At 0638 hours Indian Standard Time, thirty-five years and two days ago, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma AC (Retd.) blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, creating history as the first Indian citizen to reach space. At 1750 hours Indian Standard Time, today, at the National Centre for Polar and
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*IBM Watson’s trial period gets over in 30 days, so NICOLIS is now partially deactivated. The instructions, however, remain largely the same for their new updated services too. You probably noticed the little purple icon in the bottom right corner of your screen, before opening this post. If you didn’t,
Read moreEntrepreneurs Talk the Walk
Goa University’s Department of Management Studies organised another event under the banner of ‘Entrepreneurs Talk the Walk’ on October 25th, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. Mr. Ashton Souza (Director, Goa Information Technology Innovation Centre), gave me a wonderful opportunity to interact with an enthusiastic batch of second year students in the
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The quantum world has long since been one of those seemingly incomprehensible sources of wonder and awe. So infinitesimally small, yet so significant. This article is dedicated to my favourite quantum animal (which also happens to be the only quantum animal I’m aware of ): Schrodinger’s cat. Note: This article
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Last month, the coordinators of SEEDS (Stairway towards Empowering Engineering Dreams to Success) an initiative by Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda, invited me to give a talk at their annual program held on Saturday, 25th August, 2018. The topic of my talk was ‘Constructive Innovation’. Without further ado, here
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