IIT Delhi invites applications from qualified Indian Nationals, Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) and Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) with an established record of independent, high quality research and commitment to teaching and research for the regular positions of Professors/ Associate Professors/ Assistant Professors in various Departments/Centres/Schools.
Interested? More information here: http://www.iitd.ac.in/faculty-recruitment/Year2006
- Amit
More IIT cartoons by Dilbert…
April 8, 2006
OK, so maybe we're overdoing a little bit? 
- Amit
Since its start, a few weeks ago, the IITD blog has been talking about Alumni activities and chapter stuff. But this blog is not intended to be an administrative diary only. We would like to use this blog as a unifying forum to bring the IITD Alumni of the SF Bay Area together and help them reach out to one another.
With that goal in mind, we have today our first guest post, from Anurag Wadehra, IITD class of '85. He expressed interest in using the IITD forum to spread the word about a movie he produced that has been critically acclaimed worldwide. We are happy that Anurag has chosen this forum as a voice to the IITD Alumni and hope that other alumni will also use this as a way to share information useful and relevant to our community.
Oh, and by the way, if you find this forum useful to you, please spread the word among the other alumni in the bay area and send them a link to the blog – iitdelhi.wordpress.com.
Thanks, yours truly,
Priyank Garg,
IITDEF Bay Area Team
"Borrowed Fire: The Shadow Puppets of Kerala"
http://www.kathanjali.com/BF_details.html
Shot in the remote villages of Kerala in southern India, this film documents the story of the last surviving scholar-puppeteer, Pulavar, and his lifelong struggle to practice and preserve this ancient performing art of Tolpava Koothu and its rendition of the Hindu epic, the Ramayana. Exquisitely capturing the art and its milieu, this is a rare and poignant glimpse of a flame on the verge of extinction.
Over the past few years, this film — with ironically minimal marketing support — has been doing the rounds of several film festivals, has been critically acclaimed, was picked up and distributed internationally by UC's media department. As a result it is now housed in the library collections of several leading universities and colleges all over the world! Check out the link above to see the appeal this film has generated.
It has now been picked up by Shadowlight Productions and they are going to show it in San Francisco at the Artists' Television Access next month. Shadowlight's mission is to bring the stories of the world to light. They hope to build a world community through cross cultural story telling and the magic of shadow theater.
In case you are interested in attending, the details are as follows:
DATE: FRIDAY APRIL 21st, 2006 POSTPONED
TIME: 8:00PM
TICKETS: $5 per person
INFO: Adults only
VENUE: The venue is ATA and seats around 75 people
Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street(at 21st)
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415)824-3890
The above showing has been
Anurag Wadehra
Producer & Director
IIT-Delhi, Class of '85
