R and D

honestly....sometimes R is D!!!
I mean being rash...is totally dangerous!!!

though that aint the R and D i will talk about..
though i would just like to add these lines again...
a little more patience can help one a lot....a little more wait will put one into a better position!!!

ok back to the actual R and D :: research and development....

now why in the heck would i talk about this....yesterday i had a wonderful conversation with a prof. kinda guy from SDSU..

believe me..it is a real good feeling you get once you talk to someone like this..
i didn't even ask his name...surely he knows his stuff

i was looking for a place to sit down and have my lunch at the food court. Finally sat down beside this gentleman.

First two minutes, we didn't talk. Then he initiated the conversation about cultures and practices.
This gentleman is from philippines.......
and he asked me whether the family plays the most important role from where i came from..
I told him...that indeed it did...that the family is the most important thing one can have..
the most important thing that one needs..

hmmm..then we started talkin about respect to elders....he narrated an incident of his...it seems that he was in a plane and had to sit close to an Indian family :)
and when getting down from the plane the family let the granny go first...now i didn't know why exactly was she allowed to go first...respect...or just that she had to attend a nature's call..
one will never know..
ok back to the discussion..now we started talkin about the importance of elders and respecting them and stuff..
we agreed that its the same anywhere....elders are respected...and the respects are paid..well not by everyone...but mostly by those who indeed respect the person in consideration...
and we also agreed on the fact that city life...the fast and the furious style of life does distort the traditions that are passed on through generations...

yeah...thats all oK...then we came into the topic i wanted to talk about...
this person is associated with the SDSU and helps out research students with their projects..

now this is what you might find interesting......
it aint just about deciding on a topic that you will work on...no no no...
i know that a few do agree that it aint that simple as deciding a topic and running after it..

here i go..
first of all is the budget...everything revolves around the amount of moneythat is available and can be spent with something remaining for some sudden expenditure you might have to bear..

next....decide on a topic..that is well...first of all relatively the in thing and then which is your backyard....i mean you have to be comfortable with the subject...sometimes to the extent that you might have to bear the entire project on your shoulders..

next...work out what are you going to do work on... i mean the kind of project and stuff..only simulations or will it invlove both simulations and some real time processing...the RTP may involve some hardware as well...

next..make sure that you get your plan..the one you have come up with is OK from atleast two three people who know their stuff....

now where does the R and D come in is what you ask me...a small project may not see any difficulty...
in case you are going to do a mega..a big time project...you need the R and D there...
YES...once the project starts off.. there will be R and D over what you will have to do...the goal will already have been defined.........

the better part of R and D comes in when you are trying to define the goal....you have to have a lot of measures for your project...money and time and comfort with the topic chosen being the only three visible ones....there is a lot more to it...

oh yeah....this sort of R and D, where you have to decide how a computer n/w is to e set up...what are the configurations of the systems to be used and what sort of environment should this computing n/w be set up in....what sorta insulation and isolation has to be achieved for the project to move on without hiccups..........and all this has to achieved with the budget available...

finances...engineering....material sciences...communication...chemical sciences....so on and so forth...everything plays a part...

Hmmm...just imagine how much one will have to think to do and come up with the best fit plan with all them limitations....just imagine how many of such minds would be required!!!!

now this is what the gentleman does....he provides the pre-plan R and D to the research students of SDSU....well he is a part of a huge team..that consists of engineers of all kinds and even what i will call finance engineers!

it was indeed a pleasure to talk to this person.........had a wonderful time getting all these insights and really..its a very challenging job the one he does....

hey this is the best part about R and D...nothing is incorrect or wrong...everything is a solution...just that some solutions are better fit than the others....