kris gopalakrishnan
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kris gopalakrishnan
@kris_sg
Co-founder Infosys; Interests : education, research, innovation and entrepreneurship; Sharing interesting content; Trustee Pratiksha Trust
- The artificial heart being built by @IITKanpur is the next big thing in world healthcare - Dr Devi Shetty
- Indian at Cambridge solves 2500-yo Sanskrit problem from Panini’s texts. “a major milestone in the history of human interaction with machines, as well as in India’s intellectual history.”
- IISc students bag top 6 rank at world physics challenge, India's highest yet - congrats to the students @iiscbangalore
- Can not agree more. Has been proposing to increase R&D spend to 2-3% of GDP. Return will happen over the next 10-25 years.India has to invent jets and drones and ... For our size of population, for India to have its place in the world, we have to invent and invent pretty much every important piece of technology, crucial to national security and economic strength and I repeat myself - because
- India needs more research funding, especially from private sector.The US has been investing in research from the 1960s, and are seeing the fruits of that today. But once you have created that ecosystem, it will produce results every year. It’s a virtuous cycle. @kris_sg theprint.in/ground-reports…
- We need to build our own foundation models. Culture, strategic autonomy etc. @itihaasa @iitmadras
- Congrats IISc for the #1 rank amongst India institutes. @iiscbangalore news.google.com/articles/CBMik…
- No one thought I could make it: Ramanujan Prize winner Neena Gupta who solved Zariski problem
- Corporates should pay for vaccinations of their employees and pay for an equal number of others as CSR so that this takes care of funding vaccinations. This money should be directly paid to manufacturers @TVMohandasPai @kiranshaw
- IIT-Bombay names Main Building after its alumnus Nandan Nilekani
- @Nithin0dha Why retire? Start a second career or even become an entrepreneur. If you take care of health, one can be productive till 80-90 years of ageWhat Gen Z & even millennials don't think about enough is that the retirement age is dropping fast due to technological progress & life expectancy going up due to medical progress. In 20 years, retirement could be at 50 & life expectancy at 80. How do you fund the 30 years? 1/5
