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 …
the technology used to develop Deeper Blue, the ibm supercomputer that defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov, will be used to model and test new drugs. This would shorten the duration of their introduction in the market by reducing the average development period of a drug from 12 to about …
British Telecom's research laboratories in Martlesham, Suffolk, have developed a pocket dictionary-sized box that could replace the wiring needed in offices to connect computers and telephones. Known as passive picocell, the box can fit on the wall or the ceiling of an office. A prototype of the product has been …
JavaSoft, the California-based division of Sun Microsystems, has developed a new software that promises to breathe new life into old personal computers (PCs) and extend the working lives of machines destined for the scrapyard. Developed under an internal programme called Project Rescue, JavaPC converts a PC running on MSDOS software …
A survey of 10,076 households conducted by the NPD Group Inc in the US found that computers switched on at homes sit idle for 54 per cent of the time. The Sierra Club, a group of environmentalists, has estimated that a computer running for more than three hours a day …
Ceramic bearings can be used safely in industry now that German scien tists at the Fraunhofer Institute For Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg have developed a computer model to predict when they are close to cracking up. The researchers loaded bearings to their breaking point and compared the laboratory results …
work is currently being carried out all over the world in the field of interactive computer agents - animated characters, with 'personalities' who will one day become the 'face' of our computers. The latest idea coming out of mit's Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts on this front is Gandalf - a …
Surfers browsing the Internet via America Online are being told to slow down because the company cannot cope up with the demand. In a written apology to its eight million subscribers, America Online has explained the difficulty its subscribers are experiencing while trying to get through. The company blames the …
the biggest hindrance in quantum computing - the possibility that it would be irreparably error prone - will soon be overcome, claims Raymond Laflamme of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, us . In a quantum computer, data would be encoded as quantum states, like a spin of …
Medicinal net A journey through the Internet is a little like the early voyages of exploration. Long periods of searching and hopeful travelling are filled with bursts of excitement if something fruitful comes into view. An online journal dedicated to H M S Beagle could provide the same thrill for …
Computers could soon quadruple in speed, thanks to flowfill, a new way of manufacturing silicon chips. Plasma and Materials Technology, a New York-based company, claims to have found a method of increasing the amount of insulation between the microscopic wires that make up a computer chip. It will thus be …
Flat screen televisions (TV) and computer screens that are larger than conventional models but weigh less could be on sale within two years at affordable prices, say scientists at Canon's Japanese research laboratories. Canon has developed a new type of flat-screen and aims to launch a 40-inch TV that is …
after birds, it is cosmic rays that are likely to put aircraft in trouble. Scientists at the Swedish Aerospace Company, Ericsson Saab Avionics (esa), say that cosmic rays could damage aircraft that mainly depend on computers as they are susceptible to the high-energy particles that bombard the earth. Computers induce …
CLEAN AND SAFE: Cashing in on the growing requirement for clean water, the Pune-based Thermax Ltd is setting up a joint venture company with Culligan Water Technologies Ltd of the US. The new venture - Thermax Culligan Water Technologies Ltd - will provide products and services for quality water in …
On-line avatar The Internet supports many on-line worlds but at present each one demands that the user create a new on-line identity. All this is set to change as the developers of on-line realms prepare to standardise the way a participant's on-line persona - known as an avatar - is …
American troops are currently using computers that can give instant translations of foreign-language documents. Armed with the new device called the Forward Area Language Converter (Falcon), they will be able to assess the significance of any papers they discover, by simply feeding them into a scanner and reading the text …
even with the help of a flight data recorder (fdr), commonly known as a black box, it might be difficult to find out why an aircraft crashed. As the existing fdrs do not register all the information that investigators might need, the us federal aviation administration is now considering whether …
Computer viruses flourish on the Internet. Every time a file is downloaded, there is a chance that a virus is taking a ride. Some viruses even hide in e-mail attachments. Researchers at IBM are working to block these destructive programmes. Steve White, a senior virus researcher, and his colleague Gregory …
The world's most powerful computer will be on line in 1998. It will be 300 times faster than the ones in use now. It would take a person using a calculator 30,000 years to accomplish the work the new IBM supercomputer will perform in one second. The machine will assist …
FIFTYNINE-year-old Paul Jernigan and a 39-year old lady have, become the first- ever 'virtual' couple. They were selected to be part of an ambitious, us $1.4-million- project called the Visible Human Project, supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, us. The two offered their bodies for …
