He
received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics
from MIT in 1988, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT
in 1994. Vanu Bose is the son of Dr Amar Gopal Bose, scientist
and founder of Bose Corporation.
Vanu Bose has a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
and is the joint inventor Software Radio. He is also the founder
of Vanu, Inc. a Software Radio startup company. Vanu spent two
years employed as a Bio-medical engineer for Project Orbis, an
international NGO which fights blindness through education. Following
two years in the field, Vanu designed and implemented the computer
and satellite communication systems for Project Orbis' new DC-10
hospital aircraft.
Since then Vanu has done consulting work in wireless communications.
Vanu, Inc. works on commercializing the software radio technology
that was the subject of Vanu's dissertation. He decided to start
the company because several of his friends shared his view on
the exciting commercial possibilities of the technology. There
were four founders, Mike Ismert who got his M.S. at MIT and worked
on the SpectrumWare software radio project at MIT for many years,
Jonathan Santos who received his M.Eng. degree from MIT and was
also involved in the SpectrumWare project. Andrew Beard with a
background in Business law, and himself.
In the long term, Software Radio will simplfy people's lives and
bring new technology to market faster. It will enable one single
device to fill all of your communications needs: cellular telephone,
cordless phone, pager, radio, garage door opener, baby monitor...anything
wireless.
New technologies, such as new digital communications standards
will simply be software downloads to an existing device, instead
of the expensive hardware upgrades of today, enabling new technology
to reach the consumer faster and cheaper.
Vinod
Dham known as the Father of Pentium is the CEO of Silicon Spice
Inc. In 1975, the Indian born Vinod Dham arrived in the U.S. on
an engineering scholarship at the University of Cincinnati, with
less than $10 in his pocket. His first job at NCR was in 1977,
working for the memory design group. Impressed with his paper
on reprogrammable memory, Intel took him on.
As the leader of Intel's Pentium team in the early 1990s he earned
the title, "Father of the Pentium". Later he quit to join a start
up, Nexgen. Three years later, AMD's K6 chip, based on the Nexgen
technology, gave nightmares to the people at Intel.
Dham was invaluable to the world of chip design. He left AMD to
work for another big company- Silicon Spice, a Mountain View,
California startup (started in 1997) focusing on communications
chips. "Silicon Spice is developing a radically new communications
technology," Dham said in a statement. "I chose to join Silicon
Spice due to the potential it offers in the emerging communication-centric
information industry."
Vinod Dham, a man who has made a career out of microprocessors,
is not interested in microprocessors, which is an integral part
of personal computers. He is now interested in communications
processors. "With demand for communications-related chips
growing at 20% per annum, the microprocessor business has become
less interesting" says Dham.
In his opinion, the Internet is the mother of all killer applications,
which could utilize most computing power if there were no bandwidth
bottleneck. Anyone, who can help unclog this bottleneck, holds
the key to a multibillion-dollar bounty. "The personal computer
was designed for computing, and not for communication.
The microprocessor has gone beyond its use," he says. In other
words, the hardware is far ahead of the current computing requirements.
So is Silicon Spice competing with Intel? "No we are not competing
with Intel, instead we are complementing Intel by solving the
bandwidth bottleneck," says Dham. "My heart really was to go back
and run a company on my own," Dham said.
"For me personally, it's very intellectually challenging to be
here. You don't get a chance like this when you're inside Intel
or AMD or Cyrix. The job descriptions get sliced so thin that
at the end of the day, you wonder what your contribution was."
According to the recent press release, Broadcom is to acquire
Silicon Spice, Inc. adding Vinod Dham to the management team in
the process. Broadcom is the leading provider of highly integrated
silicon solutions that enable broadband digital transmission of
voice, video and data to and throughout the home and within the
business enterprise.
Mr.
Vinod khosla was the founder of Sun Microsytems.
Khosla, grew up in Delhi and completed his B. Tech at IIT Delhi.
He attempted to start a company in India, a dream he had carried
with him since the age of 15. He was frustrated by the experience
and decided to pursue M.S. in Biomedical Sciences at Carnegie
Mellon. He also obtained an MBA from Stanford University in 1979.
He wanted to work for companies that were started after 1976 and
that had less than a hundred employees. Unfortunately, he couldn't
find a job which met the criteria and so he turned to the entrepreneur
mode. With business partners from Stanford, he started Daisy Systems,
a computer-aided engineering and Design company, which failed
as the economics of the market went against it.
He looked for other opportunities and met up with Andreas Bechtolshiem,
who had designed a workstation at the Stanford University Network.
He was licensing it to companies at $10,000 and Khosla convinced
him to start a company to manufacture them. He pulled in two more
of his friends and founded Sun Microsystems. He was an unpopular
manager and did not play a part in building the company to its
present size as he was eased out of his position as CEO in 1986.
Soon he joined Kleiner Perkins, the firm that funded Sun as a
general partner. As
a partner at the venture firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield and
Byers, Khosla is also in the business of fashioning companies
and technologies.
He started off Cerent, one of the hottest startups, later acquired
by Cisco for $ 6.9 billion. He assisted Pradeep Sidhu in the
making of Juniper networks.
Full of energy, Khosla, at 44, does more than what a 20 year
old invidual normally does.
Anand
was born on December 11, 1969, to Vishwanathan, who retired
as General Manager, Southern Railways, and Susheela, housewife
and chess aficionado. It was the latter who, when Anand was
five, initiated him into the mysteries of the game, and oversaw
his early development.
His career began while he was still very young. In Madras, the
haunt of choice for chess enthusiasts is the Mikhal Tal Chess
Club, which thanks to the benevolence of the Russian embassy,
provided chess sets and other equipment to young aspirants.
Most of his spare time was spent there and he would sit down
for the first game -- and end up playing all day, as challenger
after challenger came and went.
Another
important stage in Anand's early development came in the late
1970s, when his father was posted as a railway consultant in
the Philippines. The local television stations used to broadcast
chess theory, and chess puzzles ‘Chess Today’ on a
daily basis -- and Anand's main hobby was solving them. It got
to a stage where the television studio called up Anand and asked
him not to participate, in order to give others a chance!
Recognition
came to him in 1983, when he won the National Junior Championship
for the first time. It was also in the same year that he defeated
Manuel Aaron, then India's top player. Four years later in 1987
he became the first Asian to win the World Junior Chess title
and also the first Indian to receive an ELO rating of 2500.
In 1998 he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian Government.
There has been no looking back ever since. His hard work and
determination paid off when he became world champion defeating
Spain's Alexei Shirov in the fourth of the six-game World Chess
Championship final in Teheran.
“I
want to be a poet, an uncommon want-- and the poet wants form,
something the uncommon critic will hopefully understand.”
Witty,
dexterous, imaginative, and a small, wiry soap opera enthusiast
with well-defined features and a ready smile, Vikram Seth was
born in Calcutta in 1952. He was educated at Doon School, and
Tonbridge School in Kent. He went on to complete his Bachelors
in Arts from Corpus Christi in Oxford and a Ph. D in Economics
from Stanford University, in California which he never completed.
He worked briefly as the Editor with the Stanford University
Press for a year.
I
really liked reading, but it seemed pointless to study literature
as a subject, so I began by studying pure maths, applied maths,
physics etc.," Seth is quoted as saying in Configurations
of Exile: South Asian Writers and Their World, a book published
by Toronto University.
His book A Suitable Boy, the 1,349 page tome the publication
of which in 1993 propelled Seth into the public spotlight and
won him worldwide acclaim is the longest piece of fiction written
since the 17th century!
He
has been honoured with the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in
1983 for his famous travelogue ‘From Heaven Lake’
which was his first book. He is also the recipient of the Commonwealth
Poetry Prize in 1986 and the WH Smith Literary Award in 1994.
In Britain he has been likened to literary greats of the English
novel.
And
what does he do when he is not writing? Working on new ideas
for his forthcoming novels!
