Real Heroes Of Web Revolution

The tech creators, or the ones who made billions, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Just the other day, gazing from my home balcony at the distant hills of Raigad, I......

Staring at an abyss

Do India's laws governing the Internet need revolutionary change, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Some nights nowadays I wake with a nightmare, which is unusual for......

Surgeon Atul Gawande among MacArthur Geniuses

Indian-origin surgeon Atul Gawande, whose many articles and essays on medicine in The New Yorker have made him one of the most recognised of American writers, has won a $500,000 "genius" award from......

World Tech award for NRI scientist

Subhendu Guha won this year's World Technology Award in Energy for his innovative work on the science and technology of thin films made of silicon-based crystals and on solar cells. The winners of......

Web inventor wins euro 1 mn award

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee of Britain was awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize worth euro one million or $1.23 million on Thursday.The web was first made available to the......

The Web is 20 years old! What next?

Twenty years ago, a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of a project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, and also designed a crude website......

WWW inventor admits forward slashes 'a mistake'

Nearly two decades after he invented the world wide web, British scientist Sir Tim Berners -Lee has admitted that "forward slashes" in Internet addresses "were a mistake". Claiming the // at the......

Want to work in Buckingham Palace?

Job seekers who are looking for something a bit different might want to consider working at Buckingham Palace, if they don't mind having Queen Elizabeth II as a boss. The British monarch has......