An impressive collection of the key Web 2.0 startups in India.
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Scribd is a user-based web portal where the users can upload PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Text, etc. files to share with others. The files can be opened in embedded viewers on the website. Presently the content on the website is neither quantitative nor qualitative, however, it has great potential. Original source: LifeHacker
“Since real world applications are naturally parallel and hardware is naturally parallel, what we need is a programming model, system software, and a supporting architecture that are naturally parallel. Researchers have the rare opportunity to re-invent these cornerstones of computing, provided they simplify the efficient programming of highly parallel systems.”
The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkeley
Related Posts: Insight into future of Computer Architecture, Three Performance-Limiting Walls
“…But what is truly wonderful about the “mobile miracle” is that it has accomplished something India’s old socialist policies talked about but did little to achieve: It has empowered the less fortunate.”
A list compiled by BusinessWeek.com of twenty-five businesses instigated by entrepreneurs under 25. Be Inspired.
America’s Best Young Entrepreneurs
Related posts: Subroto Bagchi on Entrepreneurship, Bill Gates on Innovation and Technical vitality
Bill Gates shares his insight on Innovation and Technical vitality – a succinct well written piece. I fully concur with his viewpoint – there is an urgent need for better science education and for reformed immigration policy for “global innovation” and for creating “greater value” (turning ideas into businesses and social welfare opportunities). An excerpt from an update — “The IT industry, I guarantee you,” Gates said, “will be in the U.S. to the degree that these smart people are here in the U.S.”
“Three Performance-Limiting Walls” is a term coined to represent the three important limiters of microprocessor performance – power use, memory use, and processor frequency. The three walls consist of – the power wall, the memory wall and the frequency wall. Personally, I think that of these three, the memory wall is the tricky one since it is non-intuitive for us to think of layered memory access rather than the more intuitive flat memory access. This graph nicely summarises the problem. Popular solutions include multi-core architectures, innovative memory architectures (Cell), and fundamental improvments in memory (eDRAM) for example.
Three Performance-Limiting Walls (slides 2-3)
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Exploring photos in 3D
Photo Tourism is a project by Microsoft and Washington University in which a 3D model of a scene is generated from various arbitary picures of the same scene/monument and then allows the user to browse through the contributing pictures using the 3D model. See a live demo on the website (link below). Also see a working prototype called PhotoSynth.
How do you feel about an innovative UI experiment, one with no clicks? Slick or Ugh?
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Garbage -> Fuel
Researchers have built and tested for the military a portable machine that efficiently turns waste into electricity.