Data Science Tales - A Tech blog by Bia Chaudhry

National Highway and Motorway Police of Pakistan has launched a mobile application, this year (2019). This application; named as NHMP Hamsafar, aims at providing full assistance to the drivers on their way to their destinations. It has many useful features.  Let's have a brief look at all of them... gif made from the play store images First, you have to download it from the  Google Play Store . Then you can access this application by login into it. For Login, you only need to enter any name (even ABC) but you should enter a valid Phone number (xxxx-xxxxxxx). After this, you will land on the main page. There is a side bar for easy navigation. Here you can view and use different options like travel advisory, complaint history, report problem, emergency call, live radio and log out. So overall it is a useful application. But it needs some improvements mainly; user authentication. It is available for android as well as IOS user. You can watch the vide...

On 17th November, 2018, there was a 4th session of GDG Islamabad naming DevFest GDG 18 , at NUST  NICE  H-12 , Islamabad Pakistan. The event commenced at 1100 hours. The whole hall was full of business owners, entrepreneurs, developers and students. A boosting music was playing in the background.  In the beginning, community co-manager of GDG Islamabad introduced GDG. He said that digital wellbeing is the main focus of Google technologies.  Saad Hamid is a manager at GDG Islamabad. Muhammad Bin Masood is its co-manager. In the session the audience were told about different technologies of Android P mobiles. Some of these technologies and applications are: Gesture Navigation (Much needed Application) Wind down Notch support Lock-down Mode Smart Notification Auto-Rotate Button Media Panel Digital wellbeing Disconnect at night Time spent on app MOTO OF DIGITAL WELLBEING: " GREAT TECHNOLOGIES SHOULD IMPROVE LIFE, NOT DISTRACT FROM IT " ...

The wait is over.. HONET International is coming again to Pakistan, at National University of Science and Technlogy , for 15th International Conference.. HONET (High-Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling/ Emerging Technologies), is an International Conference regarding Information, Communication and Technology. This conference for 15 years aims at collecting the whole mindset of different people related to ICT, to add value in this field. Let us see the brief overview of 15th HONET-ICT Conference : Date:  From 8 Oct, 2018 to 12 Oct, 2018. Venue:  NUST H-12 Islamabad, Pakistan. Topic: Smart Cities - Improving Quality of Life Using ICT and IOT. Invited Speakers:   Prof. Dr. Mohammad Shahidehpour,  Dr. Ahmed E. Kamal,  Prof. Dr. Kamal Alameh,  Dr. Masud H Chowdhury  and  Dr. Robert Splinter. You can see the whole biographies here . Committee Members: Include the honorable Professors, you can visit them here . ...

Brain, a computer virus? who wrote this? when? Pakistani? How? Who? ? ? ? Ohh please calm down, I am giving the answers... Just Listen.. I mean Just Read.. Brain is one of the Boot Sector Computer Virus. Boot sector is the area of the hard disk, CD, DVD, CD-ROM and other storage devices that contains the machine code. The machine code is the one that is loaded into the computer RAM by the built-in firmware of computing system. The main purpose of Boot sector is to boot (start) the computer program loading process into the computer system.🔥🔥🔥 where was I, ya..  Brain ! so brain is the First Computer Virus, that is written in September 1986 by Two Pakistani Brothers Amjad Farooq Alvi and Basit Farooq Alvi . They wrote this virus in Lahore, Pakistan. Brain is sometimes called as "First Virus". This is written for the MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System). The language used for this virus is Assembly Language. Brain is also the first stealth viru...

Dr. Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani, the name known for Data Science, Predictify me, Eisenhower fellowship  and most importantly motivation for many of the students. He is the Author of book like  (C++) ++سی/سی ,  Bit Coin Block Chain aur Crypto Currency بٹ کوائن، بلاک چین اور کرپٹو کرنسی  and many other, you can visit them here . Today "Data Science Tales - A Tech blog by Bia Chaudhry," asked him some of the questions, as an interview and we are very glad that he gave his precious time to answer them. It was kinda "Remote Interview"... not the traditional one.. The Interview Question:  How can you describe " Dr. Zeeshan ul Hassan Usmani " ? ANSWER: I am a shameless idealist. We are all idealists at some stage of our lives but then it fades away and we live as a mediocre. I don’t want it to fade away. I remind myself almost every day that I need to make my today better than my yesterday, and the challenge is keep getting harder J . We onl...