An ethnic German born in Romania, writer Herta Müller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 56-year-old, who emigrated to Germany in 1987, has made the trials of living under Nicolae Ceauşescu's dictatorship a focus of her work.

In its citation, the Nobel committee wrote that Müller, "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed."

The 2008 Nobel Prize for Literature
was awarded to French writer J.-M.G.
Le Clézio, one of the preeminent literary
figures of his generation. He was
known for his intricate, seductive fiction
and distinctive works of nonfiction
that mediated between the past and the
present, juxtaposing the modern world
with a primordial landscape of ambiguity
and mystery. Le Clézio—the 14th
French-language writer to be honoured
as the laureate in literature and the first
since Claude Simon received the prize
in 1985—was cited by the Swedish
Academy as an “author of new departures,

Microprocessors are simply a computer processor that has been configured into the design and function of a microchip. Sometimes referred to as a logic chip, this small component functions as the means of executing the command to start booting up a computer. As part of the process, a microprocessor initiates the activation of all the components necessary to allow the computer to be used, such as waking the operating system.

WASHINGTON: Thirteen billion years old ultra-blue galaxies, which were formed around 700 million years after the Big Bang, have been discovered by astronomers, US space agency NASA has said.

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers from University of California have broken the distance limit for galaxies by uncovering the primordial population of compact and ultra-blue galaxies that were never seen before.

Burj Dubai Height, Facts & Figures
Bringing Burj Dubai to life required a combination of visionary ideals and solid science. In the process, the project amassed an awe-inspiring number of facts, figures, and statistics.

World Records
At over 800 metres (2625 feet) and more than 160 stories, Burj Dubai holds the following records:

• Tallest building in the world

• Tallest free-standing structure in the world

• Highest number of stories in the world

• Highest occupied floor in the world

• Highest outdoor observation deck in the world

Introduction to TCP/IP

Summary: TCP and IP were developed by a Department of Defense
(DOD) research project to connect a number different networks
designed by different vendors into a network of networks (the
"Internet"). It was initially successful because it
delivered a few basic services that everyone needs (file
transfer, electronic mail, remote logon) across a very large
number of client and server systems. Several computers in a small
department can use TCP/IP (along with other protocols) on a