Internet
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1.4KSabeer Bhatia – The Founder of Hotmail
The new ubiquitous Hotmail was developed by an India born 27-years-old engineer, Sabeer Bhatia. He was born and raised in Bangalore. He...
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4.3KThe Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET)
Kleinrock was the first to use the ARPANET for personal e-mail, which was not its original function! While he was in England...
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1.1KAyyadurai : The Indian Inventor of E-mail
Ray Tomlinson, a computer scientist working at an engineering firm in Cambridge, Massachusettes, wrote a programme in 1972, that would enable message...
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1.2KThe Contributions Of J.C.R. Licklider and Claude Shannon
A man who envisaged the modern world of computing was an engineer who had studied psychology – J.C.R. Licklider (1915-1990). He had...
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989Building Blocks Of The Internet
The Russian Sputnik launched the Space Age in 1957. America set up a space agency, NASA as well as the Advanced Research...
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1.7KComputers in the 1950s and 1960s
In 1960, Ted Nelson at Harvard coined the term hypertext for his invention, which was based not on microfilms but on a...
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1.2KThe Genius of Von Neumann and Vannevar Bush
At the age of six, he could divide two 8-digit numbers mentally! By eight, he read all the 44 volumes of Universal...
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1.8KAlan Turing And Other Famous Computer Inventors
Alan Turing is closely associated with the invention of the modern computer. He and his team cracked the secret Nazi code used...
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729WhatsApp: An Internet Service that shook the Telecom Industry
Jan Koum migrated to the United States from his native Ukraine in 1992, at the age of 16, with his mother in...
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Quantum Indians – A Documentary
The Raman Effect When Light (which comes from energy) falls on matter it makes these atoms vibrate. This scattered light gives info...
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981The Age of Big Data Analytics
A Report of the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2012, termed data as a new class of economic asset, which touches...
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1.1KData: A Gold Mine of the Internet Age
What is Data Mining ? Sorting out data according to predetermined categories is easy with say 10 data-sets but becomes a challenge...