[LIS-Forum] IEEE India Council Newsletter -- IEEE India Info -- May 2013 issue

[Mohan Hr]

Dear all,

You can now access the May 2013 issue of IEEE India Info, the
newsletter of the IEEE India Council at
http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/icnl/1305/icnl-iii-2013-05.pdf

and also at the India Council website
http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/india_council/newsletters/2013/may13.pdf

You are free to forward this mail to your contacts who may like the
information presented in the mail.

Pl. provide your feedback by email to ieeeindiainfo at gmail.com

With regards
HR Mohan
Editor IEEE India Info
Chairman, IEEE CS & PCS Madras
Email: hrmohan.ieee at gmail.com
Blog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/


Contents
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http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/icnl/1305/index.html

-- Message from Chairman
-- Message from Editor
-- The Anatomy of Autonomy in Technical Education
-- Importance of Academic Skills for Engineering Graduates
-- Can engineers make a difference to the Indian society?
-- IT in April 2013
-- News from Sections: Bangalore, Kolkata, UP, IEEE OES, Madras
-- In Lighter Sense: MBA Exam Questions through the Ages
-- Information Resources
-- Book: Nanotechnology: The Science of Small (Wiley India)
-- Book: Know Your English (Vol. 2): Words Frequently Confused
(Universities Press)
-- TechQuiz 2013-05
-- Forthcoming Events
-- Announcements

 TechQuiz – 2013-05
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  (Two Prizes to win – Books reviewed will be presented to the winners)

1. Twenty years back, in 1993, the Mosaic browser was released by Marc
Andreessen and ------ of the National Center for Supercomputer
Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
2. Windows 95 : Chicago = Windows 7 ; ------
3. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first
four sharpening the axe”. Who said this?
4. IEEE, is pronounced as ------
5. A six sigma process is one in which ------ % of the products
manufactured are statistically expected to be free of defects

Email your answers by 10th Jun 2013 to ieee.techquiz at gmail.com  with
subject “techquiz-2013-05”.  Please provide your name, designation,
company/institution, full postal address (to send the prize) and the
contact phone nos. after the answers.

There are TWO prizes to win. Two prizes will be in the form of books
which are briefly reviewed in this edition of the newsletter. They are
being offered by Wiley India Pvt. Ltd (www.wileyindia.com) and
Universities Press (www.universitiespress.com). Answers along with the
winners’ info will be published in the next issue.

Answers & Winners of TechQuiz-2013-04
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Green House Gases, Bill Gates, U.R. Rao, 8, Steam Engine

“Digital and Analog Communication Systems” from Wiley India to
Shantanu Singh Chauhan (Goa)
 “Know Your English (Vol. 1): Idioms and their stories” from
Universities Press to  Sumit Kumar Manna (Kolkata)

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