Blog Posts for June , 2011 A Steam-powered Computer!By Murali Madhavan June 22, 2011 at 11-54 AM
Charles Babbage’s Cambridge education ended in the spring of 1814 when he graduated. That he did not attach much import to the formal qualifications was evident from that fact that he refused to attempt an Honors degree. In his own words, he valued the University education more for the friends he made there and for the books it enabled him to access, and far less for the formal degree it conferred on him.
The Disgruntled Calculus Student By Murali Madhavan June 22, 2011 at 11-49 AM
This English Mathematician is credited to be the first person to develop a machine that could do calculations.
He burst on the scene a whole century after Isaac Newton, the greatest mathematician of all time. Cambridge University had lost its leading position in the Mathematicalarena to French and German scientists in the period that followed Newton’s demise in 1727.
Types of Access Control MechanismsBy Monica Rana June 16, 2011 at 12-40 PM
Types of Access Control Mechanisms
Many of us have come across the terms like MAC, DAC, RBAC, ACLs while reading various e-security related articles. However not all of us (except the CISSPs) know the meanings of these terms and the differences between these Access Control mechanisms.
Collaboration and its importance in organisationsBy Amit Namjoshi, June 10, 2011 at 11-48 AM
The bee hive and ant’s nest have been the favourite metaphor of human collaboration for generations, Shakespeare used it and management courses still use it. It is a known fact that collaboration is essential for the collective good of the organisation.
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