Foss time in India
Microsoft is the most familiar term in the proprietary software industry. The company's penetration in people's minds is so deep that it is often …
You've got Melissa
On March 26, thousands of computers across the world were infected with the 'Melissa' virus through the Internet. Many large corporations had to …
Will computers take over?
Book>>The Brain is Wider than the Sky by Bryan Appleyard, Weidenfield and Nicolson, £20.00
Website review: Going 'rural'
www.ruralnaukri.com proclaims itself as a "'Haat' where buyers and sellers of rural talent meet". But if you think it is entirely to do with …
Website review: http://www.ileia.org
The visitors to this site need to, at the very outset, acquaint themselves with the two confusing, and, as one soon discovers, related acronyms --…
Giga-hit or mega-flop?
Will the fastest supercomputer developed by India help the country realise its potential? Or will it flop?
AI called GPT-3 can now write like a human without thinking like one
GPT-3 is capable of producing excellent syntax. It boasts a wide range of vocabulary, owing to an large knowledge base from which it can generate …
A case of computer breakdown?
India and the Computer: A Study of Planned Development C R Subramanian Publisher: Oxford University Press Price: Rs 250
Solutions at a click
Computers pave the way for sustainable agricultural and rural development in five Pondicherry villages
Super chip
Human work done over 57,000 years would be accomplished in one second flat by a wonder computer developed by the US
Computer bananas
Global computer companies find that all roads now lead to Brazil, Despite its reputation as a banana republic
If you think the millennium bug was a hoax, here comes a history lesson
A cross section of industries and governments across the world feared their software would go berserk at the turn of the millenium
Removing the slouches and aches from keyboards
Computer manufacturers have come up with new designs for keyboards that they claim, will help users avoid painful wrists and hunched shoulders.
Byte by byte
To increase disk drive capacity, both silicon chips and magnetic-memory disks will have to get better
Quantum computers: how they work
Scientists are achieving major breakthroughs in the construction of computers that will function in a totally new way
Copycat recorders
That time is not very far off when children will ask: when are we buying a CD recorder, Papa?
Google and IBM are at odds over 'quantum supremacy' — an expert explains what it really means
Quantum computers can perform very difficult calculations much faster than anything possible on conventional “classical” computers
US firm uses new software to woo Japanese market
Microsoft Corp of USA has launched a Japanese version of the Windows 3.1 software package, which is expected to grab for it control of Japan's …
Fighting the bug
How badly will the millennium bug hit India? While the Y2K Action Force says most government institutions will be able to meet the deadline, …
New device promises to make stroke rehabilitation fun
An IIT-Hyderabad-incubated startup makes an upper arm exercising device with a gaming console
Clinton proposes talks on jobs
Burdened by rising joblessness, US President Bill Clinton wants world leaders to meet to find a solution to the vexing problem
"Culmination of the IT revolution"
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, is the man behind the wireless local loop technology cor dect and the …
Why Artificial Intelligence developers should be more responsible
If we’re not careful about possible mishaps, all the excitement surrounding AI could end up in a dystopian world
Is Delhi prepared to handle its e-waste?
In India, over 95 per cent of e-waste generated is managed by the unorganised sector. Integrating and formalising this sector can help …
Algorithms workers can’t see are increasingly pulling the management strings
Giving self‐learning algorithms the responsibility to execute decisions affecting workers carries a host of risks in depersonalising management …
