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Arunachal tribe helps crack tuberculosis mystery

A small Arunachal sub-tribe has helped US scientists made a major breakthrough in tuberculosis research, giving them new insight on how TB remains a global epidemic causing 1.9 million deaths every......

Rajeev Srinivasan: Why Indian education sucks!

'Indian education has, after Independence, produced nothing whatsoever -- yes, absolutely nothing -- of global calibre. Not one earth-shaking discovery or invention, not one outstanding......

Is the future of education leaving India in the dust?

The digital revolution in education is coming at a most opportune time for India. Leadership in this is something India could seize, if only it had the vision, feels Rajeev Srinivasan. Part I: Why......

'Forces outside govt crucial to boost Indo-US educational ties'

United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in opening the first-ever US-India Higher Education Summit at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, -- which she co-chaired with Minister of......

Taking the Mahabharata into the digital age

Dr Bulbul Tiwari, a postdoctoral fellow in the humanities at Stanford University, has taken on the onerous task of creating an online, digital, audio-visual encyclopedia of the Mahabharata. On May......

'Govt should be an enabler, not an inept provider'

Chennai-based Jessica Seddon Wallack is a professor at the Institute for Financial and Management Research and the Director of the Centre for Development Finance at the Institute of Financial and......

Rakesh Mohan tipped to be ED at the IMF

Former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Rakesh Mohan, is tipped to join the International Monetary Fund as executive director on the board of the International Monetary Fund. He will......

His breakthrough can revolutionise the IT world

A firm headed by an Indian American has claimed to have achieved a breakthrough in Physics which will profoundly change the IT world and cut down ever-rising demand for power in computing.At the......

IITian named director of MIT lab

The prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has named Indian academician Anant Agarwal as director of its Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the......

Dipak Jain named INSEAD dean

Noted Indian-American academician Dipak Jain has been named as Dean of leading international business school INSEAD and will take up his new role in March 2011.Jain, a Dean Emeritus at Northwestern......

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Q. why computer mouse is called a mouse ?
:  A. The name "mouse", coined at the Stanford Research Institute, derives from the resemblance of early models (which had a cord attached to...... more

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Mike Tison
Q. why do indian students go abroad for studies when education is good here
Mike Tison:  A. People have several reasons in some parts people have craze for Phoren so they even go to tier 3 UK and Australian universities for some...... more

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kamini joshi
Q. Q. who discovered mouse and when ?
Kamini Joshi:  A. Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the mouse in 1968Source(s):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_(compcat, more

http://qna.rediff.com/questions-and-answers/q.-who-discovered-mouse-and-when-/20023321/answers/19641501

kamal
Q. What is the history behind the establishment of Stanford University?
Kamal:  A. The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university located in...... more

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Santiranjan Pal
Q. who was the one to create the first mouse?
Santiranjan Pal:  A. Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the first mouse prototype in 1963, more

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  Web results for Stanford Research Institute
Ground-Breaking View of Colon Via New Colonoscope

Research presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) reveals that a ground-breaking advance in colonoscopy technology signals the future of... ...

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Diarrhoea vaccine to hit markets soon

The Phase III trials on Rotavac, a vaccine for a rotavirus, have been successfully completed recently in India, announced the Department of... ...

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He makes Robots do household chores

When the International Conference on Machine Learning kicks off in Atlanta in June and pre-eminent scientists from all over the world assemble to... ...

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5,000 steps a day to avoid higher health insurance costs?

Ann Arbor, May 18 : It was a controversial move when a health insurer began requiring people who were obese to literally pay the price of not doing... ...

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Intelesense CEO to Announce Beta Release of Next Generation Global Social Platform at 2013 Future in Review Conference

Dr. Kevin Montgomery will be a featured speaker at the 11th annual Future in Review Conference on May 22nd in Laguna Beach, CA. He will be... ...

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