You be the VC! We just need a geek Simon Cowell now

Bumped into this interesting description on MIT conference page

You Be the VC
Take one part venture capital firm and one part American Idol; mix them together and get You Be the VC. You Be the VC is a groundbreaking competition showcasing top entrepreneurs from around the globe. Leveraging crowd-sourcing methodologies and expert advisors, the companies [...]

Scale free learning framework

While discussing the state of eLearning in India during our 3:30@Lab session, we talked about the need to have scale-free many-to-many learning framework over the Internet.
In plain terms what this means is having an Internet based platform which will allow many teachers to join together to teach as many students in a [...]

Talk about ambition

SiliconValley.Com sponsored round table had all the people in-the-know speculating about Google’s future. David Vise whose fascinating book I read recently has this to add -
Brin envisions a day when we as individuals can use the search engine to Google our Genes and find out more about our predisposition to various illnesses, [...]

Infothela

Can health education really solve the problems related to affordable healthcare ? Infothela, project started by IIT Kanpur computer science department, attempts to find that out in a very unique way.

Knowledge web

[Via John Battelle's newsletter] W. Daniel Hillis’s Aristotle project -
Aristotle would begin by asking you how much time you’re willing to devote to this project and the level of detail you want. Then Aristotle would show you a map of what you need to learn. The tutor program does this by comparing what you know [...]