An excellent and thought provoking speech made by Harvard President was highly distorted by the media Here is the complete transcript: www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/nber.html Lawrence H. Summers presents the following 3 hypothesis and defends them : “There are three broad hypotheses about the sources of the very substantial disparities that this conference’s papers document and have been documented before with respect to the presence of women in high-end scientific professions. One is what I would call the-I’ll explain each of these in a few moments and comment on how important I think they are-the first is what I call the high-powered job hypothesis.

At the Nano Tech 2005 show in Tokyo, Fujitsu displays the BioServer, a powerful new computer that will be able to handle the large number of calculations currently necessary in fields including medical research. There were some 350 companies that displayed their products in the show. All ye Early adopters – Look out for nanotech products for they are supposed to be serve as disruptive technologies to a whole lot of industries.

For all the gyan on rise of net as an advertising medium , irrelevance of mass media marketing , need to take permission from the customers before one markets their goods…Well, atleast in India , such things have not yet taken place. One obvious reason is becoz of less internet penetration. One look at the mass media advertising slot rates gives an idea abt the powerful existence of second wave advertising strategies

My computer was affected by a spyware - Phisher which steals all the banking and personal information and sends it to some vague site. I did browse for anti-spyware software to remove it. I tried Microsoft Anti-spyware, Webroot and a host of tools. These tools did help in scanning the spyware and removing it temporarily. The spyware used to reload in to the machine’s RAM whenever I rebooted it Finally I go hold of software which permanently removed the spyware from a tool developed by lavasoft.

In the past 5 years I have been involved in the field of technology and business But strangely I somehow lost touch with developments in science. I did not track ANY developments in Science which forms the bedrock of technology. Being a engineering graduate, I am surprised at myself not doing so. The book I picked up this week “Probable tomorrows” was an eye opener to the great advances that are due in the coming decade.