Goutam Das of Business Today India recently discussed the fascinating steps that Balaji Lakshmanan, founder of Geeky Technology & Consulting is taking with machine-to-machine computing. Das writes, “Men double his age could easily get an inferiority complex looking at 34-year-old Balaji Lakshmanan’s resume. He has written and reviewed international papers on robotics, taught 5,000 students through workshops and has two provisional international patents. He has been ‘robotic consultant’ for a Tamil film featuring a superhero, Mugamoodi, and has delivered robots to the Indian Army. He also runs Geeky Technology & Consulting, whose domain name, www.imakerobots.com, once again underlines his specialisation.” Read more

Wipro Limited is looking for Semantic Web Gurus in Bangalore, India. According to the post, “The Strategic Technology Office at Wipro Limited is looking for Data Scientists & Stream Data Mining, Semantic Web Gurus to join at our Bangalore HQ. We are a multi-disciplinary team of technical architects, infrastructure engineers, software developers & customer evangelists – all striving for a single goal: make Big Data more meaningful to customers.” Read more

Steven VanRoekel and Aneesh Chopra recently shared some exciting news about the growing reach of open government initiatives. They wrote, “Last week, President Obama’s unprecedented efforts to advance open and transparent Government reached an important milestone. As part of a joint effort by the United States and India to build an open government platform, the U.S. team has deposited open source code– an important benchmark in developing the Open Government Platform that will enable governments around the world to stand up their own open government data sites.” Read more

Former President of India, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam gave the keynote address at the 20^th International Wordwide Web Conference in Hyderabad this week: “Dr. Kalam centered his keynote address around ‘Web for societal transformation’. Addressing the over 700 delegates he said the Web has had a glorious existence over two decades and has revolutionized the way we work and live.” Read more