The sixteenth edition of the IIT Bombay ended today leaving a volume of records. These records were in the form of memories,published stories in newspapers,journals,social media sites and videos. www.JharkhandStateNews.com which was IIT Bombay’s online media partner was part of it. Among those luminaries who addressed the IITians included P. Sainath, Osamu Hasegawa, Michael Tiemann,…
In his address at IIT Bombay today,Amartya Sen said “it is tough to look at economic development without looking at gender equality and other social indicators.” He was speaking on ‘India: A defense & critique’.Bangladesh, even though poorer than India,is racing ahead in gender related indicators’,he said.
Ei-ichi Negishi today observed that the ‘seed for any research is dream.’ Negishi,who shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Richard F. Heck in 2010,felt that the dream has to be converted into a plan followed by activity and systemic exploration.”Also,a researcher needs good mentoring and optimism that forbids him from giving up midway in…
NASA scientist Amitabha Ghosh today observed that the cost of Mars mission these days has become extremely affordable and productive. “Technology is improving day by day. This has resulted in better and improved machinery for exploration of mars”,said Ghosh addressing the IIT,Bombay’s Techfest on its concluding day today. Narrating NASA’s past experiences in view of…
Charles H. Lineweaver today spoke on a hypothetical question connected with the Life and the Universe-Are we alone. “Ninty percent of professional astronomers think there is life elsewhere in the universe because it is so big– spatially infinite.The answer depends on what the definition of life is”,observed Lineweaver,while delivering lecture orgainsed on the occasion of…
“President(of India) is just a rubber stamp, no thanks I rather be somewhere I can contribute.”This was stated by Rakesh Sharma in response to a question raised by a student at IIT Bombay today. Sharma,who addressed the audience gathered at IIT Mumbai’s on going science and technology festival-Techfest, is a former Indian Air Force test…
Indian physicist Ashoke Sen today spoke on ‘search for a unified theory.’ Sen was speaking on the occasion of the second day of the sixteenth edition of the IIT Bombay’s science and technology festival-Techfest at Powai. Higs boson was an extremely important discovery as it gave mathematical consistency to the standard particle theory.These elementary particles…
The scene is like a cock fight.But instead of the cocks,the fight is between brutal looking Robots.They fight against each other in the arena with a singular motive- destruction of the other robot.And when they exchange blows,the crowd cheers. Believe it or not,Robowars is one of the most popular events in the on going Techfest of IIT…
While speaking at the 16th edition of the IIT Bombay’s Techfest-2013-14-Hasegawa,a noted Robotics Researcher from Japan, said : “In future, professionals like doctors will be able to impart their skills using this SOINN technology of artificial intelligence and market them. The time is not far where every person will grow up with actual brain as well…
The sixteenth edition of the IIT Bombay’s Science and Technology festival-TECHFEST,2013- got off to a glittering start this morning with the opening of stalls and exhibitions on its sprawling campus. The stalls and exhibitions showed vintage cars,coins from across the world,silk paintings and so on. A robot on “Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network” (SOINN) was displayed…
