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The PicoPeta Board of Directors
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Prof. Swami Manohar
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Swami Manohar (Ph.D, Brown, '88) co-invented the Simputer and is
an expert in Graphics and Visualization. He has spent much of the
last three years in managing the Simputer project, interfacing
with the media and also by technically contributing to the core Simputer technology by helping define the
Information Markup Language (IML) along with Prof. Vinay. He is of the firm
belief that Simputer based solutions is the way for the future and believes
PicoPeta has a very important role in the fructification of this
vision.
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Prof. Vijay Chandru
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Vijay Chandru (Ph.D, MIT, '82) was one of the key members of the
committee that brought out the
Bangalore Declaration in 1998. The Simputer owes much to the vision of the
Bangalore Declaration and to Chandru who relentlessly pursued the goal of
making the Simputer a reality.
Vijay Chandru, has research interests in combinatorial
algorithms, computational geometry, logic programming, neural computing, and
numerical optimization. Chandru is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences.
He has taught at Purdue and the University of Pennsylvania for one year. He
has also worked at IBM's Watson Research Center as a visiting scientist.
He has been a Professor at the Indian Institue of Science for the past 10
years. He is the Chairman of the Board of Strand Genomics Pvt Ltd.
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Prof. V. Vinay (Chairman)
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Vinay (Ph.D, IISc, '91) co-invented the Simputer and is an expert in the
area of
Computational Complexity theory. Vinay has helped shape several key
Simputer technologies. Apart from designing IML with Prof. Manohar, he also
implemented a prototype browser, IMLI. He also invented a novel method of text
entry in to the keyboard-less Simputer, called Tapatap. An avid Linux user,
Vinay was also largely responsible for much of the initial porting
efforts to make Linux run on the Simputer.
Vinay is on the Board of directors of Strand Genomics Pvt Ltd.
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Mr. Rahul Matthan
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Rahul Matthan is a partner with Trilegal, a law firm based in
Bangalore. He serves as Legal Counsel for the Simputer Trust, and drafted the
innovative Simputer General Public License under which Simputer hardware
specification was released.
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