Famous Scientist ( Vijay P. Bhatkar )

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Vijay P. Bhatkar

Dr Vijay Pandurang Bhatkar (born 11 October 1946) is an IT computer scientist from India. He is best known as an architect of the PARAM series of Supercomputers, GIST multilingual technology and Education-To-Home  mission.

 He is widely recognized for his noteworthy contributions in bringing ICT to the masses through a series of path-breaking initiatives. He is also credited with the creation of several national institutions, notably amongst them being the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, – India’s national initiative in Supercomputing; the Electronics Research & Development Centre (ER&DC), Trivandrum – India’s largest R&D Centre in application oriented R&D in electronics; the ETH Research Laboratory, Pune for launching Education-To-Home mission; the International Institute of Information Technology I2IT, Pune – India’s largest Post-Graduate Institute for advanced education in IT; and the India International Multiversity (IIMv) – an educational initiative for promoting the concept of integral education.

Bhatkar was born on 11 October 1946 at Muramba, Akola, Maharashtra . He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from Nagpur University in 1965, his Master of Engineering in from M.S. University, Baroda, in 1968, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi IIT Delhi , in 1972.
He has served as a Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee to the Cabinet of Government of India Government of India.

He was also a Member of several IT Task Forcesconstituted by the Prime Minister in 1998 to propel India as IT superpower. He was invited to address The Royal Society Royal society in 2003. He led the Indian delegation to South Africa to formulate Indo-SA initiative in Advanced Computing. He is a member of the Indo-Russian Long Term Programme (ILTP) in Science & Technology. He has also been a member of Indo-Hungarian and Indo-French Joint Commissions.

For his contributions to IT in India, he was conferred with the PADMASHRI award in 2000, one of the highest civilian recognitions by the Government of India, the Maharashtra Bhushan Award 1999-2000, the highest recognition of Government of Maharashtra..

He is also conferred with several social and spiritual awards, amongst them being Saraswati Award, Vidarbha Gaurav Award, Pune Citadel Award, Vidarbha Bhushan Award, Punya-Bhushan Award, and Gratitude Award. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2009)

Google Nexus 7 3G could arrive in weeks

The tablet was released in July but sources have revealed that the hardware manufacturer is already currently working on a 3G variant to be released imminently.

Asus, which partnered with Google to make the Nexus 7 tablet, is reportedly gearing up production for a launch in approximately six weeks time.

The popular 7-inch tablet was launched to glowing reviews and soon sold out at some American retailers.

It was the first Android tablet to come with Jelly Bean, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system.

Aggressively priced from £160 it was designed to loosen Apple's grip on the tablet market. It's nearest competitor is the Kindle Fire, which is only available to American buyers.

It has an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, and a 1.2-megapixel camera, and is available with 8 or 16GB of storage.

The lack of 3G support was one of the only criticisms levelled at the tablet by reviewers.

There are not expected to be any other hardware changes to the Nexus 7, with the inclusion of 3G the only addition to the new tablet

The 3G model is likely to be more expensive than the Wi-Fi only model although the exact release date and price are currently unknown.

Apple is expected to launch a smaller, cheaper version of the iPad next month which will compete with the Nexus 7.

With Amazon expected to release a new version of the Kindle Fire this week , the move by Google would ensure that it stays dominant in the market.

Micromax launches A25 Smarty for Rs. 3,999

Soon after announcing the A87 Superfone Ninja 4, Micromax has announced yet another dual-SIM capable affordable Android smartphone. The device called the Micromax A25 Smarty is priced as low as Rs. 3,999 and it runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread.

It surely might be the most affordable Android smartphone till date. In terms of specifications the device is powered by a 1GHz processor, it has a 2.8-inch display with 240x320 pixels resolution, a 1.3 megapixel fixed focus camera on the back, 256MB of RAM and a 1,280 mAh battery which is rated for up to 4 hours of talk time and up to 180 hours of standby.

After a long time have we seen a Micromax smartphone which is not included in the company’s Superfone line-up. This new device sure is quite affordable but we are yet to see whether it will be a better options compared to the much robust Nokia phones in this price range. This device will be available with online retailer Saholic starting today.

Motorola unveils 3 RAZR Android phones

Google Inc's Motorola Mobility on Wednesday unveiled three smartphones to help it compete with bigger rivals Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co for the holiday shopping season.

Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile provider, will sell all three devices - the Droid Razr HD, the Droid Razr Maxx HD and the Droid Razr M, the companies said.

The smartphones will use Google's Android software. Motorola showed off the phones at a press event in New York, its first big media gathering since Google bought Motorola in May.

Together the devices would be Motorola's "big family launch" for this holiday season, Motorola Mobility Chief Executive Dennis Woodside said.

The executive said the phones would go on sale at 30 other carriers around the world besides Verizon Wireless, which has an exclusive U.S. deal with Motorola for the devices. 

Google has disclosed little about its plans for Motorola, which it bought primarily to use the company's rich portfolio of patents to defend itself in legal battles with rivals. It will keep Motorola as a separate subsidiary so that other Android phone makers, such as Samsung, do not assume Motorola will have an advantage in accessing Android technology.

Woodside said the Razr brand -- lauded in 2005 as iconic but became unfashionable a few years later and then was resurrected by Motorola last year -- will again be a key part of Motorola's strategy going forward.

Famous Scientist ( Carlo Amoretti )

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Carlo Amoretti

Carlo Amoretti (16 March 1741, Oneglia, now part of Imperia – 23 March 1816) was an ecclesiastic, scholar, writer, and scientist. He entered the Augustinian order in 1757. To further his studies he went to Pavia and Parma where he also taught ecclesiastical law.

Amoretti was an Encyclopedist whose mind encompassed theology, physics, geology, paleography, geography, and art history. He translated scientific works, published or republished many rare books and manuscripts noteworthy of these being the extant codex of Antonio Pigafetta's relation of the first circumnavigation of the world by Ferdinand Magellan's fleet.

Amoretti, having fallen from the graces of the ecclesiastical order at Parma, was forced to relocate to Milan around 1771. Here he became an active member of the scientific community. He was editor of the first scientific magazine published in Milan under the title—from 1775 until 1777--Scelta di opuscoli interessanti tradotti da varie lingue renamed in 1778 Opuscoli scelti until 1803, and further renamed in 1804 as Nuovi opusculi scelti.

He became a conservator, officially called "Dottori del Collegio Ambrosiano", in 1797 of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Ambrosian Library) at Milan which is said to be the first public library in Europe having first opened its door to the public in 1609. It was as conservator at the library that the world of exploration history was turned on its head by this paleographer. James Alexander Robertson wrongly identified him as the "prefect" or officer in charge of the Ambrosiana library, an error repeated by a few who have referred to Amoretti although as far as can be ascertained not one has detected prior to this article that Amoretti is the first to assert the Limasawa=Mazaua equation. Filipino religious historiographer Miguel A. Bernad mistakenly identified Amoretti as curator of the library.

In 1797 Amoretti discovered at the Biblioteca the lost Italian manuscript of Pigafetta on Magellan's voyage, considered by most Magellan scholars as the oldest of four extant manuscripts and the most complete, although there is consensus among paleographic scholars this and all surviving codices are mere copies of an original or originals now deemed forever lost. The three other extant manuscripts are all in French of which two are conserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, MSS 5650 and 24224, the last, viewed as the most "princely" of all, is conserved at the Beinecke Library of the Yale University Library, in the United States.

Famous Scientist ( Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava )

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Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava

Gajendra Pal Singh Raghava is a bio-informatician and head of the Bioinformatics Centre at the Institute of Microbial Technology (IMTECH).

Raghava was born in village Nagla Karan, Buland Shahr (UP), India in 1963. He did his B.Sc./M.Sc. from N.A.S. College, Meerut, UP in 1982. His major subjects were Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. He did his M.Sc in Physics with specialization in electronics from N.A.S. College, Meerut, UP in 1984. He did his M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T.), New Delhi in 1986.

In 1996 he received a doctorate in bioinformatics from Institute of Microbial Technology and Panjab University, Chandigarh. His thesis was on "Computer Aided Prediction of Protein Conformation from Amino Acid Sequences of Biotechnological Relevance".

He joined the Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh in 1986 as a computer scientist and developer. He become head of the Bioinformatics Centre in 1994. He is also coordinator of the distributed information centre supported by DBT under the BTISNET programme, where his primary duty is to build and maintain infrastructure required for protein modeling and engineering.

He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford university as well as at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) at Cambridge for two years (1996–98). During this period he learned and developed a number of web servers for application in computational biology, particularly in protein modelling.

He developed a method for calculating concentration of antibodies and antigens from ELISA data, and he a prediction method for protein secondary structure prediction. In 1999 he established his research group at IMTECH with emphasis on protein structure prediction and genome annotation. In 2001, his group also focused on "Computer aided vaccine design" with emphasis on subunit vaccine design.

Since 2006, his group is trying to integrate bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, pharmaco-informatics and clinical informatics in order to develop a single plate form for designing drugs in silico.

He is an adherent of public domain software or open source software, and his group both uses and develops free software for academic use. Recently his group have initiated a web portal Computational Resource for Drug Discovery (CRDD) under Open Source Drug Discovery .

New Toshiba Excite X10 Tablet First Look

The Toshiba Excite X10 is billed as the thinnest, lightest tablet on the market and will run Android Ice Cream Sandwich on release. We had a first look hands on at CES 2012 in Las Vegas.