Posted in Education, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Observation, Tech News, tagged Evaluseserve, Indian Economy, News, NRIs, Reverse Brain Drain, Technology, US Economy on 31 March 2008 | 3 Comments »
India has initiated reverse brain drain. Realizing how many scientists, doctors, engineers and other professionals they loose every year, Indian government is taking steps to lure them back to the country.
The scheme for NRIs, though still in infancy, has already netted at least 40 PHDs and MTechs working in academics or industry in countries like [...]
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Posted in Education, From Headlines, General, Information, Interesting, News and Views, Tech News, tagged Indian, News, USA, Technology, TATA, Rattan Tata, Tata Sons, Yahoo, Pune, Apache Hadoop, Cloud Computing, Ron Brachman, Hadoop Summit, Google, Supercomputers, CRL, Computational Research Laboratories on 24 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
Yahoo has struck an agreement with Computational Research Laboratories, a unit of Tata Sons Ltd., to pursue research on “cloud computing” technologies. Yahoo said the project with the laboratory in Pune would use the world’s fourth-fastest supercomputer and Apache Hadoop, a framework for creating software that can handle large amounts of data using several computers.
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The recent discussion that followed the post on IIT encouraged me to put down my thoughts on Indian education system, not just IIT.
Growing up we did not have the luxury of attending schools that were considered prestigious, nor did we have the pressure to perform in entrance exam. My mother one day dressed me up [...]
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