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Pranav mistry


 Pranav Mistry is an Indian computer scientist and inventor. He is from Palanpur, a small town situated in northern Gujarat in India. He is best known for his noteworthy work on Sixth Sense and Samsung Galaxy Gear. SixthSense is gesture interface device consist of data projector and camera combined in a neck worn pendant. He has worked with Microsoft, Google, CMU, NASA, UNESCO, Japan Science & Technology to name a few. Currently he is the head of Think Tank Team (TTT) and Director of Research of Samsung Research America. He has been honoured as one of the Young Global Leader 2013 by World Economic Forum.

Vinod khosla (java created)

Vinod Khosla is an Indian born businessman who is currently listed by Forbes magazine as an American billionaire, He was one of the co- founders of Sun Microsystems, a company which created the Java language and Network File System (NFS) after his departure as founding CEO and chairman in the early 1980s.

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