A very unusual news about contols imposed by administration on IIT students is here. So these studnts need to be disciplined about the use of Internet. The Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai on Monday restricted Internet access for its…
IIT Students
History preservation in digital age
NYT has an article ‘History Digitized (and abrdged)’ discussing what will happen to history in digital age. “There’s an illusion being created that all the world’s knowledge is on the Web, but we haven’t begun to glimpse what is out…
Changing marriages — bedrooms
Social patterns emerge as socio-economic status of a society changes. With increasing financial independence of women came higher divorce rate almost in all societies. Yes, we Indians think that marriages are stable because they are arranged and we are somehow…
Wikia
Now wiki technology will be used for making search effective and competing with Google and Yahoo. Here is the story from News.com. Wikia, the commercial counterpart to the nonprofit Wikipedia, is aiming to take as much as 5 percent of…
Future Search
Many people are trying to develop the next Google and many are trying to build image search. These efforts are popular and will remain popular. A series of articles by Erica Morphy gives some of these efforts. It will be…