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@gmail.com With regards HR Mohan Editor IEEE India Info Chairman, IEEE CS & PCS Madras Email: hrmohan.ieee@gmail.com Blog: http://infoforuse.blogspot.com/ Contents ======== 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 ================ (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@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 =============================== 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) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.