Posted on November 7, 2009 by anshumanpandey
Pranav Mistry an The Indian genius researcher from MIT, who unveiled his futuristic ‘Sixth Sense’ project earlier this year, made a significant announcement at the first-ever TED (Technology, Entertainment and Development) conference in India. Pranav told that he’ll making his project open source in less than a month.
Sixth Sense video must have been seen by [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2009 by anshumanpandey
On 25th Sept 2009 three of my friends and I went on a sudden trip to Trivandrum, we had Amma’s birthday in the campus and there was no accommodation left for us in order to make room for the visitors. We had packed the luggage, thinking of what to do next. The room where in [...]
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Posted on August 8, 2009 by anshumanpandey
Only four days to go for my very first campus interview. To help us get an idea of an HR interview (which is the last round) Suzzane Matthews who is the HR manager of Cognizant Technology Solution and also a Alumini of Amrita School of Business was invited. We met her on 7th August and [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2009 by anshumanpandey
Well the wait has finally ended as we’ll face the recruitment of Hewlett-Packard. It seems a demon called “Recession” took leave for sometime from our lives to give us some sort of hope to get into a company. All of my classmates had left the hope of getting a placement and were preparing for exams [...]
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by anshumanpandey
Well a tiring series of my very first periodical, in my final year is over. Though three days, but two exams each day made the life litreally impossible to live. Although the toughness of the exams were not up to the standard that I expected (I can judge if a question is tough or not [...]
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Posted on July 21, 2009 by anshumanpandey
The mutual disdain between Microsoft Corp. and Linux, an open-source computer operating system, is unrivaled.
But new rules for software contracts put out by The American Law Institute have united the enemies as part of a growing protest of tech companies and their lawyers. The most controversial of the guidelines is that software vendors must guarantee [...]
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Posted on July 4, 2009 by anshumanpandey
Advantages of Using Linux
There are many factors that lead to the fact that Linux machines are better than Mac OS or Windows machine. Here I am giving some of the points that I saw in one of the articles at news.cnet.com. Some of them are subtle and some of them are very obvious when you [...]
Filed under: Non-Technical | Tagged: better, linux, Mac, OS X, windows | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 26, 2009 by anshumanpandey
I went through all of the articles of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s Billion Beats E-Papers, and it was really tough for me to decide upon which one is the best among them because all of them were equally good and carried an important message to all the citizens especially to the youth of India. Many [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2009 by anshumanpandey
The number of confirmed cases of Swine Flu in India and in the world is increasing every single day, every day in the news I come across at least 5-6 confirmed case of this disease. Before the advent of swine flu there was another disease which had the whole world in its clutches, the avian [...]
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Posted on June 25, 2009 by anshumanpandey
Introduction
Richard Baraniuk who is a professor in Rice University and a Global Education Visionary gave a talk at the TED conference which was about the technology he and his team has been developing for over six and a half years to make education more informative, interesting and economically cheap enough for the students on the [...]
Filed under: Non-Technical, Samskriti | Tagged: Connexions, creative commons, information, knowledge, MIT opencourseware, open content, open source, Richard Baraniuk, TED, Wiki | Leave a Comment »