Raghu Ramakrishnan, a vice president at Yahoo!, has been awarded the 2008 Innovation Award by the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for his significant technical achievements in the field.
A forum to bring together people from different walks of life for building of an ecosystem is undertaken by Association of Computing Machinery.
Infosys Technologies and Association for Computing Machinery have signed an agreement to create a new annual award that recognises young scientists and system developers.
The IIP growth was 0.6 per cent as against 1.7 per cent in April last year.
The manufacturing sector, a key indicator of economic activity, grew 10.6 per cent year-on-year in October.
University of Washington researchers said some smartphones are starting to incorporate 3-D gesture sensing based on cameras, but cameras consume significant battery power and require a clear view of the user's hands.
In October, the general index had declined by 4.2 per cent, while its manufacturing component went down by an even more alarming 7.6 per cent.
