Gate Coaching in your city!

Gateforum is starting fresh batches for classroom coaching on August 19th for various streams in Bangalore. Registrations are open!

The following are the venues and timings of the test to be held on Sunday, 26 August, 2007.
Venue 1
  Tirthapati Institute
142/1,Rashbehari Avenue
Opp Priya Cinema Hall
Kolkata -700029

Venue 2
  Laban Hrad Vidyapith
Sector -1,
AD Block,
AD -369,
Kolkata - 700064
Landmark near PNB

Timings: 10:30am to 1:30pm
Reporting Time: 10am

Call 033 3240 7240 for clarifications. Please visit http://www.gateforum.com/freetest.html for registration.

For Bangalore Classroom Coaching students coming from outside Bangalore, you can contact the following hostels for accomodation :

Hostel for Men

Shri Chakra Paying Guest
224/54, 45th Cross, Paying Guest,
8th Block, Jayanagar, Bangalore - 86
Contact - Mr. Ravi Shankar
Mobile - 9844008849

Sreenidhi Men’s hostel
61, Pipeline Main Road, Malleswaram, Bangalore - 3
Contact - Dr. Govindarajalu
Mobile - 9448080460

Hostel for Women

Kamadhenu Paying Guest House
62, 3rd Cross, 17th Main,
AIC00B Nagar, BTM Layout
1st Stage, Bangalore - 68.
Contact - Mrs. Premleela
Mobile - 9341241766

Vybhav Mahal Ladies Hostel
43/3, 6th Cross, 7th Main,
Malleswaram, Bangalore - 3.
Contact - Mrs. Premleela
Mobile - 9341241766

The charges for these are not included in Gateforum Fees. The decision about the accomodations will have to be decided by the student by himself/herself. The student is free to check out other hostels in Bangalore. These hostels / paying guest accomodations are provided by private parties. We are providing information as is and cannot be held responsible for anything associated with these hostels.

World Class- In Our Backyard

It was late night at the end of a long, long day at work. Even the lights in the fishing boats anchored in Bombay
harbour for the night were out. I was fishing in another ocean that
night, trawling the internet for any research paper that would provide
us with a method to detect India-related content on the web.

There
is a brute force way to do that - employ hundreds to check every major
website in the world… But every time the content changed you’d have
to go back and redo the work. Anyway, hiring that many people would
cost too much.  There had to be a more elegant
way. For example, write a computer program to patiently check sites
throughout the world and send back snippets of information that was of
interest to Indians.

We understood the first steps in doing this. For instance you can easily get a computer program to tag an article as ‘India interest’ if it encounters the word “Gandhi”
in an article. Generalizing from this rule you could make the program
compare every word it encounters against a list of Indian pronouns to
detect ‘India
interest content’. Even more generally you could make the program
compare words it encounters with a corpus known to be relevant to
Indians, for example the last five years of Business Standard articles.

This
much we had figured out on our own. The trick was how to do this
economically. Here again the brute force method is to crawl every
single English language site in the world and look for words to compare
with our chosen corpus. But the elegant way would be to devise a method
of inspired guessing as to where to look for first and where to look
for next.

That night I was trawling the internet for research papers that described methods of inspired guessing.

Here was one! Accelerated Focused Crawling through

Online Relevance Feedback.  I skimmed through the paper; it pretty much dealt with the problem I had in mind.

            It was past midnight in India, a good time to call the author and ask if he was willing to consult for us, I said to myself.

I ran my eyes back up to the start of the paper to check which American University
the paper had came out of. Then came the shock! The research paper was
from our own backyard- IIT Bombay. And the lead author was Soumen Chakravarty,
a Professor of Computer Science there. I was astounded. Anything to do
with web crawling was hot; that’s the stuff Search Engines are built
on. There was a person from India publishing on such a hot topic in a prestigious international journal?

            I
couldn’t wait for the sun to rise to call him. The next day, I and some
colleagues trudged to IIT Bombay to meet the professor. He was sitting
at his computer in an ice cold room in a remote corner of the Computer
Science Department which itself was in a remote corner of the IIT
Bombay campus. He was very helpful and immediately gave us the computer
code that we needed.

            I was curious about how he got interested in this topic. He pulled out a book from the stack in his room:  Mining the Web: Discovering Knowledge from Hypertext Data.

“This
is a textbook I have just finished writing for US computer science
students”, he said nonchalantly tossing it back into the stack. “It
will be out in later this year in the US.”

It
turns out that he was at Stanford at the same time as Brin and Page,
the Google founders; they went and found a venture capitalist to fund
their search engine efforts  and Soumen came back to India to work at IIT Bombay: “because my mother is old and does not want to leave India”.

            Landing
the Soumen catch turned out to be the easy part. Getting to engage IIT
Bombay in a commercial relationship was to be a near-impossible task.
The process for such an engagement is unchartered territory for Indian
academic institutions. We settled on a compromise: we hired two of his
star graduate students (or more accurately he persuaded them to join us
instead of doing what all their classmates did- immigrate to America).
Since then, we have been happily working together; whenever we run into
a really tough computer science problem, we could get to Soumen through
his students.

            I
have ever since felt mildly guilty about this arrangement that gave us
so much know-how for so little payment. Till I encountered the head of
Sarnoff Labs at a conference in Beijing. Sarnoff Labs, based in Princeton New Jersey,
is a haloed center for innovation since the 1940’s and is responsible
for bringing to the world, Colour Television and the Electron
Microscope, among other inventions.  He shocked the Beijing audience and me by asserting that “big corporations in the world maintain R&D departments mainly to impress Wall Street.”  He
said that the era of corporations maintaining large central research
labs staffed with Nobel Prize winners (Bell Labs symbolized this) is
long gone. The locus of  innovation has almost
entirely moved to start-ups. These start-ups staff themselves with
recent graduates of top institutions and the alumni who maintain close
consultative links to their University professors. 

            I
was much relieved to hear this. So, the arrangement we stumbled into:
hiring a professor’s top students and getting the professor for free
seems to be the way R&D is done today. And the irony was that we
found it in our own backyard.

END

New batches for classroom coaching at Lucknow will be starting in August. For details please contact the office at http://www.gateforum.com/Gateforum-Offices.html

The following are the updated office addresses of Gateforum offices throughout India.

You may be able to contact us at any of the addresses below :

BANGALORE HEAD OFFICE:

GATE FORUM
#17, First Floor, 30th Cross,
Tilak Nagar,
Bangalore 560041.
Ph: 080 4131 0203 / 3251 3337

Contact Head Office at support@gateforum.com

Hyderabad (Office Shifted recently from Punjagutta)

GATE FORUM
9-A, 3rd Floor, Lenaine Estate,
Beside SBH, ABIDS, Hyderabad - 1.
Ph: 040- 30606781
Cell: 9989477436, 9989924870

Contact this Branch at registration@gateforum.com

Kolkata

GATE FORUM

119 A , Selimpur road , Kolkata -31.

Ph: 033 3240 7240

Contact this Branch at kolkata@gateforum.com

Mumbai

GATE FORUM

110, Shopper’s Point
1st Floor
S. V. Road
Opp. Andheri Railway Station.
Andheri (W) Mumbai.
Ph: (022) 2623 7471 / 72

Contact this Branch at mumbai@gateforum.com

Trivandrum

GATE FORUM

TC 14/ 1679 , Behind Sanskrit College, Palayam, Trivandrum
Kerala
PIN : 695034.
Ph: 0471-2322914/ 3094973

Contact this Branch at trivandrum@gateforum.com

Siliguri

GATE FORUM

MSTI
31, Ashutosh Mukherjee Road
Collegepara (Opp. Siliguri College)
Siliguri - 734 001
Phone: 0353-2460555

Contact this Branch at siliguri@gateforum.com

Pune

GATE FORUM

5, Kalpana Building
opp. Hotel Surya
Off Ghole Road
Pune - 411004
Ph: 25538396 / 25510078

Contact this Branch at pune@gateforum.com

Durgapur

GATE FORUM

2nd floor, Nachan Road
Opposite Bank of India,
Benachity.
Durgapur - 713213

Contact this Branch at durgapur@gateforum.com

Indore

GATE FORUM

315-319, The Horizon, 11/5, Nath Mandir Road, South Tukoganj, Indore
Madhya Pradesh,
Ph 0731 2530823, 9893266347

Contact this Branch at indore@gateforum.com

Visakhapatnam

GATE FORUM

Contact No. : 92478 00090

Contact this Branch at registration@gateforum.com

Bhubaneshwar

168A, Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar,Dist.:
Khurda, Orissa - 751007.

Ph: 0674-2555010 / 09861231718

Contact Person : Mrs. Anita Kar
Contact this Branch at bhubaneswar@gateforum.com

Same contact for Bhubaneswar, Khurda and Cuttack

Raipur

CMC Computer Education
Sector - 1, Near Railway Crossing
Devendra Nagar, Raipur - 492009
Ph.- 0771 - 4043404 / 9893139232
Fax - 0771 - 4020622

Contact this branch at raipur@gateforum.com

Bhilai

GATE FORUM
141, New Civic Center, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh - 490006.
Landmark:Opposite Income Tax Building.
Ph: 0788-2261526/9425237343
Bhilai@gateforum.com

Contact this Branch at bhilai@gateforum.com

Delhi

GATEFORUM,
Trump and Gates
H-108, 2nd Floor,
Opp. Hotel Marina,
Connaught Place, New Delhi-110001
Ph: 011-41513567-68,
011-23325009

Contact this Branch at delhi@gateforum.com

Surat

GATEFORUM
M-401 Shivshakti complex,
Shriram Chowk,
Ghod Dod road,
Surat.

Contact Number: 9377481915

Contact this Branch at surat@gateforum.com

Lucknow

GATEFORUM
B-46, First Floor , Mahanagar Extension, Mandir
Marg Lucknow

Phone : +91-522-2327074, 4003751

Contact this Branch at lucknow@gateforum.com

Vadodara

GATEFORUM,
Selveen coffee shack, Near Kalyan Cafe, Fatehganj main road, Vadodara. 390002.
Phone: 0265-3205964
9924430750

Contact this Branch at vadodara@gateforum.com

Kanpur

Gateforum Representative

Mr. Rajeev Kr. Singh
87/1, Block 9, Near Nand Lal Chawraha,
Govind Nagar, Kanpur
Mobile No.:9889086963, 93358220502

Bulandshar

Gateforum Representative

P.K.JHA
Campus State Bank of Patiala
Kaka Aam
Bulanshahr
05732-256636

Allahabad

Gateforum Representative

Mr. K.M. Mishra
Prabha Coaching
H.No. 06,M.I.G. II, Shiv Nagar,
Allahpur,(Near Police Booth)
Allhabad-211006
Ph No. :9305094878

FOR Sambalpur, Bargarh and Rourkela

Gateforum Representative

Mr. Bishwaroop Kar

168A, Sahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar,Dist.:
Khurda, Orissa - 751007.

Ph: 0674-2555010

Contact Person : Mr. Bishwaroop Kar

Ahmedabad

GATEFORUM
A-202, Narnarayan Complex, Near Pizza Hut, Swastik Char Rasta, CG Cross Road, AHMEDABAD – 9.
Phone: 079-32506005 / 9924430750

Contact this Branch at ahmedabad@gateforum.com

Bhopal

GATEFORUM,
167, 2nd floor, Zone-2, MP Nagar, Behind Sargam Cinema.
Ph: 0755 5269134, 0755 2571610, 9425451636

bhopal@gateforum.com

Contact this Branch at bhopal@gateforum.com

Gateforum Kolkata will shortly be starting fresh batches in Classroom Coaching at Salt Lake and South Kolkata. We are conducting a scholarship test for the Classroom Coaching, wherein the best performers will be getting scholarships / discount in the fees for classroom coaching. As you already know, the study material (correspondence course) and the All India Test Series 2008 (conducted in 30 cities simultaneously) is being provided free to all classroom coaching students.

There is no fees for the scholarship test! Prior registration is desirable. To register call 033-32407240 or contact at addresses/phone nos. given below along with the details.

Scholarship Test Details :

Scholarship test: - 24^th June, 2007

Streams: - EC, CS, ME, EE and IT

Venue: - Institute of Jute Technology, Ballygunj Circular Road

Reporting Time: - 9:30 AM

Batches at: - Salt Lake (EC, CS and IT), South Kolkata (EC, CS, EE, ME and IT)

Contact no for free registration: - 0-09831760600, 033-32552002

Email ID: - Kolkata@gateforum.com

Office Address:- Gateoforum, 119 A, Selimpur Road, Kolkata-31.

Gateforum is starting fresh weekend batches for various streams at Jayanagar and Malleswaram in Bangalore. The classes will be held on Saturdays (second half) and Sundays only.

The batches will start on 20th May, 2007.

To enroll, please download the enrollment form.

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