TCS is a leading software developer from India. It has a team working on an interesting innovative prodject to help farmers in India. TCS’ mKrishi has been developed to provide personalised information and expert advice to rural farmers in their local language using sensor technology. It is also adaptable to illiterate farmers to make a [...]
The latest mind-numbing event in Mumbai are exceptional for showing the daring twist in terrorism, unpreparedness, despite multiple such events, to deal with any such situation by Mumbai, and exceptional diversity of Mumbai in terms of good and bad, of intolerant masses and broad-mineded intellectuals, and obviously the financial aspects of its residents. The implication [...]
India seems to have more than its share of terrorist activities lately. Many major cities had problems. The current craziness in Mumbai is very disturbing because it shows two things: the reach and style of terrorism is continuously changing and (I am sorry to say) India Govt has proved (over the last 2-4 years) that [...]
Search is considered an individual’s activity on Internet. But that may change sometime soon in near future. A NYT article describes a project at Microsoft that may change this. This project is lead by Dr. Meredith Rigel Morris. “Web search is usually considered a solitary activity,” Dr. Morris said. “But many tasks can benefit from [...]
Media Lab just announced creation of a center for future storytelling. With the establishment of the center, whose research program begins immediately, the Media Lab and Plymouth Rock Studios will collaborate to revolutionize how we tell our stories, from major motion pictures to peer-to-peer multimedia sharing. By applying leading-edge technologies to make stories more interactive, [...]