What Happens to the Kid Who Places 400th
Selection systems are designed around the people they select. This one produces roughly a hundred thousand participants and thirty selections, and has no answer …
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India Has Simulation Users and No Simulation Builders
Every serious Indian manufacturer runs its analysis on solvers written in the United States, France or Germany. There are good reasons for that and none of them …
Read →Why India Designs No Chips
About a fifth of the world’s chip design engineers work in India. India owns almost no chip architectures. Those two facts are compatible, and …
Read →India Selects Its Mathematicians Too Late
The funnel starts at roughly one lakh students and ends at six. The problem is not that it is narrow, because it has to be. The problem is where it starts and …
Read →Why Indian Startups Hire Six Vendors and Ship Nothing
The failure I keep seeing at events is not a funding failure or a talent failure. It is that the work was cut into pieces along the wrong lines, and the …
Read →Who Owns Your Data After You Graduate?
A doctoral student produces the work, holds none of it, and in most cases has no independent record establishing that they did it. Three separate problems that …
Read →At the Launch of Navachar Mantra
I was at IIT Delhi for the launch of Navachar Mantra, a national initiative by MSDE to support grassroots innovators from Tier-2, Tier-3 cities and rural India. …
Read →Two Days at the ICC World Technology Convention
I spent two days at the Indian Chamber of Commerce’s World Technology Convention in Mumbai, sitting in panels on defense, cybersecurity, and education, …
Read →Your Research Is Not Safe, And You Probably Know It
A Delhi University professor recently lost six years of PhD research to a bag theft near North Campus. That story stayed with me, because I think most …
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