GSOC 2010

Its official, gsoc 2010 is here. The battle lines have been drawn, would-be participants eager to get started, mentor organizations cant wait. ideas flowing like never before. Its all about another code infested summer. Its that time again when the adrenaline rush will engineer new creative solutions for tomorrow's computing needs. For students, don't miss this chance to show the world what your codename says, for mentoring organizations, keep the ideas list growing. For more info, check out the official gsoc 2010 site here. For starters, here is a list of last years organizations and ideas list categorized nicely.

Happy coding

PRMs for Motion Planning

Motion Planning has been dominated by algorithms that lie towards RRTs and related derivatives such as BiRRTs. Openrave for instance comes with RRT planners which do the job just a nuce as one needs it. PRMs(Probabilistic RoadMaps) however remain under-exploited even though they pose a great potential in motion planning owing to the probabilistic nature and the fact that classical graph algorithms can be optimized to be used in the stages of PRMs. I have now started looking at PRMs in deeper perspective with the aim of getting a better understanding of how they work and how they are implemented.

For more on PRMs, check this out.

Bored with Facebook? How about jut Buzz

Google just lauched their new socila networking tool called Buzz, aimed as a direct competitor for facebook, so far it comes packed in gmail, which means not need to register plus no new url to remember, lets see ow this goes, try it out here. Check out more info here.

Enjoy buzzing(if such a word exist already)