National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation has conducted a survey on Household Social Consumption: Education as part of 75th round of National Sample Survey (NSS). Prior to this, surveys on the same subject were carried out during 64th round (July 2007- June 2008) and 71st round …
while just a few years ago, 540 Megabytes was considered a huge storage for computer hard disks. Now 30-gigabyte drives are standard in most computers. However, this expansion in storage capacity is now reaching a saturation point. Data is stored in a magnetic disk as 1's and 0's. The number …
Recent computer simulations have shown that the Internet is surprisingly robust on a global scale. This means that even if up to 99 per cent of its connection
ten years ago, a computer hard disk was considered advanced if it could hold about 100 megabytes (millions of bytes) of information. About 10-20 gigabyte (billions of bytes) hard disks are now commonly used in home computers. In fact, the amount of information that can be stored in a memory …
One of the most challenging problems in molecular biology is to model how long chains of proteins fold into three-dimensional shapes. This is crucial because the shape of the protein has a lot to do with its action. Now computer giant IBM has announced a US $100 million initiative to …
"the three important areas where advances are noticed the world over are biotechnology, energy and information technology ( it ). When the rural people can use one component of it , which is television, why not the other? The benefit of it is immense to poor, rural families," says V …
Symantec Corporation, an international anti-virus firm, has warned email users against a variant of the Melissa virus, W97M.Prilissa.A, which can corrupt files and disable virus protection security settings. The virus will check the system date for December 25 before it triggers itself. The Melissa email virus caused havoc among a …
There was a time when humans became too ambitious and decided to build a tower tall enough to reach heaven. The idea was to do away with God when they reached there. God, however, struck back in a very strange manner. Rather than hurl a bolt of lightning into the …
With less than a month left for the beginning of the millennium, organisations and individuals have been rushing to get their computers Y2K (year 2000) compliant. The fertiliser industry is no exception. But according to a Fertiliser Association of India statement, by and large, all the fertiliser plants have achieved …
for their unique optical properties, liquid crystals are finding increasing applications in displays of computer laptops, flat-screen televisions and other products. Now, physicists Jay S Patel and Y J Kim of the Pennsylvania State University, usa , report acoustic properties of liquid crystals. The duo discovered that during electrical switching …
Obsolete computers are posing an environmental problem in developed countries, specially the US. With faster and better machines being available almost every year, the number of old computers and peripherals being discarded are generating a lot of trash. Now Coniglairo Industries, a company based in Massachusetts, has developed a lightweight, …
A new software, developed by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at Pittsburgh, usa, will aid computers to recognise speech through lip reading. "The new software, NLips, will reduce the error rate of speech recognition software in noisy environments,' says Alex Waibel of the CMU. Normal speech recognition software …
The next step in computer simulations may be touch. A new device developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh will now let computer users feel and manipulate 3-D objects on a computer screen. Called the magnetic levitation-based haptic interface, the device uses magnets to leviate a bowl containing a joystick. …
the us is facing a population explosion of a strange sort. The land of the birth of computers, is today choked with piles of its glorious invention. With no easy disposal method identified as yet, the mountain of obsolete personal computers ( pc s) is increasing everyday. As the life …
the human brain is arguably the most complex structure known to us. Consisting of roughly ten billion neurons with trillions of connections, this half kilogram of tissue performs functions like language learning and visual perception, which the best computers can't even begin to mimic. But what happens when one merges …
EVEN as us astronauts and a few millionaires are hoping to celebrate the end of the millennium on the Moon, thousands of software professionals are struggling to keep computers worldwide from getting moonstruck on January 1, 2000. And though India woke up late to the problem of the
a deadly computer virus win-cih (W indows-Chernobyl) attacked computers all over India on April 26. According to estimates, more than 1 lakh computers in banks, multinational companies and stock exchanges were affected. The virus, programmed to come alive on the 26th of every month, the date marking the Chernobyl nuclear …
computer hackers are said to have held one of uk 's military communications satellite, Skynet , to ransom. This was published in the uk -based newspaper Sunday Business . Though the ministry of defence ( m o d) denied any such attack, computer fraud detectives at Scotland Yard said they …
Computer giants Hewlett-Packard have released a new hand-held scanner that is as easy to use as a kitchen sponge. The scanner uses the scanned document's texture as a road map and its optical sensors track the location. Wiping its flat edge across a page a few times is enough for …
Some steps in the process of making liquid-crystal displays for laptop computers can be eliminated, making their manufacturing simpler, suggest V Vorflusev and S Kumar of the department of physics, Kent State University, USA. The researchers' experiments show that the alignment of the liquid crystal can be achieved with a …
