Pranav Mistry is the genius behind Sixth Sense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.
Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher. Mistry is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions. (more…)
Venu Govindaraju, a computer scientist at the University of Buffalo in New York is designing software that helps determine the authenticity of expressions. He found that expressions that take as much time to form as to fade away are more likely to be genuine than those with unequal “onset” and “offset’ durations.
Excerpt from article, “Machines that can see” published in The Economist, March 7 - 13th 2009.
Kosmix, a well-financed Silicon Valley start-up, is often described on blogs and news sites as a search engine that may someday rival Google.
As flattering as that notion may sound, it rankles Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaraman, the co-founders of Kosmix. And that is not because other start-ups making similar assertions have fallen laughably short of the mark. It is because Kosmix is trying to do something that is quite different from traditional Web search.
In a Q&A, Padmasree Warrior, Cisco’s chief technology officer and rumored to be a candidate for the new CTO post in the Obama administration, talks about her role at the company, the evolution of the Internet and what she sees as the federal government’s role in promoting technology.
Padmasree Warrior is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Cisco Systems, (NASDAQ: CSCO) and the former CTO of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT).
Career
Padmasree joined Motorola in 1984, as one of only a few women in its Arizona facility and she served in a broad range of roles over the course of her twenty-three years at the company, eventually achieving the position of Chief Technology Officer in its Semiconductor Products Sector, which became Freescale Semiconductor. When named Motorola’s CTO in January 2003, Warrior became Motorola’s first female executive [1] and in 2005 she was promoted to executive vice president. [2]
On December 4, 2007 she left Motorola to become CTO at Cisco Systems. (more…)
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Vivek Kundra is the current Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the United States of America.. He has indicated that he will also have the role of the Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and information technology, for which he had been previously been reported to be under consideration. He served in Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty’s cabinet as the Chief Technology Officer for the District and before that as Virginia’s Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Technology in Governor Kaine’s cabinet.
EARLY LIFE
Vivek Kundra was born in Delhi, India. His parents immigrated to Tanzania, where he grew up. Kundra speaks Swahili as his first language. His family moved to the United States when he was 11 and he grew up in Gaithersburg, Maryland. (more…)
WASHINGTON, USA: US President Barack Obama has officially named on Thursday Indian American Vivek Kundra as his Chief Information Officer (CIO).
In his new role Kundra will work within the White House as well as the federal government in general to oversee IT spending for government computer systems.
Kundra will also work with the country’s yet to be named Chief Technology Officer on larger technology initiatives.
34-year-old Kundra had formerly served as the Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, overseeing technology operations within the capital and its various agencies.
“The Federal CIO establishes and oversees enterprise architecture to ensure system interoperability and information sharing and ensure information security and privacy across the federal government,” a White House press release said.
“As Chief Information Officer, he will play a key role in making sure our government is running in the most secure, open, and efficient way possible,” said President Obama.
“Vivek Kundra will bring a depth of experience in the technology arena and a commitment to lowering the cost of government operations to this position,” he added.
Kundra has been recognized among the top 25 CTO’s in the US and as the 2008 IT Executive of the Year for his pioneering work to drive transparency, engage citizens and lower the cost of government operations.
Vivek Kundra was part of Obama’s transition tech team and was tasked with designing Recovery.gov, a Web site that is supposed to provide information on how stimulus money is being spent.