tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28625726968598914562024-02-20T15:52:32.794+05:30yantrajaal : Prithwis Mukerjeeintelligent reading for the connected communityCalcuttahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16070070371730319966noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862572696859891456.post-8889786683182582102009-07-04T14:27:00.009+05:302021-08-29T21:04:52.814+05:30Y Yantrajaal?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yantrajaal is a personal portal. A portal is defined as a gateway to something or somewhere and many large and excellent portals exist that can lead a visitor through the magic maze of the world wide web. But Yantrajaal is unique because it will lead you into a private web — very unique to me, and me alone — that defines my <a href="http://thoughtshoppe.blogspot.com/2009/04/boot-your-digital-identity.html" target="_blank" title="What is a Digital Identity">Digital Identity</a> as an <span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Engineer, Coder, Teacher & Author</span></span>.<br />
Yantrajaal is a work-in-progress, or as they say in world of Web 2.0, it is in perpetual beta. Yantrajaal began as an eZine in the much-maligned, much derided, dotcom era and has been a testbed for technologies and ideas that have subsequently entered — and even exited from — the mainstream. It is a labour of love — some call it love for labour — that at the moment is trying to crystallise the concept of a digital identity of its creator.<br />
Yantrajaal was born in 1999, when the world wide web was in its infancy. To see what we felt about the web in those days please visit the <a href="http://yantrajaal.blogspot.com/2009/07/nostalgia.html">Nostalgia section</a>. <br /><br /></div>
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Calcuttahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16070070371730319966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862572696859891456.post-3186501394480751162009-07-04T12:43:00.006+05:302021-11-21T20:33:57.719+05:30Nostalgia<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Yantrajaal completed ten years of existence in June 2009.<br />
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This is what I wrote on the home page in June 1999.<br />
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The World Wide Web has outgrown its initial concept of a mere network of computers and is being seen today more as a way of life. As it thrives and grows, this web is encompassing and pulling into itself a greater and greater diversity of devices – set top boxes, smart television sets, terrestrial and cellular phones, palmtops, network computers and very soon common household gadgets like refrigerators and microwave ovens. And along with these gadgets, our entire lifestyle is being dragged into this great web or Jaal.<br />
YantraJaal – is an eZine that reflects this new reality. In Sanskrit, “Yantra” is an artifice or a device and “Jaal” is the net or the web. YantraJaal thus, represents the web of connected devices.<br />
YantraJaal is a forum where we explore all that is of interest to the connected community. Here we look at art and literature, science and technology, philosophy and religion – a very ambitious canvas, but one that is necessarily circumscribed by the perspective of the editor who is computer professional based at Calcutta, India. Hence there is a definite bias towards the India-centric view of the world.<br />
Thank you for stopping by this website, we are that sure you would enjoy the articles that we have assembled here. Happy reading.</blockquote>
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and this is where I spent the ludicrous sum of US$ 70 to get my domain name<br />
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But Yantrajaal, as a concept, is even older than Yantrajaal the domain ! My first website at tripod is now lost and inaccessible. My second website at geocities was lost when geocities went out of business but recently, I managed to locate an archive at this <a href="http://www.geocities.ws/prithwis/mainFrame.html">http://www.geocities.ws/prithwis/mainFrame.html</a></div>
Calcuttahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16070070371730319966noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862572696859891456.post-61002469130565382502009-07-04T12:37:00.021+05:302023-08-06T15:06:45.590+05:30Bio<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><table>
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<td><h4>200 word profile</h4>-------------------------<br />Prithwis is an engineer by education, a teacher by profession, a programmer by passion and an imagineer by intention. <br /><br />He loves to live at the creative edge where technology meets business and tinker with tomorrow's technology today.
Prithwis did his B.Tech from IIT, Kharagpur and PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas.<br /><br />He has worked as a software engineer at Tata Steel and Tata IBM and as a technology consultant at PwC and IBM India. Subsequently, he was a tenured professor at IIT Kharagpur and is currently the Director at Praxis Business School.
<br /><br />Prithwis pioneered the use of Relational Database technology at Tata Steel and in PwC he created and led eBusiness practice. In IBM he introduced the concept of 3D Virtual Worlds that has now become more well known as the Metaverse. At IIT Kharagpur he created new courses in data warehousing and data mining which later became the backbone of the Praxis Data Science program.
<br /><br />Prithwis is a prolific author and has, of late, written two text books on Python and Deep Learning as well as two science fiction novels, <a href="http://bit.ly/chronobooks" target="_blank">Chronotantra, Chronoyantra,</a> based out of India. His personal motto is "Resources are Limited, Creativity is Unlimited''.<br /></td>
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Prithwis is an engineer by education, a teacher by profession, a programmer by passion and an imagineer by intention. He loves to live at the creative edge where technology opens up new opportunities for doing business and strongly believes that "Resources are Limited, Creativity is Unlimited."<br />
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Prithwis graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from IIT, Kharagpur and has done his Masters and PhD in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. His doctoral thesis was in the area of Associative Information Systems. Interestingly enough, he never passed his Class XII examinations and yet, thanks to a temporary loophole in regulations, he got into IIT with an All India Rank of 39 in the Joint Entrance Examination!<br />
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Prithwis has been a footnote in the Great Indian Software Story. He has worked in Tata Steel, Tata IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM Global Service and was directly involved in the design, development and deployment of complex software applications for Indian and global companies. In his corporate career, Prithwis was always at the bleeding edge of technology and had introduced Relational Databases at Tata Steel, pioneered e-Business and the concept of Business Beyond Borders at PwC and explored the enchanting virtual world of Second Life at IBM Global Services.<br />
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As a student of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta and an ardent follower of the Divine Feminine, he has built a virtual temple of Mahakali that can be accessed through the Second Life viewer at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Adder/22/132/60<br />
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His belief in Vedantin concept of Maya and his fascination with simulated virtual worlds like Second Life has led him to plan, direct and act in the 2006 movie Are You Real.<br />
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As an extension of his intense involvement with in-house training programs he switched careers and entered academia. After a four year stint as a tenured Professor and Member of the Senate at IIT, Kharagpur, India, he is now the Director at Praxis Business School, Calcutta.<br />
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Prithwis is a prolific author. <a href="http://bit.ly/chronotantra" target="_blank">Chronotantra</a> is an Indic-themed science fiction novel that explores artificial intelligence driven dystopian world and the adventures of a woman engineer. <a href="http://chronoyantra.yantrajaal.com" target="_blank">Chronoyantra</a> is both a prequel and a sequel to Chronotantra and explores the man and machine as they together try to solve the mystery of the universe. <a href="https://pymanager.blogspot.com/p/welcome.html" target="_blank">Python for Business Managers </a>is quick introduction to Python for those who have never coded before. <a href="https://aidl4managers.blogspot.com/p/home.html" target="_blank">Deep Learning for Business Managers</a> is a simple 100-page introduction to artificial intelligence and deep learning that is suitable for both MBA students and professional managers who want to catch up with the latest technolog. <a href="http://bit.ly/psingularity" target="_blank">The Road to pSingularity</a> explores the convergence of computers, genetics and Advaita Vedanta. <a href="https://businfosystems.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Business Information Systems</a> is a text book that introduces B-school students to information technology. He also used to write an occasional technology column at Swarajya <a href="http://bit.ly/pmswarajya">http://bit.ly/pmswarajya</a><br />
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His personal portal <a href="http://www.yantrajaal.com">http://www.yantrajaal.com</a> has been reflecting his thoughts and ideas since 1999. .Prithwis lives in Calcutta, India with his wife while his son and daughter-in-law live in Singapore where his son, <a href="https://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/cnmsm/" target="_blank">Subhayan</a>, is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and his daughter-in-law, Nilanjana, is post-doctoral fellow at the Nanyang Technological University..<br />
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Prithwis won the Financial Express Big Idea contest with his unique idea of creating a <a href="http://thoughtshoppe.blogspot.com/2008/04/nscai-national-school-authority-of.html" target="_blank">National School Authority of India</a> and expressing it in exactly 50 words !His professional motto is “Resources are Limited, Creativity is Unlimited”<br />
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Who Am I?</h3>
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In the final analysis, the answer to the question of Who Am I? -- not just for me, but for any conscious sentience -- can only be realised in these immortal words of the One And Only Sankaracharya ...
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where "Shiva" stands for the <b><i>Quality of Goodness</i></b> as <u>imperfectly</u> represented by the image of the "GOD" Shiva -- clad in tiger skin, with snakes and matted locks!<br />
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This is the Nirvana Shatakam or Atma Shatakam -- six stanzas that articulate the essential philosophy of Advaita Vedanta. The first five stanzas state, What Am I Not, while the last stanza states What Am I. Obviously, these are truths that one must realise, not simply understand.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />
Calcuttahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16070070371730319966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862572696859891456.post-6202018964519290332009-07-04T12:36:00.012+05:302022-07-29T07:20:34.701+05:30Focus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">At different points of time, I have had interests in different ideas and areas. Ideas come and go, I play with them and then move on. Here is a small list of things that have held my attention for some time. It is not necessary that I am still working on these ideas. They remain as cherished memories</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div>
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IOT - or the Internet of Things -- Check out my specialist blog <a href="http://iot-hub.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">iot-hub</a><br />
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Distance Learning </h2>
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Distance Learning was an extension of my interest in the 3D virtual world of Second Life, where, in 2006, we created a learning space for IBM employees to interact and learn inside a simulation. However the scarcity of bandwidth forced us to look at alternate options. Here is a list of blog posts that chronicle my adventure with this exciting topic<br />
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<li>Dec 2006 - <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2006/12/google-education-distance-learning.html" target="_blank">Google Education - Distance Learning</a></li>
<li>Feb 2011 - <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2011/02/distance-learning-on-social-network.html" target="_blank">Distance Learning on a Social Media Platform</a> </li>
<li>Sep 2012 - <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2012/09/distance-learning-inverted-model-for.html" target="_blank">Distance Learning - An inverted model for Indian B Schools</a></li>
<li>Aug 2012 - <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2012/08/distance-learning-with-zoho-show-and.html" target="_blank">Distance Learning with Zoho Show and Google Hangout</a></li>
<li>Dec 2012 - <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2012/12/distance-learning-from-correspondence.html" target="_blank">Distance Learning - From Correspondence Courses to MOOC</a></li>
<li>Mar 2013 - <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2013/03/the-inevitability-of-universal-online.html" target="_blank">The inevitability of Universal Online Education</a></li>
<li>July 2013 - <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2013/07/your-personal-tv-channel-could-be-here.html" target="_blank">Create your own personal TV channel</a></li>
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An in India, no education is deemed to be complete unless it is accompanied by placement services, to here are my thoughts on <a href="http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2010/08/campus-recruitment-as-b2b-exchange.html" target="_blank">Campus Recruitment as a B2B exchange</a>.Finally check out my <a href="http://quantifin.yantrajaal.com/2014/11/portfolio-optimisation-tangency.html" target="_blank">short video</a> where I teach complexities of portfolio optimization on my <a href="http://quantifin.yantrajaal.com/" target="_blank">Quantifin blog</a>!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">What is Web 2.0 ?</span><br />
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My student Aditya Pauniker has explained it rather well in this book, <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/web-20---concept-and-business-models/7236421">Web 2.0 - Concepts and Business Models.</a><br />
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The Kollaborative Klassroom is my on going experiment to understand the dynamics of Web 2.0.<br />
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<b>Cloud Computing with Zoho</b><br />
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Learn about Zoho, the amazing web based application <a href="http://thoughtshoppe.blogspot.com/2008/01/amazing-web-based-application-developer.html" target="_new">development tool</a>. Read more about the <a href="http://thoughtshoppe.blogspot.com/2008/08/zoho-continuing-saga.html" target="_new">continuing saga</a>.<br />
I spoke about Cloud Computing to the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Opinion/Interviews/Cloud-computing-help-reduce-costs/articleshow/4699359.cms" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" target="_new"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354918405338185378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJkT1VGtgRep6jo0v9Rip6qEBsEOkWr1upjokRWdXk2n6-zxUQOriwGcjq8sO_amUWO738AzEvy57PU0L4cgOGWsnQPTL9pYdzgrSN3YE8zdCXbtugZGxdqQRj2aagu_e4gPYF7R4L5cr/s400/temp001.gif" style="cursor: pointer; height: 18px; width: 180px;" /></a> and this was converted into a <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/quickiearticleshow/4701010.cms" target="_new">slide show</a>.<br />
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I believe that the current 2D web will eventually evolve into a 3D virtual world and wrote about this in the <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2087908.cms" target="_new">Economic Times in 2007</a><br />
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I have a <a href="http://www.geocities.ws/prithwis/mahamaya/mahamaya.html" target="_new">Mahamaya Kali temple </a>in Second Life — the amazing 3D virtual world<br />
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Parashar21 is tool that uses relational database technology to store horoscopes as sparse matrices. The key idea is that once storage and smart retrieval can be mechanised, then astrological hypotheses can be validated by statistical techniques. To know more about the philosophy and the usage of this unique tool, visit the Parashar21 website by clicking on the logo at the left.</div>
Calcuttahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16070070371730319966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862572696859891456.post-87432697285141392452009-07-04T12:32:00.011+05:302020-09-12T11:15:12.402+05:30Books<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://bit.ly/chronobooks" target="_blank"><b>Chronotantra & Chronoyantra </b></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">Chronotantra and Chronoyantra are two science fiction novels that
explore the collapse of human civilisation on Earth and then its rebirth
and reincarnation both on Earth as well as on the distant worlds of
Mars, Titan and Enceladus. But is it the human civilisation that is
being reborn? Or is it some other sentience that is revealing itself.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://pymanager.blogspot.com/p/welcome.html" target="_blank">Python for Business Managers</a><br />
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<b><a href="http://bis.yantrajaal.com/" target="_self" title="Business Information Systems">Business Information Systems</a></b> ….<br />
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First Edition Published by Jaico in May 2009<br />
Second Edition Published on the Print-On-Demand technology at Pothi.com <br />
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Business Information Systems is short, crisp book that introduces business managers to the key elements of software systems engineering in a manner that is radically different from that found in any contemporary text book. Structured as a dialogue between an expert and a novice – in the Upanishadic traditions of India, this book leads the reader through the technology issues and management processes that are crucial for the successful deployment of information systems. Cutting out abstract, theoretical topics, the book focusses on what is minimally sufficient for a practising manager and yet goes deep enough to take the reader to the point where he or she can actually create and deploy web based applications without the help of professional programmers.<br />
For the cross-over community young line managers and would-be managers studying in B-Schools, this book will provide a robust answer to the perennial question : “I am not a programmer – and have no intention of being one, so why do I need to learn all this technology ?”<br />
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<b><a href="http://psingularity.yantrajaal.com/" target="_self" title="Vedanta"><br />
The Road to pSingularity</a></b> <br />
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An image of the cosmos as reflected in the still waters of a dispassionate computational analysis. Five different strands of thought – namely, Advaita Vedanta, the plausibility of illusions in a digital ecosystem, the mathematics of the Universal Turing Machine, the persistent and evolving nature of the Genome and Gödel’s Theorem of Incompleteness – are brought together to create a modern perspective of a world view that was first articulated by Sankaracharya. This vision is delivered, not as a discourse, but instead through a dialogue between a Seeker and Sceptic. Finally, the ubiquity of causality and the existence of free will are challenged and the cosmos is sought to be explained in terms of patterns – the Contours of the Eternal – to which all sentient consciousness finally converge in the ecstasy of pSingularity : the primordial Singularity.<br />
Hardcopy available at my <a href="http://bookshop.yantrajaal.com/" target="_blank" title="Buy Hardcopy">bookshop</a><br />
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The following video is a humorous take-off on the subject this otherwise esoteric book !<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Welcome to Yantrajaal<br /><br />The World Wide Web has outgrown its initial concept of a mere network of computers and is being seen today more as a way of life. As it thrives and grows, this web is encompassing and pulling into itself a greater and greater diversity of devices - set top boxes, smart television sets, terrestrial and cellular phones, palmtops, network computers and very soon common household gadgets like refrigerators and microwave ovens. And along with these gadgets, our entire lifestyle is being dragged into this great web or Jaal.<br /><br />YantraJaal - is an eZine that reflects this new reality. In Sanskrit, "Yantra" is an artifice or a device and "Jaal" is the net or the web. YantraJaal thus, represents the web of connected devices.<br /><br />YantraJaal is a forum where we explore all that is of interest to the connected community. Here we look at art and literature, science and technology, philosophy and religion - a very ambitious canvas, but one that is necessarily circumscribed by the perspective of the editor who is computer professional based at Calcutta, India. Hence there is a definite bias towards the India-centric view of the world.<br /><br />Thank you for stopping by this website, we are that sure you would enjoy the articles that we have assembled here. Happy reading.<br /><br />Prithwis Mukerjee, Calcutta</span></div>
Calcuttahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16070070371730319966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862572696859891456.post-32278135405875577532007-06-01T13:40:00.000+05:302008-12-17T14:33:54.785+05:30Residence @ Renu Villa<iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=k&lci=lmc:panoramio&s=AARTsJrwixiwXJpRoPOQD55XGhULslHmVA&msa=0&msid=100653921239251957261.000450786c62e02c83a44&ll=22.517344,88.353998&spn=0.002379,0.003433&z=18&output=embed" scrolling="no" width="640" frameborder="0" height="480"></iframe><br /><small><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=k&lci=lmc:panoramio&msa=0&msid=100653921239251957261.000450786c62e02c83a44&ll=22.517344,88.353998&spn=0.002379,0.003433&z=18&source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;">View Larger Map</a></small>Calcuttahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16070070371730319966noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2862572696859891456.post-62522866277503550231999-07-01T13:05:00.001+05:302021-01-23T05:51:52.914+05:30Brief Profile<div><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLP2cAdLZANqklmU2tN0nlsgPxaJPbqT4mqWCBi9G0G1Gq4SjuBTO-nnhgMGkTE8eoRMc4xnNsBnj-eBiV2bYpzgoenW1ZTB8k5Dbiix2UZastu0pxGK72vpFMOPd_r-fKZa6eUv8z23l/s780/PrithwisBio1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="442" data-original-width="780" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPLP2cAdLZANqklmU2tN0nlsgPxaJPbqT4mqWCBi9G0G1Gq4SjuBTO-nnhgMGkTE8eoRMc4xnNsBnj-eBiV2bYpzgoenW1ZTB8k5Dbiix2UZastu0pxGK72vpFMOPd_r-fKZa6eUv8z23l/s16000/PrithwisBio1.png" /></a></div><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Academic Degrees</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>B.Tech (Hons) - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India</li><li>Ph.D. - University of Texas at Dallas, USA</li></ul><h3 style="text-align: left;"> Description</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Engineer, Coder, Teacher, Author.</li><li>18 years in the IT and Management Consultancy sector.</li><ul><li>Tata Steel.</li><li>Partner, Pricewaterhouse Coopers.</li><li>Director, IBM India.</li></ul><li> 13 years in Higher Education</li><ul><li>Tenured Professor at IIT, Kharagpur.</li><li>Professor and Director at Praxis Business School.</li></ul><li>2 science fiction novels - Chronotantra, Chronoyantra. <br /></li></ul></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Areas of Expertise</h3><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Technology - Database systems, Python, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Blockchain.<br /></li><li>Business - Technology Strategy, Design and Delivery of complex systems.</li></ul>Prithwishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14023204360522864496noreply@blogger.com0