Seminar by Dr. Swami Manohar
The making of the Amida Simputer
Dr. Swami Manohar
CEO, PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd
and
Computer Science and Automation Department
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Date: Fri, Aug 13, 2004
Time: 4:00 PM
Venue: CS-101
Abstract
The path between a concept to a prototype is long and arduous. More excruciating is the journey from a prototype to a commercial product. Innovative solutions have to be constantly fighting away seemingly intractable problems. Obstacles need to be converted into opportunities. Bugs have to be repositioned as creative and non-obvious advanced features:-)
About the Speaker
Swami Manohar has been on the faculty of Computer Science and Automation department of the Indian Institute of Science since 1990. He has a Bachelor's degree in electronics and communication engineering from Madras university (GCT, Coimbatore), a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the Indian institute of Science, Bangalore, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University in 1989. He was on the faculty of the University of North Carolina, Charlotte between 1988 and 1990. In November 2000, Manohar along with three of his faculty colleagues created the first academic startup in India, Strand Genomics Pvt. Ltd. This team of four is also a subset of the team of seven that created the Simputer. Manohar is currently on Entrepreneurship leave from the Institute and is the CEO of PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd., the startup created to commercialise the Simputer platform.