We bow in honor!

Here is a list of the donut hour sponsors and a fun profile of each.

10-03-2008

  • Xiang Cai
    THE FIRST THING(S) PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME: The glasses. And if I don't wear them, people will ask where are ur glasses...
    Books: A history of nearly everything
    Movies: Friends, comedies
    Music: basically most kinds of music. I'm a bigggggggggg fan of Jacky Cheung (in Chinese Zhang, Xueyou) -- an amazing pop star, the "God of Singing".
    Food: Chinese food. All kinds of meat. ice cream.
  • Chaitanya Ravi
    THE FIRST THING(S) PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME: If you are lucky a big broad smile, else you would ask yourself "why so serious?"
    Books: Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch), The Monk who sold his Ferrari, Fountain Head, of course Harry Potter series and the list goes on.
    Movies: latest one was Dark Knight
    Music: I like slow melody
    Food: Indian, Mexican - hmm.. do you wish to be my friend? try take me to taco bell :P
  • Jianing Guo
    THE FIRST THING(S) PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME: I'm pretty tall so me as a whole is very noticeable.
    Books: My Sister's Keeper (read it, it's great!)
    Movies: a lot, can't think of one particular at this point.
    Music: rock in general, coldplay in particular
    Food: real Chinese food is always the top choice, and besides that, I eat pretty much everything that is delicious
  • Santosh Subramanian
    THE FIRST THING(S) PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME: tall and thin.
    Books: Catcher in the rye.
    Movies: Forrest Gump
    Music: nothing in particular.
    Food: Indian.
  • Anunay Gupta
    THE FIRST THING(S) PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME: Smiling yet confused!
    Books: I read when Internet is not working.
    Music: Ronan Keating and old Hindi melodies.
    Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Lord of the Rings.
    Food: You won't find a more choosy creature on the planet! Pure vegetarian only.
  • Ethan Gui
    THE FIRST THING(S) PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME: Oh one more Chinese guy.
    Book: technical analysis in financial market
    movies: fight club, step up 2, ocean 11 12 13.
    music: babyface, linkin park, ( sorry ethan, i couldn't produce the chinese text)
    food: Spicy chinese food!
  • Michael Hart
    THE FIRST THING(S) PEOPLE USUALLY NOTICE ABOUT ME: The glasses, definitely the glasses
    Books: The Stranger (Camus), To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), The art of warfare (Sun-Tzu)
    Movies: Old School and Bill and Ted's Most Excellent Adventure
    Music: (What I'm listening to now) Man Man, Lil' Wayne, Polyphonic Spree, Global Funk Collective and Guster
    Food: Red meat. And pasta

09-19-2008

  • Amol Karmarkar is a master's student working in Seclab. He hopes to see the day when machines get "truly intelligent" (intelligent enough to send this email for him, because he is "truly lazy").
  • Ravi K. Chintallapudi is a research assistant in Secure Systems Lab. He wants all of you to take a break from your course/lab work and have fun in the donut hour.
  • Anupama Chandwani, an RA in Seclab, is extremely thrilled to sponsor the donut hour (and is looking forward to many such exciting donut hours this semester).
  • Abhishek Dhamija works in Seclab and would like to request all of you to PLEASE use "goto" responsibly!
  • Ashish Misra is a research assistant in Seclab
  • Srivani Narra loves to travel and misses Indian Railways (all the General and Sleeper-class action). She also likes to hike and dreams of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail someday.