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Indian American appointed as the Head of DARPA in US 13 July 2012
Arati Prabhakar has made India proud after she was appointed the head of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. DARPA is American equivalent of DRDO in India, only differences being that the US counterpart is heavily funded with greater powers....
Keywords: Indian American, DARPA, Indian American, Caltech
Read MoreRock dating on Mars surface 13 December 2013
First time in the history of mankind, researchers have predicted the age of a Martian rock successfully. The experiments are being performed on the Mars surface by a team of scientists led by geochemist Ken Farley of California Institute of...
Keywords: Martian rock, Curiosity rover, Sample Analysis on Mars (SAM), Planet Mars
Read MoreNew data transfer record paves way for high speed network technology 14 December 2011
The team transferred data in opposite directions at a combined rate of 186 gigabits per second (Gbps) in a wide-area network circuit at the SuperComputing 2011 (SC11) conference in Seattle during mid-November. The rate is equivalent to moving two million...
Keywords: transfer rates of 40 and 100 Gbps, , University of Michigan, New data transfer record
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