Scientists use computer science to crack mysterious Indus Valley script

February 16th, 2009 BANGALORE - Infosys Technologies Tuesday said it has instituted a Rs.5-million (Rs.50 lakh) award each for five top Indian scientists in recognition of their outstanding research contributions and achievements. The five awards will be given annually under the aegis of Infosys Science Foundation, a non-profit trust set up with a corpus of Rs.210.5 million (Rs.21.5 crore), the software major said in a statement here.

September 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new software, designed by optical scientists, is likely to revolutionise photography by teaching the camera new tricks. Its performance will then be no longer limited by the software pre-installed by the manufacturer.

June 8th, 2009 Stanford computer prof. Rajeev Motwani found deadATHERTON, Calif.

October 7th, 2009 Obama awards national science, technology medalsWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted defibrillators, mapped the human genetic code and made global positioning systems possible. Awarding the National Medal of Science and the Medal of Technology and Innovation, Obama said the United States must continue to invest in "the next generation of discoveries and the next generation of discoverers." Repeating his pledge to put thousands more students in college classrooms, he committed to spending 3 percent of the gross domestic product to educate future scientists and researchers.

October 11th, 2009 LONDON - Though progressive in nature, yet highly sophisticated computer is no match to a child's common sense, as machines are not blessed with reasoning power. But artificial intelligence scientists are aspiring towards enabling computers to have human-level intelligence by developing a commonsense knowledge base.

April 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a device that will put computers in a doze, which could mean energy savings of 60 to 80 per cent. The experts have developed a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as "sleep talking." Normally PCs can be in either awake mode-where they consume power even if they are not being used, or in a low power sleep mode-where they save substantial power but are essentially inactive and unresponsive to network traffic.

July 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Tel Aviv University researcher has claimed that the first quantum computer could overnight threaten our security and our data. Dr. Julia Kempe, of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science, says that these new computers, still in the theoretical stage, will be many times more powerful than the computers that protect our data now.

October 7th, 2009 List of winners of top science and research medalsThe winners of the 2008 National Medal of Science: —Berni Alder, for developing computer methods useful for conceiving and executing experimental shock-wave simulations. —Francis S.

April 14th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Major companies in the Silicon Valley are suffering the biggest slump since the dot-com bust, further proving that the leading technology hub is not immune from the effects of a global economic meltdown, a new report has said. According to rankings compiled by the San Jose Mercury News, total market capitalisation of Silicon Valley's 150 biggest public companies plunged 32 percent to about $850 billion for the past 12 months ending March 31, the worst decline since 2002.

September 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Korean computer scientists have developed a novel security language for home networks that could ward off cyber attack in homes. Like companies, banks, and other big organizations, domestic and small office networks are just as vulnerable to hacking, malicious computer code, worms, viruses, and eavesdropping.

February 10th, 2007 Twenty years before most scientists expected it, DWave has announced a 16 Qubit quantum computer that promises to massively speed up computation as we know it (64, 000 operations simultaneously). DWave will debut at two locations, one at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California on February 13th, and the second at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada on February 15th.

September 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scientists have developed a security language to protect home networks from cyber attacks. Companies, banks and other organisations take internet security very seriously, erecting firewalls and IT departments to protect them from attacks.

May 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The numbers of Indians and other Asians and Latinos in America's Silicon Valley continued to surge from 2007 to 2008 even as the population growth of the two ethnic groups unexpectedly slowed nationwide. For years, Santa Clara County's diverse population - with more minorities than whites - has served as a pointer for the rest of the US, but the latest data released by the US Census Bureau Thursday is expected to push back the projected date that minorities will outnumber whites across the US by a decade.

March 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - HashCache, the technological brainchild of a team of Princeton computer science researchers led by an Indian American scientist, has drawn recognition as a revolutionary way to expand internet access around the world. Created by a team of researchers headed by computer science professor Vivek Pai, the new efficient data storage system was featured as one of the top 10 emerging technologies of the year in Technology Review, a scientific magazine published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

May 24th, 2006 Honda scientists have created Brain Machine Interface that translate thoughts into electrical signals which can be used to control machinery. It doesn't require the user to undergo surgery or even extensive training - a major advance over past thought-controlled technologies.