IT person of the year 2008

On 22 October,2008 the 16th year of the Data quest IT person of the year was held in New Delhi.Smt.Sheila Dikshit Cheif Minister of Delhi was the Chief guest,Sir Richard Stagg, British High Commissioner was the Guest of Honour.

Mr.Lakshmi Narayanan,Vice president and ex-CEO of CTS(Cognizant Technology Solutions) was received the India's Corporate Prestigious award 'Dataquest IT Person of the Year award'.The award was presented to Lakshmi Narayanan by Ajai K Chowdhry, Chairman and CEO of HCL Infosystems. He was the former Dataquest award winner in 2007.

Cognizant,the first IT services company to be inducted in NASDAQ 100 is a Fortune 1000 company.

Lakshmi Narayanan began his carrier in TCS(Tata Consultancy Services).In 1994,Lakshmi Narayanan joined in CTS.He has been recently elected as the Chairman on NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Service Companies).

Lost in Space

On November 18,2008,US space shuttle Endeavour Mission Specialist Heide Stefanyshyn-Piperon lost the tool bag.Stefanyshyn-Piper was working outside the space station Tuesday with crewmate Steve Bowen on the first of four spacewalks to clean grit out of a damaged solar gear and add lubrication in a bid to restore its health. The gear is used to turn the space station's starboard solar arrays like a paddlewheel so they always face the sun.

It was happened while preparing for that greasy job that Stefanyshyn-Piper opened her tool bag and found it full of sticky gray grease.she dishearteningly told "the grease was everywhere in the tool bag,Well not everywhere, but....everywhere,"she said of the grease. "It was just a continuous ooze."

It is the largest tool bag kit lost in first time.the weight of the tool bag kit is 30-pound (13-kg).Previous lost property includes a 14in spatula dropped in 2006 by the British-born astronaut Piers Sellers, In September 2006, astronaut Joe Tanner,lost bolt,spring and washer during his space walk.

At last Endeavour astronauts and spacewalk planners have come up with an idea to make up for the lost tool bag by preparing terry cloth-like wipes so spacewalkers won't get bogged down by sharing the remaining grease guns during the next few spacewalks.

Heide Stefanyshyn Piperon said in an interview “You’re not going to see us lose another bag. We’re going to double- and triple-check everything from here on out,” The next spacewalk is Thursday; Stefanyshyn-Piper will venture back out of the international space station for more work on a jammed joint at the space station that controls some of the solar wings.