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Software design, little has changed in the last 70 years

In 19 February 1946 Alan Turing designed the first well-known software for a stored-program computer.  Seventy years later, each of us is carrying numerous apps (software) in our pockets and wrists. Software today can be incredibly powerful, they contain millions of lines of code, can guide nuclear missiles to their target, even recognize the human voice and translate them on the fly. Today’s mobile apps like Microsoft Word or Facebook are more complex than the entire software stack that powered Apollo 11 spaceflight. The technology powering Apple’s Siri, Google Now or Microsoft’s Halolens were impossible even ten years before. The…

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My article on China’s SuperComputer published in NewsPaper

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இன்று வெளிவந்த தீக்கதிர் நாளிதழில் நான் எழுதிய கட்டுரையொன்று பிரசுரமாகியிருக்கிறது. இந்தக் கட்டுரையை எழுத  என்னை ஊக்குவித்த திரு.டி.கெ.ரங்கராஜன், எம்.பி. அவர்களுக்கு என் மனமார்ந்த நன்றி. கட்டுரை முழுவதுமாகவும், நாளிதழில் இருந்து வருடிய PDF பிரதியும் இங்கே. கணினி உலகிலும் இன்று சீனா தான் “சூப்பர்”! சூப்பர் ஸ்டார் என்றால் நமக்கெல்லாம் தெரியும், அது என்னது…

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My Quote in Mint Newspaper

Today in Hindustan Times Mint business paper there was an article on recently concluded Tamil Internet Conference 2010 and it included a quote and information from me. The article titled “Mixing Tamil and tech to book computing” was done by Ms Niranjana Ramesh, who interviewed me some time back and we had a good discussion stretching for few hours. You can see more of the past press coverage of TI2010 in my earlier post here. A case in point is the word computer. For some time now, it’s been called kanipori in Tamil. “But somewhere along the way, we Net…

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