Feb 17, 2010

The following article was contributed by Prof. Debasis Mishra of the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi as part of a campus recruitment initiative for an Master of Science programme in Quantitative Economics. For a very well written paper on the subject by Prof. Mishra with illustrative examples from the real world, click here. What is Quantitative...

A Bangalore based start up, Capillary provides mobile based customer management solutions, meaning it helps businesses understand the needs of and effectively communicate with their customers through mobile services. One of the co-founders of Capillary, Krishna Mehra (06, RK, CS) shares his experience with us. TSA: Firstly, a hearty congratulations on winning...

Nov 1, 2009

Don’t let the IIT faculty strikes fool you. For the academically inclined, IIXs are still the best. T. A. Abinandanan is a Professor in the Department of Materials Engineering at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He writes extensively on a wide range of topics concerning higher education in India, particularly the IITs, IIMs, IISc and such other...

Nov 1, 2009

The stalwart of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Professor T K Basu retired recently leaving behind a rich legacy from his time here at Kgp, first as a student and then as a professor. Professor Basu also taught at IIT Bombay and later served as the head of the Center of Educational Technology which was instrumental in developing the video courses for...

Oct 31, 2009

Professor Ikhlaq Sidhu, founding director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and an authority on the process of innovation and technology management, visited our campus recently. In this exclusive interview, he shares his insights on entrepreneurship in India and abroad, why enterpreneurship should be taught in companies and a...

Oct 8, 2009

India being a population that is greater than one billion, considerable time and energy is spent in researching and developing methods of effective population control. While many methods of contraception have been cultivated for women, the only safe and effective ones for men are condoms and vasectomy. Condoms have proven to be largely ineffectual in the rural...