During our recent photowalking, Stanford University rolled out its STARMAC team (Stanford Testbed of Autonomous Rotorcraft for Multi-Agent Control). These are quadrotor helicopters that can fly remotely without much human assistance. Really cool research project that you’ll want to check out. Anyway, here you meet the team: Gabe Hoffmann, Ph.D. candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Haomiao “H” Huang, Ph.D. candidate; Aeronautics and Astronautics; Steve Waslander, post doctoral scholar, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Vijay Pradeep, M.S. student, Mechanical Engineering and Mike Vitus, Ph.D. candidate, Aeronautics and Astronautics. They fly it around and explain what it is. By the way, in the video they said it costs $10,000 to build one of these. The team did more research and found out that you could build one for about $3,000 now.
CyberMedia is South Asia’s largest specialty media company that was founded in 1982, when IT and tech industry was still in its infancy in India. Earlier this year I caught up CyberMedia’s chairperson Pradeep Gupta at the Pan-IIT Global Conference in Santa Clara, Calif. CyberMedia’s mix of publications includes ...
Traffic Jams are a curse to city life. Finally, a startup has found a solution to overcome some of the problems.
When I was in Bangalore recently, a city notorious for its atrocious traffic jams, I was pleasantly surprised to see a sign at a traffic signal which told me ...
Pradeep Kar founded Microland in 1989. Microland manages the IT infrastructure of companies worldwide.
Pradeep also founded Planetasia, Indya.com which was acquired by News Corporation, and Net Brahma, which was acquired by a U.S. telecom equipment company in 2001.
Pradeep is member of the Technology Advisory Panel to ...
Vinod Dham is managing partner of NEA IndoUS Fund and New Path Ventures.
In this interview, Vinod shares his thoughts about investing in India. New Path Ventures was the first cross-border fund between the United States and India that was started about five years ago when India was just a dim blip in investor’s radar.
Carol Wilson speaks with Roger Burkhardt, CTO of the New York Stock Exchange, Tim Cho Oracle’s Outsourcing President, and Pradeep Sindhu, Vice Chairman, Chief Technical Officer and Founder of Juniper Networks.
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