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Viewing the World through Wikipedia

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE SGI has partnered with Kalev H. Leetaru of the University of Illinois to create the historical mapping and exploration of the full text contents of the English-language edition of Wikipedia, in time and space. The results include visualizations of modern history captured in under a day utilizing in-memory data-mining techniques.  Loading the entire English language edition of Wikipedia into SGI UV 2000, Leetaru was able to show how Wikipedia’s view of the world unfolded over the past two centuries. Location, year and the positive or negative sentiment have been tied to those references.  Franz Aman, Chief Marketing Officer & Head of Strategy, SGI said, “This analysis allows the world to take a step back from the individual articles and text to gain a forest view of the tremendous knowledge captured in Wikipedia, not just a page by page tree view. We can watch how one of the largest collections of human knowledge has evolved ...

IEEMA's response on impose of import duty

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE The Indian Electrical & Electronics Manufacturers’ Association (IEEMA) has called for immediate imposition of import duty on power equipment for mega and ultra-mega power projects over 1,000 MW.  According to IEEMA, the industry is 10.56% of the manufacturing sector is terms of value and 1.5% of the GDP. It also provides direct and indirect employment to 1.5 million people and over 5 million across the entire value chain. The Indian electrical equipment industry, Rs. 1, 10,000 crores in 2010-11, comprises of two segments - generation equipment which constitute 24% of the industry, and T&D and allied equipment which constitute the rest 76%. T&D equipment manufacturers are working at only 65% of their production capacity. In the last few years, the domestic manufacturing capacity of generation equipment has being ramped up and currently stands at 20,000 MW per annum against a requirement of about 16-17,000 per annum. With 6...