Posts

AI today

Read at: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=332273&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_feat

From 2008 to 2009

So, the second last year of the first decade of 21st century has dawned and 2008 is over. At this moment, how I look at 2008 : A year which can be attributed as an extraordinary one at personal level, because, In the month of May, My sweet little daughter was born and that gave a new meaning to life. On the other hand, in social aspect, this was a year which saw so many incidents which were not so good. This was a year of calamities (natural or man-made). Terrorism has come to our neighborhood and now it is being treated just like a routine crime. Perhaps, next time, It may be in our houses too. God knows! This was also a worst year with respect to economy. Major financial players at world level are part of the history now or some may be in time to come. However, as said there is always light at the end of the tunnel, so was in the case of unpardonable Mumbai attacks. The unity shown by the entire nation once again shown that India is able to face and handle any type of crisis. Hope, 2...

NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software being organized by C-DAC, Mumbai

NCOSS-09: National Conference on Open Source Software May 25 th - 26 th , 2009, Mumbai, India Organized by C-DAC, Mumbai Supported by IEEE Computer Society, Mumbai and Chennai chapters Computer Society of India, Div II on Software & SIG-OSS * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * NCOSS - 2009 is being conceived of as a forum to bring together the various groups working on developing Open Source Applications catering to specific domains in the ICT world, including education, health, accessibility, localisation, e-commerce, disaster management, expert systems, machine learning, etc. A number of high quality software solutions are available in many of these areas, for example, SugarCRM, Koha, Drupal, Moodle, Sahana, CollabCAD, etc. Work on these systems require a combination of domain knowledge and development expertise. Much of the public awareness in open source is focussed on desktop, operating system and general productivity tools. With this background, NCOSS-09 has chosen to...

India on Moon

Moon Impact Probe (MIP) from Chandrayaan-1 will hit the Moon's surface tonight. This is indeed a historical moment of India. For more details : http://www.isro.org

Dada's final frontier

Life is a full circle. Now Dada has reached at his final frontier and has shown his immortal fighting spirit to the world. Now when India-Australia test series in coming to end, at Nagpur, this is the last time when India's Fab-4 are playing together. Possibly end of a golden era of Indian cricket. Hats off to Saurav and his fighting spirit

New release of BOSS

New version of BOSS (Bharat Operating System Solutions) i.e. BOSS 3.0 has been released. It can be downloaded from: http://bosslinux.in/downloads/welcome-to-boss-downloads .

India on Moon Mission.

India is set to launch its first ever moon mission on Oct. 22, 2008 around 6:00 a.m.. 52 hour long countdown for the launch of the probe begins today i.e. Oct. 20, 2008. Wait and watch out for India's entrance into the outer space.