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In Conversation With Nandan Nilekani Part-1

By • Apr 16th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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Nandan Nilekani is the co-founder and former head of Infosys. This is the company that put Bangalore on the global map.  New York Times journalist Thomas Friedman credits Nandan for coining that famous phrase The World Is Flat,  which became the title of  his book. Banglaore-based Infosys is one of the best Indian success stories.  Founded during the [...]


In Conversation With Nandan Nilekani Part-2

By • Apr 16th, 2012 • Category: Bangalore, Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Internet & Telecom, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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In Part-2 of the interview Nandan Nilekani talks the changing dynamics of Indian political landscape, especially in the federal-state relationship. What can India learn from China? What is needed for India to move forward? What is missing? These were some of the questions he answered. In case you missed, you can listen to Part-1 of the conversation, where Nandan [...]


Academy Winner John Knoll on Technology in Filmmaking

By • Mar 27th, 2012 • Category: Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley, Video
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Academy-award winner John Knoll works behind the scenes, but you have probably seen his visual effects magic in “Avatar,” “Rango,” “Pirates of the Caribbean,” “Hugo,” Mission Impossible,” “Star Wars”  and many other films. Knoll is a visual effects supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic and in 2007 won an Academy award for Best Visual Effects [...]


Walter Murch on Technology, Editing & Filmmaking

By • Feb 26th, 2012 • Category: Books and Authors, Business & Tech, Entertainment, Featured, Hollywood, Ideas, San Francisco/Silicon Valley
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Meet  3 time Oscar-winning editor and sound engineer Walter Murch, who talks on how technology has changed film editing and how “digital revolution has invented the equivalent of aensthetic for the cinema.” Mr. Murch points out before the digital revolution film editors were “physically cutting through the substance of film.” Mr. Murch started his career [...]


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