computer science

Wishtel

Wishtel is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Wishtel rather than just read about it. In short: WishTel is an Indian manufacturing company that produce various IT products, founded in Mumbai by Milind Shah. The manufacturing facilities are currently in Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Key takeaways

Wishtel belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Wishtel to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Wishtel from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

WishTel is an Indian manufacturing company that produce various IT products, founded in Mumbai by Milind Shah. The manufacturing facilities are currently in Maharashtra and Gujarat. WishTel is an Indian IT products manufacturing company. On 23 March 2012, it announced the launch of a range of low-cost tablet devices by the name of IRA. The company claims to bring cheap and efficient computing devices in the fields of education where the Indian Government has often made efforts with the OLPC initiative and the Aakash (tablet) project. The company was also the second lowest bidder for the Aakash project where they lost to DataWind. The CEO of the company Milind Shah has also claimed that WishTel would be bidding for the Aakash 2 project which was announced by Kapil Sibal who is currently the minister of communications and information technology for India.

IRA Tablets

The idea of producing these tablet computers is partly inspired by the fact that there is a big gap between technology and education, and partly by the introduction of another series of low-cost tablets – Aakash tablets – in 2010. Wishtel designed its tablets according to the required specifications from Indian Institute of Technology Rajasthan under the National Mission on Education, and are being funded by the Ministry of Human Resource. The seven-inch tablets would be the first such devices to support 23 Indian regional languages.

References

External links WishTel Official Site

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Wishtel

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Wishtel claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Wishtel before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Wishtel ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Wishtel

In research: Wishtel appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Wishtel in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Wishtel is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2012 establishments in Maharashtra, Computer hardware companies, Indian companies established in 2012, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Wishtel outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Wishtel in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Wishtel means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Wishtel out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Wishtel in simple terms?

WishTel is an Indian manufacturing company that produce various IT products, founded in Mumbai by Milind Shah. The manufacturing facilities are currently in Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Why does Wishtel matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Wishtel?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Wishtel.