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 …
IF WILHELM Roentgen was to see a modern medical imaging laboratory today too years after the first x-ray images he would not recognise it. From ultrasound to magnetic resonance imaging machines, from PET (positron emission tomography) scanners to radionuclides, the range of devices used today for probing the human body …
The supercomputers of today face a problem. The processors, which are all connected in parallel, have to wait for data from the memory-, this waiting time has become the limiting factor in a supercomputer's speed. The Tera Computer Co in Seattle, US, is trying out a new idea to ensure …
The Pakistim government's Private Softw are ExpoW Board (PSEB) has solicited bids fro international top guns in the computt field to set up software technology PAN in the country. The parks will cater needs of the software companig according to Shahid Mir, managing director, PSEB. attract foreign investments, the government …
A WHOLE new world of recording on a blank compact disc (CD) is now emerging. Researchers in Japan and The Netherlands are working on the concept of using a CD recorder at home to copy favourite music tracks on blank CDs or record film sequences on blank video CDs. Hi-fidelity …
RESEARCHERS report that discovery of an unique chemical process could lead to the development of new semiconduc- tors and revolutionise the future of commercial computers. Scientist at the Research & Technology Department of the us Naval surface Warfare Centre in White Oak, GerA have found a new way to quality …
With contputerisation invading nearly all segments, can the courts be far behind? Obviously not. The Bombay High Court trying its hand at modernisation has got itself an on-line information service called Grand Jurix. judges can now, with the press of a button, go through voluminous case proceedings unlike in the …
THE world's latest advance in chip technology is Ferro- electric Ceramics. If put in an integrated circuit, these new chip, capacitors ensure that weak batteries or a loose Ac plug do not wipe out data stores on computers. Ferro- electric Ceramics, besides shrinking the capacitor volume, can "remember" data for …
• The Indian Council of Agricultural Research will 'set up 500 new centres through institution-village linkage for transferring technology to farmers. This was stated recently by P Das, deputy director-general (extension) of ICAR at Solan, Himachal Pradesh. • Inaugurating the 34th annual meeting of the Cement Manufacturers' Association at New …
PINPOINTING the location of a fire out- break has often caused a lot of heart- burn to firemen. Not any more: the New Delhi-based National Informatics Centre (Nic) has @ome out with a new software which enables the user to identify a location even with half-baked information about the address. …
TREMENDOUS advances in computer technology have been the order of the day in the last decade. The machines have become faster, more robust and capable of handling much more data than before (Science, Vol 269). For instance, the latest Intel 80586 chip (Pentium) works at almost 100 MHZ, compared to …
Microsoft Corp, the US software giant, has been given breathing space by the nation's Justice Department. The company, all set to launch its new, much-vaunted operating system, Windows 95 -- which is expected to create a revolution in the world of electronics -- ran into trouble when it decided to …
People who are colour-blind are often at a disadvantage when it comes to using public displays and colour-coded systems. Now, availability of computer-controlled colour displays has made it possible to simulate how colour blind-people perceive a complex colour screen. Scientists at France's Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle have @eveloped a computer …
AN IDENTITY-CARD with a unique individual citizen code could be of immense use for security purposes especially in checking border infiltration and impersonation, as also during elections. With these specifications in mind, security systems specialists at the Bombay-based Bhabha Atomic Research Centre have designed a cost-effective computer laser 1-card printing …
Taking inspiration from Darwin's theory of evolution, scientists from the Sussex University, UK, have developed a technique for evolving designs for neural network controlled robots with greater self-sufficiency. The approach is similar to the concept of natural selection - here computer programmes which allow a degree of 'free choice' in …
Japanese researchers have designed an electronic secretary - a computer that can recognise and talk with its owner and perform duties such as taking messages. The ministry of international trade and industry has unveiled the system - consisting of a PC, a combined camera and a microphone which is programmed …
COMPU RECORDS: The staff at River Hills West Healthcare Center in Pewaukee, Wis.,in the US are done forever with the tiresome patient logbook, where they maintained the minutest details of the multiple doses of the myriad drugs that the 245 resident patients have to be administered daily. Now all they …
Cyberspace technology has hit Hollywood. While actors are shooting at sites in Hollywood, the back- drop is being built inside the memories of computers in London. Lawntnower Man 2: lobe's War, which is to be released by the end of the year, involves scenery being sent down each night via …
The versatile computer has found a pew role - that of a therapist. In a study at Georgia Tech, psychologists have used virtual reality to treat a group of 10 people suffering from acrophobia - an irrational fear of heights (Science, Vol 268, No 5208). The patients were exposed to …
Datasonix has introduced a mobile, tape storage product for laptops which offers a host of new features. The product, called Pereos, which uses technology Aeveloped by Sony for its digital tape recorder, is the size of a coffee cup and can store UP to 1.25 gigabytes of data (roughly equivalent …
Want to invite at home some Amazonian Indians? Go trekking in Alpine forests? Relive Chernobyl's horrors, or orbit the earth aboard a satellite? The World Wide Fund for Nature and Wildlife (WWF) new software which makes all this possible is called satcom and is packed with information, photos, maps, graphs, …
