United States President Barack Obama on Wednesday delivered his State of the Union address in which he spelt out the agenda for the second term of his Presidency

Here, a reader takes us back in time when there were no mobile phones and recollects how he fell in love when he was in college.

The robot baby called Diego-San is modelled on a one-year-old child and a YouTube video shows its face reflecting a series of emotions including happiness, sadness, alarm, puzzlement and anger.

We are looking to be a big part of the start-up ecosystem in India, says Nihal Mehta in an interview.

"I tell all my guys in the office to see this as running a marathon. The front runners are a million times our size. In a marathon, you don't run in front of the pack; you stay in the back and wait for your turn, otherwise you'll run out of steam."

Unstated assumption is that the job applicant is in some way responsible for his employability problem, says Ajit Balakrishnan.

'Kapil Sibal has passed a law that anyone posting anything "offensive" on Twitter can be jailed for three years. That's section 66A of the IT Act amended by United Progressive Alliance II in 2008. It's a cognisable offence so you have to be arrested and apply for bail. As though you had committed murder!' notes Shivam Vij.

Dhuska village will soon be able to reap the benefits of modern technology thanks to the efforts of Shailesh Nirala.

In a 45-minute Twitter conference today, Sam Pitroda, advisor to the prime minister on public information infrastructure (PII) and innovations, stuck to elaborating publicly-known details on PII and the National Knowledge Network (NKN).

The challenge is to go out and do something different; not one more 'application' to download, not one more 'Angry Birds', a YouTube sensation. Something is changing yet again in the innovation hub that is still the Silicon Valley. B S Prakash on whether it is reinventing itself perpetually?

Members of IEEE, the world's leading professional organisation have selected autonomous vehicles as the most promising form of intelligent transportation, anticipating that they will account for up to 75 per cent of cars on the road by the year 2040.

'The Internet has demonstrated the power to organise the voices of the oppressed peoples in nonviolent but effective ways. Mahatma Gandhi had done the same in his time,' says renowned inventor and techno-futurist Ray Kurzweil

'Without demeaning Einstein, I believe the most astounding achievement of a single human mind in all of history was that of Panini, 2,500 years ago. He achieved a Grand Unified Theory of Language: An even more daunting task... Computer scientists in the 1950s rediscovered the Paninian rules for formal languages; for instance, the C language is defined by 100 or so rules in the Panini-Backus form.'

The digital revolution in education is coming at a most opportune time for India. Leadership in this is something India could seize, if only it had the vision, feels Rajeev Srinivasan.

The murders of Indian students in the United States in the last few years has been a reason of worry for not only students but also their parents in India. Arthur J Pais reports

An Indian-origin student who was found guilty of bias intimidation for spying on his gay roommate's sexual encounter has asked a judge to grant him probation instead of a prison sentence, even as letters of support from his friends and family were submitted in court.

Scientists have made tiny crystal which they claim will take quantum computing to the next level, creating one of the world's most powerful computers ever developed.

There's more to the mob attacking the Jadavpur University professor than meets the eye, says Sunanda K Dutta-Ray

The Indian army will have to wait four to five years to acquire Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile Agni-5, which was successfully tested on 19 April by the Defence Research and Development Organisation. Sheela Bhatt reports

The mystery man, whose sexual encounter with a now dead Rutgers University student was spied on by an Indian-origin boy through a webcam, made his first public appearance in a United States court and testified that he saw a camera lens pointed toward the bed where he and his friend lay in a "compromising position."

Farhan Akhtar presents us a plot and script that is dull, almost boring.

Dr Venkatram Ramaswamy, Hallman Fellow of Electronic Business and Professor of Marketing at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, is in India to speak at Guruspeak, an annual event organized by IIM-Calcutta.

Get Ahead reader Bhautik Joshi attended Nasscom Games Developers Conference 2011 in Pune. His observations on the gaming industry.

In an online chat with Get Ahead readers on October 19, Ashish Garg, Director of Recruitment at Convergys Corporation in India, discussed how one can excel at a job interview. Here's the unedited chat transcript.

Shwetak Patel, a 29-year-old computer scientist who has invented a series of sensor technology systems for home environments with the goal of saving energy and improving daily life through a broad range of applications, is a recipient of one of the most prestigious awards in America, the MacArthur Genius Fellow.

Earthquake on 6.9 on the richter scale rocked Sikkim on Sunday evening.

To start with, the foundation is coming up with two schools in Noida and Gurgaon.

In a chat with Get Ahead readers, A M Kannan, Director -- Admissions and Financial Aid at the ISB -- answered queries related to the admission process at the Indian School of Business. Here is the unedited chat transcript

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna would be making an opening statement. Next, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be addressing the media.

Start-up entrepreneur Aashish Gupta who founded YellowLeg.com that sells only travel books to "discerning traveller" talks about life as a start-up and challenges he faced.

Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by electrical engineers at the University of California, Berkeley.

The global economic crisis of 2008-09 has triggered much soul searching in the economics profession. How come only a few economists saw it coming? Was it because the profession was blind to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy, as Nobel laureate Paul Krugman put it?

A school district in Auburn, Maine will dish out 200,000 dollars to buy iPads for nearly 300 kindergarten pupils for the next school session starting around August this year.

BTech programmes from Nirma University

Today's supercomputers eventually turn into tomorrow's ordinary computers.

A student from Saudi Arabia arrested for attempting to blow up nuclear plants in US and the residence of former President George W Bush, appeared in a federal court and pleaded for guilty.

Kirani, is passionate about working with start-ups when they are at the ideation stage.

TablaNet, an online musical collaboration system by Mihir Sarkar, may soon become a rave for percussionists across the globe.

The Duke prayer room--shared by Buddhists and Hindus--should inspire other universities to offer similar facilities to students who aren't Christian or Jewish, many Duke students said. Most of the students who initiated the process are second generation, said engineering Kishor Trivedi, faculty adviser of the Hindu Students Association and Hudson professor of electrical and computer engineering. He had started the association, which led the prayer-room project.

Hundreds of Indian students face an uncertain future as a California 'university' faces immigration fraud charges.