VELAMMAL ENGINEERING COLLEGE,
CHENNAI-66.
Volume
3,
Issue 1
Computer Society of
India—Student Chapter
Nov
2015
" To educate the student community both by theory and practice to fit in with the society and to conquer tomorrow's technology
at global level with human values through our dedicated team."
- VISION OF VELAMMAL.
Message from VEC-CSI-SBC :
Technical education is the backbone and a stepping stone for a country to move into a new era.
Students of Velammal Engineering College has always been successfully presenting their technical
skills. VEC is one of the very active participant of CSI and it is gratifying to be a part of it.
The all pervading enthusiasm shown by faculty and students in releasing VEC-CSI-SC newsletter and
making it a grand success is highly appreciated.
MESSAGE FROM HOD-CSE DEPARTMENT:
Giving technical knowledge, a different dimension has always been one of the greatest urge of our
team. As the Head of the Department, it’s been my proud privilege to extend support in any way I could
do to my team of dedicated staffs and students in accomplishing the same by taking one such effort. I
am immensely proud in making his issue with regards to our VEC-CSI-SC.
The progress that the newsletter has shown in the course of these years is proving how students of the
CSE Department are becoming tech-savvy. At this juncture, I take opportunity in congratulating them
for coming up with such an endeavor, demonstrating performances and leadership.
MESSAGE FROM HOD-TIFAC CORE:
As an effort of stimulating the academic environment to prepare our velammal engineering college
students for challenges, we release this NewsLetter. This initiative of our velammalians will build
strong foundations in all traditional areas of computer science & engineering. Computer Society of India (CSI) is the largest body of computer professionals in our country with various special themes. I
wish all our CSI student branch members a good luck, keep continuing your creativity for this activity.
EDITORIAL BOARD
VEC- CSI - SBC
DR. B. RAJALAKSHMI
(Prof. & Dean IT)
CSI-COORDINATOR
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Quote Unquote :
Everybody in this world should learn how to program a
computer.. Because it Teaches you how to think!
T . SUBASHINI- CSE DEPT
A.PRAVIN RENOLD- Tifac Core
V.SUBBULAKSHMI– IT Dept.
-STEVE JOBS.
Google Cardboard
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Project Tango
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Coding corner
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Artist Corner
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CSI Activities
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Puzzles
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STUDENT EDITOR
S RAMACHANDRAN
3rd Year CSE C
GOOGLE CARDBOARD
Google Cardboard is a virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) platform
developed by Google for use with a head mount for a mobile phone. Named for its
fold-out cardboard viewer, the platform is intended as a low-cost system to
encourage interest and development in VR and AR applications. Users can either
build their own viewer from simple, low-cost components using specifications
published by Google or purchase one that is manufactured by a third-party. The
platform was created by David Coz and Damien Henry, Google engineers at the
Google Cultural Institute in Paris, in their 20% "Innovation Time Off". It was
introduced at the Google I/O 2014 developers conference for Android devices, with
a release to iOS at the following year's event. Through January 2016, over 5
million Cardboard viewers have been shipped and over 1,000 compatible
applications had been published.
-Vivek Senthil, 3rd Year CSE B
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PROJECT TANGO
Project Tango is a Google technology platform that uses computer vision to
enable mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to detect their position
relative to the world around them without using GPS or other external signals.
This allows application developers to create user experiences that include indoor
navigation, 3D mapping, measurement of physical spaces, recognition of known
environments, augmented reality and windows into virtual 3D worlds.
-N.N.Karthik, 3rd Year CSE C
‘Everything should be made as simple as possible, But not simpler’
-Albert Einstien
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ARTIST CORNER
-S. Sankara Narayani, CSE B
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CSI ACTIVITIES
CSI STUDENT CHAPTER INAUGURATION CEREMONY
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CSI ACTIVITIES
Event: Project Display
The Light that Burns twice as bright, Burns half as long
-Steve Jobs
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Event: CODING CONTEST Level 1
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Event: CODING CONTEST Level 2
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PUZZLES
1) There is a 100-story building and you are given two eggs. The eggs have an interesting
property that if you throw the egg from a floor number < x, it will not break and it will
always break if the floor number is ≥ x. Assuming that you can reuse the eggs which didn’t
break, give an algorithm to find x in minimal number of throws.
2) You are travelling in the jungles of Africa, when you are caught by a tribe of barbarians.
They
allow
you
to
choose
between
death
or
solving
their
great
challenge:
You are blindfolded and taken to a room, where you are asked to kneel. You feel hundreds
of circular discs lying in front of you. You are told that one side of each disc is painted
red, and the other green. There are exactly 129 discs that currently are red side up. You
have to divide the discs into two groups, such that each group has the same number of
discs showing the red colour. Obviously no peeking allowed.
- M. Keerthana, CSE C
ANSWERS:
1) I assume that you are trying to minimize the maximum number of egg throws. If so, you are balancing the
need to do egg-drops from floor L+1 to floor B-1 (in the case the you break the egg on floor B, having
established that floor L doesn't break the egg) against the number of drops you need to do on floors
above B. Intuitively, if you start at Floor 33, you may have to do 31 more drops (Floor 2, Floor 3, . . . ,
Floor 32) if the egg breaks initially, and 31 or 32 more drops if it doesn't break and you need to repeat the
egg dropping algorithm on floor 66.
So, the answer is x = 33.
2) Put 129 discs on one side and rest of the group on other side. Now let us assume that there are n disc in
rest group which are showing red side. But we know total of 129 discs are showing red face, so we have
129-n discs showing red faces in first group.
So flip all the discs in the first group (which contain 129-n red discs )..
So we will have 129-(129-n) discs showing red.
LIST OF OFFICE BEARERS(2015-2016).
S.J .VIVEK SENTHIL
PRESIDENT
S.JEYASHREE
VICE PRESIDENT
M.HEMALATHA
SECRETARY
S.RAMACHANDRAN
JOINT SECRETARY
R.PREETHI
TREASURER
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