Decision Science in Action

Copying from my own blog @  http://www.gatecounsellor.com/blog/ This law is named after Gordon E. Moore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore) who co-founded Intel Corporation to bring revolution in processor industry ultimately leading radical change in life of man kind. Moore’s Law states that  ” Over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years”. When I was undergraduate student I remember that I had something called Moore’s Law in most famous and highly recommended book Millaman and Halkias but never tried to understand what’s its significance. I can think of two reasons for  this situation. First topic  was never emphasized in class room teaching and was also not very important for most of exams.  This is in fact a reason many students of Electronics and VLSI do not know it. It was also preferred to understand Transistor/ diode characteristics. The man ...

The internet boom has metamorphosed our life. We are getting everything from books to furniture on e -stores. So is education sector also. Knowledge creation and distribution  has always been regarded as the noble profession. We all respect those who are in this profession. They are not only imparting their knowledge to their students but have uploaded their lectures on the internet which can be accessed by anyone for learning. Formally, this kind of video lectures available online are called Online Open Course Ware (OOCW). Number of renowned Universities like Stanford, Princeton, IITs have provided access to their video lectures free of any term. There are also private players  like Coursera, Open learning etc have joined hands with Universities to spread the knowledge all over the world. The special course designed for larger audience is delivered in innovative way like in Coursera. In Coursera upcoming course lecture is announced about 8-7 weeks before the comme...