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If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start? Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, [...]

Luis von Ahn, Carnegie Mellon University; from Computing Research that Changed the World: Reflections and Perspectives, March 25, 2009. An example is his new reCAPTCHA project, which has enlisted hundreds of millions of people to help digitize books by solving CAPTCHAs on the Internet. CAPTCHAs are widespread security measures that von Ahn helped invent almost [...]

In this article let us review 15 practical examples of Linux grep command that will be very useful to both newbies and experts. First create the following demo_file that will be used in the examples below to demonstrate grep command. 1 

The U.S. Foreign Service Institute teaches foreign languages to government diplomats and personnel for duties abroad—and its courses are available online, for free. Which means you can access audio, texts, and tests in 41 different languages. The FSI Language Courses web site isn’t actually maintained by the U.S. government itself, but the materials developed before [...]

Norman Ramsey at StackOverflow once asked: My group uses Literate Programming for most of our source code—this means that internal documentation is written using LaTeX. We have been using PStricks for fancy technical diagrams of the system, but have recently been recommended to use TikZ. I’ve gathered this information: TikZ/PGF is new and maintained; PStricks went [...]

Linear programming is often a favorite topic for both professors and students. The ability to introduce LP using a graphical approach, the relative ease of the solution method, the widespread availability of LP software packages, and the wide range of applications make LP accessible even to students with relatively weak mathematical backgrounds. Additionally, LP provides [...]

Everyone talks about Google and its search methodologies and even its home page design. But whatever you know about Google, if that is not enough then go thru the below attached 60 minutes video presentation by “Marissa Mayer” – Vice President of Search Product. Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one [...]

TED India Conference held in Infosys Campus, Mysore between 4 – 7’th Nov 2009. There were lot many sessions over here on different subjects. One of them was on 6’th Sense Technology mixing physical world with digital world taken by Pranav Mistry – a well known MIT engineer. He talked about the technology he developed [...]

If you want to get a print copy of only text part of a webpage or without any particular image then you can try Printfriendly web application. Sometimes we need a print copy of a page but because of different ads or huge images running on that page, we ignore getting a print copy idea. [...]

Free file browser Q-Dir makes for a good USB drive app or installed replacement for Windows Explorer for those who do a serious amount of file swapping, or just like to be able to keep multiple folder views open at once. The app—which installs by default, but can run by itself after renaming it “Q-Dir.exe”—offers [...]