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R.V. College of Engineering
Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering | |
Motto | Sanskrit: Prajvalitō Jnānamaya Pradïpah |
Motto in English
Light the lamp of Knowledge |
Established | 1963[1] |
Type | Autonomous |
Principal | Prof. B.S Sathyanarayana.[2] |
Academic staff
351[3] |
Undergraduates | 3160[3] |
Postgraduates | 616[3] |
Location | Bangalore, Karnataka, India 12°55′26.13″N 77°29′58.78″E / 12.9239250°N 77.4996611°E |
Campus | Urban, 76 acres (310,000 m2), 12.3 km from Bangalore city on Mysore Road. |
Accreditation | AICTE, NBA, COA |
Sports | University level Cricket, Association Football, Badminton, Basketball |
Nickname | RVites[4] |
Affiliations | VTU |
Website | rvce |
Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering (R.V. College of Engineering or RVCE) is a private technical co-educational college located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Established in 1963, RVCE has 11 departments in engineering, one school of architecture, and a Master of Computer Applications department. It is affiliated to the Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belgaum. The undergraduate courses are granted academic autonomy by the university. RVCE is accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), all its departments are accredited by the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), and its school of Architecture is accredited by the Council of Architecture (COA). It was founded, and is managed by the Rashtreeya Sikshana Samiti Trust in Bangalore. It has been recognised as a centre of excellence by the Union Government of India and is considered as the most preferred college in Bangalore to study engineering.[5]
The college has twinning programs and collaborations with many institutions across the world, as well as collaborations with the industry. The annual festival of the college is called 8th Mile, and each of the departments host their own festivals.
The students of RVCE operate many student projects, most notable being the ones supported by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and the ones which participate in the competitions conducted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE).
The Rashtreeya Sikshana Samithi Trust (RSST) in Jayanagar, Bangalore, which manages the college was founded (as Rashtreeya Sikshana Samiti) in 1940 by Sivananda Sarma. It was formed as a trust in 1964. RSST currently operates over 25 institutions, educating over 15000 students.[6] Sivananda Sarma and Meda Kasturiranga Setty of RSST were responsible for the setting up of RVCE in 1963. The college initially offered degrees in three disciplines: mechanical engineering, civil engineering and electrical engineering, and it operated from the R.V. Teacher's college campus in Jayanagar.[4]
RVCE is spread over 53 acres (21 ha) on the banks of the Vrishabhavati River in Bangalore, located on the Mysore Road, in between Bangalore University gate and Kengeri. The nearest commuter railway station is the Kengeri railway station. The campus has a building for each undergraduate department, with the exception of the Biotechnology, Information Science, Instrumentation Technology and Master of Computer Applications departments, which are housed in a single building.[7][8]
The college has a post office with postal identification as R.V. Vidyaniketan P.O,[9] and a bank operated by ING on its campus.[10] The canteen serves North Indian, South Indian and Chinese vegetarian cuisine. RVCE offers internet connectivity at its browsing center, with copier facilities nearby on campus. The college also operates a health center.[11][12]
The library of the college was set up in 1963, and was moved to a dedicated block in 1989. All the books are bar coded, and the books are managed using a smart card system. The total book count of the library is 70991, and the number of Journal volumes and conference proceedings together totals to 2699.[13]
RVCE has 4 hostels on campus, namely the Cauvery Hostel for first year students, the Diamond Jubilee Block hostel for the second year students, the Chamundi Block for the third year students, and the Sir. M. Visvesvaraya Block for the fourth year students. The hostels on campus are completely meant for boys. The college, along with the managing trust (RSST) operates 4 other hostels in Bangalore located in Jayanagar, J.P. Nagar, and Rajarajeshwari Nagar meant exclusively for the girls.[12]
Environmental initiatives[edit]
Three rainwater harvesting systems sponsored by the KPMG foundation have been installed around the campus, the construction of which was supervised by the department of civil engineering. Both the harvesting systems make use of a rooftop collection method, and a sump, and the stored water is typically used for drinking purposes. 3000 sq metres of rooftop area is utilised, and around 1.7 million litres of water is collected annually.[14]
Organization and administration[edit]
Higher level administration[edit]
The college is managed at the top level by a governing body consisting of 5 members from the managing trust (RSST), 2 teachers of the college, 1 educationalist or industrialist, 1 University Grants Commission member, 1 AICTE nominee, 1 state government nominee, 1 university nominee, and the principal.[3][15]
Lower level administration[edit]
The daily affairs of the college are managed by the principal, in consultation with the advisor and the vice-principal. Student welfare, and academics in general is headed by the respective deans; examinations by the controller of examinations; administration by the director of administration, while each of the academic departments, as well as research and placement departments are headed by the respective heads of departments.[3][15]
Industry collaborations and MoUs[edit]
The college has industry collaborations and Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with companies and universities. The college has tied up with universities in India, the United States, Germany, South Korea and Singapore.[1] The college has twinning programs with many institutions including Konyang University, South Korea[16] University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, West Virginia University, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Lamar University, all in the United States;[17] Aachen University[17] and University of Muenster[18] in Germany; ISMANS, France;[17] University of Sydney and University of Wollongong, both in Australia.[19] The college also has ties with the Kuvempu University, Shimoga;[20] and Mangalore University.[21]
In 2007, RVCE signed a MoU with the company Cognizant Technology Solutions to strengthen industry–academia partnership.[22] In October 2009, Pace Embedded Systems opened an Embedded Systems lab at RVCE to train the students in Digital Television and Embedded Systems.[23][24] The college also has industrial interactions with companies like ABB, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), DELL, WIPRO, Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) and the Indian Railways.[19]
The college offers placement on campus for its students.[25]
Academic profile[edit]
All the engineering departments and the school of architecture are accredited by the AICTE and the NBA.[26] All the undergraduate courses are autonomous under the university, which gives the departments freedom to set their own academic system.[27]
Students are admitted to undergraduate courses on basis of their merit in the Karnataka CET test, or in the COMED-K undergraduate test. Students are also admitted through a management quota, which places no merit requirement; students are directly admitted to a course upon the orders of the college management (in this case, the managing trust). There is a lateral entry scheme in place, by which students holding diploma degrees can enter directly to the second year of study in engineering. Students, upon graduating, receive a Bachelor of Engineering or a Bachelor of Architecture degree.[28] The total undergraduate strength allotted to the college is 3160.[3]
Students are admitted to postgraduate courses on basis of their GATE test scores, as well as on their Post Graduate Karnataka CET scores. Students, upon graduating receive a Master of Technology, Master of Computer Applications or a Master of Architecture degree.[29] The total postgraduate strength allotted to the college is 616.[3]
Course content and Grading[edit]
All the courses which have been conferred autonomous status have their departments set their own course content and grading system. The college follows the credit–based system of performance evaluation, with proportional weighting of courses based on their importance. The total marks (usually out of 100) form the basis of grades, with a grade value (out of 10) assigned to a range of marks. For each semester, the students are graded by taking a weighted average of all the subject grades with their respective credit points. Each semester's evaluation is done independently with a cumulative grade point average (CGPA) reflecting the overall performance across semesters. Initially in 2007, the college used to follow a relative grading system, but later on switched to an absolute grading system. The medium of instruction is English.[30][31]
College Rankings | |
Engineering – India | |
Private colleges: | |
Mint[32] | 7 |
RVCE has been recognised as a centre of excellence by the Union Government of India.[1] In 2008, the college had the highest number of gold medal winners among colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University,[33] a gold medal being awarded to the highest ranked student for a given discipline.[34] The college's undergraduate course in mechanical engineering is the state's first degree course in a private institution to be accredited by the National Board of Accreditation.[35]
The college has been ranked 33 in Outlook India 's Top Engineering Colleges of 2012.,[36] and 22nd in the country in rankings by The Week in 2013.[37] In rankings limited to private colleges it was ranked 7 by Mint 's Top 50 Private Engineering Colleges of 2009.[32] It has been ranked 24 in India Today 's Top 25 Engineering Colleges of 2014.,[38]
Departments and courses[edit]
- Undergraduate
These departments offer four-year undergraduate courses in engineering. All of the undergraduate courses have been conferred autonomous status by the Visvesvaraya Technological University[39]
- Biotechnology
- Chemical Engineering
- Civil Engineering
- Computer Science And Engineering
- Electronics and Communication Engineering
- Electrical And Electronics Engineering
- Industrial Engineering and Management
- Information Science Engineering
- Instrumentation Technology
- Mechanical Engineering
- Telecommunication Engineering
- The R.V. College of Architecture (RVCA) offers a 5-year course in architecture, which is accredited by the Council of Architecture (COA).[40]
The allied departments of the college are the departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Humanities, and that of placement and training.[30]
- Graduate
Postgraduate courses offered by the college are not autonomous, and they remain fully under the ambit of the university.[41]
- The Master of Computer Applications department offers a postgraduate course in Computer Applications.
- The Master of Technology course offered by departments of Computer Science, Electronics and Communication and Mechanical Engineering.
- The School of Architecture offers a program in Master of Architecture, accredited by the COA.[30][40]
Student activities[edit]
Cricket and Football are widely played across the college campus. The college has a cricket team, which has won major competitions like the Chamaraju Memorial intercollegiate tournament.[42] The college's football team was victorious in tournaments like the VTU South Zone football tournaments.[43] The women's Basketball team wins in intra University tournaments, as well as other tournaments.[44] The college Badminton team frequently wins in university level tournaments.[45] The college tennis team has won the VTU intercollegiate tournament.[46]
Literary and language awareness[edit]
The Debating Society (DebSoc), of RVCE has 60 members, and takes part in tournaments across the world, with success at tournaments such as the All Asians Intervarsity Tournament. Members of the club participated in the 13th All Asian Debate Championship in Langkawi, Malaysia and won the "Best New Team Award" in the 12th All Asian Debate Championship.[47] The society also participates in inter varsity competitions held by Oxford University and Cambridge University.[48] The society also won the 2011 Asian British Parliamentary Debate held at Dhaka, Bangladesh.[49] Kannada Sangha is the club dedicated to spreading Kannada language and cultural awareness. The club conducts Kannada classes and holds a cultural fest every year.[50]
College festivals[edit]
8th Mile is the main annual techno cultural festival of the college, with intercollegiate competitions. [51][52] RV Quizcorp, the quiz club of RVCE conducts India's largest national level college and corporate quiz festival Under the Peepal Tree each year.[53][54] The Science Forum of the college, consisting of first year students conducts Genesis, the intercollegiate festival.[55] Apart from this, each department conducts its own festivals, some of them being Vidyut(Department of Electrical and Electronics), Helix(Department of Biotechnology), Iota(Department of Computer Science), Infinity (Department of Information Science and Engineering),[56] Impulse (Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering),[57] Vortex (Department of Mechanical Engineering), Vantage (Department of Instrumentation Technology),[58] Exceptions (Department of Master of Computer Applications)[59] and Connect (Department of Telecommunication Engineering). All of these are intercollegiate technical and cultural festivals.
The Kannada Sangha conducts a cultural festival every year. This fest has come under fire by the media and some officials because the organizers brought an elephant into the college campus; an act, which is supposedly illegal, even with requisite permission by the government.[60][61]
Social service[edit]
The Rotaract Club of RVCE is affiliated to Rotary International District 3190.[62] The National Service Scheme of India (NSS) has a unit in the college, which organises blood donation camps.[17] The National Cadet Corps of India (NCC) has a unit in the college.[3]
Student projects[edit]
SAE Projects[edit]
Ashwa, a formula racing car, conceptualized, fabricated and raced by a group of students.The Car was declared Second in the" Most Cost Effective and Efficiently Manufactured Category" in Italy 2012.[63] The car won the "Best Endeavour" award in the Formula SAE (FSAE) event in Italy 2009.[64] The car won the "Best Car from South Asia" award in the Formula SAE (FSAE) event in Germany. The team was also the first Indian team to compete in the FSAE event in 2005 in Australia, which won the "Best Value for Money"[65] and "Best Endeavour"[66] award. The project team has been awarded the "Young Achiever 2007" award, an award instituted by the Rotary Midtown and the Brigade Group.[67]
An All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) that can travel on muddy swamps and climb up hills was designed by a group of students from the Mechanical engineering department. The vehicle entered the Baja SAE contest in Pretoria in October 2006.[68]
Team Vyoma, a student group designs and manufactures UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) to participate in Aerodesign competitions conducted by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in Marietta, GA; and in Brazil. The team is the first Asian team to compete in the Aerodesign competitions.[69][70] They won NASA Systems Engineering Award in 2013, beating out 75 international teams.[71]
A team of students of RVCE, along with students from some other colleges in the country and the Indian Space Research Organisation, teamed up to make the first pico satellite in India, called StudSat. The pico satellite was launched by the PSLV C-15 on 12 June 2010 from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The camera on board has a low resolution of 90 metres. The panchromatic images are designed to provide terrain information during the satellite's short lifespan of six months to one year.[72][73][74]
Other projects[edit]
Team Jatayu, a student group, designs and manufactures UAVs to participate in the SUAS competitions conducted by the AUVSI Foundation in Maryland, USA.
Garuda, a fuel efficient, aerodynamic car, was designed by the Mechanical engineering students. The car reportedly gives a mileage of 180 kilometres per litre of fuel.[75][76] Project Garuda members were the only team from India to participate in the Shell Eco Marathon held at the Rockingham Motor Speedway, Corby, United Kingdom. Project Garuda was awarded the "Most Persevering Team" award, which is given to the best first time participant every year.[77]
Eight students of the college have developed an auto rickshaw consuming water as a fuel. The team has also developed an inexpensive and simple retrofit kit for auto rickshaws.[78]
In June 2008, students developed a prototype of a hybrid electric vehicle that uses both electric energy and diesel mixed with biodiesel. According to The Hindu, this is the first indigenous hybrid electric prototype in the country and among very few prototypes to use biodiesel. The project, named "Chimera", was conceived and the prototype developed by the final year students of four engineering disciplines–Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Computer science and Industrial engineering. In 2011, The team was the only Indian entry in the Michelin Challenge Bibendum held in Berlin.[79][80]
Notable alumni[edit]
Anil Kumble, former captain of the Indian Test Cricket Team and winner of Arjuna Award in 1995 and Padma Shri Award in 2005 graduated from RVCE with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.[81] Another alumnus of the college is Table tennis player Chetan Baboor, who represented India in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Komatireddy Venkat Reddy and P.G.R. Scindia, politicians from Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka respectively, are alumni of the college. Bollywood actors Shiney Ahuja and Rahul Dev; Ashok Nayak, chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and noted Kannada singer Nanditha also call the college their alma mater.[82]
See also[edit]
- List of Indian engineering college rankings
- List of colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University
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All Your Base Are Belong To UsAll Your Base Are Belong To Us (requires Shockwave and not for the weak of heart). The Time Magazine explanation for the phenomenon. (Posted at 09:41:24 PM EST.)
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FDA Approves Once-a-Week Prozac"The government approved a once-a-week version of Prozac Tuesday for long-term depression treatment - but cautioned it's too soon to know if weekly doses are as effective as once-a-day Prozac. Depression often requires long-term treatment. Yet many patients quit medication as soon as they feel better, prompting a relapse. So some psychiatrists have longed for once-a-week medication, theorizing patients would be more likely to keep taking their medicine if it didn't mean swallowing so many pills." Just what we needed?!?? I guess there's always a new market for Eli Lilly & Co. to exploi-- er, I mean, enter. (Posted at 08:11:01 AM EST.)
Only 36% of physicians are still not using e-mail to communicate with staff, colleagues, patients or third party payers.
Just What We Needed: More Health StandardsGee, with only 51 standards to have to adhere to to gain the accreditation of this new seal, who do you think this kind of effort is aimed at? Certainly not the empowered health consumer, the most common author of the over 50,000 health Web sites online today. Ah well. URAC (which incomprehensibly stands for the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission) is a Washington-based nonprofit that mainly accredits managed care organizations. What made them think they had the knowledge or ability to get into the world of online health is beyond me. (Posted at 01:19:48 PM EST.)
URAC (which incomprehensibly stands for the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission) is a Washington-based nonprofit that mainly accredits managed care organizations. What made them think they had the knowledge or ability to get into the world of online health is beyond me.
Bloggin' the Net Part DeuxYet another article about Weblogs, spurred on, no doubt, by the Newsweek piece earlier this week. (Posted at 12:53:10 PM EST.)
Reaction to the Newsweek articleSlashdot's responses and Metafilter's responses to the Newsweek article posted yesterday. There aren't a lot of interesting online journals out there, and as far as Weblogs go, well, it's a crap shoot in finding daily, ongoing quality. (Posted at 12:34:09 PM EST.)
Growing PainsWe're still tweaking our new server configuration, so I apologize for the occasional downtime in the past week. Another week and all should be back to normal. (Posted at 11:17:18 AM EST.)
A Great ConferenceI was down in Washington, D.C. this past week for the National Mental Health Association's Internet Mental Health Leadership Summit. It went well, but we won't see what will come out of it for a few more weeks or months... Still, I had fun and learned a lot at the same time. Yay! (Posted at 09:01:06 PM EST.)
Reformulating the Internet Paradox: Social Cognitive Explanations of Internet Use and Depression"The Internet Paradox study (Kraut et al., 1998) found evidence of a causal link between Internet use and depression, but it may have been specific to novice Internet users. The relationship between Internet use, social support and depression was reformulated drawing on social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1997) to account for the possible influence of self-efficacy, Internet-related stress, and perceived social support. A path analysis revealed a link between Internet use and depression, but one mediated by self-efficacy and the expectation of encountering stressful situations on the Internet. A path also was found linking Internet use to decreased depression through the use of e-mail exchanges with known associates to obtain social support." Read the whole study online. It's good stuff and contradicts the outrageous conclusions the original researchers drew from speculative data. (Posted at 09:51:17 AM EST.)
HannibalI went and saw the movie, Hannibal, today. A disappointment, all in all, not even living up to about 10% of the hype attributed to it. It wasn't nearly as bloody or gory as I was expecting based upon reports, just mostly boring. A mish-mash of psychobabble and characters that you didn't much care about when they met their inevitable deaths. And anybody who thinks that Hannibal would ever kill Starling is beyond me... (Posted at 06:35:55 PM EST.)
Oh yeah... of course the reason I mentioned the roundtable discussion is because I'm one of the participants. Of course I think it's going to be an interesting discussion as well! :-) (Posted at 06:34:02 PM EST.)
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Yep, I moved to China in '06. Quite happy here with more friends than I can shake a stick at, and more work begging than I can ever get a leg over.
I'm not sure which numbers are correct, but I do know that the economy was so bad that I left the country to greener pastures. There's plenty of opportunities abroad in the developing world, namely China, Mexico, Brazil, etc. I'm not the only one that's moved abroad because of difficulties finding a career in the US, I have quite a few friends that have done the same.
Until someone releases a comprehensive study detailing what is accounting for the drop in labor force participation rate, then it is very difficult to draw conclusion from it.
If we are to assume the drop is coming from demographic change (retiring boomers), a number of problems immediately come to my mind:
1. The drop just happens to coincide with the largest economic crisis since the Depression? Highly suspect..
2. From point one, if wages are stagnant, the economy is struggling, households are filled with debt, is a boomer really that likely to retire in the first place?
3. To what extent would this baby-boomer drop in participation rate be offset over this same period by the rising level of women and other minorities into the workforce?
In ANY case, what we do know for sure is that there are way too many people out of work, and our economy is running way below potential. The solutions to this are shamefully simply.. you could:
A) Implement a permanent jobs guarantee program as described by various economists and utilized in many countries in the past (including the U.S.) - the Levy Institute has a lot of work on the subject. It is counter-cyclical, does not cause inflation, and will raise the standard of living and reduce poverty across the nation.
B) Suspend FICA taxes indefinitely until this extra money has significantly improved the economy and lowered the unemployment rate.
Again, absurdly simple. But it does require a competent political system.. and there's the rub.
turns out this isn't too tough a conundrum to figure out.. a 5 second google search reveals this:
You can clearly see that over the past 10 years the drop in labor force participation rate has had nothing to do with retiring boomers (quite the opposite in fact, boomers participation rate rose over that period) and everything to do with people aged 54 and under dropping out of the work force.
Incentivizing people to take on more debt would be a bad move, I agree. However, it is the public sector which must increase its "debt" to get the economy going, not the private sector. This is accomplished by the means I mentioned above..
Economists seem to have just landed on thr notion that demand is weak. Well, we can't exactly resort to debt again because economists have been egging on cheap credit and the debt that comes with it for a couple generations now and the public wealth has been eroded away. You can't soak a public living paycheck to paycheck for much.
This section of slash and burn forest is depleted now. Time to find something else to soak money from, or lacking that, actually find a way to make the land fertile again.
The average unemployed Joe couldn't find those places on a map let alone work there.
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- Turn the grill to high, put the pittas on the grill rack and heat for about a minute while you slice the mozzarella into five.
- Turn the pittas over and spread each one with 1 tsp pesto, then top with a mozzarella slice. Pile the ham on top, so it looks quite ruffled, then tear the final mozzarella slice into four, put it on top of the ham and grind over black pepper. Return to the grill for 3-4 minutes more until melted and starting to turn golden.
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Gus Hunt: Two points, [and] we need to do both to support our mission: the massive amounts of information we have to be able to understand and deal with to do our job effectively, combined with the economic pressures that are on us from Congress and other places to be more efficient in IT. The external commercial sector has reached a curious tipping point where this advent of cloud — because it drives very, very high efficiencies in terms of managing infrastructure with high automation — also enables the capabilities we want to be able to apply to enable our mission for the future.
FCW: When and where will cloud computing services really become a functioning part of the CIA's IT operation?
Hunt: We have an early cloud, I will use quotations on the term "pilot" that we are working with the community for the [Director of National Intelligence (DNI)]…known as I2. And we have stood up in a large-scale computing environment the necessary capabilities to share both technology and information more effectively as part of a joint activity. That environment is not truly cloud-wide because it doesn't yet contain the dynamic in elastic components you need for real-time provisioning and the ability to take the resources that are underutilized and apply them in other places to get that job done. But it is serving as our framework for us to push into that space.
FCW: How is being part of the DNI office and the intelligence community as a whole helping or hindering what you need to accomplish at the CIA?
Hunt: Our working relationship with DNI and the IC has vastly improved. For example, our widget framework is based on iGoogle, it's called Ozone. It's the framework that NSA developed that we have adopted to build our new applications and the user interface functions in this framework. This enables us to share our widgets across the community.
FCW: There appears to be a general sentiment that enterprise architecture is not as important as it once was. What's your take?
Hunt: Enterprise architecture is still very important, but I think the way in which we have done it needs to change to accommodate the way of the future. So speed and agility are now essentially everything in this new world. One of the beauties of cloud computing is that it drives very rigorous efficiencies and effectiveness measures because of the scale of what you can manage now. Think of what Amazon or Google manages with very few people running huge infrastructures to great effect.
FCW: How do you view the administration's push to adopt social media tools, especially given the tools the intelligence community already has with A-Space and Intellipedia?
Hunt: In fact, we actually started a long time ago embedding these sorts of social sharing capabilities into the systems that we build here. These are part of the tools and services capabilities that we will be sharing out with the intelligence community through the I2 pilot.
For example, we have a thing we called common folder service. This is a mechanism that allows an analyst to create a folder on any subject — say on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction — and it allows the analyst or other users to deposit objects that they find in their searches and share that folder. Part of our folder service, though, is that it invokes security on the basis of you as an individual, not on the basis of the folder at large, so that your view of the folder and my view of the folder may be different based upon what our permissions are.
We have embedded this concept of sharing in almost everything we have done. Our analytic tool, which we called Trident, and our current work, which is known as Next Generation Trident, will take advantage of this widget-based framework.
FCW: Can you give an example of the new kinds of capabilities that you expect Trident to offer?
Hunt: We have a very cool monitor feature. It simply puts up a graph that says that over the last window of time, however you specify it, these are the number of objects that have come in matching your profile or a query that you have asked for. You can see it at a glance now that, "Oh my, something happened," because I got a spike right here.
FCW: What are the top technology issues that you find yourself needing to study?
Hunt: Clearly going to where we started back to the cloud. It has hit the hype cycle quicker than anything — it is the single most overhyped term in the history of IT, eclipsing [service-oriented architecture] by probably an order of magnitude.
I am also very interested in network virtualization. That's a space that I think needs more maturing.
A third area is storage. I wonder whether tape is dead. When you look at the fact that I need four tapes to back up a disk drive, what does it mean, and do I have the space to do this?
And then the final technology issue is what I called the algorithm development. Algorithms that detect very weak signals in a sea of noise have matured extraordinarily thanks to companies like Google and others who are using it to target selling new things. They are just looking for you on the bases of patterns, they don't know who you are, right? We need similar algorithms to find people on the basis of patterns or behaviors for making sure that the next Christmas Day bomber can be stopped before he can get on a plane or some other things like that.
Having storage is nice, having data is nice, having computer power is nice, but algorithm development is also essential to intelligence value.
FCW: It would seem that a critical need for the CIA is language interpretation technology.
Hunt: Machine translation is at best mediocre, and we know this is a huge gap. Things keep getting better, but they are only better on the margin. There hasn't been a major breakthrough in this space for a long time. English is fast becoming the second language of the Internet, but you have to be careful here. Just look at the Chinese population, look at the Indian population; they don't want to communicate in English, they want to communicate in their native languages.
I am going to be honest: I thought machine translation and…voice recognition were technologies that would have been well solved by today. I thought that many years ago, [and] these are two areas where either I was overly optimistic or way off base. But today, I don't see a good, high-performance, high-accuracy solution emerging anytime in the next five years.
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It is quite well established that activation of the AT2 receptor (AT2R) provides a counter-regulatory role to AT1R overactivity, particularly during pathological conditions. Indeed, a potential therapeutic role for the AT2R is currently being promulgated with the introduction of novel AT2R ligands such as compound 21 (C21). In this brief review, we will focus on recent evidence to suggest that AT2R exhibits promising organ protection in the context of the heart, kidney and brain, with inflammation and gender influencing outcome. However, this field is not without controversy since the 'flagship' ligand C21 has also come under scrutiny, although it is safe to say there is much evidence to support a potentially important role of AT2R in a number of cardiovascular diseases. This report updates recent data in this field.
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- Title
- Update on the Angiotensin AT2 Receptor
- Journal
Current Hypertension Reports
Volume 15, Issue 1 , pp 25-30
- Cover Date
- 2013-02-01
- 10.1007/s11906-012-0321-4
- Print ISSN
- 1522-6417
- Online ISSN
- 1534-3111
- Publisher
- Current Science Inc.
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Angiotensin peptides
- AT2 receptor
- Angiotensin II
- Angiotensin III
- Compound 21
- Ang peptides
- AT2R agonists
- Beta-substituted amino acids
- Vascular
- Antifibrotic
- Neuroprotection
- Kidney
- Brain function
- Organ protection
- Blood pressure
- Hypertension
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Claudia A. McCarthy (1)
- Robert E. Widdop (1)
- Kate M. Denton (2)
- Emma S. Jones (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Pharmacology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia
- 2. Department of Physiology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia


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