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| Former PIO G.S. Bhargava dead - New Kerala Posted: 22 Sep 2009 04:44 AM PDT New Delhi, Sep.22 : Former Principal Information Officer (PIO) to the Government of India, G.S. Bhargava, died in the capital on Tuesday. He was 85. He was unwell and undergoing treatment for the last three months.
His wife Lily Bhargava, and two sons, Prakash and Ajeet and daughter Pushpa survive Mr. Bhargava. A noted political commentator Mr. G. S. Bhargava, was the Resident Editor of the Indian Express, Hyderabad, and Assistant Editor of the Hindustan Times. He was Principal Information Officer of the Government of India from 1978 to 1980 during the rule of the Janata Government. Mr. Bhargava had a journalistic experience of over four decades, which was capped by stints at the Centre for International Studies, Harvard (1973-74), the International Institute of Strategic Studies, London (1976), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1980 and 1990), and the Centre for Policy Studies, New Delhi (1993). Mr. Bhargava was a person with wide travel experience in Asia, Europe and the Middle East. He attended the International Human Rights Conference and was a delegate to a UNESCO session in Paris in 1979. He also spent a term in Moscow as a visiting scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies. He worked as a correspondent in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal and authored several books, including an account of the India-Pakistan war of 1965, Soviet Unions involvement in Afghanistan and an English version of the writings of former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev. He wrote the biographies of former President V.V.Giri, former Prime Minister Morarji Desai and former Chief Minister of undivided Punjab Bhim Sen Sachar. The last rites of Mr. G. S. Bhargava will take place at the Lodi crematorium at 6.p.m. today. --ANI
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| Biographies for Distinguished Leadership Award finalists - Tallahassee Democrat Posted: 17 Sep 2009 01:18 PM PDT Sandy DAlemberte Florida State University President Emeritus Talbot Sandy DAlemberte is receiving Leadership Tallahassees Lifetime Leadership Award. He is a past president of the American Bar Association and a member of the American Law Institute. Besides practicing law for several years with Steel Hector & Davis in Miami, he served Dade County in the Florida House of Representatives from 1966 to 1972. After leaving the Legislature, he chaired the Florida Constitution Revision Commission in 1977-1978 and the Florida Commission on Ethics in 1974-1975. DAlemberte was the fourth dean of the FSU College of Law from 1984 to 1989. He was the universitys president from 1994 to 2003. D'Alemberte has won numerous national awards for his contributions to the profession, including the 2001 Wickersham Award given by the Friends of the Law Library of Congress, the 2001 Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, the 1998 ABA Section of Legal Education Robert J. Kutak Award, and the 1998 ABA World Order Under Law Award. He received an American Academy of Television Arts and Sciences "Emmy" in 1985 for his work in open government. Karen Moore This years recipient of the Greater Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce 2009 Godfrey Smith Past Chairmens Award is Karen B. Moore, in honor of her work on behalf of the chamber and the community. She is president of Moore Consulting Group Inc. in Tallahassee, a business she founded in 1992. Since then, the firm has won more than 350 local and statewide awards, and Moore has received several top industry honors. Besides her involvement in the chamber, Moore serves on 11 local boards, whose efforts are directed primarily toward health care, education and issues affecting children and families. Leadership Pacesetter finalists Tallahassee Fire Chief Cindy Dick is the first woman to serve in that capacity for the city. A resident of Tallahassee since 1978 and a graduate of Lincoln High School, she is also the first woman appointed to the Florida Fire Chiefs Association Board of Directors. |
| Augmented Reality: First Person User Interfaces - Wired News Posted: 22 Sep 2009 03:32 AM PDT *"LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader." That's gotta be one of the goofiest potted biographies ever, except for the stark fact that Luke Wroblewski actually is an internationally recognized Web thought leader. *Here the Thought Leader delivers a comprehensive overview of augmentation as a user interface, complete with real-world examples. Handy stuff. Wroblewski argues against making augmented reality too real, in favor of creating enhancements that allow you to do more with the reality that's already there. *It's all good, but this is the part I find most intriguing: "Interacting with Things Near You "First person user interfaces aren't limited to helping you navigate or better understand the physical space around you -they can also enable you to interact directly with the people and objects residing within that space. In most cases, the prerequisite for these kinds of interactions is identifying what (or who) is near you. As a result, most of the early applications in this category are focused on getting that part of things right first." *The reason this augmented scalar problem is hard is that the 3-D registration technologies are different in different real-world spaces. GPS is great at 7,000 meter scales, and useless for some object seven centimeters away. Whereas near-field RFID, great at touching, only stretches to arm's length at best. *Google Sky Map can map the distant sky pretty effectively, but visually augmenting a room, where your keen eyes are irritated by one pixel's worth of overlap or jitter, is very tough. *In user-interface design, the instinct is going to be to blur or eyepaper-over those scalar differences for the sake of a smooth user experience. But I'm wondering if maybe those distinctions of scale ought to be honored and intensified. *Don't I want the intimate objects in my hands'-reach to have some kind of data intimacy? As opposed to the public realm of, say, Google-mapping some famous national monument. *If you don't design for these socially and technically different treatments of spaces, it is going to pop up as the "RFID scan my underwear" problem, a scandal well known in the RFID discourse for years.
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