Well, if your mask works, then why do I have to- Okay, fine. Fine. Fine. Look. I'm putting it on. Military sci-fi is a pretty simple genre when you get down to it. It's basically just an excuse to watch manly men fight other manly men with futuristic weaponry. Sometimes you can substitute a group of manly men for a group of insect aliens or lizard people. The technology level can vary anywhere from barely above modern weaponry to full-on space battles across the galaxy. That's not the important part. The battles are. Military sci-fi started several decades ago when soldiers returning home from World War II designated Robert Heinlein as the man who gets to speak for all of them. He decided that he needed to invent a new genre of writing to show off how cool and epic war is in order to convince more people to utilize it as a means of political leverage. This gave birth to titles like Starship Troopers, Honor Harrington, The Lost Fleet, Arrow Manga Sensei, and other stuff that your dad likes to read. This has spread outside the realm of books as well to include things like movies and video games. The modern Call of Duty series is arguably military sci-fi. Unlike other genres with more complex storylines and world-building that leads into the conflict, military sci-fi exists solely to show off cool battles. Okay, I'm not- I'm not doing this anymore. All right. I had it on. You're just gonna have to deal with it the rest. Yeah? Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. Context and perspective are unneeded.  The conflict must exist purely in a vacuum. Eh, get it? Vacuum? Cuz like it's in- it's in space. I'm hilarious. Despite this, there are still some rules you need to follow if you want to make any of the oodles of cash that military sci-fi will guarantee you. And so that's why I've made this helpful guide to teach all of you the basics of doing the thing.   Ignore them at the first opportunity. Many of you might be under the impression that the military is an organization of discipline, procedure, and strict hierarchies. I'm here to tell you that that is false.  The only things you learn in basic training are how to shoot and how to stab communists, unless you're from one of those countries that aren't America, in which case you learn how to stab good, God-fearing Americans. There's no further training after basic either, which means you have to squeeze in how to do stuff like driving tanks, flying planes, even piloting spaceships or mechs depending on the technology level of the setting. Specialization is a myth. Everyone can do everything. Under normal circumstances, the average soldiers are required to follow the orders of those above them, and that goes all the way up to the top. However, this only implies until those lower on the hierarchy feel that those in charge are incompetent, then they can just do whatever they want. Make sure your work reflects this. The protagonist of the story, whatever their rank at the start, needs to break at least one order from those higher up at some point. When the fighting gets heavy, maybe the general will give them some terrible advice, like telling them to retreat instead of fighting to the last man. If they're high up in the command structure themselves, then they should go against what the politicians tell them to. What good are they anyways? All they want is to bring the conflict to a swift end. They forget that killing people is desirable for its own end.  It works great for Douglas MacArthur. The exact commands they don't follow are unimportant, only that it leads to them saving the day. After all, it's important to always believe that you're the correct one and no one else could ever know better than you. And nothing bad has ever come from the military doing whatever it wanted instead of acting as a tool of the state. Number two, the protagonist must run everything. Whether the main character starts off in charge or they get there over the course of the story, they need to be in charge of the good guy armies eventually. You might think that military sci-fi would be a good opportunity to show war from the perspective of a grunt on the front lines, someone who has little real power to affect the outcome of things. You might think that this would be a good way to showcase the horrors of war and how society can feel like an overwhelming, monstrous force that no individual has any real power over, not even those at the top, but no, it's pure power fantasy. And like any good power fantasy, your hero has to be a perfect, implacable Superman figure with no flaws of any sort. All other characters should only be there to do what they say, get in the way so the hero can look cool, or just stare in awe of them. Your character might start off as a low-level soldier and they might be at the top of the command structure to begin with. The important part is they have to be in control by the end in order to fit in with the power fantasy. Whatever their level of education, the hero must be a military genius who can predict the enemy's actions with unerring accuracy.  Genius doesn't mean you learn about a subject faster than the average person, it means you're born with the information already inside of your head. If you don't feel like researching military theory or crafting a world with clear rules so that you can tell how technology would affect warfare, then no need. All you have to do is have the good guys hide while the villains charge into a trap. That won't get old quick. But your hero can't be one of those armchair generals who stays far out of the way so he can properly command without the possibility of being taken out of commission and throwing his side into chaos.  No, I'm not, I'm not redoing it. Keep going. Remember, specialization is a myth. Leadership equals badassery. Number three, there are only six character archetypes that the cast can fit into. When writing in any genre, there are a number of roles that characters can fill and you need to always stick to those without any deviation whatsoever. Other than the perfect protagonist, there's the feckless evil leader of the villains who occasionally overrides the plans of his more competent lackeys, the smarter lieutenant who might be sympathetic to the heroes, a politician on the good guy's side who gets in the way, a regular soldier, a special forces soldier who may or may not have genetic modifications, a pilot of some sort of special future vehicle, and some sort of artificial intelligence. All characters can only be some variation on those six stereotypes. If you ever feel like deviating, please take the nearest glass object and hit yourself over the head with it until it breaks. For that matter, there's no girls allowed, unless she's also the person in charge of the good guy army. In that case, make sure she acts exactly like all the men around her. As we all know, that's the only way women can be successful.  Ignore it. War and politics have nothing to do with one another. I mean, look at who declares them. Presidents, prime ministers, kings, parliaments? Nothing political there. The reasons war starts are completely apolitical. One side is evil and wants to rule over everything so they go off to wipe out anyone who stands in their way. The other side is good and wants to rule over everything so they go off to wipe out anyone who stands in their way. Totally different. There's never any concrete reasons to fight, like needing resources, trying to stimulate the economy, tensions between various factions boiling over, or distracting from problems on the home front by turning the attention of your citizens outward. Nor are there complex ideological reasons about who should run things and how that would lead to conflict. The bad guys are evil, and if you question that, we're going to have to re-educate you before you infect your neighbors with subversive thoughts. There might be a politician character who tries to do something crazy, like bring the fighting to an end without further bloodshed, but he has to be looked down upon to understand what it takes to win. The protagonist definitely understands what it takes to run a massive space empire properly, though. The good guys are either America or America in space. Even if the government is a holy fictional one, it should still take its structure from the American one because there's no improving perfection. That goes for the economy, too. Technology will never change anything about the way money works or what sort of careers are available to your average person. When the Cold War ended, history ended as well, and now everything is going to be great forever. If you feel the need to include a political discussion or two, make sure that the views of your protagonist are the standard of the setting, and that other points of view are never sincerely entertained.  Remember that political views are just like accents. Yours is the standard, and any deviation from that is rocking the boat.  The important part is that the bad guys are both ugly and evil without ever really making any points. That's how real wars start, because the good guys get attacked out of nowhere by the bad guys. Look at World War One. Wait, who are the good guys there? Um, whoever America sided with, I guess. The important part is that we killed those filthy Kami Russians. What's that? We were on the same side? In both wars. Wow, you learn something new every day. Number five. Descriptive prose?  In the realm of written fiction, there aren't any illustrations, audio, or video to supplement the experience. Everything comes from the way it's described in words.  And just like meat, it should be the only part of every meal. Never describe anything about anything except for the weapons. Ships, guns, bombs, and power armor should get pages of explanation about how they work and what they look like. The characters shouldn't even get a hair color. It would distract from how they're all interchangeable. Is your protagonist tall? Skinny? Black? White? Who cares? It's not like we need information to craft the scene in our minds. Except for the awkward sex scenes, of course. Those are crucial. They're very crucial. When the fighting begins, be sure to take one of two paths. Either switch the POV around between as many characters as possible, following pilots, soldiers, commanders, civilians caught in the crossfire. We have to show what all of them are doing and thinking, even if each only gets a single paragraph. Don't worry, the jumping around will not be confusing. That, or show the whole thing from the point of view of the commander, e.g. the protagonist. That way the fighting will be far away and we don't see any of it and only hear about it secondhand. That way it's like watching somebody play a board game rather than an intense matter of life and death. Occasionally, you should throw in a passage or two about a different subject you're passionate about. Maybe you're a nerve about international banking, or the way work drives might work, or woodworking. The subject itself isn't important. Only the audience members wondering where this came from and why it's here. The parts dealing with this should be as long and as in-depth as possible, to the point where your readers will either skip it or get bored and read something else. Forget about them. We don't want quitters here. And that's all that should be described here. Action. The way missiles and lasers fly through space is crucial, if not the only thing. Some will say action is meaningless if the audience doesn't care about the outcome.  Number six. War crimes aren't real. Ever since wars began, those who fight them have set up rules and taboos about what sort of wartime conduct is acceptable. The basic thought process was that you shouldn't be too cruel or harsh when you win because one day you might lose and you wouldn't want to be treated that way. And as a general rule, war has gotten more civilized since you can actually be punished for breaking certain laws. But that's just an example of how society has gotten far softer than the romanticized vision of the past I made up in my head. The only ones who think rules apply in war are peace-loving hippies who don't have what it takes to win. If you want to show off how your heroes are not only smart but willing to do whatever it takes to win, then have them break a few of those pussy rules. Want to scare civilians into submission?   Just execute them all. Unless you want to test your chemical or biological weapons, then feel free to use them as guinea pigs. If a particular race or ethnic group is giving your heroes a bunch of trouble, then they should feel free to ju- But remember, if the bad guys do the same thing, it's an act of irredeemable evil. Why is it different? Because we're the good guys and they're the bad guys, duh. Our actions don't determine whether we're good or bad, only the motivations behind them. So long as you can justify bombing that children's hospital, it's a-okay. And if one of your super soldiers ever gets caught murdering prisoners and shooting at random civilians, you should pardon him. That way your enemies will be scared and totally not even angrier than before. Number seven, tactics and strategy are the same thing. Some people will tell you that tactics are the way you win an individual battle while strategy is how you win the war. Those people are wrong. All wars are is a series of battles, and whoever wins more battles wins the war. Don't worry about things like trade routes, political concerns, or winning popular support.  Nothing else matters. Winning individual battles is guaranteed to win you the overall war. No, just go- Winning individual battles is guaranteed to win you the overall- Overall- Come on. Just ask Hannibal Barca, or Charles XII. The only thing you need to worry about is how your protagonist will ambush the villains this time. Because remember, that's all that fighting is. Ambushing. No matter how many times you do it, the enemy will continue to rush straight into whatever trap you lay. After all, if they were smart, they wouldn't be bad guys, and only bad guys want to fight us. What's that? There's more to battles than that? It's impossible to hide in space? You know what?  The goal of all battles is not to capture important locations or put your side into a favorable negotiating position. The goal is to kill as many of the enemy as possible.  Number eight. Weapons manufacturing and development are super easy. Think about how long it took to go from having spears to having modern guns. With that in mind, your military sci-fi should showcase extremely fast technological advancements. It's totally normal for a country's armed forces to go from being armed with muskets and horses to assault rifles and tanks over the course of a few years. Or the space equivalent, which I guess would be having clunky Gundam ripoffs to having sleek and powerful Gundam ripoffs. And every commander should immediately understand how to effectively utilize all this new technology. That way, when the heroes get in a bind, you can write them out easier. That's immensely satisfying. In addition, never worry about how these weapons are manufactured. That's unimportant. No one should ever try to cripple their opponents by destroying their industrial base or restrict their access to needed materials. Like I said in number seven, battles only. Wait, these two are similar. Don't you- should we combine these last two into something? And that's all the advice I have to give. Some of you might want to criticize me and say I don't get war, but remember, I skimmed a few Wikipedia articles from my education and I'm a proud Vietnam veteran.  In addition, I'm the foremost expert on writing military science fiction you can tell from all the bestsellers I've written. Some others might even claim that the art of making something entertaining and the art of making something realistic are different. They're not.  Arts and entertainment have objective quality. It's not a matter of opinion. And because I'm someone with an audience who can get my thoughts across in a semi-coherent manner, everything I say is objective.  Now subscribe to my channel for more advice on every- just- Now subscribe to my channel for more advice on military sci-fi. You guys are the best. Let me tell ya. Anyways, thanks for watching this far. Please like the video, comment on it, and subscribe if you haven't already. And check out my channel for more of these. Bye.


Sony at Mobile World Congress and who are you? Hi my name is Giotacata, I'm Product Marketing Manager for Sony Mobile. And this is the new, one of the most amazing phones ever announced, right? Exactly, so this is Puria XZ Premium and it has a Gorilla Glass front and back for the design and also these parts are made of metal giving a premium feeling for this device. And there's different designs for it, different colors. Exactly, we have two colors here, the silver chrome and the deep-sea black. And here also we have the first 4K HDR display in the world. So we have the Trilumnos display for mobile and also X-Reality for mobile. So this is a 4K HDR display on a smartphone. How big is an inch? It's 5.5 inches and it's the first in the world to have 4K HDR. So that means extra brightness, that means more colors, that means contrast, brightness, color and saturation. Everything that's improved for this product. And that means it's the best phone in the world for VR also, right? If you put it in the VR headset then you have so much pixels right there. Yes, exactly, it's possible as well. Alright, let's go around here. You have a couple of demos, what are you talking about here? Well, here we just placed a lifestyle. So we have some kind of a placement for what kind of style people have in our communication. And also we can talk about the camera because it's the first smartphone in the world with the image state sensor. And it's possible to make videos with 960 frames per second. So what that means for the user? It means that they can record videos with super slow motion with details and use their creativity to create the best videos ever. Nice, maybe we can check that just after. And right here you're showing the internals. So this is how it is inside the phone. And what's special about this? Well, this is fantastic because here you have the battery, you have all the components also inspired by an arm. Snapdragon 835 is basically the fastest arm processor ever made. Exactly, it's the fastest arm processor ever made. And it's able to do download speeds up to 1 gbps. So this is super new and the fastest network available. And also the processing capabilities is fantastic. So it's an improvement in all the senses. And here you can see the camera, you can see the details of the USB, the battery, the processor, the SIM card. So we have a lot of technologies here. Kind of like a heat sink. Yes, exactly. And also some details because the top and bottom is made of metal. And then you can improve the network capabilities because as this is a very special product with the first Snapdragon 835. Then you have to improve and use every single place possible to place the antennas and have a fantastic performance. This is one of the only phones in the world with quad antenna configuration in every corner. There's an antenna that enables Gigabit LTE. Yes, exactly. So we are working not only with the processor but also to place the antennas to have the best performance. Because it's not only about the processor, right? You have to place all the components together. And this is fantastic the engineering work because you have to put, you know, like this new camera, this new 4K engineer display, battery and the design details, everything inside this fantastic beautiful device. That's awesome. Can we go just outside to your geo booths? Check it out over here. There you have the slow motion demonstration right here. Can you show it off? Yes. Here you can see some videos recorded. You can see some videos recorded with this new camera. So this is the 906 frames per second videos. And you can see all the details with a super slow motion. That's four times slower than the competitors. And we bring this technology from CyberShot and Alpha Cameras. 960 frames per second is 720p or what kind of resolution is that? The resolution is HD. HD? Exactly. It's 720p and 960 frames per second. And you have the demos right there also, people using it? Exactly. So people can try to see how it works and do by themselves and try this fantastic new camera, MotionEye, and also it's able to do this predictive capture. So you can take pictures before it happens. How does that work?  So this is something really great. So it's basically recording before you press the button. Exactly. And then you choose the frame you like. Exactly. Because it can recognize that there is a movement and then it will take the picture in that moment. And how many pictures per second? In this case they can take four pictures before you press the button to take a picture. Over here you're showing off that Amazon Prime, Amazon has 4K HDR content. Exactly. We have the first 4K HDR display and together with Amazon Prime Video that's available in more than 200 countries in the world, you can watch the same content in the same quality. So you have the whole package to have the best image experience ever. Netflix and YouTube should also support 4K HDR. I guess it would also be possible. And right here, you're showing more about the 4K HDR. What are you talking about here? Here you can see the difference between Xperia Z5 Premium that was a 4K display. And then in this side you have Xperia XZ Premium that's 4K HDR. So we already have the first 4K display and now we have the first 4K HDR. And here you can see the difference between them too. So basically all the technology that Sony has for image processing in the 4K HDR TV, you can use that in the Snapdragon 835. You program it to display the images better the same way. Exactly. So we have the best frame rate, we have the best video, the best display, everything powered by the Snapdragon 835. Alright. So how soon is available? And is there any price? The product will be available late spring and the price, it will be very high per country, but this is a flagship product so the price will reflect this position. The same as an iPhone, right? I cannot comment, I cannot comment about this kind of details.


Live from Santa Clara in the heart of Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, covering Juniper Nextwork 2016, brought to you by Juniper. Now, here are your hosts, John Furrier and Stu Miniman. Okay, we're back here live at Silicon Valley with Raheem Raheem. Raheem Raheem, who's the CEO of Juniper Networks. Here live with theCUBE, I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. Welcome back, good to see you. It's great to be here, thank you. Long day, big event, good morning keynote here.  The big news about security, but also digital cohesion. I said data cohesion earlier, but that's ultimately data too, but talk about the vision, because this is an extension of last year's conversation with all these services, the fabric of the network, now providing the data in security. Talk about what we mean. We've gone from disaggregation to cohesion. There's cohesion, there you go. Well, it has been an exciting day, so thanks for the opportunity to talk a little bit about this vision. I find myself honestly in awe at the pace of change of innovation that's happening all around us, and I find it super exciting to participate, to be in this world today with this technology adding value in our lives, but also to participate in helping it make it happen. Digital cohesion is about this next era of innovation that essentially talks about the coming together of different discrete point services so that a mega service provider can actually offer really compelling, lifestyle enhancing services that truly are amazing. And I used an example in education, children's education, right, where somebody is going to come and pull together things like augmented reality, gamification, learning curriculum together to provide a truly immersive learning experience for our children.  It's been proven that this kind of immersive teaching can be more effective than that of a classroom or a textbook. This is the driver, though, that we've seen the shift almost reverse the way it used to be in technology where the apps have forced the change down the networks or where the action is. So you have enablement, packets still move around networks, has been invisible for a while, but now you're starting to see that next generation set of examples like virtual reality, augmented reality. How do you do that? It's really hard. At the same time, you get security problems from whether it's foreign actors. What is the key thing going on right now? Is it the bringing together a cohesive services or is it certain parts of the stack? Can you just share some insight into how it all happens? So this coming together of applications in this vision of digital cohesion is just an example of how fast things are changing and how important it is for technology players like Juniper and like our peers in the industry to continue to innovate. Because at the end of the day, all innovation in technology happens as a result of progress in three basic building blocks of compute storage and networking. And while we have seen tremendous gains, thousands of percent in the improvement of performance of these building blocks historically, we are up against some pretty significant barriers going forward. Barriers like the coming to the end of Moore's Law. Barriers like trust as we exchange information between users and applications. Barriers like interoperability at every layer of networking, at the IP layer, at the optical layer and at higher layers where different application providers are going to need to work effectively together to offer these compelling mega services in the future. The IoT market is happening in real time too. And let's go back down to your example about this cohesion. It's interesting, I want to give you thoughts on this. The two big mega trends that we're seeing, certainly in science is genome and DNA sequencing that's on the medical side, which talks about compute, autonomous vehicles. This is kind of a Silicon Valley growth area, AI, machine learning, and then the IoT market, as Wikibon just put out a report, personal IoT, home IoT, government IoT, health IoT, small business IoT, office IoT and industrial IoT. So there's a zillion different now categorical human societal pieces where, again, packets are moving across the networks, but it's now impacting real life, whether it's science on the medical side and then whether you're driving a car, it's software. Yes. How do we make that work as real time is the key? All this is going to, the big aha moment for most people. It's, there is so much excitement around IoT and I think it is founded. I mean, there is so much value to be reaped by so many different stakeholders from this vision of IoT. At its core, it's about connecting billions of devices in meaningful ways, but there's so much more to it. The infrastructure for IoT, I believe, is going to be cloud native. It's not just about IP connectivity. The infrastructure and the services for IoT are going to be delivered from highly distributed cloud environments. This is a place where Juniper believes we can absolutely innovate today. And so for example, one of the most prevalent use cases of our SDN controller, Contrail today, is in developing the distributed telco cloud infrastructure that enables a whole slew of services, IoT being just one of many. And I can say that one of the services that we have seen go into production already is in connected car and the other one is in the industrial area. So it's happening today. There are first early deployments, but this is only the beginning of what is going to be a huge market and an opportunity for Juniper. Now that brings up the security question because IoT is an increased surface area. You've got people walking around with Fitbits, they're accessing the networks. Now the security announcement today, how does that play in because you guys still have to enable the new functionality and provide a secure, trusted environment? IoT is not going to go anywhere if there isn't trust at the end of the day. And you're absolutely right that with the pervasive nature of devices and the connectivity between those devices, you're essentially creating more opportunities for bad guys to tap into and to exploit and to do bad things to networks, to data, to users.  And we outlined a vision a while back, a year and a half ago Juniper called the Software Defined Secure Network Vision. And this is a vision in which it can't just be about where the firewalls happen to be in the network that where all the security action is. It's just not enough. Every element in the network ultimately needs to participate in creating the most effective security posture overall, meaning that you're going to be tapping into information that's flowing through the network and use that information to determine if there are threats. And then on top of that, when there are threats to put in place a security policy to stop attacks where it makes the most sense to stop it. So you think of the future of networks as being not just about connectivity but being a secure fabric. And we are now going to, it's no longer going to be a vision because before the end of this year, we're going to have the first phase of that where our switching products will move from just switching to also being able to block attacks based on a common security policy framework. Rami, last year we spent a lot of time talking about the switch of hardware to software and the implications that has as to how you're tracked and everything like that. Great to hear the progress you've made. Congratulations. Very much a software strategy that we here laid out here. People that watch Juniper as a public company, what can you say about kind of the shifts of software and services and what that means for how we should track Juniper? Yeah, the way in which we are delivering value to our customers is evolving. There's no doubt about it. The traditional approach is about essentially shipping a box that sits in a crate that has all of the very different elements inside it. The forwarding, the control, the services, the management, that world is changing where the value is going to essentially explode into piece parts and you're seeing it already. Our SDN controller is now a separate, discreet piece of software and the intellectual property associated with our contrail controller is not just about the software itself. It's in the know-how that Juniper has in helping our customers deploy a truly automated SDN network and helping them shift to what is sort of current mode of operation to new mode of operation and that comes in the form of professional services. So that's a huge part of our strategy. The services is now sitting in the cloud through virtual network functions. We're offering virtual routers and virtual security not just as a product that can be deployed in a private cloud environment but off of the public cloud marketplace. So there is no doubt a big shift that's happening. We're embracing it, we're using it as an opportunity and we've in fact put a stake in the ground that by 2019, 45% of our revenue as a company will come from the combination of software and services.  You also said things are changing faster than ever but certain people push back and say, well, if you take any individual person, they're probably not ready to change. How are you helping customers through this transformation and bringing them along? Yeah, so I'm on record as saying automation is the next big thing in networking. I believe that is the case and the most important reason why automation is necessary is that too many IT professionals today are bogged down in just keeping the lights on, in managing legacy infrastructure and that is going to slow us down from gaining these skill sets, the insights, the capacity to take advantage of all of these new technology innovations that are upon us and so automation is essentially this essential tool that will free up the capacity that will help us in embracing these new techniques. Also goes back to how we help our customers to get there is not just about the technology, it's increasingly about the services that we wrap around that technology. We are seeing that already in our orchestration software, in our virtual network functions, in our SDN software where we are seeing a large professional services attach rate that's happening where the experience that Juniper has gained in working effectively with a variety of customers becomes extremely valuable for the next customer that's ready to make this transformation. There was a great line in kind of the opening video and said your customers don't go out to build networks. What you want to do in partnership is build something amazing together. So I guess going forward, the question is, is Juniper a networking company? Do you have to change the way we think about Juniper overall? Yeah, Juniper is going through a transformation just as the industry is going through a transformation but I still think of us as a pure play IP and security network innovator. That said, what we enable is for our customers to build way more than just a network. You know, what keeps us going, what keeps us energized, what keeps us motivated as a team, as a Juniper team, is this understanding that so much of the innovation around us depends on the work that we do. We have a very important mission that we serve in this industry. At the end of the day, the internet itself which we have helped to create is probably the greatest platform for innovation that the world has ever seen. It's a network, I mean it's not going away, it's kind of like storage. So it's going to be more storage for the data. This is a good point. The definition of the network changes. So you mentioned the culture of the people. If automation can free them up, they can now work on things that they're being asked to. So the question to you is on the security announcement today, what we've been hearing on theCUBE and also in the industry at other events is the security data, the events, networks have events that go on all the time. Packets moving around, is where the security action is. So from a personnel standpoint, I'd imagine your customers want to free up from the racking and stacking, provisioning, managing ports and doing all the network stuff to automating that kind of, I won't say mundane, but basic stuff that can be automated away and focusing in on and being a contributor to thwarting attacks. That's exactly right. It's now the command center. That's exactly right. We call this concept somewhat humorously self-driving networks, but there's a lot of truth to it. In fact, there are a lot of parallels. Today in the automotive industry, we have automatic transmission, we have automatic steering. We have a bunch of different things that we have automated to facilitate the act of driving, but the act of driving still happens. In networking, we have a variety of different automation techniques that we've also employed to make running networks easier, but networks are not yet self-running completely, and that's the sort of bold statement and mission that we've outlined. We think about the self-driving cars with autonomous vehicles. The first generation is going to be fleets and well-defined paths, aka networks. That's right. So they're defined, well-defined and structured, but you guys are now taking to the home level. I want to comment on up the stack as you guys play in more of a software world, which makes total sense. You're unbundling the IP intellectual property and putting out in the networks. How are you guys integrating with other parts of the stack because malware was discussed today? That could be a software approach, a lot of spearfishing going on. How are you guys interacting with apps either on-prem or on the cloud to bring that data to the benefit of identifying stuff that's maybe outside the network or your purview? Yeah, yeah. So far, even in the domain of software, our primary focus is on the infrastructure of the cloud and in the management, automation, and simplification of running a cloud network. That in and of itself adds tremendous value to anybody that is deploying applications and workloads in the cloud. Security plays a fundamentally important problem for anybody that is moving applications and workloads to the cloud because if you ask anybody, the first thing that comes to mind when they talk about what is holding them back from going all in on either public or private cloud, it is trust. And so the stack, the software stack we're developing is very much tied around the virtualization of our security products, the creation of trust in a public cloud environment and in a private cloud environment that enables our customers to truly embrace this very important cloud transformation. Final question is how has the transformation of this business and the industry impacted Juniper Networks in terms of the business model? Are you guys seeing some specific changes? Can you take a minute to explain to the folks how the business is changing and how you guys tend to seize on these new opportunities? Well, the biggest driver of our business today is in this cloud transformation. What does that mean specifically? We're seeing tremendous strength and momentum in our native cloud business. I mean, selling the infrastructure, the tools, the software to our cloud provider customers that are dealing with an insatiable appetite for network capacity, for their customers accessing their services. We're also now engaging very heavily with an eye to be true leaders in what is the telco cloud transformation. So as telcos evolve their networks to what are essentially a highly distributed cloud network, I think we are at the forefront of being able to deploy these telco clouds and to become a leader in the future of telco cloud. We're already seeing tremendous momentum with our SDN software and our infrastructure. Last but not least is hybrid cloud. And again there, that's been a big driver of our business today. That's where the real strength in the business is. Rami, final, final question for you. As you look out, give us some predictions. Cube's here talking to you at Nextwork 2017. What will change in the industry? Let's see, public cloud is here to stay and will only grow in importance. Hybrid cloud is not going away anytime soon. Hybrid cloud is going to be an extremely important architectural decision by many of our customers. Network function virtualization and the distributed telco cloud will go into really meaningful production networks next year. Security will be just as hot a topic next year as it is this year, if not more important. A lot of headroom and security, that's for sure. Congratulations, Rami. Thanks for spending some time on the Cube. Appreciate it. Congratulations on a great event and thanks for sharing your insight. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. We're here live in Silicon Valley. We'll be back with more. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. We'll be right back with more after this short break.


Yes sir, am I audible now? Yes sir, yes sir. Okay, okay. Hello. Good morning sir. Good morning. You can start with the introduction sir. Like him, a live stream has started. You can start with the introduction. Thank you madam. Good morning, hello everyone and welcome to today's key workshop on NPTEL awareness. Myself, Dr. Chaitanya Veeth, Librarian and FCOC, Single Point of Contact. We are in NPTEL at St. Gonzalo-Galicia College of Arts and Commerce, Versailles District, Palpatine. Which is affiliated to University of Mumbai. This key workshop is conducting with the Association of NPTEL Local Chapter IIT Madras. I have a welcome to NPTEL team, Marci madam, Sipovicar from IIT Madras, Kamla madam, Chief Manager from IIT Madras and Bheera madam from Local Chapter team IIT Madras and our college below principal Dr. Srimad Vibhutekar, faculty, students and all participants. St. Gonzalo-Galicia College of Arts and Commerce is established by our Lady of Grace in 1984. The college has regular degree courses along with specialized self-finance courses and PhD research center of rural development subjects. This academic year our college trained such to 3,800 students. The college is committed to the integrated development of youth for individual and social transformation. The vision of the college is to provide the rural youth higher education and academic excellence coupled with the overall character formation through moral, ethical and spiritual values. In the college team the spirit of research and history to orient in skills to ensure employment and self-sufficiency. Through the various courses to enhance potential human resource development for the overall improvement of life which needs to nation building. We are pleased to have you all here with us today to learn about SOEM NPTEL courses and other related aspects. We have an exciting lineup of speakers and presentations that we believe will provide a valuable insight information on this important topic. The COVID-19 paradigm has greatly impacted on the education system worldwide leading to the rapid transformation of tradition in person education to online and remote learning. So as we move forward to the course it is likely that we will see the continued emphasis on digital and remote learning in the education system. Your shop will be covering some of these topics such as NPTEL online courses, woman's certification, faculty development program, job-oriented courses, shop skill, workshop and NPTEL staff. Now moving forward, now I would like to request to our college principal, Dr. Summa Thibhuti sir to address participants. Over to you Dr. Thibhuti sir. Thank you Dr. Chaitanya. Am I audible? Yes sir. Thank you once again Professor Priyadarshani from NPTEL, IIT Madras professors and officials. Indeed it is a day of pleasure for St. Gonzalo Garcia College of Arts and Commerce, Maharashtra. We first of all take the opportunity to thank IIT Madras for giving us an opportunity to become a local chapter of NPTEL in Maharashtra under the jurisdiction of the great University of Mumbai. I also take this opportunity to congratulate Dr. Chaitanya Veer who is our librarian and always a source of motivation for our faculty members as well as our students for bringing up that NPTEL up to that certain level. I am particularly happy today because this e-workshop regarding making students or learners more aware regarding swim NPTEL courses is going to be very very fruitful because imminent speakers will throw light on several topics related to this right from enrollment of courses up to completion of that academic discourses and successful outcome in the form of certificate after their examination. I must mention over here that this college is one of the prominent institutions in the University of Mumbai catering to 3,800 plus students at both UG as well as at PG level and last year with proper coordination we could enroll 532 students for various courses of NPTEL. I am sure that NPTEL or NPTEL plus in the form of seminars, various seminars various such other courses which are available for learners and the people with curiosity from faculties and all so we will promote more of such courses and we will see that in changed dimension where not just a classroom learning but exploring all digital means so that as the tagline goes like anywhere anytime and anything could be explored and could be learned and definitely that will add value to the learners CV also I should say and that will create opportunities for them in future. I once again thank IIT Madras and NPTEL for giving us this opportunity to reach to other institutions also in a larger way and wish all the very best for such an effort which will definitely ensure will help our learners, our students and students from neighboring colleges in the university so that they can enroll in the current slot and they can get benefit of this digital way of learning. Once again all the very best for this efforts and good luck. Over to you Dr. Chaitanya. Thank you so much sir, you were kind words and motivation therefore we can do this thing. Thank you so much good day sir. Now moving towards I would like to introduce today's resource madam from the local chapter team IIT Madras Mike is over to you madam. Yes sir. So many of you may be familiar with this logo. This is the NPTEL logo. We'll start off with it. So NPTEL is today a lot of initiatives put together. It's not just about creating courses and putting it up on the website but we have certification not just certification for one course but it is also clubbing courses together to make it into a domain. For faculty we have FDP courses which fetch you career points then we have internship opportunity for students we have a soft skill training going on for local chapter students and so on. So this is what this presentation will talk about. So you might have all heard about these two terms NPTEL and SWAYAM. So SWAYAM is a project of the ministry the government of India MHRB and they created this in 2017 and said that all these agencies that you see below right IAM, Bangalore, UGC, CEC, NCRT, NITR, AICP they all have to offer courses for certification under SWAYAM. So NPTEL is also a national coordinator under SWAYAM we primarily offer courses in engineering, the UG level, the bachelor's level, the MTech ME level, some PhD level courses also but since we have courses that are there in the management and humanities division inside IITs we offer that also on NPTEL. NPTEL also coordinates with some institutes like the ISERS to offer say the physics, chemistry, mathematics courses, we work with the triple ITs, we work with national law school Bangalore, we work with some medical institutions to offer medical related courses so maybe 90% of our courses will be engineering related humanities management and 10% is something else we help so NPTEL comes under SWAYAM and we coordinate this primarily there are other agencies also so one thing to remember when you are going to SWAYAM.gov.in and you try to enroll to any course so you try to join any course please check whether the national coordinator is NPTEL if you want to join the NPTEL course because if you just search for say a database management systems course maybe there is some other college also offering it with somebody else's coordinating so the course name that we offer will also be management system there's will also be that possibly so how do you actually differentiate if it's an NPTEL course on every course card we will have a logo of NPTEL I showed you when we come there but you can check that and then you can join the course that is something that you have to look out for. NPTEL started in 2003 the vision that we have had is to record the content that is being taught to IIT students and put it out for anybody to watch and view so that nobody can say I didn't get a chance to prepare for IITs I am not in the IITs today I cannot get access to their knowledge to their teaching hence you know I denied this opportunity nobody can say that today more than 2000 courses we have in our repository you can go there and you can actually access the courses for free you can just go there you can scroll you can watch all the videos we have more than 50,000 hours of video in our website you can access all that for free there is no charge there is no free a fee at all to access our content okay there's somebody who's asking is NPTEL useful for students of LLB so National Law School Bangalore NLSIU is offering two courses I think in Jan I don't know if we have in July two courses I think and more are coming in that so specific to law we do have a couple of courses IIT Karakur has a law department so from there we have some courses coming in but otherwise you can access the general courses that we have also say on management or English those might be useful yeah so whenever you think of a website right what really do you look out for say how many people access their website how much content do we have in a youtube also whenever we go to and watch a youtube video or a youtube channel one of the things we look at is how many people have watched that video or how many subscribers are there in that channel correct so this is the NPTEL statistics we have more than 1.3 billion views of the NPTEL videos okay so this is like huge huge for a technical channel which has no entertainment you can't call NPTEL videos as entertainment there is no song and dance or something it's all faculty from the IIT IIC teaching serious stuff there and for that we have more than 1.3 billion views we have 37 lakh subscribers on our youtube channel so any of you has not subscribed to our channel today I think I would say you're missing out on something go to our youtube channel subscribe for our updates so that you get it go to our social media handles subscribe to our social media handles so that you get the latest updates from NPTEL and this is where we are today as of NPTEL okay so these are what we do at NPTEL today and if you do an NPTEL course what is the use of it so the very first point is credit transfer I was just talking to Dr. Satish also about it and said that maybe we should try to see whether students can get credit transfer for the courses that you do from NPTEL but yes even if you don't get credit transfer I think you get a lot of knowledge from NPTEL courses for instance say what are the kind of courses we have that we would recommend to students in your college correct so we will say that we have a lot of programming courses so we have programming and C, C++ Python, Java programming and all that so if you are say a BSE physics student or a BA English student maybe a BCOM student as part of your program in the college you would not be learning programming possibly so you can go to NPTEL you can learn the programming course you can learn a bit of programming and also get that certificate along with your program wherever you go today to any company you want they use some kind of a database they will have some kind of coding that is there they will have some kind of software they are using for in within their company it's good for you all to know at least something about it okay that is the first part the other thing okay what are the other courses we have that is useful for you if you are planning for higher education you want to go in for a master's degree supposing you want to strengthen your fundamentals your foundations you want to maybe do some more courses from other institutes so that you are confident when you are attending interviews those courses will be available on NPTEL so we have all the UG undergraduate courses you can go through that you don't even have to write the exam for each of these courses you can just go through the videos you can try solving problems you can watch many videos try to get knowledge from it and strengthen your foundation so if you are going for higher education I would say the courses are really useful so first thing I will say try something like programming courses then you go in for higher education probably you want to try and strengthen your fundamentals the third thing try to learn something that is of interest to you which you possibly cannot learn otherwise for instance we have courses on German language teaching you German teaching you Japanese teaching you Sanskrit so if you want to learn any of these you can come to NPTEL and learn so for instance German is taught only by maybe the Goethe Institute and maybe some other institutes here the same course is taught but it is free for you and if you want to certificate you can write the exam otherwise too you can learn the German language for free same thing you can learn Japanese language why are these useful maybe you go to a company that has branches say in Germany Japan they have opportunities for people to go there but you need to know the language so at that point this becomes very useful for you so you can try to learn other languages also through NPTEL courses okay maybe you are technically very strong you have good foundations you have good knowledge in your particular program but maybe your English is not very good hence you are not confident about speaking we have a lot of courses like soft skills development soft skills enhancement how to attend an interview the body language that you have to have when attending an interview interpersonal communication skills leadership skills so we have a lot of courses like this that you can also go through it will give you a lot of tips on how to present yourself how to ready yourself for such situation so that having the knowledge you can also be confident when you talk to somebody and you are presenting or being in an interview so that's another set of NPTEL courses that we have as part of what we offer so anybody who wants to learn I think should be able to get at least two or three courses of their interest that they can join and learn joining is free like I said there is no fee at all it is all completely free and you can watch it there are no live classes these are all recorded lectures so you can watch at your convenience if your college there college time is say 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. or something in the evening you have time you can sit and watch NPTEL lectures on Saturday Sunday you can watch it there'll be one assignment every week you have to solve the assignment and you have to submit it for that also you get 10 days of time so you can watch the lectures you can try solving the assignment maybe a couple of you friends are joining the same course you can all sit together you can learn from each other you can solve together take help from your teachers and you can do the NPTEL courses so there is no such thing as there'll be live lectures maybe you'll miss a few lectures because you have college or something it is all video lectures along with assignment okay so the first part is credit transfer and learning from our courses apart from it if you do very well maybe we should go to next slides yeah so this is the credit transfer I don't want to discuss too much about this because we I think your university doesn't have credit transfer so I'll skip this slide and so a credit transfer just as a piece of information for maybe the faculty who are out here IATs do do credit transfer from NPTEL courses we do it at the BTEC level we do it at the masters level for PhD working professionals for them to get credit transfer also we do it so IATs also do credit transfer from NPTEL courses it is not just the outside colleges that have to do be ourselves do credit transfer from NPTEL courses okay yeah this is an important thing I would say so we have a program by which the toppers in the courses actually get internship opportunity with the faculty in the IATs so whoever has offered that course they taken normally about 2, 3, 5 interns during summer or winter if you are a topper in the course so if you do a course very well and you become a topper in the certification course then we give you an opportunity to intern with the faculty so we are trying to scale up these numbers covid hit us also so we could not get them but we hope it will be at least 300 students who can intern at the IATs with the faculty so this is a wonderful opportunity for you to come and stay in the city be in the IAT Madras or IAT Kanpur or IAT Karakpur or IAT Bombay lab you get to interact with the faculty members there you interact with their PhD scholars there you can do all of this which will be wonderful if you are especially thinking about going for higher studies you will get the idea of what is done by these institutes I think it's a really good opportunity for students outside of the IATs to come in and experience the IATs here so there is internship then we also do soft skill training so there are many colleges who provide it on their own but there are also some colleges who do not have this training for the students so if college students in local chapters they participate in NPTEL courses then for those students we are providing soft skill training so this training is of two types we do a one week training or we do a two week training depending on how much time the student can spare and the college also wants the students to do so here we have group discussion practice we ask you to write your resume and we give input on the resume we ask you all to present about yourselves give feedback about how you should talk where you should look your body language and so on also a one on one like every student will get half an hour with a trainer to discuss about how they should also do so the right side photo you see is a one on one where we do mock interviews we try to simulate an interview and see how you are responding and then give feedback on how you should do better in your interview so we do soft skill training for students who do NPTEL courses so this is something that we do from NPTEL again if you look at numbers we have finished a soft skill training for more than 2,000 students currently and we are doing about 10 colleges a month and we hope to scale it up so if you're I don't know Pederpally college has done it but yes we can extend it to y'all also and we can get it done okay so there's a 7 or 14 day training program that I was talking about next okay so somebody was asking will we get jobs with these NPTEL courses was it helpful to us and so on when we do surveys of NPTEL students and where they have gotten placed these are the companies that they have gotten placed so far this is like some of the companies it's not all the companies that they've gotten placed for but they have said that the NPTEL courses have really helped them when they went for the interviews when they show a certificate to the interviewer and say I did a course with the IITs I got so much marks in that course it really does help in the job interview so those people also ask questions on that assuming you've studied well and you can answer it will definitely help you that outside of the college syllabus you have done something more to learn and skill yourself also companies approaches and ask us do we have students in particular areas that we can send them their resumes so we also collect resumes of students on our site and if they are interested we send these out to the companies and the companies call them for interviews go through their levels of recruitment and we have been able to place NPTEL students from our side also in some companies so we are still working on it I hope this will increase we are talking with more companies on this front but otherwise even if you have like two or three courses from NPTEL and the certificates for it I think it will be hugely useful because of the logos we put on the certificate yeah the next one there are a lot of students learners, faculty who do multiple courses with us there are people who do the courses maybe they do three courses in a semester four courses in a semester they are toppers in two or three courses every semester there are people who have done a lot of courses with us I'll maybe show you the data in the next one but this is another type of recognition we give to NPTEL learners so you can go to NPTEL website and at the top we have a link called NPTEL stars so click on that link click on any of this you will see how many people are actually doing multiple courses with us so if students are thinking oh I don't have time and I'm so busy I can't do it you should just see these pages to see how come these people who are working professionals who are students in colleges just like you or who are maybe studying or faculty or something how are they able to get the time to do so many courses if they can get the time I think anybody can get the time right you just have to manage your time on when you are going to study and not waste time on something else that is not important etc so this page I would say these are the kind of domain scholars superstars evangelists and all we have we have more than about 3000 as I can just calculate on the fly that we are going to have these people doing multiple courses and they are NPTEL stars with us today so there is something called domain certification that we have currently come up with in the last few years so what is a domain so a domain we have created just to club courses together and maybe about five or six courses we have put together and we say that if you study this six courses and you get more than 60 in the course in each course not just pass it by getting a 40 then you get a domain scholar certificate so why is this important this is important because it shows that you have specialized in a particular area so for instance we have a programming domain so in the programming domain we have courses such as c c++ python database management course and then maybe cloud computing course and so on so if you do a programming domain and you do all the six courses it shows that you have a solid foundation in this particular area so when you go for an interview and you actually show a domain certificate versus just one or two certificates from us that will make more of an impact on the interviewing person so this is something we recommend it is more just to guide students on what to study to become and specialize in one particular area we found that many NPTEL learners do four or five courses but they do random courses that are not connected to each other so this domain will guide you in what to study if you want to specialize in a particular area we have about 53 domains today in all branches of engineering management English and for faculty we have a faculty domain basic and advanced also so that you can also go through that part of it so you can go to our website there are more details on domains there you can we can talk about it later too yeah so these are some of the domains we have so for you it might be relevant the English studies we have a domain psychology we have a domain management we have it in marketing operations patents and intellectual property in economics and of course engineering and all we have couple of domains so if you are a general student not an engineering student I would recommend the programming domain for you if you want to try out something do the programming domain or do the management domain that will be really useful for you so if you are an engineering student of course you can try any of the domains relevant in your particular discipline of engineering or you can do a cross discipline so for instance I am maybe mechanical engineer I like electrical engineering you can actually do the courses in electrical engineering and you can get a domain from there so here nobody stops you and says hey you are in mechanical engineering department you cannot study electrical engineering power systems course power electronics course you are not allowed to study that there is no such thing like that anybody can study any course as long as you can cope with it so you can also do a cross department study by doing domains from any of what is listed here this is what a domain certificate looks like we give this we list all the courses you have done and we sign it out of course from the specific IIT that we are giving it from so how do we do lab courses is it online not really we do it in the institutes we do it in various institutes such as ISRS IIT you can come here you can stay for a week at the institute you can do the lab experiments you can listen to faculty giving one or two lectures in the day and then do a lab exam and take a certificate so what is the advantage of this you will get to see really modern labs you will get to see what the state of the art labs are in these institutes you can see the equipment that is there the modern equipment that is there you can see the advanced research that is happening here you can interact and get explained on all this equipment so we had very successful labs being run at all these places this is a wonderful opportunity again if you do the theory course in NPTEL those people we will permit that you can apply and come for these lab certification courses and you can do the workshops here okay so that was the idea behind the question we asked you what else do we do at NPTEL this is for faculty in colleges so faculty in colleges under the AICT scheme we explicitly have an MOU with them where NPTEL advanced courses if you do and pass you will get an AICT approved FTP certificate so that is for faculty in AICT colleges for those under the UGC scheme they have given a broad guideline that if you do svayam courses there will be some career progression points but the actual logistics I'm not sure you'll have to check within your sorry university so that is something that is there but BC see that more than about 20-30 thousand faculty write our exams every semester and most of them apply for the FTP certificates also this is very very useful for faculty I will say because you don't have to spend money you don't have to take leave you don't have to miss your college work and go to some institute stay for a week or stay for 10 days and then do an FTP course you can do the FTP course online itself just like the students you join for free on svayam portal you go through the course submit assignments and then you pay the thousand rupees and attend the final exam and get your certificate once you get your certificate you can apply for the FTP certificate to us and get that too that's all it takes to do an FTP course with us today so this is very important for faculty I hope this is clear this is what the FTP certificate looks like you can see that it has the signature of the director from AICT also there is a regulation under which they have approved the AICT logos there so this you can present when you are going in for your promotion interviews right the conversion that they do is a four week NPTEL course is equivalent to half FTP of one week an eight week NPTEL course is a full FTP of one week and a 12 week course is equivalent to one and a half weeks FTP equivalent so this is the equivalent of it okay yes the next thing I wanted to talk about was gate coaching so we have started a new link on our website and somebody has given us CSR money for developing this and providing whatever I wouldn't call it coaching but yes gate preparation whatever we can help students with to have and prepare for gate exams free again we are trying to do from our side so you can go here and we have given solutions to all the previous gate questions we have given videos solving those questions we have extra questions that are coming up practice questions that will be coming up small courses linking all the videos that are relevant to date so we will be coming up phase one is only over phase two and phase three we will be coming up within the next six months so keep watching this link if you are preparing for the gate exam okay that is one new initiative we have come up with the next initiative exams outside of India so till 2020 we were doing exams only in India where you have to go to a centre and you have to write it and then we got a lot of requests from people outside of India saying they also study from NPTEL courses and they want to write exams with us so now we help to do that also people outside India can also write exams NPTEL exams and get certificates from us okay yeah so translation is the next effort so for people who are asking in what languages do we offer courses the faculty teach only in English for now but the English transcripts we translate into eight languages so we do Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Gujarati Bengali and Marathi so that's the languages that we are translating it into so Telugu we have a lot of transcripts that are translated into Telugu language so the faculty will talk in English but you can also read what we have translated in Telugu or Tamil or Hindi whatever is your language and you can understand it better we are keeping the videos in English so that you also learn English because when you go to work somewhere English will be the primary language you have to communicate in so this is something we are doing one or two courses we are getting in regional language for instance this time in January we are doing a machine learning course in Tamil language the faculty is going to teach in Tamil language there is a signals and systems course that is coming up in Hindi language in July semester we are getting an R programming course in Hindi language so only two or three we have most are in English we don't have too many other language courses so that's something you can check let me take a question from the chat there are one or two saying I'm from Thomas background I'm from B.com what courses we can take so for B.com students we do have a lot of accounts related courses you can check those out go to management department I will show you how to filter and learn from it you can go there and you can see how to do it so you can check out management related courses in which we have accounts related commerce economics related courses that's something you can learn or if you are learning all that anyway in your college I would strongly recommend programming courses for you all learn at least one programming language to know what is programming how do people program whether you write the exam or I would say please write the exam but yes even if you don't write the exam at least try a course do the assignment see whether you can do something about it or if you're not doing that I would propose the English courses I would propose the you know the German language or the Japanese language course that you can learn from those are what we have quite a few for you to choose from I would say more than 100 we would have for B.com level students at least okay yeah so these are translation how many courses we have in each language so in Telugu we have 48 courses that are translated for now so that's what we have right okay we have also something called special lecture series so we also have industry people come in and present lectures so these are again free to watch very interesting topics very very distinguished people who come and present lectures these are vice president CEO CTOs of companies like IBM Capgemini Infosys that we've had in the past IAS officers who have come and spoken to us film directors who's come and spoken to us journalist in the Hindu a director at Hindu entrepreneurs so I would really say you should go and watch these lectures when you have time even if you missed it last year it's okay but listening to such people is very inspirational you know what they have done how they have worked how they have brought up new companies how they've started a company where did they get their idea from these are all really interesting to listen to I would say please go back and listen to some of these lectures it will give you a tremendous amount of information knowledge and maybe there'll be some topic to talk about also when somebody asks you something it will widen your knowledge base okay this is something that you can see and if you're wondering saying how many students study how many courses right maybe you think some students study only one or two courses and that's all we can do that's what is useful right look at this there is one learner who has done 47 NPTEL exams with us that's as good as a degree program or more than the degree program that all of you are doing how many courses you'll do there I don't know maybe if you're doing a BSE it's a six into six maybe 36 courses or if it's a BTEC also if I say six courses per semester it's about 48 so you're equivalent to that okay so there is one learner who's done 47 exams 34 exams 33 exams 32 exams and so on so you can see maximum people yes 5.6 lakhs do one exam but there are 1.4 lakhs who are doing two exams 48000 doing three and if you look up to 10 exams even right lot of them are doing 10 exams 8 exams with us so maybe you should think about and plan for how you're going to study which courses you're going to do as you are in college and every semester try to do at least one or two NPTEL courses and finish with a certificate that will be really nice that you can do that with your college okay this is something we wanted to say who are these people who are doing these courses they are employed they are faculty members they are students all people like you so it's not like these people come suddenly from somewhere or they are also special they are so privileged nothing like that they are there in all towns in all kinds of environment they also have their constraints but they are also studying from these courses and doing multiple courses okay this is what the certificate looks like it has the svayam logo and it has the okay it has the NPTEL logo then it has your photo on the certificate it has as you can see the elite tag the gold you just put it here to say if you fall under these categories you can see all these coming on your certificate then the institutes of IIT Madras offers the course at the bottom where the institute logo and round this foot you can see IIT Madras logo there IIT Madras the name will be put there signatures from our side will come and so on so this is the way that you can see how the certificate looks we had 20 lakh people who joined our courses in January semester 20 lakhs who joined our July semester and in 2021 we had 16 lakhs who joined the Jan semester 16 lakhs who joined our July semester so it's not 5,000 it's not 10,000 it's not 1 lakh like I'm seeing on the chat window here but it is 16 lakhs who was our enrollment number last semester out of these exams those who have written over the last 5 years 15.1 lakh people have registered for exams with us and they've gotten so our total enrollment in NPTEL today is 1.58 crores over the last 7 years from when we are running this certification project we have finished 3,500 courses almost and enrollment is 1.58 crores 15 lakhs exam registration that's the thing so you can see how big NPTEL is not something that we are doing 100, 200, 500 people or something like that every semester when we conduct exams in March and April it's 3 lakh people who write our exams so that's the level at which we do we conduct exams all over the country in about 170 cities we conduct exams outside India like we said so this is our data so if somebody tells you okay I haven't heard of NPTEL you should really tell them saying that I will enroll every semester and 3 lakh people write exams how come you are missing out that's the answer I will give you can see a lot of feedback about NPTEL on our social media handles we keep regularly posting about it we are present on Instagram on Facebook on YouTube community and you can see all the feedback that we have posted there about people who have gotten jobs through the soft skill training so do subscribe to our social media handles so that you can get updates from our site okay I will just give a brief on NPTEL local chapter because I don't know how many of you are faculty from different colleges who are not a local chapter with us so NPTEL works with about 4,500 colleges today across the country and we have coordinators in each of these colleges who are called a single point of contact or SPOCs and through them is how we are so successful so thanks to all the local chapter SPOCs whoever is watching this workshop today was not watching the workshop today whoever is anywhere they are the champions for NPTEL within the colleges without them I don't think NPTEL would have grown so much so thanks to all the SPOCs of the local chapters and I would like to just briefly say how you can become a local chapter if there's somebody watching who's not at a local chapter so to become an NPTEL local chapter there is no money involved there is no financial dealing you just need to send us an email saying that you want to become a local chapter there's a google form and the website fill it up and we need a coordinator in your college who will be our local champion so the head of the institution the director the principal whoever has to send an email saying that we would like to become a local chapter and so and so will be the single point of contact for NPTEL and that's all once we receive the email we verify some details and we will make you a local chapter so why should you become a local chapter can students and faculty from colleges who are not local chapters participate in NPTEL yes totally you can participate you can be a free learner you can learn from our courses without belonging to a local chapter but having a local chapter in a college is a big advantage there are logins that the single point of contact of the SPOC has one is a login on svayam portal one is a login on our NPTEL website and here they get information related to enrollment exam registration the marks the transcripts the certificates all of this is given to the SPOC directly that they can actually see and they can share with their management also the other benefits are if we don't have a center in your particular city you can request for that if they have more than 200 people writing exams we can facilitate centers in your particular city faculty can become mentors you can follow the progress of your students in the colleges that you can do another important thing I will say is we have CSR support from companies who also give us money to help students from economically weaker backgrounds to write exams so this fee waiver we give only to local chapters so if you're a local chapter and you have students who come from economically weak backgrounds if they are doing NPTEL courses writing exams once they pass it we will refund 50% of the fee to them based on the colleges recommendation so that is something that you can do also all this data that we give to the SPOC can be directly shared with bodies such as NAC and NBF and they come for accreditation and you can say that we are showing this data inside your dashboard that has also been very helpful for colleges is what we came to know these are local chapters that we have this is a statewide distribution I think Maharashtra is the highest followed by Damnadu and of course we have these Telangana comes in maybe 7th position with 234 local chapters currently every semester we also we have some few local chapters outside of India and some countries they are not very active but yes they do keep using our courses as they can we also rate local chapters every semester based on the participation from their side in the particular semester so how many people have become topers how many people have written exams how many people have done well based on it we also rank and rate the college local chapters and we publish this list publicly on our website every semester other interactions with local chapter people we do soft skill training like I already spoke about it we take help of people here to go to exam centres as our representatives faculty can help with the translation efforts and yes like I said we rate it and we give recognition to the SPOC and the college also every semester so these are certificates that we give them based on the formula that we have to the college and the SPOC these are other categories that we have based on faculty participation based on how local chapters improve semester after semester there is a separate category for art science colleges also in the top 10 or top 100 over the last 4 years that's something that we have done that's it as a presentation that we had today so I hope you learnt about NPTEL about what we do here the NPTEL office the head office is in IIT Madras we have our head office here about 70 people work in NPTEL office in IIT Madras we have smaller offices in IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Gohar, IIT Bombay, Delhi and KC Bangalore also and we all work together to keep this project going it's one of the most successful institutional projects that 8 institutes come together to work on this project and kind of run it without a break and to kind of offer 2000 courses that we have today that's what we want to say so my suggestion and you can say maybe I'm old enough to advise all the young students out here also is try out NPTEL courses today go and go to Swayam website join a few courses learn from it sample the videos there you may or may not be able to follow certain videos you may not like certain courses maybe some courses are difficult it's okay you can drop off it is not like a college course that once you join a course you have to be in that course you have to complete that course otherwise somebody will think something somebody will ask you something or maybe a paid fees that will get wasted there is nothing like that so you can join even 5 courses you can join even 10 courses and you can try out week one videos you can see what you're interested in and then shortlist it to maybe one or two courses follow it up see where they are able to do assignments maybe it even comes down to one course in a semester but follow it till the end do all the assignments watch all the videos register for the exam do the exam and become a topper in it I think that's something that is very very doable I hope you were able to get that as we presented in the last one and a half hours that is what we were trying to tell you that don't be afraid that these courses are from IITs I cannot do it it will be very difficult there are 15 lakh people who have written exams with us so far it is not like all of them are coming out from IITs or they are all like very well accomplished they are all coming from highly studious background something like that they are also students just like you in any college what you need is the interest to study what you need is the motivation you have to put out time it is not like two days before the NPTEL exam let me study and get a certificate you will not get a certificate every week you have to watch videos every week you have to do the assignment then you can definitely get a certificate so you need hard work and it will pay off ok but it is not like I cannot do it there is no such thing as I cannot do an NPTEL course anybody can do an NPTEL course we showed you people from age 86 years doing NPTEL courses we showed you people from all nook and corners of the country doing NPTEL courses there is local language translation support of transcripts in some courses that will help you understand the subject better your faculty are there to help you if you do not understand something your friends are there to help you if you all join a course together discussion forum is there ask questions ask doubts if you have something there but try out and learn something which is outside of your college curriculum today when companies are looking at your recruitment one of the things they see is ok your college degree is there apart from this what have you done that is something that all of them are looking at are you able to learn on your own are you able to study outside of college curriculum are you picking up any skills that are relevant for any job you might be trying for this is something that companies do look out for it is not just a resume saying BSE with this VA with this that might be one thing but then we look at ok what else what else that is something that all of us look out for when we are recruiting people so it might be good to have a few certifications to at least get your skills enhanced to learn what you are interested in to try and explore new opportunities that are there it is free there is no fee to learn you can download and watch the videos you can download and do the courses you can enroll in swim courses and do it only the final exam has a thousand rupees fee that also we are giving fee waivers if you are a local chapter so you can use that also you have to pay first get your exam done pass the course we will be able to help you with fee waivers on that front also so don't let money be a barrier don't let anything else be a barrier put in your time put in your effort learn from NPTEL get skilled and I hope you do much much better till then all the best and I hope that all of you do enroll to a course thank you thank you so much Bharti madam for sharing our very deep knowledge about the NPTEL courses and all aspects with us your station was a full available knowledge thank you so much Bharti madam hello Priya madam now moving towards Priya madam share my presentation Priya madam I am now moving towards college as a local chapter this is our college St. Gunsalo Garcia College of Arts and Commerce Prima madam is it a visible presentation hello sir I can hear you sir yes what college college IDC 137 in the Association of NPTEL so I will just highlight on the presentation the Prima NPTEL chapter established on 3rd October 2019 from January 8th 2020 to July 2 December 2022 that when students enroll for the various subject courses as well as our college as a PhD we have conducted a various lecture series and orientation about the awareness about the program among the students during the COVID-19 we have conducted the online lectures for the students presently a total number of enrollments from our local chapter 982 students enroll three days and total register for the examination 15 the past and the research certificate 9 students share NPTEL impact stories many students many faculty completed a course from this year one of our faculty Professor Iwan Satharani madam has completed two courses giving up one academic year you see the the online 15 week course on academic writing and has completed similarly the one of the academic writing course and the intellectual property rights course that is the psychology development program that is a 12 week course and have completed and got the certificate for the 15 week course and 12 week course various points and appreciations towards the online platform and that is the beauty of the program platform which is available anyone can access the academic certificate so then next our one of our professor Dr. Mike Nover-Dixie has completed a course in our pre-capital management which is hosted by IIT Rootsy so Sir has also included that in the practical knowledge in their daily academics also similarly from our prime local chapter one of our students from last year of the comm but named Riya Dutta he has completed three courses in one semester developing top school course from from the digital marketing and business plan from the other coordinators so she has completed the course and she has highlighted here the course will help personally and purposely she mentioned in remark similarly the another student Sona from the CIVA BICOM she has completed two courses like digital marketing and business plan and project management she has also quoted a practical aspects of the topic covered in the particular two courses mentioned that any candidate can add the value to their CIVA now the third student that is Devan from the CIVA BICOM she has completed a course recently in the last semester business law for managers which is hosted by the IIT Kharagpur so this is our college testimony and the students continuously register for the courses so this is related to our firm local chapter we are continuously entrenched to the many students for the course thank you so much dear madam yes sir so we can start Q&A session sir if there are any queries in YouTube we can reply madam there is one query the written chat box about the foreign language course is there any certification course of French language we can send the course list to them sir they can check participants if you have any questions or query you can put in the YouTube chat box dear madam yes sir I think there are no queries so you can start with a fan yes madam dear participants we are coming to the end it is my honor and privilege to give the out of thanks for this key workshop on MQTL I would like to thank our students who honor this on this session on behalf of colleagues I would like to thank today's resource person madam from IIT Madras madam highlighted the various aspects of the MQTL such as MQTL online courses and Roman certification development program about the local chapter MQTL it was a very motivation to all our students once again thank you so much madam I hope our college students will be engrossed for more courses in the upcoming batch my special thanks to the dear madam from IIT Madras also thanks to the from IIT Madras from IIT and the entire MQTL for online Zoom platform and support also thanks to our college management who encourage us and support it for the online workshop and corporate space thank you so much to our college management also and now but not least our below all students teaching non-CC staff from our different colleges for making this function as a grand success thank you everyone for taking the time to be here today I am grateful for this opportunity thank you for joining us today have a great day thank you so much to the everyone thank you thank you we can leave the meeting sir studio team studio team for IIT Madras you can leave the meeting sir we can wind up the session thank you so much