Visions of Science 2005

Colorful things are always inspiring..

GIKIANs at KTH

Not sure about whole Sweden but there are currently 15 gikians in KTH, Stockholm right now:). 6/7 of last year and 9 of this year. We have 1.5 years MS program as of 2005-2005.. 4 guys from batch 7, 2 guys from batch 8, 3 guys from batch 9, 5 from batch 10 (incl 1 girl) and 1 from batch 11. Of 15, 10 are from FCSE, 2 each from ME and EE and the girl is either from MM or ES.

March of the Titans A History of the White Race

Interesting book and is available online.. One interesting remark is on Harrapa and Mohenjo-Darro where this book claims that the people there were from Mediterranean race (the original European race which was invaded by Aryan invaders). The remark is opposite to what I have generally read that these civilizations had Dravidian inhabitants. It will be interesting to see if Dravidian has any link with Mediterraneann.

Yahoo! Groups : Pakistan_Sweden_Volunteers

Hi..

finally we have made a group to coordinate relief efforts in Sweden (Stockholm in particular).

Our first goal is to organize a seminar to create awareness about the immediate-future threats faced by affected people.

May Allah have mercy on them.

Join the group if you want to contribute.

And we need a flash expert who can help us in developing the presentation.

regards,

Asim

Pakistan needs help... you may save lives

Below is Muzafarabad which is 80% destroyed. Its population is approx 100k and it is the capital of pakistani-kashmir

BEFORE and AFTER

Pakistan really need help and if you are in any position to contribute then please do so... There are approx 2 million people who are now homeless and they live in areas which have no more road access.. They need blankets, tents, food, medicine etc..

For sending such equiment contact Pakistan International Airline's local office or pakistani embassy in your country.

1) Cloths (All your extra pairs in your closet)
2) Shoes (check your shoe racks)
3) Blankets (Shawls / Chaddars)
4) Medicines (Anti-Biotics & Pain-Killers)
5) Monetary (Zakat / Khairaat / donations)

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-- following is official message form embassy of pakistan in Sweden ----

Pakistan Earthquake Victims need your HELP. See Detail

Please help by contributing generously towards President of Pakistan's special fund for the earthquake victims. You can contribute directly in the said fund by depositing money in
Embassy of Pakistan's following account.

Account Name: Embassy of Pakistan Pres. Relief Fund/Earthquake V.
SEB Account. Number: 527 71 00 19 69 (Swedish Kronor Account)
IBAN Number: SE 80 5000 0000 0527 71 00 19 69
Swift Address: ESSESESS
Bank-Giro Number: 5624 - 4759

Remember... even a single kronor contributed by you may save a life among the earthquake victims.

My portrait :d (2001)

Meet the world

www.BrazilianArtists.net, the A-Z of Brazilian Arts, Entertainment & Cultural Events in the UK is definitely one of the best thing I have seen on web.. :)

I came here through one another interesting website Gallery of Data Visualization

..::ARASH::..

His song temptations is superb.. and the video is excellent..Check out this website.. Also go to video section and see online, temptations..

Tike tike kerdi is another nice song.. ARash is Persian but has sung one song partially in Urdu/Hindi as well :)

Coursework complete

Today my coursework has completed and grades are finalized. By the grace of Allah, I completed in one year 14 courses (4 extras), amounting to 87 ECTS. And I managed to keep my CGPA 4.51/5.00. For me, its a nice leap from 2.63/4.00 my BS CGPA.

I took following courses.
2I1029 Human-Computer Interaction,
2I1703 Affective interaction,
2I1705 Artificial Intelligence: Principles and Techniques,
2I1706 Programming of Interactive Systems,
2I1707 Cognitive and Social Science in HMI,
2I1708 Microsimulation,
2I1709 Collaborative computing,
2I1710 Ubiquitous Computing,
2I1713 Methodology for Interaction Design,
2I1234 Machine Learning,
2I1235 Agent Programming

I didn't take one nice looking course 2I1711 Principles of Visualization however I am reading its contents during my thesis :).

I took three courses from other programs.
2I1224 Data Warehousing,
2G1509 Distributed Systems, Basic Course
2G1526 Distributed Computing, Peer-to-Peer and GRIDS

Faisal Ghias Mir was my project partner in these three courses :).

My Thesis: Visualization of Epidemic Spread

Magnus Boman is advisor and examinor for my Masters Thesis.. Basically I have 3 advisors from all over the places.. Magnus is "the advisor" from my department (DSV KTH/SU).

My other two advisors are Fredrik Liljeros and Mikael Stenhem. Mikael works at
Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) and he is specialist on MRSA. Fredrik is social scientist with background in computer science. He listens to Mikael and then translate his requirements into "English" which poor computer scientists, like me, can understand.

Right now I am in phase 1 which concerns with development of early tool that Mikael and Fredrik can use. In phase 2 I will do detailed study on how the tool is used and how it can be improved (or replaced, if need arise). In phase 3 I will develop second version of this tool, based on my findings from phase 2.

I am using C/C++, Win32, ADO and DirectX 9 in Phase 1. I am doing development on Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. and the coolest thing about my project is that I am doing lots of programming.

My thesis and my name on and page.