Digital Republic -- India's Rise to IT Power
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (734 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00CGR5JLU |
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| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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An enjoyable and engaging memoir! This is an excellent memoir by one of India's leading computer scientists. It documents the early growth of computer science through the `50s and '70s followed by the explosive growth of the software industry and its influence on contemporary society. What makes it particularly interesting is Mathai Joseph's own story as a student in Bombay, Car. Prof. Sugata Sanyal said Digital Republic: A First hand account. Mathai Joseph has written a book "Digital Republic" which covers a significant portion of his life as well as the life of Development work in the major software projects in India, in leading places. It starts with his personal development in the Computer Science arena with a PhD degree, well earned at the Cambridge University. Mathai guided and . A very readable book! Smita Ghaisas A very readable account of the IT phenomenon in India! Digital Republic steers clear of the typical documentary-style `history of IT in India' narrative and instead presents personal impressions of the empowering journey of a nation despite all the government restrictions that slowed things down from the 1960s--1980s. Written with wit and warmth
So Mathai Joseph pursued his research goals in the UK where he was offered a chair in computer science. The financial constraints of university research disappeared and the demand was for quick achievement. This period of furious growth of the Indian software industry raised accusations from within and without of incarcerating young people in a web of body-shopping and dull mindless work. Despite the odds, computer science was made to grow in that inhospitable soil and his research group won recognition among its worldwide peers. This memoir is not a technical history and reading it does not need technical knowledge. He discusses the wide differences in the academic perception of computing in India and the rest of the world and how it affected the growth of Indian computer science as well as the computing industry. Computing however was considered a bag of techniques suitable only for solving large numerical problems. Interleaving history and memoir, it describes key moments and decisions that led to the slowdown in the 1960s and 1970s and the changes in the 1980s that fuelled the ascent of the software industry to pre-eminence in what has become one of the world’s most important industries. The next chapters are set at the redoubtable Tata Institute of Fundamental Research where science was revered. This book analyses the rise of Indian computing. In this demanding environment, simple survival was possible but success needed hard-fought recognitio