A Challenge to Jatland Youth - Time for Action

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I am amazed that a field like Medicine has been left out by respected Dr. Birbal Singh! It might not have the due importance in India but i assume that things are not the same here in US! Pretty surprising!
 
Shamsher,

Before I started this thread I looked at the posts from several active participants on the site and named them in the first post. But, if you read the first post, I started with due apologies to others I did not name.

We do have several bright young people in the field of medicine on this site. I see from your profile that you are specialized in Interventional Radiology. My son is also a specialist in the same field followed by another Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine and he is the Program Director at the University of Alberta medical school.

At present I can say that Anil Chaudhary has taken the lead role in organizing at least one team centered around Boston. It would be great if you take the lead in organizing another team or joining with Anil in some way. I think there are many other competent people on this website but they are scattered around the world. May be someone among the India based people can take a lead role in organizing a team.

As Dr. Budh Nashier's post about his nephew and the Indiabulls.com showed, there is lot of potential here for incubating future success stories. So, once again, Shamsher, I urge you to take the lead role in medicine related ideas.
 
Dear Birbal ji,

Thanks for the initiative and encouragement. Possiblities are endless but the team has to focus on particular product or service. Hope by now they have made some progress. Members on this site may have some very bright ideas and learn from each other. Confidentiality about a product is understandable but exchange of ideas can be good at brain storming stage. For example I have one idea which I will post here.Members can comment on it's merits and demerits.

Here it is ( I am not concerned if some one wants to use it to his/her advantage it is the ultimate product which could be useful to young generation.);

School children in India and also other countries for that matter have to carry very heavy school bags (some times bag is bigger and heavier than child). With current technology and all the brains we have on this site there must be some way of making their load lighter. There could be various options but the ultimate aim is " Considerable Reduction in weight and volume of school bags at a reasonable price"

Good luck to budding techies and all with bright ideas.
 
I strongly agree but I am not sure about my skills for a startup. I think somebody needs to give time to this project to coordinate it in a professional manner. anyways check me at
http://www.cs.siu.edu/~divyac/Resume.html

Best of luck :)
Divya
 
hi anil,
just a thought.. dont u think automation of testing is something which is gonna be taken over by the free tools available cos of the open source movement..???
I think there are lot of ppl in open source community developing tools for such things...

Dont have very concrete information.. but may be u can try and further find out info on the same..
Cos if we are getting into something where we will have to compete with open sourc community then it will be difficult...

Regards,
Anuj
 
Shamsher,

Iss post ke saath saath do char ideas bhi de dete. Insiders have the best clue of what is needed.

I guess there are 2 ways of approaching/defining an idea:

o Have a great technology/idea and then seek problems to solve with it.

o Have problems to solve and then find the technologies to solve them with.

The technologists can best deal with the former, but the people with domain specific knowledge (like yourself in the field of medicine) can best deal with the latter.

So perhaps you can provide some problems
within your field that are begging for a solution/technology.

I'm sure it would be very interesting to all of us here who are taking interest in this thread.



Shamsher Singh Dalal (Sep 06, 2004 11:55 a.m.):
I am amazed that a field like Medicine has been left out by respected Dr. Birbal Singh! It might not have the due importance in India but i assume that things are not the same here in US! Pretty surprising!
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Ppl still do automation using scripts like tcl/perl etc. But the problem is to coordinate all tools from diff vendors and hiring engr who can script and also understand the technology. If u can provide a tool which can be run by an engr who is paid peanuts, it will be usefull. Same is true for open src.
Anuj Kadyan (Sep 08, 2004 01:09 a.m.):
hi anil,
just a thought.. dont u think automation of testing is something which is gonna be taken over by the free tools available cos of the open source movement..???
I think there are lot of ppl in open source community developing tools for such things...

Dont have very concrete information.. but may be u can try and further find out info on the same..
Cos if we are getting into something where we will have to compete with open sourc community then it will be difficult...

Regards,
Anuj
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I agree with Anil about having a very narrow focussed approach. Since no one wants to be full time involved in it, Products design is the best effort that the group can put in.
 
Maj.Gen. (retd.) Ian Cardozo, vice-president of the War Wounded Foundation said: "Navin has proved that destiny is not a matter of chance but it is a matter of choice. His life is a saga of courage."
 
Hi All,
Actually I'm new to this site....I was reading this thread. Its really a great effort from all you guys.
I don't know if I can join a conversation in the middle.I just couldn't stop myself by replying.
If I'm not allowed to write on this thread, I'm sorry to bother you guys.
I'm a Software Engineer working on Microsoft Technologies(C/C++, C#.Net, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML and SQL Server).

Note- VC++ or C#:- I would like to say something here..As I have been working in this field and doing all the programming stuff...I'll suggest that we should do something in a technology which is HOT in the market"...upto my knowledge .Net(DOT NET) has a great market..as many companies are trying to convert their old/new projects into .Net technology.

Regards
Sunil
 
U r always welcome, sunil!
I was trying to figure out whats best for writting an application which is not only GUI intensive but also interacts with NIC device drivers and does a lot of low level communication with other devices on the network. So, what do u suggest VC++ or C#?
 
Technically VC++ sounds better for writing an application which has device driver interaction.
Its easy to use the Win32 API(for interacting with device driver or device itself) and MFC(for creatting a GUI) in VC++. Also VC++ compiler is capable of compiling WDM (Windows Device Manager) drivers.Also most of the microsoft components are written in C so it can help a programmer to write new components based on old components.

Hope it helps!
Sunil



anil chaudhary (Sep 13, 2004 08:05 p.m.):
U r always welcome, sunil!
I was trying to figure out whats best for writting an application which is not only GUI intensive but also interacts with NIC device drivers and does a lot of low level communication with other devices on the network. So, what do u suggest VC++ or C#?
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I would suggest to use C#.net to develop GUI parts and VC++ to develop COM objects as middleware.

Developing GUI with VC++ takes lots of time. C# much is easier and one can develop much fancier UI with it.
We can use power of VC++ by developing COM components that can interact with O/S level calls or other processing centric modules. Integration betweenn C# apps and COM is not too difficult.
 
for those in silicon valley:
may be some of u can try to attend this:
http://www.siliconindia.com/events/WirelessVentures/
 
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