and what is the production source? Project
CurioCity aims to develop a platform where
students in a particular city can learn about
key figures and systems within their city, but
it does not stop here. Knowing facts about
your city won’t make it better. Can we do
something about? Well, yes, if you have real
data. Using data visualization techniques
and support from government data sources,
we aim to build a platform that keeps itself
up to date with the latest statistics, and let
students play with that data by visualizing
it, extrapolating, and thus coming up with
better ways to solve the city’s problems. The
platform will contain information regarding demographics, transport, energy, waste
disposal, healthcare, crimes, pollution levels,
forest cover/green spaces, economy, literacy, education etc. The project will be piloted
in Mumbai and Bangalore before moving
to major cities across the world. We plan to
collaborate with several organizations such
as IBM, Google and Mckinsey for this initiative in the longer run.
The future trends in educational
technology
Education is in the middle of a disruption.
There are several key areas which are being
explored and I would like to touch upon
the important ones. There is a whole lot of
work going on in Intelligent Tutoring Systems, which employ Artificial Intelligence
and Cognitive Science. CMU’s LearnLab
does some amazing work in this field. Work
is going on in 3D fabrication and maker culture and its use to teach students important
problem solving skills. Stanford’s TLTL lab
does significant work in this area. Interesting work is happening in educational games
and how they can be used to make learning
fun. Another key area coming up is Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics
to model students computationally.
Our Team
We have an awesome team that works together towards achieving our goals. The
members include Dhruv Chand (Mechanical, Third Year), Vikas Yaligar (IT Third
Year), Sreecharan Sankaranarayanan (CSE,
Third Year), Nimisha Sarath (CSE, Second
Year). Our faculty mentors include Dr Annappa B (HOD, CSE) and Dr Mohit Tahiliani (Assistant Professor, CSE). Our remote
mentors include Dr. Jennifer Mankoff
(HCII, CMU). We are supported by our
aluminus Roshni Chandrashekhar (2011
batch)
.
Joining our team
We are always willing to take in more people
who wish to change the future of education.
Visit our website to get an updated list of
projects. Link: www. ulrl.nitk.ac.in
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Mohit Tahiliani is an assistant
professor in the CSE
department. His research
interests include active queue
management mechanisms and
TCP congestion control.
By Dr. Mohit Tahiliani
logging undoubtedly is an arduous
job, but its benefits are innumerable.
It was way back in 2009 that the quest for
learning and sharing the knowledge on ns2, a network simulator for research, landed
me in the blogosphere. It was only during
my time as a Research Scholar at NITK, Surathkal that my blog started to go viral.
An amazing idea is absolutely fascinating but utterly useless until we choose to use
it. Therefore to experiment with my project
ideas, I kickstarted my journey with ns-2. I
started writing noddy programs and soon
became well-versed with the tool. During
this course, I came across several errors
that left me clueless. These errors in ns-2
encourage you to stop coding and instead
rely heavily upon the script generators. I
started posting my queries on forums and
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