First Look: Gogol Ganguly, Professor
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Kal Penn starts as a one-semester professor in the University of Pennsylvania.
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Professor Sam Braunstein, of the University of
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Before he died last September, Geoffrey Beene named his assistant, Einar Holilokk, as his successor. Mr. Holilokk will present his first solo collection in New York next week.
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In his lively new book, Garrett M. Graff asks how the technology that is transforming the global economy is going to affect the âfirst campaign of the new age.â
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Take a look at the much-awaited film, Sainikudu.
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DHAKA: India will focus on results and not records in the first Test against Bangladesh starting today, even though two of their players are on the verge of personal milestones, captain Saurav Ganguly said.
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KOLKATA: Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly&#39;s cup of woes spilled over on Sunday when he was suspended for two international matches by ICC match referee Clive Lloyd, who found him guilty for his team&#39;s slow over rate in BCCI Platinum Jubilee match against
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Madhur Bhandarkar catches up with rediff readers.
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What do Stanford grads Anand and Venky have in common with Google founders, Larry and Sergie? One, they were batch mates. And two, they are into the prolific and perhaps most competitive of web domains, Search. Kosmix.com, the topical search engine, founded by the Indian duo attempts to resolve the Gordian knot of &#8220;meaning&#8221; in a [...]
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Atull Agnihotri on his directorial debut, DIl Ne Jise Apna Kahaa.
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It was just last week that UMass&#39; own Professor Sheldon Goldman of the Political Science Department gave his distinguished lecture on the process and importance of judicial appointments.
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Frank Wilczek still remembers the physics course he took at the University of Chicago 35 years ago. The course taught by U. of C.&#39;s Peter Freund was so &quot;thrilling,&#39;&#39; he said, that he changed his major from
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A look at the first 'Kanglish' film.
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(InfoWorld) - Dr. Ambuj Goyal is one of IBMâs heavy hitters. A 25-year IBM veteran who joined the company as a researcher at the T. J. Watson Research Center, Goyal did early work in scalable databases that laid the technology groundwork for DB2, then led the research effort to create the Deep Blue chess computer. In 1996, Goyal was elevated to be vice president, servers and software, and director, computer sciences, where he set IBMâs long-term research direction and oversaw the work of 1,500 researchers worldwide. Now, as general manager of information management in the IBM Software Group, Goyal ensures the success of IBMâs Information On Demand initiative and its constellation of products. But in a recent interview with InfoWorld Executive Editor at Large Eric Knorr, Goyal still sounded like a scientist, expounding on the nature of information vs. data and the unique position IBMâs new Information Server occupies in the history of computing. InfoWorld: Consolidating, reconciling, and delivering information strikes me as one of the most difficult problems in IT.                                                     AmbujGoyal: This problem has existed for 20 years. When I was doing the announcement for Information Server last October, I talked about an inflection point that has come in information management. This is similar to an inflection point that occurred in 1996 when there were many techniques to create Web sites or do Web-based business: Java Virtual Machines, HTTP servers, commerce engines. There were many different techniques. A few companies created a concept called a Web application server, IBMâs being WebSphere. So if you wanted to leverage Web technologies to improve your business or do Web programming, you just get started with a Web application server. We are at a similar inflection point in 2006. We have myriads of techniques â metadata management, ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) tools, data creation tools, Federation tools, cleansing tools, profiling tools. People use these tools to solve the information challenge. The application server had a foundation, which was JVM. Information Server now has a foundation, which is a metadata repository, or metadata bus. And we have restructured all the tools to come up with an information server, so companies donât need to decide whether they need this piece of technology or that piece of technology. They have an information challenge â they just start with an information server. IW: What about the skills to work with an information server? It seems a little difficult to find people who understand this area. Is that a problem in the market now? AG: It actually simplifies the problem because people were doing manual stuff around metadata. So what we have done is helped the business user say, âThis is how I define my customer and attributes of that customer.â They can talk business language. And then an information architect, who typically used to do ETL or SQL, can take the same business language and convert it into an appropriate information infrastructure programming tool. In the past they could never do that, and governance became a huge problem. The businessperson really meant X, and the information architect implemented Y. IW: But in all of these solutions, somebody is still sitting down in a meeting room, going through the incredibly tedious task of saying, âOK, weâre going to use this field and not that field, weâll express this value this way and not that way.â AG: Right, but our view is, over decades, this is how software and middleware have evolved. There was tedious work going on connecting system A to system B. You repeated it over and over again. Then out came a product that is an outgrowth of a repeated piece of work captured into a software product. In the late â90s, people used to use the WebSphere application server and would build customer portals. Many customers built and said, âLook, this is a waste of time. I would just like to have the base infrastructure to be able to do that.â So portals as a category evolved. We believe that people are still doing tedious work when dealing with information. Information Server and its tools are converting that tedious work into an information server category. Even analysts are starting to talk about this as a category because it is solving that tedious work, and tedious work has always resulted in a new category of software.
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Life, and how it functions, is at the center of Dr. GÃ¼nter Blobel's research.
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Aasif Mandvi has been making waves.
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Chandrasekhar Yeleti's latest film stars T Gopichand.