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 …
STILL reeling from an unsuccessful bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) just before it became operative on January 1 this year, China has nevertheless signalled its intention to keep plugging away. But with the US sticking to its stubborn stand on intellectual property rights and greater trade access, …
Kamasutra in multicoloured graphics with sound effects thrown in for good measure, is now available on CD-Rom. The multi-media extravaganza, incorporating text, sound, pictures and colour, is the handiwork of Repro Interactive, a group of computer buffs backed by a subsidiary of Apple computers. Dushyant Mehta, director, Repro Interactive, says, …
Most water starved nations cannot afford the extravagance of purifying water for agriculture through conventional desalination techniques. The London-based Light Works may have just the answer: a cost-effective system for producing pure water in hot coastal regions, which is then used to irrigate crops. Its prototype greenhouse, built on the …
CON artists in the us have never had it so good. Now all they have to do to rob gullible citizens of their hardearned dollars is switch on their computers. There has been a deluge of financial scams all over the country ever since the high-tech electronic mail (E-mail) came …
The department of electronics (DoE) has decided to encourage copycatting, going head-on against the international go-ahead given to software developers to zealously guard their products to prevent piracy. DoE unveiled X-Mail, a software costing over Rs 1 lakh, in early August, giving the green signal to pirates cruising at the …
SANICHAR is a smalltime grocer in the straggling, dusty town of backyard Jhumri Talaiya in Bihar. He barely manages to sell a few dozen bars of soap and detergent a month. But 1,600 km away in Bombay, a man with a computer is keeping tabs on Sanichar"s bottomline sales. With …
• global warming Showing changes in sea temperatures and sea-level rise and their effect on fish movement • philanthropy Determining how much money is donated to the arts versus impoverished areas • rural marketing Keeping track of rural outlets and plotting the best supply routes to show increasing sales • …
The greatest obstacle to the spread of GIS, feel experts, is the access, or rather the lack of it, to authentic and accurate and unstoppable information - the soul of GIS. Says Subhan Khan of NISTADS, "In India, it is particularly bad. Here, it would appear, every piece of information …
Digital palimpsest: In 1991, the National Remote Sensing Agency, Hyderabad, used GIS to undertake a pilot study for wasteland development in Bellary district of Karnataka. The wastelands were divided into 16 classes based on various parameters. Digitised maps of single parameters, such as distance to roads (top left), soil type …
IRISH artists can now look forward to displaying their works abroad without having to leave home. Two Irish firms, Toppsi and Ireland On-line, will use digital technology to exhibit Irish art over Internet, the international information network. Toppsi plans to hold an international exhibition on Internet. Paintings will be scanned, …
The computer keyboard is not only a secretary's bete noire -- continuous typing leads to what is called the repetitive strain injury, characterised by the numbing of various muscles of the hand -- but all programming also presupposes a knowledge of English. Wishful though it may sound, if only computers …
The National Informatics Centre (NIC) and Indian Railways" Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS) have locked horns over freight control software. CRIS has chosen the Traffic Reporting and Control System (TRACS) -- a freight operation information system (FOIS) developed by the Canadian National Railways as long ago as 1967 -- …
COMPUTER has come up with primary evidence suggesting that Shakespeare may, after all, have plagiarised anonymous works often attributed to Christopher Marlowe. UK's Aston University computer scientist Robert Mathews and literary scholar Thomas Merriam made the discovery using what are called neural networks -- a computer programmed to learn from …
Imagine this scene unfolding in one of the cool rooms off the magnificent Central Hall of the Indian Parliament: a Member of Parliament punches 2-fingered into an imported laptop 486, plugs it -- fax modem and all -- into the telephone socket, and blasts off a missive to the mofussil …
ABOUT 15 years ago, the Indian government purchased the Cray XMP supercomputer to facilitate medium-range weather forecasting. Now, the department of science and technology has asked the Bangalore-based National Aerospace Laboratory (NAL) to manufacture a standby for the Cray machine, which is currently being used by the Indian meteorological department …
ALTHOUGH many believe that he was shortchanged by the mandarins of the Indian technological and scientific establishment, Sam Pitroda still retains a concern for Indian S&T.; He was at his avuncular best last fortnight at the 7th foundation day celebrations of the Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), …
INTERNATIONAL Business Machines Inc, the market leader for the large and powerful mainframe computers, is adapting its machines to the growing demand for smaller, more flexible and less costly computers. The new technology developed over five years by IBM at the cost of over $1 billion, will allow these computers …
INTEL Corp has introduced a new generation of chips by launching two fast versions of its Pentium microprocessor. This is part of an aggressive marketing drive by the computer giant, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, the International Herald Tribune reports. The company's is anxious to garner a share of the …
NOT SO long ago you had to run to the local polyglot to get a missive in an unfamiliar language deciphered. Come computers and you can now read that blasted letter without supercilious help. The key to multilingual ability lies in a software called Apex Language Processor (ALP), which transforms …
School kids in rural Tamil Nadu have, computer education rolling their way. A computer-on-wheels programme,. devised by Anna University in Madras, is teaching three computer languages - Basic, D Base3+ and Lotus - to high school children in rural areas of the state. Five computers are taken to each school …
