Collaboration in higher education is expected to be Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s agenda when he visits India on Friday as his country is keen to attract more Indian students and academics. While there has already been collaboration between universities in the two countries, Abe’s visit could lead to inter-government collaboration in the field and…
Teaching kids to code is just as important as teaching them any other language. And the younger they start learning it, the better, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday. Cook spoke to a group of New York third graders who visited a Manhattan Apple store for an “Hour of Code” class. In an interview afterward,…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is likely to launch seven satellites designed by students of various Indian institutions and universities, the Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Jitendra Singh said: “ISRO is addressing the…
During June 1-4, 2016, the first ever Indian Student Supercomputing Challenge (ISSC) will take place in Mumbai, India, in tandem with the inaugural distributed & embedded-High Performance Computing (de-HPC) symposium. ISSC is being organized by the academic partners Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay and industry partners Syncthreads Computing with the official support of the…
China’s first mind-controlled car has been deve loped by researchers in the north-east port city of Tianjin. Chinese researchers have developed what they say is the country’s first car that uses nothing but brain power to drive. The research team from Nankai University, in the north-eastern Chinese port city of Tianjin, has spent two years…
Paper cuts are now deadlier than ever! Scientists in Sweden have developed what they call “power paper” – a thin, paper-like material with a remarkable capacity to store energy. Just one sheet of the material measuring 15 centimetres in diameter and less than 0.5 millimetre thick can store 1 farad of electrical capacitance, which is…
The Nobel Peace Prize was on Thursday presented to a group of four organisations that saved Tunisia’s transition to democracy through dialogue, a method the laureates are keen to see applied in Syria and Libya. “This year’s prize is truly a prize for peace, awarded against a backdrop of unrest and war,” the head of…
In the interest of saving money, NASA is planning to cut its ties to the International Space Station, which has maintained a continuous human presence in low-Earth orbit for 15 years. According to ARS Technica, NASA’s head of human spaceflight said the agency plans to leave the space station as soon as possible. Earlier this…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is visiting India next week on his first overseas trip after taking over as the head of the tech giant to host a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday. He will also address Delhi University’s Sri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) on December 17. Pichai will deliver the keynote address…
BENGALURU: India remains the No. 1 location for MNCs to establish product engineering and R&D centres outside their home countries, and the growth of these centres in India is outpacing the average global growth. India accounted for $12.3 billion, or 40%, of the total of $31 billion of globalized engineering and R&D in 2015, according…
