From Turing to Touchscreens: 70 Years of Software Development
Today, I had the privilege of speaking on a topic close to my heart: “70 Years of Software Development and Change Management for the Software Industry”, at the Microsoft India…
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Audio Cassettes
Audio Cassettes were the favourite way we stored and listened to music when I was in school. Each tape had two sides and together they had a running time of…
K7 Computing’s 25th Anniversary
I was super happy today to have attended K7 Computing Pvt. Ltd.’s 25th Anniversary celebrations. The last time I had a similar privilege was ten years back when they moved…
Shaping our future
Ajay Khankhoje of Synergetics-India invited me to deliver a keynote at his company’s Annual Day event in Mumbai. It was an opportunity for me to address a talented set of…
Rebooting Software Services Industry
Indian IT Services has benefited from a great run so far. In about three decades the industry has grown from few hundred million dollars to have about US$155 billion in…
Change is difficult
This is my first attempt on doing a vlog (video blog). I have talked about an experience I had about 25 years back that taught me how any change in…
The father of Visual Basic – Alan Cooper
In last week’s Twit Triangulation podcast I enjoyed listening to Mr.Alan Cooper the father of Visual Basic, whose works I admire a lot. His book on “About Face: The Essentials…
Software design, little has changed in the last 70 years
On 19 February 1946 Alan Turing designed the first well-known software for a stored-program computer. Seventy years later, each of us is carrying numerous apps (software) in our pockets and…