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3 IITians in the Top 25 CTO list |
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Infoworld publishes an annual list of the top 25 CTOs. This year 3 Indians, all of them IITians from Delhi made it to the list:
K Ananth Krishnan, MT 1988
Padmasree Warrier BT 1982
Satinath Sarkar, BT 1988
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Incubator at work! |
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The IIT Delhi incubator has started producing results for pure science researchers too. Prof H M Chawla has set up a unit to produce among other things, an anti-aging gel, a fruit preservative
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Faculty in double whammy! |
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It is just getting tougher to teach. You have to be incredibly committed to become a faculty at the IITs - while the world bemoans that we don't pay our teachers enough. Here is a government department complaining that they are paid too much!!
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US Congress heaps praise on IITs |
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The Indian Institutes of
Technology, in particular, and the Indian-American community,
in general, came in for impassioned praise from the US
Congress -- the first time the US Congress has honoured
a foreign university in this manner.
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Amar Nath Khosla school of IT |
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IIT Delhi announced the creation of the Amar Nath Khosla School of IT at IIT Delhi. The school has been supported through a $5 million gift from Vinod Khosla, General Partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm of Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers and a 1976 graduate of IIT Delhi. The school will promote cutting edge research.
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IIT engineer stood up to highway corruption, shot dead in Bihar |
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Satyendra Kumar Dubey sent a letter to the Prime Minister's Office about corruption and mismanagement in the Golden Quadrilateral project - and now he's dead, killed by "unidentified assailants" in Gaya, Bihar last week ... Dubey's request for anonymity was apparently ignored by the PMO ... Read more..
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An online petition drive is under way at http://www.petitiononline.com/sdubey/ and IITians are rallying to the cause - "IIT community demand prompt action in Dubey murder".
IIT Bombay takes the lead in mobilising alumni.
Read Narayan Murthy's statement.
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