found this letter in ACM portal,funny and eyeopening for researchers

Editor's Corner

A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper Editor's Note: It seems appropriate, in this issue of JSS containing the findings of our annual Top Scholars/Institutions study, to pay tribute to the persistent authors who make a journal like this, and a study like that, possible. In their honor, we dedicate the following humorous, anonymously-authored, letter!

Dear Sir, Madame, or Other:

Enclosed is our latest version of Ms. #1996-02-22-RRRRR, that is the re-re-re-revised revision of our paper. Choke on it. We have again rewritten the entire manuscript from start to finish. We even changed the g-d-running head! Hopefully, we have suffered enough now to satisfy even you and the bloodthirsty reviewers.

I shall skip the usual point-by-point description of every single change we made in response to the critiques. After all, it is fairly clear that your anonymous reviewers are less interested in the details of scientific procedure than in working out their personality problems and sexual frustrations by seeking some kind of demented glee in the sadistic

and arbitrary exercise of tyrannical power over hapless authors like ourselves who happen to fall into their clutches.

We do understand that, in view of the misanthropic psychopaths you have on your editorial board, you need to keep sending them papers, for if they were not reviewing manuscripts they would probably be out mugging little old ladies or clubbing baby seals to death. Still, from this batch of reviewers, C was clearly the most hostile, and we request that you not ask him to review this revision. Indeed, we have mailed letter bombs to four or ®ve people we suspected of being reviewer C, so if you send the manuscript back to them, the review process could be unduly delayed. Some of the reviewersÕ comments we could not do anything about. For example, if (as C suggested) several of my recent ancestors were indeed drawn from other species, it is too late to change that. Other suggestions were imple-mented, however, and the paper has been improved and bene®ted. Plus, you suggested that we shorten the manuscript by ®ve pages, and we were able to accomplish this very e€ectively by altering the margins and printing the paper in a di€erent font with a smaller typeface. We agree with you that the paper is much better this way.

One perplexing problem was dealing with suggestions 13±28 by reviewer B. As you may recall (that is, if you even bother reading the reviews before sending your decision letter), that reviewer listed 16 works that he/she felt we should cite in this paper. These were on a variety of different topics, none of which had any relevance to our work that we could see. Indeed, one was an essay on the Spanish-American war from a high school literary magazine. The only common thread was that all 16 were by the same author, presumably someone whom reviewer B greatly admires and feels should be more widely cited. To handle this, we have modified the Introduction and added, after the review of the relevant literature, a subsection entitled ``Review of Irrelevant Literature'' that discusses these articles and also duly addresses some of the more asinine suggestions from other reviewers.

We hope you will be pleased with this revision and will finally recognize how urgently deserving of publication this work is. If not, then you are an unscrupulous, depraved monster with no shred of human decency. You ought to be in a cage. May whatever heritage you come from be the butt of the next round of ethnic jokes. If you do accept it, however, we wish to thank you for your patience and wisdom throughout this process, and to express our appreciation for your scholarly insights. To repay you, we would be happy to review some manuscripts for you; please send us the next manuscript that any of these reviewers submits to this journal.

Assuming you accept this paper, we would also like to add a footnote acknowledging your help with this manuscript and to point out that we liked the paper much better the way we originally submitted it, but you held the editorial shotgun to our heads and forced us to chop, reshu‚e, hedge, expand, shorten, and in general convert a meaty paper

into stir-fried vegetables. We could not ± or would not ± have done it without your input.

R.L. Glass

Computing Trends, 1416 Sare Road

Bloomington, IN 47401 USA

E-mail address: rglass@acm.org

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JOB Openings in VIT University vellore# Lab Staff Positions

S.No	Post Name	No of Vacancies	Minimum Educational Qualification	Required Skill set / Certifications
1	Lab Assistant: Hardware	1	Diploma in CSE / ECE / EEE	Basic Electronics Knowledge, Microcontroller, Board Level Knowledge, Assembly Programming Knowledge
2	Lab Assistant: Operating Systems / Networking	1	Diploma in IT/CSE (or) B.Sc. (CS)	Certifications like Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) & Cisco Certified Network Administrator
3	Lab Assistant: DBMS	1	Diploma in IT/CSE (or) BCA & B.Sc. (CS)	Certifications like Oracle Certified Professional (OCP), Oracle Certified Administrator (OCA)
4	Lab Assistant: Software Engineering Tools	1	Diploma in CSE (or) BCA & B.Sc. (CS)	STQC - Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification from Department of Information Technology

 

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My Mission 10X experience -past and post.....

How it started

I got a mail in our university mailbox, stating that a training program, by wipro is to be held for a week, and that was the first time of that kind-of training program in the University. There were no competitions for the seats, which was limited with constraints. I got it, actually we got it ,as we three of our faculty friends resistered.Little we know that the training program “Mission 10X” by Corporate giant “WIPRO” is going to change our professional Life.

 

Day 1

We were all asked to be in the auditorium at 9.00 am for the inaugural function. As usual we were there by dot 09.10(our mind time is set in that pattern ,that we do go to any inaugural ten minutes late to find out that we were already 15 minutes earlier.) ,possessions were all set in correct fashion ,and eventually got over in the stipulated time frame.

 

The first glimpse of the resource person was not very attractive in the perspective of agedness, we usually are in a standpoint that somebody old with salt and pepper head are worth a teacher (that IIT, IISC, kind-of).The lady in our auditorium was introduced as so and so and most of the participant are bytes older than her. But the minute she opened her mouth, we were all out of thought, several questions raised in our minds, eventually as her talk got sank in our brains.

Day 2

The resource person was trying to disapprove several of our teaching skills, which we were hundred percent sure that, it was optimal. Videos of our teaching explained properly where we lagged, was it body-language, English language, subject or lag of passion for teaching. On watching there own two minute videos, Self-consciousness rose among all the participants and later transformed itself in to competition and confidence, filling the room filled with professionalism. I saw with my own eyes forty plus professors, expressing their feeling and objections for the first time officially and openly.

Day 3

The timeliness and punctuality of the participants was also altered in to a better state, the treatment is with a dose of embracement (whenever a participant comes to the learning centre after a break, he will be welcomed with a huge round of clapping).

Day 4

The one thing that needs to make a person perfect, complete and composed is his book-keeping manners. Mission 10X flaunted the way we need to write our course file, technical descriptions and lesson plans .that was eye –opening and we saved a lot of time after that forever.

Day 5

Though all the teachings of Mission 10X are exempts for Cambridge international certification, all the scenarios and methodologies was indianised, as India teaching learning scenario is entirely different.

 

The overall one –week process was clear and clean and each one of them absorbed it like a sponge, still using it in our career.

 

Mission 10 x –enlightens every teaching soul.

 

 

Back to classroom (The Plot)

The class room was as usual, the students were little dull, as it was the last but not the least period in mid day (maybe they were happy for a week, and I am in today so they are like this).I decided that I need to make use of all the techniques, tricks and magic thought to me to improve the teaching –learning process. I personally feel that my University was the best plot to play this post mission   10 x games, as students were from different latitudes and longitudes and each of them had different moods and reactions. Someone wants the teacher to teach for all the fifty minutes, someone at the last, don’t want the class itself (will go for so called self realization, that’s self learning).The best teacher is the one who fulfills all the extremes .I had got the training to be a best teacher at ease.

I started the class with a round of huge applause, with the class co-operating for it little with less decibels. They asked what for I asked them to clap their hands; I said that is thanking me in advance for what they are going to get from in for the whole semester.

I asked the students to move out of their comfort zone, by replacing them from their existing seating positions. Told them to “change their views”. Little more alert they were in their newer seats ,little more conscious .The class was divided in to several segments ,time frames for teaching,learning,activity based learning,experimenting,and so on to get through over what we were doing.

The fifty minutes class was not so enough for us this time. Anyway I felt happy about it.

 

The mission 10 x program taught as to notice each and every activity of the students, that too who doesn’t have the property of getting concept faster, or the slow learners. I used to traverse to loop and corners of the class (not standing only with front benchers) to grab their attention.

 

By this implementation, I personally came to know about each and every one in the class, starting from their unique register number and first names.

Results came, all was good, as forecasted, and the hypothesis was right, not null.

 

I still was going on with the magic of mission 10x to my classroom, looking forward for the next class always. (One secret to share, I got 93% feedback on that semester)

 

All my blog followers were in thoughts, about me un-blogging all that week. “Yes” I got locked in myself in another world, called mission 10X and came out with an real experience on the teaching-learning process .Mission 10x is Wipro’s initiative to improve the quality of the Engineering teachers, who were never trained formally ,How To Teach. Students finishing their post graduation degree, just enter an engineering college or a University, chalk in hand. Thinking the fact, the fate of the Future India also lies in the hands of engineers. Azim Premji’s this initiative Mission 10X, is to train the trainers, who in fact will train the prospering students. It’s a win-win situation here at this mission. The Five days will never be forgotten by anyone, attending with his/her full hearten involvement. The proper completion of the five day training will lead to dale Carnegie’s certification .following the methodologies in the classroom for a month and submitting an assignment and going through an assessment will give you mission 10 x certificate .Further involvements and sending a full throttle written document to Cambridge will deem you with Cam bride international certificate. The way the resource persons enacted the subject in the class was a class. I still remember my otherwise very shy colleagues enacted dramas as a king and queen of drama world and as if they did it for years.

The primary vitality of the training to my experience was not with the different approach to teaching –learning paradigm, but with the application of the same in order.

They focused on the issue of University teacher (like the word more than Professor) perspectives on the students. Mostly Every One of them always thinks the students as someone ready and born to fool them. True in some case, but due to wrong perception of the student dimension, things get worse. It was a eye-opener, when they taught as how to deal with last benchers and late comers (class claps for them, another students writes his/her name on the board, late coming students gets embarrassed and ultimately never comes late again).
The training focused on facial expression and hand movement to be done by the teacher while lecturing training a student to understand a complex topic. The 30 registered university faculty were video graphed for all their actions and was reviewed. It was nice to see oneself teaching to himself, more than self evaluation and thereby evolution.

The post sessions

The portal that have been dedicated to the teaching community by wipro is buzzing with activities .various innovations in the teaching learning process are being done by technical teachers ,across the country. It gives newer perspective for a professional to look at the problems. Subjects are not restricted to numbers and it has all domains of engineering and science. The basic principle of mission 10x of making teachers from rural and back staged arts of the country to get the knowledge of cutting edge is fulfilled.

The portal carries different representations of a same concept in varieties  like charts ,diagram, picture ,puzzles,games,illustrations,program ,analogy and lot more.It a big think tank.

I still follow their teaching; I dedicate this article to them, who were behind the mission plus to their mentor Azim Premji.

Disclaimer:-This is not a friction.

Via: The Steel Method

Junior Research Fellow - I opening @ VITUniversity

Applications are invited for the Post of Project Fellow for DRDO funded project in School of Advanced Sciences (SAS) VIT University, Vellore.

Project Title : "Investigations on Cr and Co doped CdTe Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors for Room Temperature Ferromagnetism"

Number of positions: One Qualification & Experience : : M.Sc First Class in Physics / Materials Science. Knowledge in the field of Crystal Growth and Thin films is preferred.                           Fellow Ship         : Rs.7,000 per month (Expected to be revised) Tenure of the Project       : Three years Nature of appointment    : Purely temporary. Age limitation                     : Maximum age limit is 25 years

Send your curriculum vitae with details of qualifications, experience with latest passport size photo to the Registrar, VIT University, Vellore-632014 by post or email: registrar@vit.ac.in. on or before October 10th , 2010. Specify the post applied for.

Junior Research Fellow - II

Applications are invited for the post of Junior Research Fellow to work in a DST project in School of Bio Sciences & Technology

Project Title : "Investigation of solubility and catalytic properties of substituted hydroxyl, fluoro and oxyapatite ceramics"

Qualification : M.Sc chemistry with first class. NET/GATE qualified candidates are preferred.                           Stipend         : Rs. 16,000/- p.m Duration       : 2010-2013

Send your Resume with details of qualifications, experience and latest passport size photo etc., along with relevant documents to the Registrar, VIT University,Vellore-632 014 by post or email:registrar@vit.ac.in. The cover should be super scribed clearly the post applied for & Name of the Project.

Project Associate opening @ VIT University

 Applications are invited for the post of project associate to work in a DRDO project in School of Electronics Engineering Project Title : "Track level Neyman Pearson based Data Association in MSDF" Qualification : M.Tech (Applied Electronics/Communication Engineering/ Communication Systems) interested in working on statistical signal processing. Interested 2nd year M.Tech project students can also apply.

Stipend : Rs. 15,000/- p.m

Duration : 2010-2011 Send your Resume with details of qualifications, experience and latest passport size photo etc., along with relevant documents to the Registrar, VIT University,Vellore-632 014 by post or email:registrar@vit.ac.in. The cover should be super scribed clearly the post applied for & Name of the Project.

VITEEE-2011 will be held on 16'th April 2011 saturday

VIT University was established with the aim of providing quality higher education on par with international standards. It persistently seeks and adopts innovative methods to improve the quality of higher education on a consistent basis.

The campus has a cosmopolitan atmosphere with students from all corners of the globe. Experienced and learned teachers are strongly encouraged to nurture the students. The global standards set at VIT in the field of teaching and research spur us on in our relentless pursuit of excellence. In fact, it has become a way of life for us. The highly motivated youngsters on the campus are a constant source of pride.

Our Memoranda of Understanding with various international universities are our major strength. They provide for an exchange of students and faculty and encourage joint research projects for the mutual benefit of these universities. Many of our students, who pursue their research projects in foreign universities, bring high quality to their work and esteem to India and have done us proud. With steady steps, we continue our march forward. We look forward to meeting you here at VIT.

Microsoft Security Essentials Now Free for Businesses

 

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will offer its Microsoft Security Essentials product free to small businesses, starting in October.

Since its debut in September 2009, Security Essentials has been available free of charge to consumers for single-PC use, but not to the enterprise crowd. Starting next month, however, small businesses will be able to add the security product on up to 10 PCs at no cost.

"[It's] no secret that most small businesses today do not have a dedicated IT professional on staff to manage their IT resources," Eric Ligman, Microsoft global partner experience lead, wrote in a blog post. "Small business owners and employees are focused on running their business, not managing complicated IT infrastructure."

"When we launched Microsoft Security Essentials last year, small businesses kept telling us that it was exactly the type of thing they need at work too," Jeff Smith, director of marketing for Microsoft Security Essentials, said in a statement.

Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection from viruses, spyware, and other malicious threats, Ligman said.

It is powered by the malware protection engine that drives Microsoft's enterprise solutions, he said. The product also uses a scanning and removal technology to collect threats from more than 600 million PCs monthly, which are then assessed by the Microsoft Malware Protection Center. New signatures are written and deployed daily, he wrote.

While Windows 7 machines are not necessary to use Microsoft Security Essentials, Ligman did advise businesses to consider upgrading.

"With Windows 7 Professional, we prioritized speed, reliability, compatibility, and connectivity to keep their systems up and running," he wrote.

In July, Microsoft said that it had started making available the beta version of the next version of Security Essentials. The next version, Microsoft said, would be more tightly integrated with Internet Explorer as as way to secure the PC against Web-based threats. In addition, the software will also protect against network-based threats for both Windows Vista and Windows 7 users, whose PCs include the Windows Filtering Platform Service inside those operating systems.

From Road traffic Accident to Tasmac

          One of my  friend on the other day was riding in his two wheeler from our university to his home .There is a stretch of road from our University to Chitoor bus stand ,which is a hub for diversion to different places ,this length of road has small villages between like old katpadi and others .as usual the roadsides are more populated with shops ,people and stray dogs.

My friend was riding usual in 40 miles per hour.there was a dog fight going on on other side of the road ,when a dog started chasing a weaker one of them , it crossed from one side of the road and ran in to his bike ,between wheels,he was met with an accident and luckily escaped with mere scratches and torn pants.

the next day ,at tea time ,he was complaining about the dog and mentioned that ,the blue cross cares about dogs and there no such organization for human and told of complaining to the municipality about the attacks of stray dogs.another friend ,interrupted and said that the dogs are because of the temporary shops on the road side ,which sells beefs and chicken ,the friend also told that the road side shops were because of the TASMAC -alcohol shop.

all problems starts and end at a point.

In-Depth: A Line-by-Line Look at Facebook’s Updated Platform Developer Policies

As part of its game-focused product updates, Facebook changed a wide range of policies around what developers can and can’t do on the platform. The company has broadly grouped its dozens of changes into three main areas, with the overall move being to make many more options available to developers.
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Eureka!

About the competition

Eureka! is the biggest Business Plan Competition in Asia as recognized by CNN in terms of participation, prizes and resources. It is intended as a platform to encourage youth from across the globe to flesh out their ideas in business terms and form global enterprises that combine technology,vision and business acumen.

Over the years, Eureka!'s unique format comprising mentoring with a transparent judging process has become a model for the similar competitions held in India and elsewhere. Moreover Eureka! as a competition has evolved a great deal over the years to accomodate the changing preferences of a budding entrepreneur.

Eureka! provides teams who enter with valuable resources in the following areas crucial to successful entrepreneurship:
1. Prizes worth of $50,000.
2. A chance to pitch in front of Mumbai Angels.
3. Networks of world-class entrepreneurs, investors, and potential partners.
4. Mentorship by successful and seasoned professionals.
5. Financial and Legal Consultancies.
6. Incubation opportunities in various Incubation centres.
7. Content rich feedback on their business model from world class entrepreneurs, investors, and professional service providers on our Judging Panel
8. Broad media exposure and PR buzz.

The biggest students technical fest ,vellore,sep 17-19.

Check this out!!

Are We Training Too Many Scientists-The New Scientist reports

After three years of postdoctoral work at the Mayo Clinic, Crystal Icenhour was ready to embrace the life of an independent researcher in a tenure track position. But after more than a year of job searching, and only a couple of job interviews, she was bitterly disappointed. The first job was lost to another more qualified applicant. The second institution was hiring two faculty: one senior, one junior. "I thought I had that one ... I was ready to pack my bags because the interview went so well and they asked for start-up requirements," says Icenhour. But after the senior faculty hire negotiated his compensation, there were insufficient funds for the junior position. "He offered me a postdoc in his lab... I didn't take it."

hey ,its VIT again on the top,