IITM allowed the students of other colleges to view their labs and know about their ongoing research project. It was held for 3 days 5-7of March'10. Me and my friends attended the open house on a good early morning Sunday 7th March. entering the IIT campus of Madras was really a great experience, the campus was fabulous and away from all reality and a pollution free Eco-friendly campus .There was absolute GREENERY. We friends met at Gajendra Circle( yeah two elephants) and started walking from there,To tell the truth we kept on walking walking and lost the way(all the time) . By the way we explored the campus till CSE department , such that we'll never get lost ever again. In the CSB we attended a seminar on Linux Installation which was interesting (since i have not operated a Linux server before). After that we atteneded the Puzzle Champ . At last we started exploring the various labs.
At first we visited the RISE lab . The first research project was a ping pong game but with a different way of implementation using FHDL. The second was based on Robotics. He showed us how it works and Shared his experiences in implementation of the project. The basis of the project was to give a binary input accordingly the robot moved forward and backward. The next lab was Wireless System Networks lab(WSN) where we a project called Data Mule,which collected data from several different sensors and reported a collective data to the base station. The other project was moving a car based on the value from a sensor and they use a software known as Tiny OS for implementing these projects. The next Lab was Theory of Computer Science , where they explained about and approximation solutions to NP-Completeness problem. the last one was the Microsoft Lab where we saw a project based on ERP's (Enterprise Resource Planning) with SOAP ( Simple Object Access Protocol ) and RMI(Remote Method Invocation ) where they use multiple servers for transferring data .
It was a amazing experience and overall we enjoyed our time once without wasting time( hope soo).
