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Google India Women in Engineering Award

January 19th, 2008 by admin | 4 Comments »

Google India has announced an award for deserving women students in Computer Science and related majors, and inspire them to become active participants and leaders in creating technology. The prize money is Rs 75,000. Eligible candidates must be full-time students from recognized institutions with specialization in Computers or related subject. They need to have Cumulative CGPA of at least 4.0 on a 5.0 scale, 8.0 on a 10.0 scale or equivalent. Demonstrable leadership experience would be a plus.

The detailed eligibility criteria is as follows

    • Full-time students from recognized institutions
      Area of specialization – Computer Engineering or related majors
      2nd to final year students from a bachelor’s program; all students from a master’s or PhD program
      Cumulative CGPA of at least 4.0 on a 5.0 scale, 8.0 on a 10.0 scale or equivalent.

    • The last date for application is 31st-Jan. So if you know someone who may be eligible then please pass on the word. The details can be found here.

    P.S: The programme has been open since first of december. I got to know about it today only from TechBanyan

    There are not many women who have computer science or engineering degrees, so encouraging the ones that do is great. Now, since you can take college classes online, getting an advanced degree is easier than
    ever. Online degrees may be a new concept, but they are a great alternative for busy people.

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    What Google knows about me

    January 19th, 2008 by admin | 8 Comments »

    Everything. ok, almost everything.

    I was a reading a post on “Google To Become Open Source Science Repository” at Techcrunch. While this is a really nice gesture by Google, what made me uneasy was Ducan’s observation that “We thought Google knew everything, now it will know even more“. So I just made a list of Google’s products that I use and what google knows about me. The list was really scary. Read on and most probably you will be scared too.

    Google Search :- all my searches (interests, hobbies, plans). May be my profession too.
    Google Desktop Search :- all the content on my laptop
    Google Toolbar :- the web sites I visit, frequency of visit
    Gmail :- All my emails. Even if you do not use gmail, if the person you send mails, uses gmail then google knows the content of the email sent by you.
    Orkut :- myyour freind list, the communities I belong to
    Blogger :- frequency of my blog post, all those post that I never published
    Adsense :- my complete address, my online income, which posts on my blog are more popular
    Adword :- my credit card information
    Analytics :- details about my users, where and how they come from
    webmaster tools:- the search term I target

    Personally I love google and I use their products because they are the best ones available. But the thought that one company knows too much about me sometimes worries me. Just in case they become evil someday !!! I think we desperately need an alternative, may be an open source search engine.

    The following links will explain exactly why I am uncomfortable.
    AOL search data scandal
    US regional bank hacked
    AT&T hack exposes 19,000 identities

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