Technology Innovation from Young Minds
The inaugural edition of HP India's annual competition for the Indian student community, HP Innovate 2008, was a runaway success. As many as 50 institutions and 382 students participated in the event that recognizes and rewards young engineering students in India and encourages technology entrepreneurship.
HP Innovate 2008 showcased some of the most creative technology innovation ideas of India's brightest young minds. The ideas covered areas as diverse as a fuzzy logic-based image resizing algorithm, a tamper-proof GPS-based autorickshaw and taxi fare meter and an embedded haptic eye that allows the visually challenged to see the world through their fingers, among other innovations.
The eminent panel of judges, a mix of leaders from academia and the corporate sector, including senior managers from HP India, was impressed by the presentations and inventions of participating teams, and they had a hard time picking the winners.
At the HP Innovate 2008 grand finals, held in Bangalore, the IIT-Kharagpur team walked away with the first prize for their submission on "Fuzzy Logic Based Protection for Image Resizing by Seam Carving". The Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Delhi, took the second place for its project: "Fair Meter: GPS-Based Tamperproof Auto-Rickshaw/Taxi Fare Meters with Secure Fare Upgrade". The third prize went to Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College, Chennai, for their submission, "Embedded Haptic Eye".
The winning team from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur was taken on a sponsored trip to HP Labs Palo Alto, USA. At Palo Alto, the team visited the IdeaLab Briefing Center, the Commercial Print Lab, the Sustainable Data Center and the HP Archives.
The students also presented their work to eminent HP researchers and visited the Nanotechnology & Media Interaction and Understanding Lab.
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