Sunday, April 13, 2008

Updates: Facts!

This one is going to be a regular one. 

1. 25% teams in Eureka finals (2 out of 8 teams in finals, one from Goa and another from Pilani)
2. The first book on verilog was written by a BITSian. (Mr. Yatin Trivedi, Director Industry Partnership Programs, Magma Design Automation, USA)
3. The two indians on the 50 topmost connected people on Linked in: BITSians. :)
4. Ipv6 standard developed at BITS-Pilani.
5. Only college in India to have not agreed to reservations based on caste! BITS only entertains reservations based on Merit!
6. The first online examinations in India: BITSAT.
7. The admission selectivity is around 2%.
8. The Entrepreneurship Cell, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership is one of the Top-5 such cells in India.
9. Companies like Onida, Tanishq, Amkette found by BITSians (Full list will be up soon!).
10. ISB topper for this 2008: BITSian, Chitra Raghunath (http://www.isb.edu/gradday2008/ScholarsofExcellence.shtml)

More to come...

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