Microsoft Research India announced its involvement in the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI) project at TechVista 2010 in Bangalore. The project seeks to provide valid identities to India's population of more than a billion people. "I am looking forward to working with researchers on technologies like multilingual computing and biometrics," says UIDAI chairperson Nandan Nilekani. Microsoft Research India also launched a portal for the computer science community called ResearchAndYou.com. The portal is designed to bridge the gap between computer science researchers and the large pool of potential research talent in India. The Web site will provide students with an interactive forum where they can connect with researchers to ask questions and explore research opportunities. The site also will act as a single source of information for resources in different disciplines. TechVista 2010 also brought together a panel of ACM A.M. Turing award recipients, including Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Tony Hey, to discuss the future of computing. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20100215/news02.shtml ------------------------
For long, Infosys had been a strategic partner of Microsoft. What else can we expect from Nandan ?
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 11:44 PM, ck raju wrote:
Microsoft Research India announced its involvement in the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI) project at TechVista 2010 in Bangalore. The project seeks to provide valid identities to India's population of more than a billion people. "I am looking forward to working with researchers on technologies like multilingual computing and biometrics," says UIDAI chairperson Nandan Nilekani. Microsoft
Hmm so another opening for anti social digital kings to provide enough security gaps for terrorists etc to work with. Digital technology is good, but should an un-transparent technology be excepted at the cost of peoples personal security and should we give away our privacy to some one whom we cant even trust?
Research India also launched a portal for the computer science community called ResearchAndYou.com. The portal is designed to bridge the gap between computer science researchers and the large pool of potential research talent in India. The Web site will provide students with an interactive forum where they can connect with researchers to ask questions and explore research opportunities. The site also will act as a single source of information for resources in different disciplines.
So again we can see the parasitic nature of microsoft. Like paracites, they will suck out all the talent, then make proprietory technologies and sell it back to those same students or so-called researchers. And guess who will hold all the rights for our own inovations?
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:44 PM, ck raju ck.thrissur@gmail.com wrote:
Microsoft Research India announced its involvement in the Unique Identification of India (UIDAI) project at TechVista 2010 in Bangalore. The project seeks to provide valid identities to India's population of more than a billion people. "I am looking forward to working with researchers on technologies like multilingual computing and biometrics," says UIDAI chairperson Nandan Nilekani. Microsoft Research India also launched a portal for the computer science community called ResearchAndYou.com. The portal is designed to bridge the gap between computer science researchers and the large pool of potential research talent in India. The Web site will provide students with an interactive forum where they can connect with researchers to ask questions and explore research opportunities. The site also will act as a single source of information for resources in different disciplines. TechVista 2010 also brought together a panel of ACM A.M. Turing award recipients, including Barbara Liskov, Tony Hoare, Butler Lampson, and Tony Hey, to discuss the future of computing. http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20100215/news02.shtml
For long, Infosys had been a strategic partner of Microsoft. What else can we expect from Nandan ?
FWIW, there's an interesting document titled: http://www.uidai.nic.in/tenders/code_contribution_to_uidai_final.pdf
It is titled: "Invitation to the Developer Community to contribute to the development of Enrolment Software for UIDAI". It essentially asks "any Company or an existing open source project and even individual developers" to voluntarily code for the commission (with no guarantees whether the code will be accepted or not). The copyright and "IPR" goes to the commission who "reserves the right to open source any part or in full, any of these components and contributions in the future for the betterment of the community." (so no guarantees on that as well).
While the document itself seems to be quite clueless (especially as far as Free Software goes), I fear that it will be later used against the FOSS community as "we had given out a call for participation, but none from the FOSS community responded".. and similar crap.
Thanks, Sayamindu
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