Here at my college, we have been enjoying the lectures by a well known proffessor from IIT Madras for the last two days. Its none other than Prof. Kalyana Krishnan. The seminar was organized by the computer science department for the first year Mtech students and 2nd year Btech students. The topic was Computer organization.
Though the topic was known to most of the Mtech students, it seemed like new information. The IITians usually have a different approch towards presenting anything. They start from the basics and explain different sub topics as the move up by linking them the most practical way. the linking makes it more interesting all the time. coz thats how all our brain works. They dont jump or get stuck! that's what makes the talks by IITian so special.
I was not here to talk about what he had tought us about computers. But I'm here to talk about one of his work at IITM. Its a text editor. just a text editor? No its a multilingual text editor.
The Editor will allow you to use english key board to type any Indian language and forign languages like Arabic etc and even Brailie.Once the content is typed in you can change the language and the text will be transcripted to that language. It has won the honor from the former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul kalam. You can download the software from here
This is an open source project now called imli
I think it will be a good tool to learn braili and sanskrit. It could be a coincidence tha that I have watched the movie called "Book of Eli". And when the professor showed the editor during the session the first thing that went in to my head was this... how the movie would have ended if the villian in the movie had this editor with him :)
Anyways the the lectures were wonderful.
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