Osmosis - The MindTree Techfest

Dec 14, 2005 is the date for Osmosis – the MindTree Techfest. It will be a day-long celebration of technology in which MindTree Minds will showcase their technology prowess by presenting papers, gizmos, prototypes and other proof-of-concepts. It is a premier technology event spanning three months, culminating on the Osmosis Day.
Osmosis is a celebration of our capability to build innovative technical solutions and showcase them. It is an event where all MindTree Minds, world-over demonstrate knowledge, expertise and ability to read and interpret technology trends. It creates an environment to foster innovation, collaboration and expertise.

Technical Paper Contest

The most prestigious contest of Osmosis 2005, is the Technical Paper Contest. Selected papers will be presented on the Osmosis Day event and Friday events towards the latter half of November and December. All other papers are presented in the ongoing community sessions.

Some paper topics are:

IT Services

• Investigating xP and FDD
• Architecting a SOA based framework
• Agile testing
• Application of domain model to J2EE paradigm
• Signature for hassle free testing
• Designing for the worldwide web
• Architects quiver for mission critical J2EE application
• Business Intelligence framework: unstructured data
• Principles, architectures and strategies of test automation
• Aspects of "Internationalization" for web based solutions
• Test status reporting and metrics collection
• Benchmarking an individual’s performance using Data Envelopment Analysis
• Using patterns to deliver flexibility and speed
• Engineering Object Oriented Frameworks: First Principles
• Plone - Content management system
• AJAX - Approach for richer web applications

R&D Services

• Design tradeoffs in A/D converters
• Electromagnetic compatibility and more
• Graph based heuristic algorithm for dynamic frequency scaling
• APCMP
• Medium access control protocol in a wireless sensor network: Zigbee – A review
• A new Bluetooth profile: M-Wallet profile
• A conceptual Industrial Operating System
• Testing distributed software applications using STAF
• Digital watermarking
• File system offload
• Design approaches for a generic protocol testing tool
• Validation of real time systems
• End-to-end clock synchronization for isochronous data over Bluetooth
• Effective VLSI design with clock domain crossing
• ARM platform based verification environment for Mindtree’s Bluetooth Baseband
• Logic BIST for VLSI designs

Quizzes

As part of this Techfest, we conduct weekly quizzes, and give exciting prizes to five winners every week. Each time a different community is identified to create a quiz of seven multiple choice questions. Quiz questions are then uploaded on Osmosis intranet site and MindTree Minds world-over participate in the contest.

TechWorks Contest

Another important Osmosis 2005 event is the TechWorks Contest. In this contest MindTree Minds demonstrate potential ideas that can increase productivity, reduce defects or offer reuse - ideas that can become MindTree's next MINTs (MindTree Incubated New Technologies.) Projects which are physically/technically demonstrable are selected for demonstration on Osmosis Day.

The submitted TechWorks subjects include:

IT Services

• E-mail based reliable messaging infrastructure
• Project planning kit
• CodeGen.NET
• Meta reporting tool
• Online examination portal
• DTS packaging component
• MOM content manager
• Access data utility
• Snifflan iV A HTTP packet sniffer
• Configuration file manager
• MS-Access Relation Manager
• Automated bugzilla span shot tool

R&D Services

• A simple and effective method of measuring S parameters at any given frequency
• Remote testing
• DirecTrees
• Google API Glossary Finder (GAGF)
• Simultaneity - application to edit a file simultaneously
• Mediamind Demo
• Paging the Kernel Memory
• Implementation of a new Bluetooth profile - Mwallet
• SharpFTP downloader
• Dialog viewer - utility to test UI issues in multi-lingual desktop application

Campus Papers

MindTree is reaching out to campuses to involve students in presenting papers, technical projects, and conduct MindTree Lecture series there. As part of this initiative MindTree collaborated with 22 engineering campuses, across all technology areas. Students from all over the country submitted 273 abstracts out of which 170 papers have been received. The competition is immense and after several rounds of extensive screening six candidates will be selected to present their works on the Osmosis Day.