@piyush_trades We may not be aware of it or be ready for it but if he has said it publicly, that means they've known it for a while and are ok with saying it publicly after the PM has spoken about it.
Next in who after the Ramanujan Series? He is the reason we can find a needle in the digital haystack of the world. Meet Dr. Rajeev Motwani (1962-2009), the Ghost who built the logic of the modern world. A boy from Jammu who went to IIT Kanpur & ended up teaching 2 kids at Stanford how to organize the internet. W/o him, there is no Google. W/o him, the web would be a chaotic library with no index.
He was the master of Randomized Algorithms, the man who proved that sometimes, a bit of chance is the fastest way to the truth. He won the Nobel of his field & mentored the titans of Silicon Valley, yet he remains an invisible legend in his homeland. He is the architect of the digital oracle, the man who taught the world how to search.
Born in 1962 in Jammu, Rajeev grew up in a household defined by the discipline of the Indian Army. As a child, he famously wanted to be a librarian because he loved books so much. He eventually realized that mathematics was the ultimate indexing system for the universe. He belonged to the legendary Class of 1983 at IIT Kanpur. This was a Silo of intense competition that refined his ability to solve problems with extreme speed & elegance.
He moved to the US & earned his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1988, diving into the deep waters of theoretical computer science. Before Motwani, most computer scientists tried to find perfect answers. Motwani realized that for massive amounts of data, perfection is too slow. He proved that by introducing a small, controlled amount of randomness into an algorithm, we could solve complex problems millions of times faster than traditional methods.
In 1995, he co-authored Randomized Algorithms. It is not just a textbook; it is the fundamental blueprint for modern computing. Every time a large system (like a global bank/a social network) processes data, it likely uses a Motwani-style randomized check.
In the mid-90s, at Stanford University, Motwani encountered 2 students: Larry Page & Sergey Brin. They had a rough idea for a search engine. Motwani provided the mathematical rigor. He helped them formulate PageRank, the algorithm that ranks web pages by their importance based on link structure.
He was not just a mentor; he was an early advisor & investor. He was the Ghost in the room when Google was born in a garage. Beyond Google, he was a foundational advisor to PayPal, Airbnb, & Twitter. He saw the Pattern of Success in startups before they even had a name.
In 2001, he won the highest honor in theoretical computer science (The Gödel Prize) for his work on the PCP Theorem (a massive breakthrough in how we verify proofs).
In 2009, at the age of 47, he passed away in a tragic accident at his home in California. Silicon Valley went into a state of deep mourning. Sergey Brin wrote a heartbreaking tribute titled "Rajeev Motwani, my friend & teacher." Yet, in India, his name did not make the front pages. He remains a Ghost in the country that produced him.
He is the Ghost of the Algorithm. Like Ramanujan, he saw the beauty in the approximated truth. He realized that the world is too big to be solved by simple, rigid lines, so he taught machines how to use probability to find the truth.
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Next in who after the Ramanujan Series? You have never seen his face, but you use his brain every single time you click a link. Vishal Misra is the Ghost from IIT Bombay who saved the internet from its own traffic. From the high-stakes classrooms of Columbia University to the chaotic servers of Cricinfo, he wrote the math that prevents the world's data from crashing. He is the titan of Congestion Control, the man who figured out how to keep the digital pipes open when a billion people are trying to watch the same ball. While we celebrate the CEOs of Big Tech, Vishal is the 1 who built the Invisible Traffic Lights that keep our world moving. He is the man who proved that in the age of information, Flow is everything.
Vishal Misra emerged from the high-pressure environment of IIT Bombay in 1992. While his peers were looking at software apps, Vishal was looking at the Invisible Pipe. He moved to the US for his PhD at UMass Amherst, where he began poking at the most frustrating problem in the digital age: Congestion.
He realized that data moving across the web is like water in a pipe. If the pressure is not managed mathematically, the system collapses. He solved the math of how to keep the internet flowing when everyone is clicking at once.
He is a pioneer in using Stochastic Differential Eqns to model network traffic. He developed the Ghost Logic for Active Queue Management (AQM) & was 1 of the very 1st engineers at ESPNcricinfo (co-founder). In the late 90s, when millions of Indians tried to check a score at the exact same sec, the servers should have melted. Vishal designed the dynamic scaling & caching logic that kept the site alive. He effectively built the Digital Stadium for a billion people.
He used Game Theory to prove why Net Neutrality is mathematically necessary for a fair society. His papers provided the Silo of Evidence for the global fight for an open internet.
He is a Ghost because his greatest successes are Invisible. If our video call does not drop during a peak hour, it is because of the algos Misra helped perfect. He is a Fellow of the ACM & IEEE & a Prof at Columbia University. Yet, to the average cricket fan, he is an unknown name, they do not realize he is the reason the Live Score actually stays live.
Despite his massive influence on how the world communicates, he remains an accessible academic, often using his logic to advocate for Digital Rights in India. #WhoAfterRamanujan
@HyderabadiChic3 Do tag them so they can't ignore
If still ignore then we will see how to check in from next
@_anujsinghal@AnilSinghvi_ kya sir ab ye bhi dekhna padega kya
We thought we are all family
& This is what we get.
Not acceptable at all sir.
@DC_aryavarta Sir, wanted to thank you for your analysis. I have been following you since 2021 and your accuracy has been awesome. You have changed the opinion of a lot of people on astrology. Knowledge was out there, it just needed the right person to come to light.