Intel India Poster Presentation

On 16th November, 2005 we started to Bangalore for a Poster presentation on our research project at the Intel India Student Research Contest. We took the Mysore Express from Madurai Jn in a two tier AC coach (since Intel gave us reimbursement for the forward and onward journey we spent less time to worry about our travelling cost :)). Sri Ranjani and myself went for the presentation on the topic "Security in LAN through Autonomic Computing". On 17th NOv,2005 we reached Bangalore and were given accomodation in Hotel Ashoka Residency. Since our college had the maximum number (13 teams) of teams in the presentation, we were given shared accomodation with our college mates. Shanker Vinay Arul(BE,Mechatronics), Naganathan(ME,Production), VijayKumar(ME,CommSystems) and myself were given a double bedroom room in the hotel. On the same day we went to the Intel India Office which was in the Outer ring road at Bangalore and there we attended many seminars. We had a chance to listen to a lecture by Frank Jones, President Intel India. In the afternoon after lunch we were given separate display boards in which we placed our posters for display. These posters illustrated the idea of our project and the entire design of what we are proposing. It was a big competiton with teams from almost all the IITs, NITs, BITS and almost all the well known universities. We stood at our stalls and the employees of Intel came to our stalls and interested people were enquiring about the projects description. Each team was assigned a Intel mentor. For our team the Intel Mentor is Mr.Kothandaraman Rengarajan who is a very dynamic person, and helped us in coming out with ideas of how to design our posters and improve our projects scope. He conducted telephone conferences before we made to this presentation at Bangalore. On the second day also we had many sessions by prominent Intel personalities and in the afternoon again we were asked to display our posters. We had a chance to explain our project to Mr.Vadivel who is working at Intel who is an aluminus of our college (2000 passed out). I just recognised him, since I ve met him only once, that too when he came for a technical talk a year back to our college when he was associated with IBM. Felt proud to be a TCEian when I saw one of our aluminus in Intel. Some of the names which I shouldn forget to mention are Manav Subodh, Jagan J, Lisha who are the core people who worked for such an event to happen. On 19th Nov,2005 we didn had any appointment with the Intel Contest. We had plans to party with our seniors Balamurugan(WIPRO) and Arun Ponniah(TRILOGY), but unfortunately they had a very tight schedule and our plans were in vain. But we had a chance to meet our senior K.N.Karthick(WIPRO) who was free on that day. He came with us and we went to various places in Bangalore and a nice snacks session at McDonalds in Forum. In the afternoon at around 4pm we went to his house and chatted with him and his family members. Then at 6pm we started to the railway station to catch our train which arrives at 9pm, since we feared Bangalore traffic(terrific) :). Keyan's mother prepared us nice Lemon rice and curd rice to have for our dinner. Then in the railway station we met Shankar Vinay and Naganathan and got in our berths in the train and had a nice sleep :) That was a nice experience for us to be a part of such a great event at Intel. It gave us an exposure to new industrial trends and also built confidence in us to participate in such events in the near future.