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Stanford sees huge opportunity in India
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Friday, 19 December 2008, 01:25 IST |
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Bangalore: "The transformation of 'call-centers' into 'data-centers' and then into 'data-center hubs' would become an eventuality in the years to come," says Balaji Prabhakar, Associate Professor, Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University. Identifying India to be the next potential hub, the 10 eminent professors from Stanford provoked thoughts of techies on innovation and research developments at 'The Stanford Engineering Symposium - India', organized in association with SiliconIndia here today.
At the event, the professors steered an excited audience through several relevant topics like the Internet, data-center networking, wireless, social networking and enabling technologies such as silicon design and manufacturing. "With technology developments progressing by the day, issues like computer and network security would demand even more attention", said John Mitchell, Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Aravind Sitaraman, VP & MD, Cisco Development Organization, Cisco Systems India, said, "The time has come for the initiation of solution based technologies in place of product based technologies. We are looking at networking as a means of transforming technology based solutions."
Many Professors were looking at India as a treasure house of potentials and opportunities. They want much more initiatives to be taken up by its business community. "What I like about this conference is the depth of the content. I would like to see more of such conferences happening in India," said Viswanathan Ramaiyer of RSA Security.
Over 180 delegates are attending the two-day symposium, which also saw participation from technical leaders from companies like Intel, Wipro, Infosys, TCS, Texas Instruments, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, Akamai, Adobe, McAfee among others.
"Growing nations like India have a vital role to play in the development of emerging technologies", said Professor Mark Horowitz, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, adding, "We are very keen about strengthening our ties with India". Horowitz is also the chief scientist of Rambus, the manufacturer of the high-speed interface technology.