ACM

ACM - Association for Compuging Machinery

Well I have done my graduation and post graduation in the field of Information Technology couple of years back and now I am having a 2 years and 4 months of professional experience in the same field. And I have no idea how to express my feeling on not knowing about ACM until now. Trust me I had never heard of it.

So ACM, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, delivers resources that advance computing as a science and a profession. ACM provides the computing field's premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and career resources. (For more details you can click here)

Theosophy

Well i came to know about it from the autobiography of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Its a really interesting autobiography. But as he told in his preface its incomplete account of his past. Well I have just finished 3rd chapter and am able to feel thats its really abstract and short account of his past. But its quite informative. Came to know of a interesting thing 'Theosophy'. I need to explore it a little more . http://theosophy.org/

The Word - 'Algorithm'

It was very interesting for me to know how the word 'Algorithm' was derived. I thought of sharing it with you... :)

Al-Khwārizmī, muslim Persian astronomer and mathematician, wrote a treatise in the arabic language in 825 AD, On Calculation with Hindu–Arabic numeral system. It was translated from arabic into Latin in the 12th century as Algoritmi de numero Indorum (al-Daffa 1977), whose title is supposedly likely intended to mean "Algoritmi on the numbers of the Indians", where "Algoritmi" was the translator's rendition of the author's name; but people misunderstanding the title treated Algoritmi as a Latin plural and this led to the word "algorithm" (Latin algorismus) coming to mean "calculation method". The intrusive "th" is most likely due to a false cognate with the Greek ἀριθμός (arithmos) meaning "numbers".(For details click here)

dost ban ban ke mile mujhako miTaane vaale - - Jagjit Singh

• Movie: non-Film
• Singer(s): Jagjit Singh
• Lyricist: Saeed Rahi

दोस्त बन बन के मिले मुझको मिटाने वाले
मैने देखे हैं कई रंग बदलने वाले

तुमने चुप रहके सितम और भी ढाया मुझपर
तुमसे अच्छे हैं मेरे हाल पे हँसने वाले

मैं तो इखलाक़ के हाथों ही बिका करता हूँ
और होंगे तेरे बाज़ार में बिकने वाले

अखिरी दौर पे सलाम-ए-दिल-ए-मुस्तर लेलो (?)
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