1. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit A Glimpse of Research at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Arobinda Gupta Department of Computer Science & Engineering and School of Information Technology

2. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Profile IIT Kharagpur – oldest and largest among the seven IITs Dept. of CSE and School of IT Around 25 faculty Around 40 research projects sponsored by government organizations and industry Around 250 undergraduate, 70 M.Tech. students Around 40 PhD, 40 MS (by research) students + other project staff

3. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Major Research Areas Formal Verification VLSI Design and CAD Tools Security Embedded Systems Multimedia Systems Networks and Distributed Systems Artificial Intelligence NLP for Indian Languages Telemedicine Assistive Systems for the Disabled Learning Tools

4. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Research Labs Advanced VLSI Lab Communication Empowerment Lab Embedded Systems Lab Microsoft Lab Multimedia Systems Lab Networks Lab Security Lab Telemedicine Lab

5. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Some Representative Projects Projects in Microsoft Lab and Communication Empowerment Lab Only Mobile Telemedicine Systems Intrusion Resilient Databases Sanyog – Assistive System for People with Neuro-Motor Disorders Sanyog – Assistive System for People with Neuro-Motor Disorders Samvidha – Low Cost Personalized Internet Access from Rural Schools Samvidha – Low Cost Personalized Internet Access from Rural Schools Online Transcoding of Web Pages for PDAs

6. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Some Other Current Projects Architectures for delivery of software-as-a-service Mobile agents – middleware for automatic code generation from high level specifications Tools for extensible processor/embedded systems Power-optimized compilation for embedded systems ASIC design - DSP processor, network processor, I/O processor, cryptographic chips Modeling and management of multimedia objects for content based search in multimedia databases Personalized information retrieval Cryptographic schemes resilient to side channel attacks Test generation for digital VLSI circuits

7. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit For more details, please visit http://www.iitkgp.ac.in or send mail to Prof. Arobinda Gupta agupta@iitkgp.ac.in Thank You!

8. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Microsoft Lab Set up in end-2001 with a grant from Microsoft Goals Create Windows infrastructure in the department Promote the use of Microsoft technologies in student projects and faculty research Initiate collaborative research with MS Over 50 projects so far

9. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Communication Empowerment Lab Focus on developing technologies for Augmentative and assistive communication (AAC) devices for people with disabilities User-adaptive communication and information technologies for the common man Focus on vernacular and multilingual communication, social realities and culture Funded by Media Lab Asia and other government agencies

10. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Telemedicine Systems Telemedik – telemedicine system over low- bandwidth links Aim – provide medical expertise from city hospitals to remote hospitals with inadequate expertise and infrastructure Fully operational system with all advanced features of a telemedicine system, developed in Telemedicine Lab Installed at 6 hospitals, being installed at 12 others in eastern and north-eastern India

11. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Mobile Telemedicine Telemedicine application on PDAs/Cellphones for doctors on the move Integration of text and image transmission over wireless links Display and processing of medical images on PDA – challenges posed by small display area, limited computational power and memory, power constraints

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13. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Intrusion Resilient Database Aim to create a database capable of restoring its consistency even after being compromised Based on compensating actions and re- executions as in other schemes New transaction dependencies proposed and evaluated that improves on existing schemes Prototype system built around SQL Server 2000 Part of a multi-year project funded by Govt. of India on building resilient systems

14. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Sanyog (“Connection”) An alternative communication aid for people with speech impairment and neuro-motor disorders Visual, iconic language based, speech enabled Can be personalized to the cognitive ability of the user Alternative access mechanisms with scanning and access switches

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20. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Supports 3 languages – Bengali, Hindi, and English The system has been deployed at four centers in India Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy, Kolkata Action for Ability Development and Inclusion, New Delhi Monovikas Kendra, Kolkata Blind Peoples Association, Ahmedabad Winner of Da Vinci Award – Engineering Society of Detroit & Multiple Sclerosis Society, Michigan chapter

21. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Samvidha Providing low cost internet access from rural schools Rural schools have only noisy phone lines Most cannot afford the cost of long connections Offline access Student queries packed by local server in school and sent in email to central server Central server browses web to get results, packages pages and sends to local server. Can be accessed anytime after that

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23. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Features Ontology based filtering of web contents Only relevant documents shown User modeling for personalized retrieval User profiles learnt from browsing patterns, and/or from user inputs Ontology guided navigation and search from the locally built repository of contents Reduces access time if locally available Vernacular based search interface Pilot deployment at 4 schools so far

24. July 18, 2005Microsoft Research Faculty Summit Online Transcoding of Web Pages for PDAs Small display area is a problem Proxy-based re-authoring of web pages Presents only “relevant” information categorized under predefined domain specific categories Unique visual-cue and page structure based algorithm to fragment a page into related blocks Categorization using rule-based system

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