ACCET TIMES
IIC WORKSHOP
Institution's innovation council of ACGCET conducted a workshop on "Meta cognitive skills in problem solving" for student members .The workshop was held at the Virtual classroom in CSE department with a count of 150 students. Initially IIC president Dr.K.Baskaran gave the presidential address and the session was undertaken by Dr.R.Parvathavardhini AP, Department of English. A small session on Smart India Hackathon (SIH) was conducted by Dr.C.Umarani AP/CSE. They also planned for a Campus Hackathon in our college and the session ended with some refreshments.
YOUTH RED CROSS
YRC event was held in mechanical classroom on 10.10.19. The event today was a debate on the topic “Which is better – Engineering or medicine?”. Students came out with different opinions about the two fields. This event was to improve the communication skills of the students. All the students actively participated in the event. The YRC coordinators have planned for more such events in the coming days.
GENERAL ARTICLE
EMOJI
Love them or hate them , emojis are everywhere, spreading through our texts, social media posts, and emails. They're in our inboxes , on the big screen , and even being used as evidence in courtrooms.
Don't let the cuteness of the pixel-sized peaches , smiley faces , and clapping hands fool you, emojis are rapidly changing the nature of how we communicate, in some profound ways: They're breaking down language barriers, accelerating human interaction and being tested in legal arenas, which is posing some unprecedented challenges for lawmakers.
An emoji is a visual representation of an emotion, object or symbol. Emoji can are in modern communication apps such as your smartphone’s text messaging or social networking apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. To access your library of emoticons in any app, tap the smiley face icon on the keyboard.
The original set of emoji were designed in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita for the Japanese phone carrier NTT DoCoMo on their i-mode platform, the world’s first internet enabled mobile service.
Kurita-san intended to create a set of “characters that could cover the entire breadth of human emotion.” He designed 176 12×12 pixel emoji covering a range of people, places, and things.
By 2014, the Great Emoji Politicization had begun. It happened with emoji representing food, flags ,families, and more. It wasn’t just a matter of having the right icon to describe what you ate for lunch—it was having a digital acknowledgement of your culture. Emoji had emerged as an important language of the digital age.
In 2015, Unicode took its first big step toward diversifying emoji by introducing the option to change the skin tone on people emoji, along with additions to include more types of people doing more types of things. Since then, every update has included incremental steps toward diversifying the types of people and cultures represented on the emoji keyboard: female surfers and cyclists, women with hard hats and stethoscopes, people wearing turbans and hijabs. Most recently, Unicode has taken steps toward creating gender-neutral emoji, emoji that represent people with disabilities, and other symbols to represent the full spectrum of emoji users.
Now emojis have become an indispensible part of our texts. Emojis add flavour to our messages communicating better than words.
KEEZHADI EXCAVATION
Keezhadi excavation just provides an another proof to the world that tamil culture was existed in 2nd century itself. An archaeological survey was started in Keezhadi village of sivaganga district in Tamilnadu where archaeologists have made some major discoveries which may rewrite the Indian history.
In keezhadi excavation archaeologists unearthed many artecrafts which provides a link between Indus valley civilisation and tamil brahmi (language). The artecrafts found there was dated as back as 580 BCE. Indus valley civilisation was an ancient civilisation and date back approximately to 5500 BCE. It is believed that among the available scripts of India, Indus scripts are believed to be the earliest one. The Indus scripts are the precursors of graffiti marks, a language which is believed by the scholars to be existed between indus script and brahmi language. As these marks are found in excavation it cannot be set aside as mere scratches.
In Keezhadi they are currently in the phase 5 excavation and the above results were from the fourth phase report produced by TNAD ( TamilNadu Archaeological Department ) . The report was named as “ keeladi – an urban settlement of sangamam age on the banks of river vaigai”.
The first three excavations were undertaken by archaeological survey of india whereas 4th and 5th excavations are under TNAD.
DO YOU KNOW???
1. According to psychologists, “We feel safer while watching horror movies on your bed rather than a sofa”.
2. You’ll communicate with dead relatives via virtual reality : The future! It’s either going to be really, really amazing, Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and director of engineering at Google, doesn’t like the idea of people he loves dying any more than you do. We can’t stop them from dying, but we can preserve their memories a little better than just fading photographs. He thinks we’re heading towards an age when we’ll be able to create virtual reality avatars of our deceased loved ones, realistic enough that we can interact with them. “This will be a way to bring him back,” he says, referring to his father. “Even if it isn’t fully realistic to bring these people back in A.I., it’ll be close.”
3. Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who patented more than 3,300 inventions in his 73-year-old life, got his creativity from sinking himself underwater for hours at a time. Point? “To starve the brain of oxygen. Zero-point-five seconds before death, I visualize an invention.”
4. Einstein’s secretary once got an anonymous call asking where Einstein lived. The secretary declined to respond. Whereupon the caller admitted he was Einstein himself. He had forgotten his address.
5. The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
6. The word " chair " came from the Latin word " cathedra ” meaning sit ' & ' down ' .
7..Marie did much of her research with her husband, Pierre. When their work was submitted to the to the Nobel Prize committee, Marie’s name was never mentioned due to prevailing sexism at the time. Eventually, though, that wrong was amended. Years later, Marie became the first woman to be recognized with the Nobel Prize.
International Day of the Girl Child is observed on 11 October to raise voices for girls and stand up for their rights. International Day of Girl 2019 theme is "Girl Force: Unscripted and Unstoppable".
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is observed on 15 October annually in the United States. This day is a day of remembrance for pregnancy loss and infant death. It is observed with remembrance ceremonies and candle-lighting vigils.
World White Cane Day is celebrated on 15 October by the National Federation of the Blind. White cane for the blind people is an essential tool that gives them the ability to achieve a full and independent life. With the help of white cane, they can move freely and safely from one place to another.
International Poverty Eradication Day is observed on 17 October every year. This day marks the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) on 20 November, 1989. Theme of 2019 is “Acting together to empower children, their families and communities to end poverty”.
IIC WORKSHOP
YOUTH RED CROSS
GENERAL ARTICLE
EMOJI
Don't let the cuteness of the pixel-sized peaches , smiley faces , and clapping hands fool you, emojis are rapidly changing the nature of how we communicate, in some profound ways: They're breaking down language barriers, accelerating human interaction and being tested in legal arenas, which is posing some unprecedented challenges for lawmakers.
An emoji is a visual representation of an emotion, object or symbol. Emoji can are in modern communication apps such as your smartphone’s text messaging or social networking apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. To access your library of emoticons in any app, tap the smiley face icon on the keyboard.
The original set of emoji were designed in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita for the Japanese phone carrier NTT DoCoMo on their i-mode platform, the world’s first internet enabled mobile service.
Kurita-san intended to create a set of “characters that could cover the entire breadth of human emotion.” He designed 176 12×12 pixel emoji covering a range of people, places, and things.
By 2014, the Great Emoji Politicization had begun. It happened with emoji representing food, flags ,families, and more. It wasn’t just a matter of having the right icon to describe what you ate for lunch—it was having a digital acknowledgement of your culture. Emoji had emerged as an important language of the digital age.
In 2015, Unicode took its first big step toward diversifying emoji by introducing the option to change the skin tone on people emoji, along with additions to include more types of people doing more types of things. Since then, every update has included incremental steps toward diversifying the types of people and cultures represented on the emoji keyboard: female surfers and cyclists, women with hard hats and stethoscopes, people wearing turbans and hijabs. Most recently, Unicode has taken steps toward creating gender-neutral emoji, emoji that represent people with disabilities, and other symbols to represent the full spectrum of emoji users.
Now emojis have become an indispensible part of our texts. Emojis add flavour to our messages communicating better than words.
KEEZHADI EXCAVATION
Keezhadi excavation just provides an another proof to the world that tamil culture was existed in 2nd century itself. An archaeological survey was started in Keezhadi village of sivaganga district in Tamilnadu where archaeologists have made some major discoveries which may rewrite the Indian history.
In keezhadi excavation archaeologists unearthed many artecrafts which provides a link between Indus valley civilisation and tamil brahmi (language). The artecrafts found there was dated as back as 580 BCE. Indus valley civilisation was an ancient civilisation and date back approximately to 5500 BCE. It is believed that among the available scripts of India, Indus scripts are believed to be the earliest one. The Indus scripts are the precursors of graffiti marks, a language which is believed by the scholars to be existed between indus script and brahmi language. As these marks are found in excavation it cannot be set aside as mere scratches.
In Keezhadi they are currently in the phase 5 excavation and the above results were from the fourth phase report produced by TNAD ( TamilNadu Archaeological Department ) . The report was named as “ keeladi – an urban settlement of sangamam age on the banks of river vaigai”.
The first three excavations were undertaken by archaeological survey of india whereas 4th and 5th excavations are under TNAD.
DO YOU KNOW???
1. According to psychologists, “We feel safer while watching horror movies on your bed rather than a sofa”.
2. You’ll communicate with dead relatives via virtual reality : The future! It’s either going to be really, really amazing, Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and director of engineering at Google, doesn’t like the idea of people he loves dying any more than you do. We can’t stop them from dying, but we can preserve their memories a little better than just fading photographs. He thinks we’re heading towards an age when we’ll be able to create virtual reality avatars of our deceased loved ones, realistic enough that we can interact with them. “This will be a way to bring him back,” he says, referring to his father. “Even if it isn’t fully realistic to bring these people back in A.I., it’ll be close.”
3. Dr. Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who patented more than 3,300 inventions in his 73-year-old life, got his creativity from sinking himself underwater for hours at a time. Point? “To starve the brain of oxygen. Zero-point-five seconds before death, I visualize an invention.”
4. Einstein’s secretary once got an anonymous call asking where Einstein lived. The secretary declined to respond. Whereupon the caller admitted he was Einstein himself. He had forgotten his address.
5. The smell of chocolate increases theta brain waves, which triggers relaxation.
7..Marie did much of her research with her husband, Pierre. When their work was submitted to the to the Nobel Prize committee, Marie’s name was never mentioned due to prevailing sexism at the time. Eventually, though, that wrong was amended. Years later, Marie became the first woman to be recognized with the Nobel Prize.
KNOW YOUR DAYS
11 October - International Day of the Girl Child
14 October - World Standards Day
World Standards Day is observed on 14 October every year to raise awareness among the regulators, industry and consumers to show the importance of standardization to the global economy.
15 October - Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day
15 October - Global Hand washing Day
Global Hand washing Day is observed on 15 October every year and it was founded by the Global Hand washing Partnership. This day provides an opportunity to design, test and replicate creative ways to encourage people to wash their hands with soap at critical times. In 2008, the first Global Hand washing Day was celebrated.
15 October - World White Cane Day
15 October - World Students’ Day
World Students’ Day is observed on 15 October annually to mark the birth anniversary of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam. This day honours and pays respect to him and his efforts in the field of science and technology and also the role of the teacher that he played throughout his scientific and political careers.
16 October - World Food Day
World Food Day is celebrated every year on 16 October to inspire people about healthy diets. On this day Food and Agriculture Organisation was established and launched by the United Nations in 1945.
17 October - International Poverty Eradication Day
KINDLE YOUR BRAIN
1. Mrs. Carson took a taxi to meet her three friends for lunch. They were waiting for her outside the restaurant when she pulled up in the car. She was so excited to see her friends that she left her tote bag in the taxi. As the taxi pulled away, she and her friends took notice of the license plate number so they would be able to identify the car when they called the taxi company.
#1: The four women seem to agree that the plate starts out with the letter J.
#2: Three of them agree that the plate ends with 12L.
#3: Three of them think that the second letter is X, and a different three think that the third letter is K.
The four license plate numbers below represent what each of the four women thinks she saw. Which one is most likely the license plate number of the taxi?
A. JXK 12L
B. JYK 12L
C. JXK 12I
D. JXX 12L
2. Zachary has invited his three buddies over to watch the basketball game on his wide-screen television. They are all hungry, but no one wants to leave to get food. Just as they are arguing about who should make the food run, a commercial comes on for a local pizze-ria that delivers. The phone number flashes on the screen briefly and they all try to remember it. By the time Zachary grabs a pen and paper, each of them recollects a different number.
#1: All of the men agree that the first three numbers are 995.
#2: Three of them agree that the fourth number is 9.
#3: Three agree that the fifth number is 2.
#4: Three agree that the sixth number is 6; three others agree that the seventh number is also 6.
Which of the numbers is most likely the telephone number of the pizzeria?
A. 995-9266
B. 995-9336
C. 995-9268
D. 995-8266
3. The film director wants an actress for the lead role of Lucy who perfectly fits the description that appears in the original screenplay. He is not willing to consider actresses who do not resemble the character as she is described in the screenplay, no matter how talented they are. The screenplay describes Lucy as an average-sized, forty something redhead, with deep brown eyes, very fair skin, and a brilliant smile. The casting agent has four actresses in mind.
Actress #1 is a stunning red-haired beauty who is 5'9" and in her mid-twenties. Her eyes are brown and she has an olive complexion.
Actress #2 has red hair, big brown eyes, and a fair complexion. She is in her mid-forties and is 5'5".
Actress #3 is 5'4" and of medium build. She has red hair, brown eyes, and is in her early forties.
Actress #4 is a blue-eyed redhead in her early thirties. She's of very slight build and stands at 5'.
A. 1, 2
B. 2, 3
C. 1, 4
D. 2, 4
PICS CORNER
S.Ramadevi, 1st year, ECE
1. Mrs. Carson took a taxi to meet her three friends for lunch. They were waiting for her outside the restaurant when she pulled up in the car. She was so excited to see her friends that she left her tote bag in the taxi. As the taxi pulled away, she and her friends took notice of the license plate number so they would be able to identify the car when they called the taxi company.
#1: The four women seem to agree that the plate starts out with the letter J.
#2: Three of them agree that the plate ends with 12L.
#3: Three of them think that the second letter is X, and a different three think that the third letter is K.
The four license plate numbers below represent what each of the four women thinks she saw. Which one is most likely the license plate number of the taxi?
A. JXK 12L
B. JYK 12L
C. JXK 12I
D. JXX 12L
2. Zachary has invited his three buddies over to watch the basketball game on his wide-screen television. They are all hungry, but no one wants to leave to get food. Just as they are arguing about who should make the food run, a commercial comes on for a local pizze-ria that delivers. The phone number flashes on the screen briefly and they all try to remember it. By the time Zachary grabs a pen and paper, each of them recollects a different number.
#1: All of the men agree that the first three numbers are 995.
#2: Three of them agree that the fourth number is 9.
#3: Three agree that the fifth number is 2.
#4: Three agree that the sixth number is 6; three others agree that the seventh number is also 6.
Which of the numbers is most likely the telephone number of the pizzeria?
A. 995-9266
B. 995-9336
C. 995-9268
D. 995-8266
3. The film director wants an actress for the lead role of Lucy who perfectly fits the description that appears in the original screenplay. He is not willing to consider actresses who do not resemble the character as she is described in the screenplay, no matter how talented they are. The screenplay describes Lucy as an average-sized, forty something redhead, with deep brown eyes, very fair skin, and a brilliant smile. The casting agent has four actresses in mind.
Actress #1 is a stunning red-haired beauty who is 5'9" and in her mid-twenties. Her eyes are brown and she has an olive complexion.
Actress #2 has red hair, big brown eyes, and a fair complexion. She is in her mid-forties and is 5'5".
Actress #3 is 5'4" and of medium build. She has red hair, brown eyes, and is in her early forties.
Actress #4 is a blue-eyed redhead in her early thirties. She's of very slight build and stands at 5'.
A. 1, 2
B. 2, 3
C. 1, 4
D. 2, 4
PICS CORNER
K.Aishwarya, 2nd year, ECE
S.Lakshmidevi, 1st year, ECE.
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