Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Indian Institute of Technology Madras Alumni, Indian Institute of Technology Madras Faculty, Ramanathan V. Guha, Venkat Rangan, Venky Harinarayan, P. S. Veeraraghavan, B. Muthuraman, Anand Rajaraman, Arvind Raghunathan, Krishna Bharat, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Venkatesan Guruswami, B. N. Suresh, Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj, Rajeev Srinivasan, S. A. Choudum, Sunil Sivanand, Mani Subramanian, Kr Parthasarathy. Excerpt: P. Venkat Rangan is the vice chancellor of Amrita University. Academician, entrepreneur and speaker, he was a full professor by the age of 33, and was one of the youngest full professors at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Rangan founded Yodlee Inc. and served as its CEO, for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrepreneurs by the President of the US and featured on the July 2000 cover of Internet World Magazine. Dr. Rangan has been the recipient of President of Indias gold medal from Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1984. As a Ph.D. student in Computer Science he spent a year at Cornell University, before moving to University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley he secured the top-most rank in the qualifying exams for graduate studies. In 1988, his Ph.D. thesis at University of California, Berkeley was judged as the outstanding Ph.D of the year by IBM. Dr.Venkat Rangan was the founder and director of the Multimedia Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego, where he served as a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. The UCSD Multimedia Laboratory is internationally recognized to be a pioneer of research in Multimedia Systems and Internet E Commerce. Later, Dr. Rangan founded Yodlee Inc. and served as its CEO, for which in 2000, he was selected as one of the 25 best entrep... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=19908485