Mr. CHRISTOPHER C. BENNINGER
An Archi-design Architect of the Decade Award winner, Prof. Benninger believes that "Architecture is a curious craft; one structure may follow all of the laws of the design, yet be worthless, while still another may break all the principles and be profound."
Prof. Christopher Benninger has won the Archi-design Architect of the year award-2009 for the project Samundra Institute of Maritime Studies (pune) and has been awarded for designing the Best Institutional Building in India, by J.K. Cement in 2009.
He has also received the Great Master Architect Award by J.K. Cement which is the most prestigious award given only to 6 other master architects in the past 17 years.
Recognized as Construction World Magazine’s ‘Top Ten Architects and receipient of The Golden Architect of the Year instituted by A+D magazine,his contributions to the field of Architecture are immense.
Mr. M C MEHTA
A lawyer by profession and a committed environmentalist by choice, M. C. Mehta made the fight to protect India's environment his unending mission. He has pioneered legal activism for environmental protection and is proof that one man can make a difference.
In the words of Ms Smita Gate "Often described as the One Man Enviro-legal Brigade, Mr Mehta is a dedicated, fearless and extremely honest man, he pursues his goals with single-minded devotion. He has been conferred with several prestigious awards. Some of these are the Governor's Gold Medal, the Goldman Environmental Prize, considered on alternative Noble Prize in USA and Europe, the UN's Global 500 Award for 1993 and above all the Magsaysay Award for 1997."
Mr. MAHESH MURTHY
Mahesh Murthy, a college dropout, sold vacuum cleaners from door to door, before joining the advertising business. Famous for his work as a creative director for HP, Microsoft, Unilever, The Economist, Pepsi and MTV - for whom he wrote and directed a spot voted “Asia’s best commercial of the decade”. He helped create and launch the first commercial version of Yahoo! In 1995, and the “Earth’s biggest bookstore” campaign for Amazon.com in 1997. Returning to India, he ran Channel V till 2000, and later also appeared in Business Baazigar on the Indian Television. In 2003, he founded the digital marketing firm Pinstorm, ranked among Asia's Top 100 Technology Companies in 2005, today among the world's leading digital marketing firms. In 2006, he co-founded Seedfund with the backing of investors like Google and Motorola to create and guide even more revolutionary companies.
Dr. JOHN C. MATHER
Dr. John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his work on COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer Satellite). COBE was the first experiment to measure "... the black body form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation." This work helped cement the big-bang theory of the universe. According to the Nobel Prize committee, "the COBE-project can also be regarded as the starting point for cosmology as a precision science."
Mather is currently a senior astrophysicist at the U.S. space agency's (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland also the project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, which is slated to replace the Hubble Space Telescope. In 2007, Mather was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World and has been awarded with the India General President Gold Medal by the Govt of India.
Mr. SAM PITRODA
Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission
Advisor to the Prime Minister of India
Sam Pitroda (born 16 November, 1942, in Titlagarh, Orissa) (Real name Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda) is an inventor, entrepreneur and policymaker. Currently Advisor to the Prime Minister of India on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations, he is also widely considered to have been responsible for India’s communications revolution.
He has served as Chairman of the National Knowledge Commission (2005-2008), a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, set up to give policy recommendations for improving knowledge related institutions and infrastructure in the country. He is also the founder & CEO of C-SAM, Inc. The company maintains its headquarters in Chicago with offices in London, Tokyo, Mumbai and Vadodara.
He has also served as an advisor to the United Nations and in 1992, his biography Sam Pitroda: A Biography was published and became the bestseller on the The Economic Timeslist for 5 weeks. As technology Advisor to the >Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi in the 1980s, Mr. Pitroda not only heralded the telecom revolution in India, but also made a strong case for using technology for the benefit and betterment of society through several missions on telecommunications, literacy, dairy, water, immunization, oilseeds etc
Dr. T P SASIKUMAR
M.Sc., M.Phil (Mathematics), PhD (Fluid Mechanics - Heat Transfer), LLB, MBA (HR - Knowledge Management), MS (Psychotherapy & Counselling)
[FORMER :
- DEPUTY DIRECTOR, Directorate General of Security, Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India, Delhi
- DIRECTOR, UGC-ASC, Calicut University, Kerala.
- SECTION HEAD - DAAPS, Organizational Development, Photolab, MI Library & Training, ADRIN, Space Department, Hyderabad
- SCIENTIST, Space Application Centre, Ahmedabad
- SCIENTIST, Program Planing & Project Management, ISRO-HQ, Bangalore]
AUTHOR OF LIFE OF LOVE & LIFE MADE SIMPLE
Teacher, Writer, Public Speaker, Space Scientist, Educationalist, Science Communicator, Soft / Life Skill Trainer, Spiritual Director, Psychotherapist
STUDENT of
Ayurveda, Vasthu, Astrology, Rituals, Thanthra, Therapies & Healings, Eastern Philosophy & Heritage etc.
Dr. ARCHANA SHARMA
Dr. Archana Sharma is an Indian experimental physicist and a staff member of CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research. She has been working there since 1987 and is presently working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project in Geneva, Switzerland, and has authored over 200 scientific papers.
She has been working on detector development for instrumentation of experiments at the Large Hadron Collider and has authored over 200 scientific papers published in scientific journals. Her major contributions have been in the field of gaseous radiation detectors. She is also on the advisory committee of several international scientific committees.
YASHWANT KANETKAR
Yashavant P. Kanetkar is an IIT Kanpur alumnus and a Computer science author, known for his books on programming languages. He has authored several books on topics such as C, C++, VC++, C#, .NET, DirectX and COM programming. His best-selling books include Let Us C, Understanding Pointers In C and Test Your C Skills. He has created, moulded and groomed many of IT professionals in the last decade and half. He has been awarded the "Best .Net Technical Contributor" and "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional" awards by Microsoft for his contributions in the field of web software technology.
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