IIT-Delhi graduate head of 'all things business at WhatsApp'

Fast-growing startup WhatsApp was the talk of tech town on Thursday after social media giant Facebook announced a $19 billion buyout of the mobile-messaging application. While the deal created an instant global buzz, an Indian took centrestage in the aftermath. Having crossed 450 million active users, WhatsApp’s business head Neeraj Arora (35) has had a lot on his plate in the past few months. He told an Indian business news channel in November last that WhatsApp had no plan of selling out to Facebook or Google. Now, with a stunning price tag of...

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Tryst 2014 IIT Delhi

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The quest for brain-like computers

New Delhi: A glove that can feel vegetables and tell you which ones are the best to pick, a robot that can detect dangerous pollutants, glasses that can help the sightless “see”— these are just some of the applications that could come to the market from work being done by scientists and companies on neuromorphic chips. Neuromorphic engineering entails looking at biology for inspiration to grasp the mechanisms that go into learning, memory and computation, and transferring this understanding to new hardware devices and circuits. The hope is that...

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How IITian Rahul Gupta built RaysExperts, a multi- crore solar power company in less than 3 years

In 2009, Rahul Gupta was worried that his marks would rule out a job during campus placements at IIT Roorkee. So, instead of preparing for interviews, he sat reading a newspaper in his room, whereby he came across an article on the setting up of a solar plant in Amritsar. By the time he finished reading it, he was convinced that solar power was his calling. Since the last semester was relatively relaxed, he devoted his time to conducting research on the sector. He soon discovered a classmate who was equally interested in it, and the duo took a...

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IIT-D test drive a success, biogas-fuelled car a reality

NEW DELHI: The latest models launched at the 12th Auto Expo 2014 are by now common knowledge among vehicle enthusiasts but few are aware that IIT Delhi has successfully tested India's first biogas- fuelled passenger car. Compressed biogas was tested on a regular CNG car for over 15,000km. The best news was for the environment — the emissions were lower than CNG. Also, existing CNG vehicles need not undergo any modification to be compatible to CBG. The water-scrubbing-based biogas upgrade and compression/bottling system developed at the campus is...

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