Top 7 Animatronic Beasties in Hollywood Films

Jurassic Park

Dinosaurs appeared to roam the world once more with "Jurassic Park." Real-life paleontologist Jack Horner supervised the designs of the ancient reptiles. The special effects gurus at Stan Winston Studios created highly detailed full-scale sculptures of the dinosaurs before molding foam rubber skins that went over complex robotics. Puppeteers could then remotely control their motions with "Waldos" that captured their performances for the machines to mimic.

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Bluetooth Technology

Apple Makes Big Bet on Bluetooth Technology

Phil Schiller: “This is the vision of the future of the notebook: one of extreme portability. Everything is wireless.”

From its keynote yesterday, Apple introduced the new MacBook, shared more details on Apple Watch, and discussed a new platform, ResearchKit. All of these announcements shared a common thread –Bluetooth® wireless technology.

For ResearchKit, Bluetooth plays the essential role of connecting the iPhone, the hub device for data collection and reporting, to thousands of medical peripheral devices. Through this opt-in platform, medical researchers from around the world have immediate access to an unfathomable amount of data, changing the way scientists and doctors study disease and, one day, how they treat it.

In the Apple Watch, Bluetooth connectivity enables wireless audio streaming, incoming/outgoing calling, sensor connectivity, and location-based access. Essentially, Bluetooth makes the watch possible, seamlessly connecting to a user’s iPhone with the lowest possible power pull for that type of bandwidth.

And while Bluetooth has been integral to Apple products for years, when Phil Schiller took the stage to discuss the new MacBook, he made a bold claim about the future of the notebook and the role Bluetooth will play. The future of the notebook is wireless – and Bluetooth sits at the very center of the MacBook ecosystem. For discovery for AirDrop and AirPlay, as the connection for wireless hot spots, for peripherals, printing, and streaming content and audio, Apple relies on Bluetooth.

Apple isn’t the only company making big bets on Bluetooth as the future of connectivity. Bluetooth is currently shipping in over 3 billion products a year and is the globally recognized and trusted standard for short-range wireless connectivity.

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Fastest Growing Software Python

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83% Indian engineering graduates are not employable – why?

The jury is out for the year 2014, on the quality of the Indian education system. The The Hindu, has bought out the obvious fact that the quality of the education system in India is, well, abysmal.

But it is the numbers that really dents the point home. Chennai, home to Anna University, one of the largest universities in India with about 400 colleges affiliated to it, has an employability rate of an awful 1%. Even the the state with the highest employability percentage, Delhi, is only at 13%. Bangalore, the so called ‘silicon valley of India’ is at a staggering 3.2%.

Clearly, something is horribly wrong with our technology education system. We at Alightechs decided to pen down these problems and here’s a list of things could be wrong –

1. Outdated learning – learning basics is one thing, but learning ancient programming languages, for example, FORTRAN, and not staying in touch with the industry could be one reason why engineering students are not relevant to today’s industry.
2. Theory vs Practice – The current education system poses a chasm between theory and practice. Very little of what is learnt at college can be put into practice in everyday life. Hence, the best performers of the system, which are the kids with the best grades, actually can do very little work and need to be separately trained for it. That’s an expense that not everyone in the industry wants to take.
3. Exam culture – Learning is a continual process, and exams are a way to measure the extent of your learning. It is not the end all. Unfortunately, the CGPA or grade of a graduate is the first filter for employment, and hence students lay emphasis on only the exam and not on learning the subject. This results in weak fundamentals, and hence, industry irrelevance.
4. Lack of exposure – Given that the end goal of technical education is a placement in a college, the amount of exposure given to students about the industry is also very little. It is not until the final year of their college that they begin to understand what the industry really wants. An early exposure to industry can give students an idea of what is relevant in the industry, which they can learn in their own time.
5. Bad career matching – Over the years, the lucrative opportunities that a professional life in the technology industry has provided, has made engineering sciences the de-facto choice for graduate studies. Weather or not the student has the aptitude for the stream is not taken into account, resulting in uninterested engineering candidates, who haven’t taken to their subjects as much as they should have, making them irrelevant to the industry.

Now these are not unknown reasons. Every unemployed engineering graduate in the country knows these reasons, as they have affected his/her life directly. Now they’re playing catch up.

I believe there is quite a lot opportunities for companies like us. These problems have been prevalent for over a decade now and if they still haven’t changed, I don’t expect them to change either. But small teams like our own have been providing very good alternatives for quite a while.

The impact of companies like Khan Academy and Coursera have been phenomenal from a learning perspective. But in the Indian context, education has no meaning without a job. This is the horrible reality that plagues this country. This is a national sentiment and changing it will take at least a century or so.

While learning for learning sake and doing the job that you love to do is utopia, the first step towards it would be to find a middle ground between the ideal and reality. Keep jobs as a priority, but make people attain different goals to achieve it. Put out industry relevant problems and a job opportunity for everyone who can solve the problem within constraints.

Not only is this industry relevant, it also lays emphasis on the importance of learning the basics, as the stronger your foundations, the quicker and better you can solve these programs. You can’t mug up content for these tests; you need to know your skill very well. And the kind of problems that you get to solve is a good measure of what the industry wants.

The problem is fairly easy to solve for engineering and many like us are solving it at scale. Should you be disheartened with the India Employability Survey – Yes. But does that mean there is no hope? – No. Definitely not.

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