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S. R. Ranganathan, P. N. Kaula, R. N. Sharma, J. F. Harvey, D. J. Foskett, J. P. Danton, M. M. Jackson, etc.
This Blogosphere has a slant towards India [a.k.a Indica, Indo, South-Asian, Oriental, Bharat, Hindustan, Asian-Indian (not American Indian)].

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Now entire library on chip developed by Indian-American

By IANS, 29 April 2010

Washington: An Indian-American scientist has developed a computer chip that can store an unprecedented amount of data - enough to hold an entire library.
The new chip stems from a breakthrough in the use of nanodots, or nanoscale magnets, and represents a significant advance in computer-memory technology.
"We have created magnetic nanodots that store one bit of information on each nanodot, allowing us to store over one billion pages of information in a chip that is one square inch," says Jay Narayan, professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU).
Narayan, a product of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, conducted the study. continue reading Economic Times

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Sunday, April 18, 2010

An Open Mind @ NYT

by KATIE HAFNER, Published: April 8, 2010 - Education Life - NYTimes.com

This article tells you about the Education Life as an open source. It also tells you that this has ....
"... potential in “unbundling” the four elements of educating: design of a course, delivery of that course, delivery of credit and delivery of a degree. “Traditionally, they’ve all lived in the same institutional setting.” Must all four continue to live together, or can one or more be outsourced?"
But this article doesn't tell you about:

a) the value of 'open-educational system' for jobs, in this recession,
b) if there is a recognition at all for this open-ed in job market and
c) value of these informal learning opportunities within the formal world of education.


What do you think about this article and the point I have raised above?
Continue reading The NY Sunday Times:
Info courtesy: Giora Hadar

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