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Eric Jones and Prabhu Ramachandran will be conducting a 4 day course on Scientific Computing with Python at IIT Bombay from 16th to 19th July. More details here.
If you can get someone to sponsor you, go for it. It’s sure going to be exciting!

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About thirty or so kids attended a summer camp organized by the Swathanthra Software User’s Group, Malappuram.
The camp was at the `Tharakan School’ at Angadippuram, a 100 year old aided school. Students were taught
basic electronics, computer interfacing using Phoenix and elementary Python programming by a group of
“GNU” volunteers for three days starting from […]

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Got my copy of the Scientific American (Indian edition) today. The cover story is by a certain Bill.G who seems to be very excited about the future prospects of robotics.
Bill.G, being a very modest guy, has some interesting things to say:

Back in the early days of the PC, we realized that we needed an […]

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Reached UC College, Aluva at 9:00 in the morning to attend FOSS In Science, 2007, perhaps the first conference in India dedicated to the use of Free Software in Scientific research and education.

This was the last day of the conference and the first talk/demo was by Ajith - the Phoenix Project has progressed a […]

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Russian Mathematician Grigori Perelman has solved the famous Poincare conjecture, an unsolved problem from topology. It appears that Perelman had formulated the proof 4 years back, but it is being accepted only now by the scientific community.
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It’s well known that Archimedes used the idea of dividing a curve into lots of small polygons in order to compute its area. Had they been comfortable with the notion of inifinity, the Greeks would have invented the Calculus much before Newton and Leibnitz. It is also conjectured that their poor understanding of algebra […]

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SPACE Kerala and UC College, Aluva
are organizing a national conference on FOSS in science. I shall be giving a Phoenix demo. Other talks include one on scientific computing and data visualization using Python!
It’s good that such a topic is getting at least some attention; mainstream conferences like FOSS.IN seem to be completely devoid of […]

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The preponderance of psychological evidence indicates that experts are made, not born.

EFFORTFUL STUDY is the key to achieving success in chess, classical music, soccer and many other fields. New research has indicated that motivation is a more important factor than innate ability.

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About 15 Physics Lecturers/Professors from various universities in North India are currently doing a workshop on `Experimental Physics with Phoenix’ at the Inter-University Accelerator Centre. Many of them have had very little previous exposure to computer-based problem solving - but the majority seem to be getting the hang of it - Python is definitely […]

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Do you want to do cool 3D graphics stuff with Python? Grab a copy of VPython and start hacking! I have given an
`assignment’ to a few students to do something interesting with it for
Insignia 2005! (In fact, you can do
something *very* interesting with it - it’s possible to generate stereoscopic
images which `jump out’ of […]

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