October 25, 2003 Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World. This page is updated every Saturday. For current issue Click here Extinction: was it imminent? THE death of the dinosaurs wasn’t unique. There have been 17 major extinctions of life during the past 600 million years.... Build your virtual world with Maya TALK about Hollywood block busters, electronic entertainment or professional designing, 3D animation today has captured the imagination of viewers and developers alike. It has not only opened the gateway to express... Webwatch Explore the vast treasures of relices that lie beneath the waters of the Mediterranean. Photographed, and analyzed by teams of marine archaeologists this site highlights some daring expeditions and pays homage to past... Terms for computer junkies PUMP up your computer-related vocabulary! Load your brains with these frequenty used i-terms. MGCP: The Media Gateway Control Protocol, developed by Telcordia and Level 3 Communications, is one of a few proposed... Non-invasive technology looks beneath the skin SKIN specialists and doctors began to benefit a few years ago from a new technology developed in the UK, initially to aid early detection of skin cancer – the first non-invasive... Certification credit RAPID changes in computer and related technologies and desire to reach the pinnacle of excellence require Information Technology (IT) professionals always on the learning track. Few would argue that all those... Government support essential for local computer assemblers WHEN it comes to computers, Pakistan is a burgeoning market. Since the 1997, the country has been experiencing unprecedented growth in the personal computer market. Though reliable data is scarce, industry... Centrino: whenever, wherever technology COMPUTER technology has come a long way since its inception, and has invariably been on the move, thanks to dynamic hardware and software industry. Over the last few years, we have... Japan to develop internet protocol television THE Japanese government and firms will jointly develop a new television set that can receive images from both the Internet and digital broadcasting, an official said. Participants from the private sector include NTT Communications Corp., the broadband business unit of telecoms giant... Nanotech shows how brain cells chatter FRENCH scientists using an innovative microscopic scanning technique say they have discovered that nerve cells almost buzz with molecular agitation when they communicate with each other.... NanoKids made in lab A TEAM of Texans has created molecules in their own image. The tiny army of human lookalikes is helping Houston kids to learn about chemistry.... Seminar on Tasman Spirit THE Tasman Spirit disaster should be taken as an eye-opener, calling to pool up available resources and direct all capabilities towards formation of damage prediction and control bodies at provincial and national levels. These views were expressed by various speakers at a seminar on... Who knows? GALILEO revolutionized science and technology by asserting that nature is written in the language of numbers. The new technological revolution proclaims that society is written in the language of information. But... Byteback Research thesis I am conducting a study on “effectiveness of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in teaching biology to secondary school students.” I want to have some material, for example... ITeaser THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:... Cool gadgets MITSUBISHI DISPLAYS a third-generation mobile phone with a video camera at the ITU World Telecom 2003 trade show....

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