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Times Of India Students might not be serious towards their regular classes, but they hardly miss a chance of attending guest lectures. Archit Jain, a first year engineering student at MIT tells us the reason, “The visiting faculties bring us new things in terms of knowledge and practicality. They help break the monotony.”

Chaitanya Swaroop, a final year student at the Symbiosis Society Law College gives us his views, “The visiting faculties are drawn amongst the excellent in the field.They have an impeccable record and indepth knowledge of theory and practical.”Other students too, reiterate that they rarely miss a guest or visiting faculty lecture.

So, what does it take to be a faculty in demand. Sanjay Sangwai, visiting faculty to various institutes shares, “One has to be well informed about the emerging trends.

CNN Microsoft Corp.’s long- awaited release of the upgrade to its flagship Windows operating system will likely be delayed again by at least three months, research group Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.
A Microsoft spokeswoman said the company disagreed with the Gartner report and it was still on track to meet its launch dates.

Vista is the first major overhaul of its operating system, which sits on 90 percent of the world’s computers and accounts for nearly a third of Microsoft’s total revenue, since Microsoft rolled out Windows XP nearly five years ago.

CNN Intel Corp. said on Tuesday it plans to spend $1 billion over five years to promote Internet use and computer training in developing countries, the latest move in the No. 1 chip maker’s effort to break into new markets.
The program, which Intel has dubbed “World Ahead,” aims to bring high-speed wireless Internet access to 1 billion people who can’t now get online, while training 10 million teachers to use technology in education.
The program includes Intel’s ongoing effort to promote cheap PCs that it hopes will find enthusiastic buyers among schools and villages in developing countries, where most people cannot afford to buy their own personal computers.

CNN Elma Gardner “Pem” Farnsworth, who helped her husband, Philo T. Farnsworth, develop the television and was among the first people whose images were transmitted on TV, has died at age 98.
Other inventors had demonstrated various developments in the 1920s, including mechanical transmission of images, but it was Farnsworth’s work that led to the electronic TV we know today.

His first TV transmission was on September 7, 1927, in his San Francisco lab, when the 21-year-old inventor sent the image of a horizontal line to a receiver in the next room.