It was an interesting experience to attend the ieee industry day in bangalore today. Since the registration was free, there was a lot of crowd, many students. The Bengal trio of asuthosh dutta, debabrata das and subir saha were actively behind the organization of the event.
The event as usual for me created enthusiasm and motiviation and at the same a feeling of guilt and despair. The positive feelings resulted by seeing and hearing the great people who presented. The negative feeling for not attempting to do or having done even 1% of what many of them there have accomplished.
The brochure helped to understand the long list of awards and patents many of the speakers have got.
It was almost shameful of not knowing about F C Kohli who i came to know is considered as the father of software industry in india having being the head of TCS. Dr Kohli mentioned about the various good things happening where he is part of - inclusion of microelectronics in various engineering colleges, increasing the standard of college of engineering pune, attempts to increase the mass education and removal of illiteracy. It was really amazing to see at this age, he is still doing so much. A sincere "namovakam" from me for the great intellectual. He reminded me once life should include a service to the society and this can be done irrespective of the stream one works.
Also had the fortune of listening to Dr Tinku Acharya. I had gone out for a break and missed the initial parts of his talk. I was really proud to read Dr Tinku had received the most prolific inventor from intel worldwide in 1999 and 2001. He had also mentioned he was the architect of the webcam. Should read more about the videonetics company he owns.
Came to know about e-health initiatives where indian government through nic is aiming for a centralized repository for personal health records. The concept means one should be able to access health record from where ever which captures the health history of the person. The initiative has a lot of potential, but being in india, not sure when it finally materialize. But still happy to know the Indian government is doing such initiatives. Dr milan from drishtee foundation, shared experience of why she felt the rural telemedicine initiative failed. Nataraj from infosys shared the ehealth related projects from his company. Overall this looked a perfect area where one can mix business with service to society.
The talks also stressed about lack of PHDs from India.
Some thoughts i had after listening to this topic
Will this ever change when people like me sit at the doorstep wondering to enter or not? Can there be infrastructure in this country for people to do phd in 3 years? Can the institutes in india do more industry related phd?
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