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SHRI RATANJI TATA (Chairman Emeritus of Tata Group)

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                                       SHRI RATANJI TATA  ( Chairman Emeritus of Tata Group) Ratan Tata is the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates. He started Tata Group, and it has since become one of the largest conglomerates in India. Ratan Tata is an Indian businessman and the former Chairman of Tata Group, a conglomerate company. He served as the Chairman of Tata Group from 1991 to 2012. Ratan Tata was born on 28th December, 1937, in Bombay, Maharashtra. His father was a pioneer of the Indian steel industry. Ratan Tata completed his education in the United States and started working for his father’s company in 1962. He rose through the ranks and became the Chairman of Tata Group in 1991. Ratan Tata is successful businessmen and has made a significant impact on the Indian economy. He is highly respected and admired by his peers. He has contribute...

RITESH AGARWAL(Founder of OYO Rooms)

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  RITESH AGARWAL (Founder  Of OYO Rooms)  Ritesh Agarwal was raised in Titilagarh and was born into a Marathi family in Bissam Cuttack, Odisha, India. Ritesh completed his education at Sacred Heart School in Rayagada. His family used to own a small shop in the city of Rayagada in southern Odisha. When he was 13 years old, he began selling SIM cards. In 2011, he moved to Delhi for college after graduating from St. John's Senior Secondary School, Bundi Road, Kota, Rajasthan. Oravel Stays, a website for booking cheap hotels, was started by Agarwal. In September 2012, it was accepted into the accelerator program by Venture Nursery. In 2013, it was one of the winners of the $100,000 Thiel Fellowship program. In May 2013, the company was founded as OYO Rooms. Agarwal signed agreements with hotel owners in the United States through his company OYO in which the buildings will be rebranded under the OYO name in return for compensation and guaranteed income. However, he did not men...

LEONARDO BOASACK ( Co-founder of Cisco Systems)

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  LEONARDO BOASACK  ( Co-founder of Cisco Systems) Leonard Bosack is the co-founder of Cisco Systems with his wife Sandy Lerner. Cisco Systems is an American multinational company that designs and sells networking, communications and consumer electronics technology and services. In 2009, he received the 2009 Computer Entrepreneur Award for this and for  the commercialization of routing technology and  the significant changes it enabled in the computer industry.  With more than $51 billion in revenue and nearly 80,000 employees, CISCO is one of the world's largest technology companies and is 7th on the Fortune 100 list.   He and Lerner experimented with the Stanford network by designing and building routers at home. He and Lerner initially approached Stanford with a proposal to start making and selling routers, but the university turned them down. They then founded their own company and named it "CISCO" after the northern city. Developed by Cisco, the...

PADMASREE WARRIOR (founder & CEO of Fable)

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PADMASREE WARRIOR (Founder & CEO of Fable) American-Indian entrepreneur and technology executive Padmasree warrior. She is renowned for her executive positions in IT companies including Cisco, where she held the CTO position for seven years, and Motorola, where she held the position for five years. She was also the CEO of Nio USA, a producer of electric vehicles. She currently holds the positions of founder and CEO of Fable, a reading platform with an emphasis on mental wellness. Also, she is a member of the Microsoft and Spotify boards of directors. Warrior earned master's and bachelor's degrees in chemical engineering from Cornell University and the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, respectively. Padmasree Warrior is well known for her imaginative, visionary . She has been listed three times in "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" by Forbes. She received the World of Difference Award in 2013 from The International Alliance for Women. She was list...

EDGAR F. CODD (Invented Relational Model For Database Management)

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  EDGAR F. CODD (Invented Relational Model For Database Management) The relational model for database administration was created by English computer scientist Edgar frank "ted" codd (19 August 1923 – 18 April 2003), who was employed by IBM. This model serves as the theoretical foundation for relational databases and relational database management systems. Although he made other significant contributions to the field of computer science, the relational model, a fundamental general theory of data management, has received the most attention, scrutiny, and praise. Edgar Frank Codd was born in Fortunes well, Dorset, England, on the Isle of Portland. After graduating from Poole Grammar School, he went on to Exeter College in Oxford to study mathematics and chemistry before flying Sunderlands as a pilot in the RAF's coastal command during World War II. He relocated to New York in 1984 to work as a mathematical programmer for IBM. He moved back to the US in 1953 and started worki...

RAM SHRIRAM (founding board member of Google Inc.)

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  RAM SHRIRAM  (founding board member of Google Inc.) Ram worked as an officer for Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO, at Amazon.com. After Amazon purchased Junglee, an online comparison shopping company of which Ram served as president, in August 1998, Ram joined Amazon.com. Ram serves as a trustee on the board of Stanford Health Care and is a council on foreign relations member. He was the Stanford Board of Trustees' Vice Chair until recently. Ram Shriram founded Sherpalo in January 2000 with the intention of using his extensive operational and business development knowledge to help budding startups. He has spent more than 30 years working inside the technology sector, holding positions in both large and small businesses, across various functional areas, and over varying business cycles. He is constantly ready to get his hands dirty and work closely with founding teams on the difficult problems that face and occasionally stump early stage enterprises. Ram can help you secure ea...

PEYUSH BANSAL(Co-Founded Lenskart )

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PEYUSH BANSAL( Co-Founded Lenskart ) In 2010, Lenskart.com was established by a former employee of Microsoft. Peyush Bansal is his name. Who co-founded Lenskart with Sumeet Kapahi and Amit Chaudhary.Peyush was born on April 26, 1985, in New Delhi. He completed his education in India. After that, I relocated to Canada to earn my Diploma in Electrical Engineering.Lenskart is a brand of prescription optical eyewear. Lenskart received an investor in 2011 who invested $4 million with the condition of selling watches and bags.Yet, the thought fizzled, and Lenskart was the main developing site toward the finish of 2014.The company raised 135 crores in January 2015. Additionally Buissness Man like Ratan Goodbye, Azim premji, Kris gopalkrishnan.All Lenskart eyewear is made with technology. The ability to select eyeglass frames online via their website, which made use of IT technology, was the driving force behind their expansion. In 2020, Lenskart had more than 990 locations in 46 cities. Each ...

JACK MA YUN (Co-Founder of Multinational Technology Conglomerate Alibaba Group)

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  JACK MA YUN   (Co-Founder of Multinational Technology Conglomerate Alibaba Group) Chinese: Jack Ma Yun[a] 马云 ; pinyin: MÇŽ Yún; Chinese business magnate, investor, and philanthropist (born September 10, 1964). He is a co-founder of the multinational technology conglomerate Alibaba Group. Ma is also a co-founder of the Chinese private equity firm Yunfeng Capital. Ma is the fifth wealthiest person in China (behind Zhong Shanshan, Zhang Yiming, Ma Huateng, and Robin Zeng) and the 34th wealthiest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as of January 2023. His net worth is $34.1 billion. Ma's autobiographical speech says that after graduating from Hangzhou Normal University in 1988,[22] he applied for 31 odd entry-level jobs and was turned down for each one. I applied for a position with KFC; They said, "You're no good," Ma told Charlie Rose in an interview. Even when KFC was in my city, I went there. 24 people applied for the position. 23 ...

ADA LOVELACE ( English mathematician and writer )

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  ADA LOVELACE  (  English mathematician and writer ) Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 - 27 November 1852) was an English mathematician and writer, mainly renowned for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She presented the first algorithm designed to be executed by such a computer and was the first to realise that the machine had uses beyond simple calculation. She is frequently considered as the first computer programmer as a result. Ada added an elaborate set of notes, simply titled "Notes," to a Luigi Menabrea paper about the Analytical Engine that was translated by him between 1842 and 1843. Lovelace's notes are crucial in the early history of computers, containing what many regard to be the first computer program—that is, an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine. Some historians disagree with this viewpoint and point out that the initial programming for th...

BHAVISH AGGARWAL (Co-Founder of Ola Cabs & Ola Electric)

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BHAVISH AGGARWAL (CEO OF OLA CABS) After having a negative taxi experience, Aggarwal conceived the idea for a cab firm, and in 2010 he and Ankit Bhati founded Ola Cabs. In 22 Indian cities, Ola Cabs has established itself as the most popular alternative for many customers and has grown to be India's largest network of personal transportation services. Ola Cabs, an international ride-sharing business with its headquarters in Bangalore, is an Indian corporation. It also operates in additional industry sectors, such as cloud kitchens and financial services. Ola Cabs purchased Bangalore-based TaxiForSure in March 2015 for about US$150 million (12.37 billion). Users of the Ola mobile app have had access to TFS cabs since June 2015. Later on in the year, in November, Ola paid an unknown sum to purchase Geotagg, a provider of trip-planning software. In an effort to diversify beyond cab aggregation, Ola purchased struggling foodtech company Foodpanda India in December 2017 with the goal of...

LEE BYUNG-CHUL (Founder OF SAMSUNG)

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LEE BYUNG-CHUL  (Founder OF SAMSUNG) Lee Byung-Chull established Samsung on March 1st, 1938, as a grocery trade store. Initially, he traded noodles and other products made in and a round Taegu, Korea, sending them to China and its regions. To better compete in the textile sector, the company expanded its textile manufacturing methods during the 1970s to include the entire production chain, from raw materials to finished goods. In 1969, Samsung launched a number of subsidiaries specifically devoted to the electronics sector. Black-and-white televisions were one of their early offerings. The business started exporting goods related to home electronics throughout the 1970s. Samsung had already established itself as a significant Korean manufacturer at the time and had purchased a 50%interest in Korea Semiconductor. After Lee Byung-Chull passed away in 1987, his son Lee Kun-Hee succeeded him. Samsung was divided into five firms; the electronics division remained under the direction of ...

THOMAS KURIAN(CEO OF GOOGLE CLOUD)

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THOMAS KURIAN (CEO OF GOOGLE CLOUD) Thomas Kurian was born in 1966 in pampady village of Kottayam district in Kerala, India . Kurian is basically the CEO of google cloud But as looking and going in depth to his history Kurian joined oracle in 1996 in the first instance holding  various product management and development position. His first executive role was  a vice president  of oracle’s  e-business .He hailed from Kerala. In the beginning he was a missionary from the India Pentecostal Church of God but later formed a new organization called the Fellowship of the Pentecostal Churches in India along with other Christian leaders. He authored several books originally in Hindi, English, and Malayalam. He was the pastor of the Pentecostal Church at Itarsi, Founder/Chairman and later Patron of the Fellowship of the Pentecostal Churches in India, and Principal of the Central India Bible College, estd. in 1962 (now Central India Theological Seminary) for several years. He w...

JACK PATRICK DORSEY (Chief Executive Officer of Square)

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JACK PATRICK DORSEY (Chief Executive Officer of Square) Jack Patrick Dorsey is an American internet entrepreneur and programmer who was born on November 19, 1976. He co-founded Twitter, Inc., and was its first chief executive officer. He also co-founded Block, Inc., which created the Square financial services platform. Jack Dorsey, the son of Tim and Marcia Dorsey, was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. On his mother's side, he is of Italian origin. His mother was a stay-at-home mom, while his father worked for a company that created mass spectrometers. He was reared Catholic, and his uncle serves as a priest in Cincinnati. Bishop DuBourg High School is where he received his diploma.  The logistics and their operational procedures piqued his intense curiosity . At the age of 15, Jack Dorsey developed dispatch software that is still used by many taxicab companies today . Instead, in the year 2000, Jack Dorsey relocated to Oakland, California, and founded a company that provided...

VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA (Founder & CEO of Paytm)

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  VIJAY SHEKHAR SHARMA (Founder & CEO of Paytm) On July 15, 1978, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the third of Sulom Prakash's four Asha Sharma, her mother, was born in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh. He attended school in the little town of Harduaganj, which is close to Aligarh. He was a college prodigy who enrolled at the Delhi College of Engineering. (now Delhi Technological University) at the age of 15 and received his B.Tech. degree as an engineer at the age of 19. He founded the website indiasite.net in 1997 while still in college and sold it for US$1 million two years later. Three years later, in 2000, he founded One97. Communications, a company that provided mobile content such as news, cricket, scores, ringtones, jokes, and exam results. Paytm, a firm Sharma founded in 2010 that offers financial services and digital payments is owned by One97 Paytm's initial public offering in November 2021 raised $2.5 billion at a $19 billion valuation, making it the biggest company in India at the...

NARINDER SINGH KAPAN(Pioneering Work on Fibre Optics, Entrepreneur & Business Executive)

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NARINDER SINGH KAPANY ( Pioneering Work on Fibre Optics, E ntrepreneur & Business Executive) Narinder Singh Kapany, the pioneering Indian scientist and entrepreneur who worked on biomedical optics and optical fibers, has passed away at the age of 94. In response to a question about why he named his business K2 Optronics after the second-highest mountain in the world, he stated that one must be modest. optical technologies and the marketing of optical instruments, most notably Optics Technologies in 1960, Kaptron in 1973, and K2 Optronics in 2000. In addition, he contributed generously to the establishment of research chairs at universities and contributed to the promotion of Indian culture by assembling an exceptional art collection. Kapany possessed extraordinary enthusiasm, creativity, and practical instrumentation skills. He continued to work well into his eighties while maintaining his unwavering enthusiasm for science, invention, and business. The course of human history was a...

EVAN THOMAS SPIEGEL (Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.)

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EVAN THOMAS SPIEGEL  (Co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc.) Spiegel was born in Los Angeles, California. In his upbringing, he was brought up as an Anglican in Pacific Palisades, California. He went to Stanford University after receiving his education at the Santa Monica Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences. Spiegel studied design while still in high school at Otis College of Art and Design and during the summer before enrolling at Stanford at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Together with that, he completed an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull. He held a paid internship with a biomedical company while still a student and has worked as a career coach in Cape Town, South Africa, at Intuit on the TxtWeb project, and as a careers instructor elsewhere. Having joined the Kappa, Spiegel At the age of 25, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel amassed a billion dollar fortune. Over 293 million people use Snapchat daily to transmit films and photographs that vanish. In 2011, Spiegel and Bob...

SANDY LERNER(Co-Founded Cisco Systems)

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  SANDY LERNER (Co-Founded Cisco Systems) Sandy Lerner co-founded Cisco Systems, a multinational corporation based in the United States that designs and sells technology and services for networking, communications, and consumer electronics. In addition to being a pioneer in the commercialization of routing technology and the significant shifts it enabled in the computer industry, he was awarded the Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2009 for this .CISCO is one of the biggest technology companies in the world, with nearly 80,000 employees and a revenue of over $51 billion. It is number 74 on the Fortune 100 list .By designing and building routers at home, he and Lerner experimented with Stanford's network. He and Lerner initially approached Stanford with the idea to begin manufacturing and selling routers. However, the university declined their request. After that, they started their own company and gave it the name "CISCO," which is a reference to the city to the north. Begin...

MANDAR GAVANDE (Founding Adviser for Grokstyle Inc.)

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MANDAR GAVANDE (Founding Adviser for Grokstyle Inc.) Krishna Bharat is born on 7 January,1970 .He is an Indian research scientist at Google Inc. He was formerly a founding adviser for Grokstyle Incorporation a visual search company and Laserlike Incorporation, an interest search engine startup based on Machine Learning.  At Google, Mountain View, he led a team developing Google News, a service that automatically indexes over 25,000 news websites in more than 35 languages to provide a summary of the News resources. He created Google News in September 11, 2001 . Since then, it has been a popular offering from Google's services. Google News was one of Google's first endeavors beyond offering just plain text searches on its page. Among other projects, he started the Google company in India which is Research and Development center at Bengaluru.  He completed his studies  from St. Joseph's Boys' High School in Bengaluru, and received an undergraduate degree in computer scienc...

GWANHOO LEE(Expert in Digital Transformation, Sustainable AI)

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GWANHOO LEE(E xpert in Digital Transformation, Sustainable AI)  Gwanhoo Lee is a South Korean citizen who studied at an American university. Gwanhoo Lee is an expert in digital transformation, sustainable AI, digital strategy and leadership, smart government, smart nation, health IT, information privacy, cybersecurity, and project management. He has consulted for the South Korean President's Committee, Samsung, the World Bank, and many other global firms and institutions. Gwanhoo Lee received the BS and MS degrees in industrial engineering from Seoul National University and the PhD degree in information systems from the University of Minnesota.  He is currently an associate professor of information technology and the director of the Center for IT and the Global Economy in the Kogod School of Business at the American University in Washington, DC. His current research interests include complexity and agility issues in information systems development and software engineering, glo...

SHRADDHA KHAPRA (Co-founder, Apna College Ex-Microsoft)

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SHRADDHA KHAPRA (Co-founder, Apna College  Ex-Microsoft) Shraddha Khapra is the co-founder of APNA College and an ex-Microsoft employee. In today's time, she is a well-known person. On YouTube as well as on other platforms as Shraddha Didi.She had an extremely different journey in her work life. As an intern, she gained work experience at Microsoft, and then she started her full-time job there. In her college life, she loved coding, and after getting her dream job, she felt it wasn't as exciting as she thought. Then she resigned from there and started to teach students through the platform of YouTube. Now she is a well-known personality in the field of teaching coding and has improved the quality of education in her own way. A normal person will never quit a job for not getting the kick that excites her, but she did risk it and is now in a higher position in comparison to where she was. The biggest motivation I get from her is "Luck surely is on our side. What matters is t...

JEFF BEZOS ( Founder, Executive Chairman, and CEO of Amazon)

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JEFF BEZOS (  Founder, Executive Chairman, and CEO of  Amazon) Jeff Bezos is the founder, executive chairman, and CEO of  Amazon. Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on 12thJanuary , 1964.He is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and chief executive officer of amazon. After graduating from Princeton University, he worked at fitel an international trade start-up. Jeff Bezos quit his job at an investment bank in 1994 and moved to Seattle, Washington, to open a virtual bookstore. Working out of his garage with a handful of employees, Bezos began developing the software for the site, which he called Amazon.com. It sold its first book in 1995.Under his guidance, Amazon became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and the model for Internet sales.Amazon.com success is due in part to its innovative business model, which allows customers to buy anything from books to furniture to electronics online. The compan...

RADIA PERLMAN (Invention of the Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP))

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RADIA PERLMAN  (Invention of the Spanning-Tree Protocol (STP)) In 1951, Radia Perlman was born. She is a network engineer and computer programmer from the United States. She is best known for developing the spanning-tree protocol (STP), which is necessary for network bridges to function properly. Her innovations have had a significant impact on the self-organization and data movement of networks. Additionally, she made significant contributions to numerous other aspects of network design and standardization. Her mother was a trained mathematician who worked as a computer programmer, and her father worked on radar. For his contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols, Perlman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015. She currently holds over 100 issued patents and numerous prestigious computer science awards, including lifetime achievement awards and membership in the Special Interest Group on Data Communication of the Association for Computing Machiner...

LAWRENCE EDWARD (Co-founding Google with Sergey Brin)

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    LAWRENCE EDWARD  (Co-founding Google with Sergey Brin) Larry Page, by the name of Lawrence Edward Page (born March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan, U.S.), is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, created the online search engine Google, one of the most popular sites on the Internet. His father, who was a professor of computer science at Michigan State University, received a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan in 1995. He stepped down as CEO in 2001 to become president of products. He was replaced as CEO by technology executive Eric Schmidt.  However, both he and Brin remained confidentially involved in running Google. By 2004, the search engine was being utilized 200 million times a day. On August 19, 2004, Google Inc. issued its initial public offering (IPO), which netted Page more than $3.8 billion. In an achievement reflecting the company’s efforts to expand its services beyond Internet searches, Goo...

RAMACHANDRAN VIVEK (Founder, SquareX (Exited)Founder, Pentester Academy (acquired by INE) Founder VRNComics.com (Hacker Comics))

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RAMACHANDRAN VIVEK (Founder, SquareX (Exited)Founder, Pentester Academy (acquired by INE) Founder VRNComics.com (Hacker Comics)) Pentester Academy, a pioneer in online, lab-based cybersecurity training, was founded and run by Vivek Ramachandran. With locations in India, the United States, and Singapore, Pentester Academy now serves thousands of government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and businesses from over 140 nations. Pentester Academy's founder and chief trainer is Vivek Ramachandran. He created Chellam, the first Wi-Fi firewall, broke WEP cloaking, invented a WEP protection schema, thought of enterprise Wi-Fi backdoors, and discovered the Caffe Latte attack. Kali Linux Wireless Penetration Testing: Author by Him A Novice's Aide and BackTrack 5 Remote Entrance Testing: A Beginner's Guide, which Packt releases. He spoke at COCON 2013, an international conference on cyber security and policing. Vivek developed an attack that fools a computer into thinking it is connec...

JOHN MCCARTHY( Founders of the Discipline of Artificial Intelligence)

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  JOHN MCCARTHY(  Founders of the Discipline of Artificial Intelligence) John McCarthy was a computer and cognitive scientist from the United States. He is also known as the inventor of artificial intelligence discipline. He co-wrote the document that introduced the term "artificial intelligence," which is also referred to as AI. He also invented garbage collection, popularized time-sharing, and created the LISP family of programming languages. He also had a significant impact on the design of ALGOL. Stanford University was where John McCarthy spent the majority of his career and life. For his work, he received numerous awards and honors. such as the Turning Award in 1971, the National Medal of Science from the United States, and the Kyoto Prize for his work on AI  .Life and education of McCarthy McCarthy was born on September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father is Irish, and his mother is Lithuanian Jewish. McCarthy's philosophy of AI In 1979, McCarthy publishe...

BRIAN ACTON (Executive Chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, Co-Founded with Moxie Marlinspike)

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BRIAN ACTON  (E xecutive Chairman of the Signal Technology Foundation, Co-Founded with Moxie Marlinspike)  The road to success is paved with hard work, sacrifice and determination. Brian Acton’s hard work paid him off big time with a simple idea called Whatsapp. Born in the year 1972, Acton is more popular as the Co-founder of WhatsApp .His life was not very simple. The man who was once rejected by Facebook as an employee sold WhatsApp to Zuckerberg recently and also holds stakes in the company. Computer engineer Brian Acton cofounded messaging app WhatsApp with Jan Koum in 2007; the two had met while working at Yahoo.  The pair sold WhatsApp to Facebook for $22 billion in cash and stock in 2014. Acton left WhatsApp at the end of 2017.Acton received about $3 billion for his stake in WhatsApp. The mobile messaging app has over 1 billion users in 180 countries. In Feb. 2018, he committed $50 million to Signal Foundation - the non-profit behind the signal mobile app focuse...

AJAY V. BHATT (Developed USB (Universal Serial Bus) & Platform Power Management architecture)

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  AJAY V. BHATT (D eveloped  USB (Universal Serial Bus) &   Platform Power Management architecture) Ajay V. Bhatt The inventions and technology behind the USB connector are significant because they ultimately benefit the community in a number of ways. India is at its best when it comes to technology and invention. Human intelligence is well-known worldwide among Indians and people of Indian descent. There are executives who are either Indian or of Indian descent, from Google's CEO to the chief technology officers of numerous international businesses. Also, there is a long list of Indian inventors, but not all of them want to be famous. Yes, there are outstanding individuals, and Ajay Bhatt is one of them. One of the well-known people who changed connectivity with the USB invention is Ajay Bhatt, an Indian inventor who changed the way connectivity works. Indian-American architect Ajay Bhatt. Bhatt is well-known for developing numerous inventions in the field of inform...

INDRA NOOYI (Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of PepsiCo.)

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    INDRA NOOYI   ( Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of PepsiCo.) She consistently makes the list of the 100 most powerful women in the world. In 2014, she was positioned at number 13 on the Forbes rundown of The World's 100 Most Influential Ladies and was positioned the second most influential lady on the Fortune list in 2015 and 2017. She additionally serves on the sheets of Amazon and the Global Cricket Chamber. Nooyi was born in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India, on October 28, 1955, to a Tamil Brahmin family. Nooyi attended Holy Angels Anglo Indian Higher Secondary School in T Nagar for her education. In 1975, Nooyi graduated from the Madras Christian College of the University of Madras with bachelor's degrees in physics, chemistry, and mathematics. In 1976, he graduated from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta with a Post Graduate Programme Diploma.   Nooyi was accepted to Yale School of Management in 1978, and she moved to the United States in 1980 to c...

MARY KENNETH KELLER (First Person to Earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science in the United States)

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MARY KENNETH KELLER (F irst Person to Earn a Ph.D. in Computer Science in the United States) In the United States, Mary Kenneth Keller became the first woman to receive a PhD in computer science in 1965. In Ohio, she had made vows to become a religious sister of the Roman Catholic faith. She then began working in the computer center at Dartmouth College. She developed the fundamental programming language. Sister Keller was aware that computers could make information available to everyone. "It's certainly obvious that information is of no use unless it's available," she stated. "We’re having an explosion of information, among other things. " She established the computing department at Clarke College in Iowa, which she led for twenty years. Her goal was to promote education and expand access to information. She worked tirelessly for the advancement of women in computing. The Keller Computer Center is the name given to Clarke College's computer center in he...