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Online material from IIT and IISc Professors !!

Posted by Ankush Acharya on September 26, 07

Hey friends, a lot of you must not be a book worm but would definitely be an E-Book worm, like me ! Having a collection of e-books in your system…good work, but don’t you think…what if your system crashes !!!

Voila !! There is a remedy for the same…Check out http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ where you get access to the best materials on any topic, a joint venture by seven IITs and IIsc. The materials being uploaded by eminent professors from the institutes.

Your part of work: Just register yourself and get access to the pool of knowledge… :)

Spread the word and help in enhancing the quality of education in INDIA……

What more to expect ???

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Cyborg(Cybernetic Organism): Part human, part machine

Posted by Ankush Acharya on September 24, 07

Meet Mr.Kevin Warwick , the first HUMAN CYBORG. Being a Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, England, he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering.

What makes him unique is that: He has been fitted with cyborg technology, enabling his nervous system to be linked to a computer. Surgeons have fitted a small silicon chip into his left wrist and its electrodes are connected to the median nerve. Connecting wires are implanted under the skin of the forearm and are fed to the computer through a small puncture on the wrist. The wires are linked to a transmitter/receiver device to relay nerve messages to a computer by radio signal. These signals, encoding movements like movement of fingers and feelings like shock and pain, will be transmitted to a computer and recorded for the first time.

Further Reading: His official website

Videos (Plays in Quick Time)

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Potter mania grips the world again !!

Posted by Ankush Acharya on July 22, 07

With the release of the seventh and the last book HARRY POTTER and the DEATHLY HALLOWS of the “Harry Potter” series the world is again gripped with the ‘P’ (Potter) fever……The much awaited book was released on July 21, 2007 worldwide…..and no doubt there were more than expected copies sold on the very first day.

Being rumored that this book will bring in the death of Harry Potter (which is absolutely wrong !!)……made the book more demanding among the Potter fans..!!

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In India too the sales of the book scaled new heights. Just 12 hours after the seventh book of the Harry Potter series was released Saturday, it sold 170,000 copies in the country. The estimated number of copies sold on the first day was close to 200,000. Even then, in places like Orissa, scores of Potter fans returned home empty handed and disappointed as copies of the book was sold out within the first few hours of its release.

What’s next..?? No doubt, the story will be soon hitting the theaters.

Hat’s off to J.K. Rowling !!!

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