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BANGALORE: Two employees of Microsoft Research in Bangalore, one of whom has since left the company to start an NGO, are among 35 people hailed as "outstanding innovators under the age of 35" by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's prestigious publication, Technology Review.
Indrani Medhi, 31, was recognized for her development of text-free user interfaces that allow any illiterate person, on first contact with a computer, to immediately deploy it to find jobs, get medical information and perform banking transactions with minimal or no assistance.
Rikin B Gandhi, 28, now with the NGO Digital Green, created a solution to help farmers adopt better practices. The solution, first piloted in Hubli and now implemented in several locations in the country, has been demonstrated to be 10 times more effective, per rupee spent, in converting farmers to better farming practices than classical approaches.
Narayanan Suresh, group editor of Technology Review India, told TOI this selection indicated that young innovators in India were doing cutting-edge work like their counterparts worldwide. "Many global experts have predicted that Indians in India will play a major role in the technologies of tomorrow," he said. The last time an Indian in India featured in this TR35 list was in 2002, when Ramesh Hariharan, co-founder of Bangalore-based Strand Life Sciences, was recognized for software tools he designed to efficiently analyze the ever-increasing volume of data about gene composition.
"Many young innovators we've selected have gone on to be spectacularly successful," Technology Review says. Previous winners include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook; Jonathan Ive, chief designer at Apple; and Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal.
Indrani Medhi, 31, was recognized for her development of text-free user interfaces that allow any illiterate person, on first contact with a computer, to immediately deploy it to find jobs, get medical information and perform banking transactions with minimal or no assistance.
Rikin B Gandhi, 28, now with the NGO Digital Green, created a solution to help farmers adopt better practices. The solution, first piloted in Hubli and now implemented in several locations in the country, has been demonstrated to be 10 times more effective, per rupee spent, in converting farmers to better farming practices than classical approaches.
Narayanan Suresh, group editor of Technology Review India, told TOI this selection indicated that young innovators in India were doing cutting-edge work like their counterparts worldwide. "Many global experts have predicted that Indians in India will play a major role in the technologies of tomorrow," he said. The last time an Indian in India featured in this TR35 list was in 2002, when Ramesh Hariharan, co-founder of Bangalore-based Strand Life Sciences, was recognized for software tools he designed to efficiently analyze the ever-increasing volume of data about gene composition.
"Many young innovators we've selected have gone on to be spectacularly successful," Technology Review says. Previous winners include Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founders of Google; Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook; Jonathan Ive, chief designer at Apple; and Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal.
