(Update – Shivani Sud wins Intel Science Talent Search Competition.) Eight Desi students have made it to the finals of the Intel Science Talent contest. Of the eight students, five are girls and they submitted projects in diverse areas including Bioinformatics, Biochemistry, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics, Zoology, Earth and Planetary Science and Chemistry. The students are […]
“98.7% of the founders of important Silicon Valley companies were born in America! 99 percent are White!” – Republican commentator Ann Coulter responding to those who boast of startups founded by tech immigrants, p.239, Adios, America H1B Visas and outsourcing are undoubtedly wreaking havoc on the lives of American programmers. Only in Amazing America will […]
Life abounds in ironies. Some weirder than others. As anyone who can move a mouse quickly realizes, Indians arrived late to the computer and software party. We owe modern computer hardware, software and the Internet to the pioneering work at American research institutions like Xerox PARC and Bell Labs, the U.S. Defense Department and scores […]
Of the countless movie opening scenes I’ve watched (nay endured), nothing comes remotely near the thrill of Dom Hemingway. The audacity of the lines, the expressions on Jude Law’s face and the volcanic eruption at the end, oh, believe me, it’s a timeless, peerless moment. Yeah, the ‘unluckiest son of a bitch in the world’ […]
In the scientific or media world, to slam a person’s positions on a sensitive subject as that of a end-of-days mystic is tantamount to calling him/her a blithering idiot. And that’s precisely how New Yorker buggered Vandana Shiva. Vandana – Vocal Opponent Worship her or dismiss her as a rabble-rousing idiot, it’s hard to ignore […]
Telugu Butcher Nerusu – Found Guilty As predicted by SearchIndia.com blog yesterday, Indian software programmer Lakshminivasa Rao Nerusu was found guilty of murdering his wife and two young children in the family’s Novi (Michigan) home on October 13, 2008. SearchIndia.com predicted yesterday: Barring a miracle, Lakshminivasa Rao Nerusu will be found guilty and locked up […]