19th March 2013 New Delhi, India
Louis Pouzin, Robert Kahn, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners Lee and Marc Andreessen were announced as the inaugural winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering (a £1m global engineering prize) this week. They were selected for their ground breaking work which led to the internet and world wide web. We’re pretty sure we can’t add much to […]
4th October 2012 New Delhi, India
A few weeks ago Swapna Hedge from our Knowledge Economy team and I visited the Agharkar Research Institute (ARI) in Pune; a city surrounded by greenery and blessed with a salubrious climate and famous for its educational institutes, earning it the sobriquet “Oxford of the East”. ARI is an autonomous institute of the Department of […]
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7th August 2012 New Delhi, India
There have been so many announcements around engineering recently that we thought we would bring you an engineering special! Firstly there was the announcement on 16 July from the Royal Academy of Engineering that Ratan Tata, the Chairman of Tata Sons, has been elected as one of three Honorary Fellows this year along side Professor […]