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Who coined the term “software”?

Today I came across an interesting information. John Wilder Turkey, the renowned American statistician coined the 2 most popular words we use-software and bit. The term “software” first appeared in 1952 in an article he wrote. “Bit” was coined by Turkey as a contraction of “binary digit” and first appeared in 1948, in the seminal […]

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BEST Weekend

20 SunTecians including me and Asha attended a 2-day workshop on last Friday and Saturday at Trivandrum International School (TRINS). The program titled BEST (Build Effective and Successful Teams) was facilitatd by Mr Jayadev Menon of Aksh, Cochin. It was nice event in the backdrop of scenic TRINS. We had lots of fun and serious […]

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Lappy got ‘viral’ fever

“Lappy” is our laptop. Lappy is helping me with all my experiments including this site. Poor fellow was affected by the Brontok.I worm for the last few days.
Symptoms
Main symptoms of this disease are:

When the system starts, windows explorer is not starting. So I had to run the task manager by pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL and run ”explorer” task to get the desktop.
Folders can’t be open. Windows explorer is restarting every time
If I try to search the net for a solution, the system restarts!!!
Somehow I managed t gather some information […]

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SunGam 2008

 Saturday night was party time for SunTecians and their families. We celebrated the 16th anniversary of the company at Leela Kempinsky hotel, Kovalam with a carnival and various cultural programmes by staff and their children. There was a fashion show which paraded SunTec couples as well!!!
SunTec was started by Mr K Nandakumar in 1992.
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