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Facebook's Social Network Graph : " Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, was interested in visualizing the "locality of friendship". Luckily, he has some great data to work with: Facebook's social network of the friendships between its 500 million members. But visualizing that much data can be a challenge in its own right -- it takes skill to draw meaning from what could easily be an incomprehensible mess of data. After drawing a sample of 10 million friend pairs from the Hive interface to Facebook's Hadoop-based database, Paul set to using R to solve this visualization problem. As Paul describes in a post on his Facebook page , initial attempts to visualize the data resulted in a "big white blob" roughly resembling the outline of the continents. But when Paul switched from plotting every friend pair to instead plotting every city pair with a great-circle line whose transparency was determined by the number

Some poet has said:- "राजनीति की मंडी बड़ी नशीली है, यहाँ दीवानों ने मदिरा पी ली है| कमरबंद हैं पुख्ता सिर्फ दलालों के, आम आदमी की तो धोती ढीली है|" And whatever we are seeing, listening to these days about the morality of our overall democratic and ecomomic infrastructure, these above lines seem totally fit. Now, we can proudly say that corruption is in our blood and we breathe it and practice it with our full efficiency. In this very confusing environment, it is very hard to say who is speaking truth and stands like "Angad" on moral surface. It appears that morality of each & every individual in this country, whether he/she belongs to corporates, politicians, judiciary, army, b ureaucrats or a simple common man, is at stakes. There have been many instances of loose morality in recent times in every walk of life. It is now becoming clearer day-by-day that there is and has been a dirty and unholy nexus between some parts of politicians, b ureaucrats and cor

Few days back, I was hearing a news on NDTV India. It was about the mysterious death of an army officer named "Cap. Sumit Kohli". As per the bulletin, he received "Shourya Chakra" in March, 2006 for his bravery in killing 4 militants in J & K. And, in April, 2006, he was found dead in his barrack. Since then, it is not known precisely what were the actual reasons behind his death. Army's statements in the matter have been contradictory in all these 4 years. One time, they said that he had committed suicide and on another time, they cited some other reason. In all these times, his family has been on suffering end. Unable to bear the shock, his father died of heart attack within one month of his death. And, remaining members of the family, his sister and mother, are trying to unearth the actual reasons of the tragedy from the insensitive bureaucratic establishment. Point here is why a person who received a medal for his bravery a month ago would commit suicide

15th August comes every year. From last 63 years, we celebrate it as our Independence day in the form of various functions held at various levels. But, question should be asked whether this day still hold some significance in our hearts today. Do we still give the same respect to this day as was initially? Do we really understand what 15th August means to us? For me, it was just another day. More, it was a Sunday, a day to have lots of fursat and wake up late. So, I woke up late and started following my usual routine, then realized it is 15th August. It was already 11'O clock. Outside the flat, atmosphere was not much different. Prime minister's address to the nation had been over some 3 hours back. So, whatever he has said, was followed through the scrolls of news channels. There was a time, when prabhat pheris were passed through the streets shouting slogans of "Bharat Mata ki Jai" etc. There was so much enthusiasm in those childhood days to go to school, to deliver

Uttar Pradesh is the biggest state of India and has been the centre of Indian political stage for a long long time. After BJP got absolute majority state assembly in 1991, this state has seen many turmoils and been the victim of political instability all these times. There have been many uncompatible combinations among political parties to form the government in Lucknow, irrespective of their ideology, just based on oppertunism. And, this has affected the overall development of the state in every sector whether it is power or industry or any other sector. So, after a long time, when Mayavati's Bahujan Samaj Party got majority in 2007 assembly elections with the slogan "Sarvajan Hitay, Sarvajan Sukhay", the common thinking was that Mayavati will use this oppertunity for the development of the state and welfare of the common people. Now almost 3 years have passed of Mayavati's so called people-centric raj, but for the people, nothing has changed. Some glimpses of last 3

CDAC, Mumbai , at its Kharghar, Navi Mumbai Centre, has been conducting a monthly seminar series called (FOSS) From the Open Source Self for quite some time now on every third Saturday of the month. The purpose of this series in the form of lecture demos is to introduce people to the wide range of high quality software(s) available in open source. Response so far has been good enough. This month's seminar will be held on March 20. The topics of this seminar include: 1. NLTK - NLTK [Natural Language Processing Toolkit] is a complete Open Source suite of Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in Natural Language Processing. It provides utilities for many NLP tasks like chunking, stemming and parsing to name a few. It is a useful tool for students, professionals and researchers interested in Natural Language Processing and is widely used by NLP community all over the world. 2. GNU Build System - The GNU build system

घुल रही फिजा में रंगो की महक पागल मन क्यूँ बार बार जाता है बहक तोड़कर हर बंधन को दूर कहीं छोड़कर व्यथित वेदना को भूलकर हर इक पीड़ा मन रंग की आगोश में गिरा रंग है प्यार का , सौहार्द का आनंद का, उल्लास का अनेकता में भी एकता संपूर्ण भारत के इस विश्वास का इस रंग में न जाने क्या जादू है कि मन मेरा बेकाबू है कितने ही टूटे रिश्तों की डोर बाँधती रंग में इतनी है असीम शक्ति मन मेरे डूबकर आज इस रंग में कर ले यह निश्चय कि हम अपनी रंगभूमि को प्यार और भाईचारे से और रंगीन बनाएँगे और हर होली में हर बार हम यही संकल्प दुहराएँगे By Shiv Nath Kumar , CDAC, Mumbai

Our national sport is in a mess from a long long time, we all know. But this mess has been converted into a disaster, is now proved from ongoing stir between players and the so-called controlling authority of the game in India i.e. Hockey India. Players have not been paid their dues from quite some time despite sponsors are constantly giving money to HI. Its a hard truth that hockey players not as iconic as cricket players in our country. But, at least, they should be respected. Yet the game officials belonging not only to hockey, but to other sports also behave like maharajas . Player's rights and welfare have no meaning for them. Today Indian hockey is on its knees, yet officials are threatening to sack or suspend the players instead of addressing their concerns and finding some amicable solution. World cup is almost one month away and they have scraped the training camp. Future does not seem very bright. KPS Gill episode in not very old. And, what is happening to CWG preparation

Artificial Intelligence has always been a challenging field providing lots of opportunities of research and development in no. of areas like language processing, multi-agent systems, web mining, information retrieval, semantic web, e-learning, optimization problems, pattern recognition etc. And, there is growing interest in the field in India between academia and industria both. Keeping this in mind, The Special Interest Group on AI (SIGAI) of Computer Society of India (CSI) announces a workshop on “Emerging Research Trends in AI” . The workshop will be organized and hosted by CDAC, Navi Mumbai , and is meant to encourage quality research in various aspects of AI, among the Indian academia/industry. For more details, see Call for Papers and visit: http://sigai.cdacmumbai.in/index.php/ertai-2010