Tag: science & technology

Vinod Dham (often spelled Dahm) is known as the 'father of the Pentium chip' for his key role in leading the Pentium processor development team at Intel. Sabeer Bhatia founded Hotmail, Vinod Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems, and Ranchor Das is not a known figure in tech.

Vinod Khosla was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Scott McNealy, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. Vinod Dahm worked on the Pentium chip, and the other names listed are not Sun Microsystems founders.

Chess originated in ancient India during the Gupta period. It was known as 'Chaturanga' (four divisions of the military: infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariots). The game evolved from 'Ashtapada' (an 8x8 board game). Brahma Gupta and Chanakya are not associated with chess invention.

Albert Einstein acknowledged the foundational contribution of Indian mathematicians who developed the decimal numeral system and concept of zero, which are essential to all modern mathematics and science. This quote recognizes that without place-value notation and zero, complex calculations and scientific discoveries would be nearly impossible.

Sabeer Bhatia, an Indian-American entrepreneur, co-founded Hotmail in 1996, which became the world's first web-based email service. Hotmail revolutionized communication by allowing users to access email from any computer with internet access, and was later acquired by Microsoft for $400 million.

India, along with Japan, is among the few countries that have developed supercomputers indigenously (without importing complete systems). India's PARAM series and Japan's various supercomputers demonstrate indigenous capability in high-performance computing, placing both nations in an elite technological group alongside the United States.

Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is headquartered in Belgaum, Karnataka. It is one of India's largest universities affiliating many engineering colleges.

Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University is located in Andhra Pradesh. It was named after the Indian parliamentarian and farmer leader.

Apiculture is the honey industry - beekeeping for honey and other products. Arachnology is spider study (not option A), Herpetology studies frogs (option B is incorrect), and Ornithology studies birds (option D is incorrect).

Ornithology is the scientific study of birds. Ichthyology studies fish (option B incorrect), Sericulture is silk production (option C incorrect), and Craniometry studies skulls (option D incorrect).