1. Leveraging India As India Stands Up - A presentation by Prof. Jhunjhunwala at Google. Fantastic video...this presentation by Prof. Jhunjhunwala. In fact, some of us took a DSP summer class under him at IIT-M in 2001-2002. This presentation fills me with great pride and optimism for India. Some of the projects he talks about are extremely fascinating in terms of their impact factor to India's growth especially in the rural areas.
   
2. Government of India
3. PRESIDENT of INDIA - You can WRITE TO THE PRESIDENT from here !
4. A GOOD list of SOCIAL and CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS in India
5. http://www.hinduismtoday.com/ - GOOD ONE: It tells the world about India's cultural riches: ayurveda, classical dance, literature and drama, the healing power of meditation and yoga, and the virtues of vegetarianism.
6. Why is SOUTH INDIA doing better than the NORTH? - An interesting article by Rajeev Srinivasan on rediff. His BLOG is here.
7. INDIA can be the creator of the future - by Rajeev Srinivasan
8. The HINDU work ethic - by Rajeev Srinivasan
9. HINDU Universe
10. HISTORY of India
11. India's RELIGIONS
12. Silicon India
13. TOURISM India
14. Indian LANGUAGES
15. CNN-IBN NEWS - Good
16. Rediff NEWS
17. Samachar NEWS
18. Express India NEWS
19. Deccan chronicle NEWS
20. HindustanTimes NEWS
21. TimesofIndia NEWS
22. The Hindu NEWS
23. http://www.freesmsmasti.com/ NEWS and more
24. Outlook India
25. India Today
26. India Abroad
27. Express Computer
28. DataQuest India

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1. http://www.tvnsports.com/
2. http://www.cricwebcast.com/
3. http://www.acricket.com/
4. FREE *LIVE* CRICKET MATCHES STREAMING VIDEOS

1. Vanderbilt Cricket Club (VCC)
2. Interesting BLOG - OutsideEdge !
3. Practice makes perfect - Great article by Kumara Sangakkara: Key lesson from the article for any batsman is the importance of watching the ball and more importantly maintaing body balance.
4. Very informative cricket statistics - from ODIs to test to T20s and also player heard-to-head comparisons - Excellent cricket TRIVIA !
5. ALL ABOUT CRICKET from Cricinfo - Look out for videos in the 99 coaching conference link
6. LIVE cricket matches webcast - http://www.bollym4u.com/ or http://livecricket.bollym4u.com/
7. FREE CRICKET VIDEOS: http://www.onlinecric.com/DisplayVideoAction.do
8. http://cricket.expressindia.com/ - Very good articles, columns by Harsha Bogle, Michael Holding, etc.
9. www.cricketnext.com - A good website with lots of VIDEOS
10. www.krishcricket.com - A portal by Krishnamachary Srikanth with a number of articles and the new ONLINE GAMES that he has released (multi-player game and captain of captains on strategies).
11. FREE Online GAME by Cricinfo - similar to www.stickcricket.com
12. Stick Cricket GAME
13. Harsha Bhogle on Sachin TENDULKAR - very inspiring about PASSION, WORK ETHIC and GENIUS ! (**very interesting remark about why Tendulkar did not take a by-runner in the 2003 world cup**)
14. Fielding Positions Diagram by Cricinfo
15. CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007 - SCHEDULE
16. FREE *LIVE* CRICKET MATCHES STREAMING VIDEOS
17. FREE CRICKET HIGHLIGHTS VIDEOS
18. A good explanation of cricket
19. Laws of cricket
20. Cricinfo
21. www.cricket.org
22. Commonwealth Cricket Masterclass: 1. Intro 2. Fast Bowling 3. Spin Bowling 4. Batting 5. Wicket Keeping 6. Fielding 7. Tactics
23. Natwest Cricket Masterclasss - GOOD Videos by Michael Vaughan on Square Cut, Cover Drive, Pitches, Basics, Mental Side, Pull shot, Reading the Spin, Captaincy
24. Alistar Cook's guide to Front-Foot Drive - Good video
25. Alistar Cook's guide to Back-Foot Drive - Good video
26. Justin Langer's guide to the pull shot - Good video
27. Mark Taylor's tips on cleaning up your cricket shots - Good video
28. Paul Collingwood's throwing Masterclass - Good video
29. Paul Collingwood's catching Masterclass - Good video
30. More BATTING lessons VIDEO
31. How to knock a cricket bat ! - Good video
32. CRICKET AMERICA www.cricketamerica.com & KANSAS CRICKET ASSOCIATION VIDEOS: 1. THIS IS BATTING - lessons VIDEO 2. THIS IS BOWLING- lessons VIDEO
    3. EXCELLENT INTRODUCTORY VIDEO for any NEWBIE 4. This is FIELDING 5. This is SCORING 6. This is CATCHING 7. This is WICKET-KEEPING 8. This is CRICKET - a GOOD WRAP-UP 9. KANSAS Junior CRICKET
33. International Cricket Council (ICC)
34. BBC cricket
35. Indiatimes cricket
36. Cricket365
37. HindustanTimes Cricket
38. An explanation of cricket
39. Cricket COMEDY
40. VIDEOS
    1. CRICKET INDIA VIDEO- AWESOME
    2. SACHIN TENDULKAR VIDEOS
       1. World Cup 2003 TRIBUTE: Part 1 Part 2
       2. GREATEST BATSMAN ALIVE VIDEO- AWESOME
    3. INDIA Vs PAKISTAN
       
       1. World Cup 2003 VIDEO
       2. World Cup 1999 VIDEO
    4. FUNNY ENGLAND VIDEO - Must be put together by an Australian !
    5. Shahid Afridi of Pakistan PITCH TAMPERING VIDEO - No spirit of the game and no honesty...shame on him !
    6. Inzamam-ul-haq of Pakistan street fighting with someone in the audience - no dignity of a sportsman !
    7. Shoaib Malik of Pakistan kicking the ball to avoid getting run-out - another display of cheating and lack of spirit of the game ! (run the video a second time if it is not clear the first time...helps buffering and smoother transition of video frames)

1. Mercy Lounge
2. Blue Bird - this is supposed to have really good songs performed. It is actually a restaurant.
3. Douglas Corner

Socializing & friendly sports

1. www.meetup.com - find different kinds of interest groups here
2. www.nashvillesportsleagues.com - this is supposed to be a great place to meet people who want to form teams and play...no experience required ! It is suppose to be friendly.

Hiking

1. Sierra Club - Nashville Chapter http://www.tennessee.sierraclub.org/mtg/mtgoutings.htm - Group Outings !
2. Tennessee Trails Association - www.tennesseetrails.org
3. Team Green (does service projects, outdoor activities and social events) www.teamgreenonline.com - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED ADVENTURE CLUB !
4. Cumberland Transit www.cumberlandtransit.com - Outdoor gear/equipment and has regular day and weekend trips. Click "Events" on the website.

Biking Clubs

1. Volunteers Biking Club www.veloteers.org
2. http://www.harpethbikeclub.org/

Stand Up Comedy

1. www.nashvillestandup.com
2. Open mic every Tuesday at 8pm at The Barcar (209, 10th Ave S.)
3. Zaines comedy club

Dancing

1. Tango www.tangonashville.com
2. Salsa www.salsanashville.com - website works onl with IE, did not work with Firefox.
3. Ballroom www.dancenashville.com
4. Country/Contra www.dancenashville.com

Places to visit

1. Natchez Trace Parkway
2. Radner Lake
3. Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC - this is a massive estate owned by Vanderbilt (the one who started Vanderbilt University), has a vineyard, etc and is OPEN TO PUBLIC !

1. UCSB
2. UCSB - ECE
3. IPLAB
4. Prof. Sanjit Mitra
5. Vision Research Lab (VRL)
6. Prof. B.S. Manjunath

1. www.vanderbilt.edu
2. Medical Center DICOM transfer request form - to get DICOMs transferred via efilm to our DBS computer by giving them DICOMs' accession#s and our computer's AE Title and Port#.
3. Medical Center Star Panel (StarPanel)
4. Medical Center PACSweb
5. Resources for student webmasters - SITEMASON, etc (they have tools to conduct polls, get feedback, etc
6. Exams and courses to get clearance to Operation Rooms (ORs) in VUMC (Medical Center) and to be on grants involving patient data:
   1. To be on GRANTS involving patients
   • Collaborative IRB Training Initiative (CITI) course in the protection of human research subjects for being in grants involving patient data
   2. Getting access to the OR
• View presentations and take safety quiz - Fire hazard, Emergency procedures, Diffusing situations, blood pathogens, patient confidentiality, etc
• HIPAA basic training and HIPAA quiz
• Immunization clearance from Student Health - Penny Meek
7. POSTER printing - on campus
8. Vanderbilt Course Schedule - USEFUL
9. Course DESCRIPTION (Electrical Engineering)
10. Student Web Applications - collection of useful links
11. Student Handbook
12. CHANGE OF ADDRESS
13. PEOPLE FINDER
14. Graduate Student Travel Grant
15. MIPLAB
16. Access 2 Academic Information (AAI - Find your grades here !)
17. VU WEBMAIL
18. EECS forms - MS Thesis, Designation of Ph.D. committee, Ph.D. Qualifying exam, Ph.D. Dissertation defense
19. CAREER center
20. University CALENDAR
21. Student Organizations Tech requests - website, listserve, etc
22. Student Organizations Registration page

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Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS):

Future of DBS - miniature technology ! : The new electrode would measure levels of neurotransmitters, chemicals that help carry signals in the brain. The researchers hope this would help doctors target the placement of the device more precisely, since different parts of the brain have different levels of neurotransmitters. This chemical detection would also allow the device to turn the electricity on and off as needed to maximize its effectiveness. The researchers also aim to make the brain stimulation devices much smaller so they could be implanted in the scalp.

ORLive - Simulated DBS OR video from Vanderbilt

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Statistical Data Mining, Machine Learning and Classification:

1. FREE ONLINE t-test (unpaired, paired, etc) calculator
2. EXCELLENT TUTORIALS on SVMs, Neural Networks, Bayesian Networks, Regression Algorithms for predictions, Clustering, HMMs, etc
3. www.support-vector-machines.org - Support Vector Machines
4. SVM software COLLECTION
5. SVMlight
6. SVM toolbox for MATLAB
7. SimpleSVM toolbox for MATLAB
8. MATLAB interface for SVMlight
9. SVM Libraries - MATALB, PYTHON, etc

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Neural Networks:

1. GOOGLE: neurosolutions for matlab

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Statistics:

1. A good page on mean, standard error, confidence intervals, correlation, etc
2. MedCalc
3. MedCalc page on Statistics LITERATURE

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MATLAB:

1. MATLAB code/programs for model fitting (plane fitting, fundamental matrix fitting), projective geometry, image processing, scalograms, etc)

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C and C++:

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Java:

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Management, MBA:

1. Monumentally inspirational video of the last speech by Randy Pausch at Carnegie Mellon University - pay close attention to his "Lessons Learned" section close to the end.
2. www.forbes.com - Leadership
3. Leadership Lessons from George Washington PDF file or link on REDIFF - Excellent article on lessons to leaders and entrepreneurs on when it is time to leave, recognition of our faults, use of mass media, etc
4. Life Lessons from Narayana Murthy PDF file or link on REDIFF
5. Dealing with Success and Failure Lessons from Vishwanathan Aannd PDF file or link on REDIFF
6. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduction of the iPhones
7. Best Business Schools: Ranked
8. http://www.moneycontrol.com/management/
9. TOP 10 Indian CEOs
10. Thinkers50 - List of Top management thinkers
11. HIGH PERFORMANCE NEWSLETTERS - Derek Stockley: Fantastic collection of brief articles on management, HR, marketting, etc
12. MANAGEMENT GURUS and HEROS: ARTICLES911 - Another great collection of articles on management, personality, HR, leadership, knowledge management, consulting, coaching, etc. POPULAR articles
13. Free resources from Business Training Works
14. Work911 Free Management and Business articles
15. 5 ways to brad yourself as an expert
16. www.inc.com
17. Harsha Bhogle on Sachin TENDULKAR - very inspiring about PASSION, WORK ETHIC and GENIUS ! (**very interesting remark about why Tendulkar did not take a by-runner in the 2003 world cup**)

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1. Jodhaa Akbar - very impressed by Hrithik's performance and for the first time (personally) by Aishwarya Rai's performance. Hats off to Ashutosh Gowarikar. Very good movie !
2. Lagaan
3. Swades
4. Dil Chahta Hai
5. Chuk De India - 5 Star rating...I loved this movie...very patriotic...very well made...ALMOST NONE OF the exaggerated, unrealistic and emotional BOLLYWOOD crap. QUITE REALISTIC flow movie...ignore a few things as it is a movie after all ! CAN WATCH IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN !
6. Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee - very good movie for a low profile starrer. The story converged well and the movie had a nice flow to it. It is a fantastic watch to those who like morals and the real values of life and what happiness actually means. I loved it esp. given the kind of crap that has been coming out of Bollywood off late !. Not great for those seeking item numbers or action entertainment. Couple of songs are melodies with profound lyrics !
7. Bluffmaster

English

1. The Bucket List - Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman...what can you expect of such starcast. VERY GOOD movie. The only weird part is how Morgan Freeman is able to narrate about Jack Nicholson's death when Morgan Freeman dies before Jack Nicholson !
2. I, Robot - Obviously, great animation and excellent conecept but surprisingly phenomenal script ! Loved this movie thought I thought it would be too artificial to begin with.
3. Catch me if you can !
4. Seabiscuit
5. A Beautiful Mind
6. The Patriot
7. Gladiator
8. The Pursuit of Happiness - A MUST SEE for any AMBITIOUS person. Fantastic. 5 star.
9. Breach
10. Remember the TITANS - a soul-cleansing and inspiring classic.

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Music:

Hindi

1. www.MohanKumars.com - GOOD ONE, esp. for Tamil
2. Raaga MUSIC
3. MUSICIndiaOnline
4. Desi Torrents

English

1. VONYC RADIO

General knowledge, science, careers, etc:

1. New Scientist Tech - Very good !
2. Brain Waves recording headphones ! - do not need batteries (have solar panels built in and use body heat also for power)
3. http://www.livescience.com/ (Very good)
4. http://www.wired.com/ - NEWS
5. http://www.connotea.org/ - FREE online REFERENCE MANAGEMENT
6. TechOnline
7. Discovery
8. Animal Planet
9. Crocodile Hunter
10. Inventors, Inventions, Patents...
11. How stuff works
12. ScienceMag
13. ScienceCAREERS
14. About
15. BMENet
16. Funny analogies collected by High School Teachers
17. Writing English

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Software TOOLS:

1. iPOD software - How to get more from you iPOD ! : iGadget ($15) iDump (FREE) - tranfer .exe to iPod iDirectionz canto - for song lyrics Encyclopedia
2. Ripping a DVD !
3. Microsoft Power Toys - Image resizer, HTML slide show generator, CD slide show generator, virtual desktop manager, power calculator, webcam timershot, Alt-Tab replacement, etc.
4. MPEG/VIDEO combiner or joiner
5. MPEG/VIDEO splitter
6. COPY music OFF your IPOD onto your computer
7. Wiping out or erasing your hard disk to remove personal information before giving it to someone - DBAN

Signal Processing:

1. WAVELET Turotial by Robi Polikar
2. James McNAMES lab
3. FastICA for MATLAB and an analysis tool ICASSO for analysing the reliability of the Independent Components
4. NEX - Neurophysiological Signal Analysis Package

Conferences and Journals:

1. MICCAI 2008 - Deadline expected in March 2008. Conference is in New York in Sep 2008.
2. http://www.biosignals.org/ - International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing: Position Paper submission DEADLINE Sep' 10, 2007. A position paper presents an arguable opinion about an issue. The goal of a position paper is to convince the audience that your opinion is valid and worth listening to, without the need to present completed research work and/or validated results. It is, nevertheless, important to support your argument with evidence to ensure the validity of your claims. A position paper may be a short report and discussion of ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research (bibliographic, experimental, theoretical, or other) focused on one of the conference topics.
   The acceptance of a position paper is restricted to the categories of "short paper" or "poster".
3. AUTHORSHIP GUIDELINES: A VERY GOOD link provided by HARVARD on authorship...Who should be authors? How to decide the order? Who should be acknowledged?, etc
4. Landing an ACADEMIC JOB - Article from UIUC
5. ASILOMAR Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASIMLOMARSSC): Theu have a section on Biomedical signal processing - Deadline: June 1, 2007, Extended abstract of 500-1000 words (plus figures) including abstract of 50-100 words.
6. IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Conference list
7. Advances in Medical Image, Signal and Information Processing (MEDISIP) : Accepts work in biomedical signal processing of EEGs.
8. HUGE list of conferences: search for words medical, signal, pattern, image, etc on this page
9. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2008 - Deadline April 8, 2008
10. TERRY M. PETERS: List of Publications
11. ISI web of knowledge - TRAINING/TUTORIAL PPTs : Citation alerts, etc
12. ISI WEB of SCIENCE Index, CLICK on IP Authentication on the page to use ISI WOS from a Vandy computer - **VERY GOOD**
13. ISI WEB of SCIENCE Index: TUTORIAL
14. IEEE account login page - MyIEEE
15. IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilation Engineering (TNSRE)
16. Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS)
17. Conference list
18. SPIE
19. SPIE Scholarships and Grants - TRAVEL GRANT
20. MICCAI 2007
21. CARS
22. Conference list3
23. Conference list4
24. BMEnet conference list

1. Microsoft's awe inspiring and mind blowing TABLETOP Technology
2. Against all odds - inspirational acheivements
3. Reservation system has not worked
4. How the Chinese view India?
5. 25 best affordable suburbs in the US !
6. AMAZING Pool TRICK shots

1. EXCELLENT keyboard BASICS TUTORIAL and RESOURCES
2. Play Piano in a flash by Scott "The Piano man" Houston - EXCELLENT book and audio material. It is a non-classical approach to learning to play keyboard. The style is more oriented towards just being able to play good music without the complications of getting technical. The focus is to be away from the complications of reading sheet music ! Was shown on NPT. I WISH I CAN GET THIS MATERIAL.
3. Keyboard notes of Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, popluar music, carnatic, etc - GREAT SITE
4. Tujhe Dekha Tho Ye Jaana Sanam (Dilwala Dulhaniya Le Jayenge)
5. Happy Birthday to you
6. Hindi movies notes for keyboard www.KeylessOnline.com
7. http://www.gopiano.com/ - Free piano lessons with audio instructions
8. http://www.free-online-piano-lessons.com/
9. http://www.learnpianoonline.com/
10. http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/cjh/appliedtech/Business/keyboarding/

Health, Food and cooking:

Fitness

1. Importance of muscle mass and resistance/weight training as one ages !
2. 10 muscle building foods: 1. Quinoa, 2. Grass-fed meat, 3. Nonfat Ricotta cheese, 4. Tofu, 5. Lentils, 6. Eggs (intersting yolks are not too bad !...read), 7. Greek-style yoghurt, 8. Quorn, 9. Chocolate milk, 10 Wild Salmon (Tuna has toxic metals)
3. World's Simplest Workout - Sandbag workout !
4. The Marine's Workout
5. Meals for 6-pack abs - Abs diet
6. Muscle building and ab exercises - Banish fat for good !
7. http://fitness.scoobysworkshop.com/ - Very useful information

Health

1. Super Fruits
2. 6 SUPERFOODS: 1. Coconut milk, 2. Grass fed meat, 3. Nuts, 4. Cinnamon, 5. Raw honey and molasis, 6. Olive Oil
3. 8 foods you should eat everyday - Good article: 1. Spinach, 2. Carrots, 3. Blueberries, 4. Oats, 5. Yoghurt (with live and active cultures), 6. Walnuts, 7. Tomatoes, 8. Black Beans
4. Health foods - Great info on healthy foods, whole grains, fruits, science behind, etc
5. http://nytimes.com/pages/health/index.html - Good stuff
6. http://www.healthydiningfinder.com/site/ - it’s based on nutritional analyses of over 10,000 menu items from a variety of restaurants. You simply type in your zip code to find the healthiest options at nearby eateries.The site does a much better job of providing nutrition information than the restaurant chains themselves. NOTE: About 460mg is typically more than enough sodium to be consumed per meal. Even SubWay's healthy sandwiches have over a 1000mg of sodium !
7. About various type of WHEY PROTEIN supplements
8. http://www.supplementdata.com/nsr-0202e.html Good article on difference between WHEY PROTEIN concentrate (WPC) and isolate (WPI) supplements. Importantly, it says that WPI produced by Cross-flow microfiltration is undenaturated (uncomprised or undamaged amino acid matrixes) in greater than 90% of the protein and retains all important sub-fractions in natural ratios with little or no fat or lactose.
   NOW's Whey Protein Isolate is produced this way !
9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whey_protein Some individuals with suppressed or otherwise abnormal immune systems or degenerative diseases use undenatured bioactive whey proteins to increase their antioxidant levels. Undenatured whey proteins are a good source of cysteine, a conditionally essential amino acid which is the rate limiting factor for the body's production of glutathione, an important antioxidant.
10. www.allstarhealth.com - for supplements
11. DANGERS of drinking DIET DRINKS ! - PKU - If you note, a WARNING note about PHENYLKETONURICS will be given on Diet Dr. Pepper !
12. DANGERS of ARTIFICIAL SWEETNERS - Aspartame
13. Fruit Nutrition Facts - good collection of fruits with nutrition info to select the right fruits with high fiber and low sugar !

 

Cooking

1. Foodnetwork USA - Cooking, recipes, party tips, etc: VIDEOS !
2. http://www.gourmet.com/ - VIDEOS !
3. http://www.gourmet.com/diaryofafoodie - VIDEOS !
4. http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/ or www.foodwishes.com/ - VIDEOS !
5. Food Channel UK - UKTV
6. THAI: http://www.thaifoodtonight.com/thaifoodtonight/ - Good one with VIDEOS, recipes look fairly authentic.
7. THAI: http://www.enjoythaifood.com/ - Good VIDEOS

1. http://www.stickcricket.com/
2. http://www.freeonlinegames.com/
3. http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/puzzle.php - PUZZLE games like SUDOKU !
4. http://www.totallygame.com/
5. Check your BRILLIANCE ! This is a fun game. In about 9 attempts my best survival time was 26.609 seconds !