Unsung Queen of Indian Chess

14th IPCA Womens World Champion 2014 K. Jennitha Anto from Republic of India.

Nano Technology in memory storage

Hard drives used as memory in computers  consume more power and have more chance of failure than solid state memory that doesn't have any moving parts.Solid-state computer memory has become popular on smaller computers, such as tablets.

Comparison of HDD vs SDD

This solid-state computer memory take up less space, uses less battery power,  and is less likely to be damaged if the device is dropped. Nanotechnology is being used to improve the density of solid-state computer memory.

Solid-state drives store information on a type of transistor called flash. Currently, flash memory manufacturers use nanolithography techniques to build memory chips with minimum feature sizes as small as 20 nm.

Researchers have demonstrated vertical flash transistors. The idea is that by making the transistors vertically memory cells could be stacked on top of each other, with the potential for increasing the memory density. Researchers suggest that the memory cell density could be 8 to 16 times higher than for planar transistors.

Hewett Packard is developing a memory device that uses nanowires coated with titanium dioxide. One group of these nanowires is deposited parallel to another group. When a perpendicular nanowire is laid over a group of parallel wires, at each intersection a device called a memristor is formed.

A memristor can be used as a single-component memory cell in an integrated circuit. By reducing the diameter of the nanowires, researchers believe memristor memory chips can achieve higher memory density than flash memory chips.

 HP is working with Hynix Semiconductor to develop memory components based upon memristors, called Resistive Random Access Memory (ReRAM)

Mangalyaan among Top-25 in Time Magzine

    Mangalyaan has been named among the best inventions of 2014 by Time magazine which described it as a technological feat that will allow India to flex its “interplanetary muscles.”

      “Nobody gets Mars right on the first try. The U.S. didn’t, Russia didn’t, the Europeans didn’t. But on September 24, India did. That’s when the Mangalyaan ...went into orbit around the Red Planet, a technological feat no other Asian nation has yet achieved,” Time said about Mangalyaan, calling it “The Supersmart Spacecraft.” 

    Mangalyaan is among the 25 ‘Best Inventions of 2014’ listed by Time magazine that are “making the world better, smarter and—in some cases—a little more fun.”

    Developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation, the Mars spacecraft cost India just $74 million, less than the budget for the Academy Award winning science fiction thriller film ‘Gravity.’

New Wireless Projector Tool

A new electronic interface tool has been developed by the final year student of VIT, which involves the use of your smart phone, instead of the laptop to showcase the presentations through the LCD projectors tirelessly.It is anticipated that, soon this tool will transfigure the consumer market.

Amit Biswal, a final year B.Tech student from Odisha, linked to the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the VIT University, has launched a small-sized electronic device aided with the ARM processor, which can be coupled wireless to any projectors by means of a Bluetooth-Operated mobile phone functions on android operating system.

This unit is expected to cost around Rs.3, 000. Additionally, the user’s needs to instate a holding mobile software application, which has been build up purposely for this kit.

This kit has completely purged the need for laptop, laser pointers and multimedia presenter, said Biswal’s guide professor Marimuthu.

All sorts of formats of including pdf, power point presentations, MS office documents and video clips from the phone can be accessed via this wireless kit.

We have already filled the patent for this tool, Biswal said.

Anand ready for another world title with Calsen

Five-times world champion Viswanathan Anand proved all his critics wrong and won the Candidates chess tournament after settling for a draw with Sergey Karjakin of Russia in the 13th and penultimate round here on Saturday.

It was a marathon against Karjakin and the rest day did Anand a world of good. The Indian held on to his own in the endgame that lasted more than five and a half hours.

The draw helped Anand reach eight points and he benefitted from the biggest upset in the tournament when top seed Levon Aronian of Armenia lost to lowest ranked Dmitry Andreikin of Russia.

On a day that saw Vladimir Kramnik avenging his earlier loss in the tournament against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan played out a draw with Russian Peter Svidler to seal the fate in Anand's favour irrespective of the results tomorrow.

With Anand on eight points, Karjakin, Kramnik, Mamedyarov, Andreikin and Aronian are now 6.5 points each. Peter Svidler stand seventh on six points while Topalov reamined on 5.5 to fill the last place.

In the last round Anand meets Svidler and the draw could be a likely result as the Indian will play with white pieces. In the game against Karjakin, Anand equalised quite easily with the Queen's gambit declined and had no troubles whatsoever in finding a thematic pawn sacrifice that made his position easier to play.

However, while trying to work out the right path, Anand erred slightly and faced a difficult but possible defense when he parted with two pieces for Karjakin's rook.

The ensuing endgame was easier for Karjakin and the defense was not easy, yet Anand kept finding the right moves and obtained a passed pawn on the king side that proved vital.

Karjakin was aware at this point that the fight was over but he played on till 91 moves before signing the peace treaty. The tournament victory gives Anand winner's cheque of 135000 Euros (a little over Rs 1 crore) and the right to a match against Magnus Carlsen of Norway who dethroned the Indian champion at Chennai in November last. This rematch will take place sometime in the last quarter of this year.

Andreikin came up with a sensational performance to beat Aronian who appeared out of sorts once more. The Russian went for the Trompovsky opening as an early surprise and got a comfortable endgame once the queen's got traded. Aronian was saddled with the worse pawn structure and another accuracy cost him heavily as he landed in a lost rook and pawns endgame.

Kramnik had a fine victory against Topalov out of a Semi Slav defense. Playing white, Kramnik was at the top of his game for once in the tournament. Topalov made the mistake of pushing his king side pawns and Kramnik picked one of them with precise calculation. The Bulgaria posed some problems before he faced inevitable loss.

Standings after Final round