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Invisible Gorilla!

Video that reveals the surprising limits of perception, attention, and awareness

Imagine you are asked to watch a short video (above) in which six people-three in white shirts and three in black shirts-pass basketballs around. While you watch, you must keep a silent count of the number of passes made by the people in white shirts. At some point, a gorilla strolls into the middle of the action, faces the camera and thumps its chest, and then leaves, spending nine seconds on screen. Would you see the gorilla? 

Almost everyone has the intuition that the answer is "yes, of course I would." How could something so obvious go completely unnoticed? But when we did this experiment at Harvard University several years ago, we found thathalf of the people who watched the video and counted the passes missed the gorilla. It was as though the gorilla was invisible. 

This experiment reveals two things: that we are missing a lot of what goes on around us, and that we have no idea that we are missing so much. To our surprise, it has become one of the best-known experiments in psychology. It is described in most introductory textbooks and is featured in more than a dozen science museums. It has been used by everyone from preachers and teachers to corporate trainers and terrorist hunters, not to mention characters on the TV show C.S.I., to help explain what we see and what we don't see. And it got us thinking that many other intuitive beliefs that we have about our own minds might be just as wrong. We wrote The Invisible Gorilla to explore the limits of human intuition and what they mean for ourselves and our world. We hope you read it, and if you do, we would love to hear what you think.

Courtesy: http://www.theinvisiblegorilla.com

An Optical Illusion

Disappearing Dots: A Most Amazing Optical Illusion

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Parikrama Glimpses

E&C Dept 4th Sem girls dance in Parikrama-2013

Farewell to 2009-2013 Batch-Part 2

Farewell to 2009-2013 Batch Part-1

Inter-college Electrical Quiz

Department of Electrical Engineering

Congratulations

For the following winners of Inter-college level Electrical Quiz Competition held on 09^th May 2013 at P.D.I.T. Hospet.

SN.	Team Name	Participants	Score	College	Place
1	Nuclear Challengers	M. Manjunath & Uma	90	T.M.A.E.S Polytechnic, Hospet	I
2	Bio Indians	Khajo Moinuddin & Umashankar	69	S.M.V Polytechnic, Hospet	II
3	Royal Hydro’s	Shruthi.M.K & Asma Banu 2nd sem CSE	62	P.D.I.T Hospet	III

CONVENOR: Mr.Madhvaraja.K

HOD H.M.Elia Sundaram

PRINCIPAL Smt. Pravati Kadli

     

1st Place TMAE Polytechnic Hospet

2nd Place SMV Polytechnic Hospet            

3rd Place PDIT 

MSPL Gold Medal Winners-2013

MSPL Ltd of Baldota Group has a reputation for adding value to the nature, adding value to the society and also adding value to the noble cause of education. MSPL has been recognizing and encouraging the outstanding academic performers of our College by giving Gold Medals every year.

Sri Asis Mishra, General Manager(Materials), MSPL,  presented the Gold Medals

2009-2013 Batch Students

Group Photo of Outgoing Batch
PDIT, E&C Dept 2009-2013 Batch Students with Staff, HOD and Principal

PDIT Joined hands with Sahara for Guinness Record

PDIT Joined hands with Sahara in singing national anthem for Guinness Record

PDIT Staff and students singing national anthem on 6th May 2013 Bharat Bhawna Diwas

Posted by News Desk on May 6, 2013 in National, News

Lucknow, May 6 (ANI): A private business house in Lucknow had attempted to create a new world record with over 100,000 of its employees singing the country’s national anthem together at one point in one uniform on Monday.

Chairman of the Sahara Group, Subrata Roy, while addressing the gathering at a stadium in Lucknow, expressed his delight as his company’s attempt to create a new world record.

Roy says he espouses a philosophy of “collective materialism” and according to Sahara’s website, the group shares its profits between staff, its internal fund and social development activities and has never declared a dividend.

The current world record is held by Pakistan where 42,813 people sang the national anthem at one place in a group.

Apart from over 101,000 Sahara employees singing the national anthem at one place Lucknow, the Sahara Group also attempted the record of over one million of its employees singing in one uniform at the same time at 4,512 of their offices spread across India.

Sahara has gained a global profile in recent years through its acquisition of London’s Grosvenor House hotel and the Plaza Hotel in New York.

Guinness World Records representatives were present in the stadium to monitor the record attempt but they are yet to make any official confirmation on whether the current record has been bettered.

Roy is currently locked in a legal battle with the stock market watchdog SEBI over a bond scheme that the Supreme Court deemed illegal.

SEBI accuses Sahara, best known as the main sponsor of the Indian cricket team, of raising billions of dollars from small investors through an outlawed financial scheme and failing to comply with a court order to refund the money.

Sahara has said it repaid most of the investors.

The male workers of Sahara were wearing a uniform of white shirt, black pants and black ties, while the women sported red saris (traditional wear).

Classical Dance in Parikrama

Opening Classical Dance in Parikrama

A duet dance in Parikrama

A very well preformed duet dance in Parikrama-2013

PDIT Parikrama Press Clippings-2

PDIT Parikrama Press Clippings-1

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