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Book: Digital Republic: India’s rise to IT Power – by Mathai Joseph
Mathai Joseph is one of the most respected people in Pune’s software industry. An EVP at TCS, Director of TRDDC, visiting prof at CUM, Eindhoven, Warwick and York, he has experience at the top levels of both industry and academia, and he has seen the rise of India’s software industry from it’s birth. Power Publisher’s [...]
Pune’s Vivek Kulkarni, Architect at Persistent, publishes book on Theory of Computation
The Persistent Systems Blog has just published an article about Vivek Kulkarni, a Principal Architect at Persistent, who has published a book, “Theory of Computation” with Oxford university press. Here is the description of the book: The book begins with basic concepts such as symbols, alphabets, sets, relations, graphs, strings, and languages. It then delves [...]
The end of the Indian IT Industry as we know it? -by @akkiman
(This article by Akshay Damle was first published on his blog and is reproduced here with permission for the benefit of PuneTech readers.) Over the past couple few weeks, I have been reading & thinking about the salary hikes that the companies are doling out. This year, it has been challenging to provide “good” pay [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Rivest, Shamir, Adelman (RSA) – 11 May
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2002 Turing Award recipients Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adelman, the inventors of the RSA algorithm, and public key cryptography. Dr. Pandurang Kamat, Principal Architect at Persistent Systems will talk about his work. After this, [...]
Global Windows Azure Bootcamp – 27th April
On April 27th, 2013, you’ll have the ability to join a free Windows Azure Bootcamp at Persistent on SB Road. This is a one day deep dive class that will get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes trainers with deep real world experience with Windows Azure: Agenda Session 01: [...]
Building world-class technology companies – Helion VC – 24 April
Helion VC, TiE Pune, POCC, and YourStory.in have organized a panel discussion on “Building world-class technology companies” on 24th April, from 5pm-8pm at Le Meridien Pune. A panel discussion on Scaling Technology Companies will have these panelists: Sanjeev Aggarwal, Co-Founder Helion and Daksh Nitin Kulkarni, COO, Persistent Sanjay Katkar, Co-founder & CTO, Quick Heal Rajeev [...]
Fund-raising Environment in India: by Dev Khare, Lightspeed Ventures – 24 April
The Pune Open Coffee Club has organized a talk by Dev Khare of Lightspeed Venture Partners on Wednesday, 24th April where he will talk about the areas of interest for venture investors and the current fund-raising environment in India at the seed, early-stage and growth stages. He will also discuss key challenges that he sees [...]
Pune Startup Pulse: Fill out YourStory.in’ Survey of Pune’s Startups
As they often say, India is a continent in itself. With diversity galore, every region has its own flavor. So is the case with startups! Bangalore is oriented towards technology while Mumbai is more of a financial hub. The differences aren’t very obvious but each region has their own set of characteristics. And to startup [...]
Ruby Conf is coming to Pune – Call for Speakers is now Open
Ruby Conf, a big, 2-day technical conference of everybody interested in the Ruby programming language is coming to Pune on 22/23 June, 2013. The call for speakers is now open. If you have done any work in Ruby, or there is simply some technique, or library that you have used and find interesting, this is [...]
Turing100 Lecture: Life and work of Judea Pearl – 9 Mar
As part of the Turing100 Lecture Series this time, there is a talk on the life and work of 2011 Turing Award recipient Judea Pearl, followed by a “Turing 100″ quiz that teams of professionals and students can participate in. Judea Pearl was given the Turing award for the development of a calculus for probabilistic [...]
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Event Report: What markets to do a startup in India – by @dkhare (Lightspeed Ventures)
(This is essentially a live-blog of Dev Khare’s talk on the Fund Raising Environment in India at the Pune Open Coffee Club. This is essentially a list of bullet points and notes jotted down during the talk, so please excuse the lack of organization and coherence (the fault is mine, not Dev’s). The article is [...]
Pune Becoming an Innovation Hub – Financial Times
Financial Times thinks that Pune is becoming an innovation hub. The city’s economy (and real estate market) is now driven by the presence of two large and growing sectors: automotive manufacturing and information technology. Why is the Pune story so compelling? First is the ecosystem already in place: Willy Praet, a Belgian expat who moved [...]
Excerpts: Interview with Hinjewadi Industries Association
Hinjewadi is easily the most important part of Pune as far as software technology is concerned, and there are many associated infrastructural problems that do not get the attention they deserve. The Hinjewadi Industries Association is an association of industries that is trying to change that. The Economic Times has an interesting interview with SK [...]
Pune’s Ayojak (Online Ticketing & Event Management) raises funding
Online Ticketing and Event Management startup, http://Ayojak.com has just secured funding from HBS Alumni Angels, Blume Ventures, and Srijan Capital. The majority of the investment will be used to launch new products to serve segments such as training & educational institutions, seminars, workshops, lifestyle activities, last minute tickets, adventurous trips and social activities. Also, part [...]
Call for Speakers: GNUnify 2013 – 3-day open-source technologies conference
The call for speakers for GNUnify 2013, one of India’s biggest open source conferences, which runs for 3 days in February (15, 16, 17 Feb) in SICSR, Pune, is now open. If you have done any work with any open source technology, whether it is in the area of System Admin, Networking, Security, Web Technologies, [...]
Life and Times of Alan Turing by Mathai Joseph
InnoVidya and IUCAA invite everyone to a lecture on the life and time of Alan Turing, widely considered the father of computer science, by Dr. Mathai Joseph, who can be considered one of the senior most computer scientists in Pune. Alan Turing, was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential [...]
LiveBlog: Maharashtra CM Prithviraj Chavan’s address at VLSI Conf Pune
(This is a live-blog of the keynote address of Prithviraj Chavan, CM of Maharashtra, at the 26th International Conference on VLSI Design that is currently going on at the Hyatt, in Pune. For those who didn’t know, Prithviraj Chavan is an electrical engineer from BITS Pilani and Univ of California, Berkeley.) The semiconductor industry in [...]
#VLSI-Conf-Pune 2013 Event Report: Intelligent Silicon in the Data-Centric Era
(This is a live-blog of the keynote address given by Abhi Talwalkar at the 26th International Conference on VLSI Design being held in Pune. Abhi is the President and CEO of LSI Corporation. (LSI has had a large development center in Pune for the last 4 years.) (Note: since this is a live-blog, it is [...]
Event Report: 7th IndicThreads Software Development Conference
(This is a live blog of the talks being given at the 7th IndicThreads Software Development Conference happening in Pune today and tomorrow. The slides of the individual talks will become available on the conference website tomorrow.) Keynote Address: Suhas Kelkar: Technology Is Just The Start The the keynote address was by Suhas Kelkar, CTO [...]
In50Hrs Pune – Idea-to-Prototype in one weekend – 14-16 Dec
In50hrs an idea-to-prototype event, where entrepreneurs (or idea smiths – people with just an idea that they want to see developed), developers, programmers, and product designers come together to work on audacious ideas and build working prototypes (mvp) over a weekend, is coming to Pune this weekend. Saager Mhatre (dexterous), a prominent Pune Techie, has [...]