Rao Machiraju Explained

Nagabhushan "Rao Machiraju" is an Indian American scientist and business executive, and holds 10 patents in information retrieval.

Background and career

He has an interdisciplinary educational background: Masters in Public Health (M.P.H. from California State University, Northridge), he studied General Systems and Information Networks under James Grier Miller and Kjell Samuelson (Certificate from United Nations Institute for Training and Research, University of Stockholm and UCLA), and Ed.D in Instructional Technology'(Doctorate from University of Southern California).[1] [2] He was an Executive in Residence and co-director of Center for Human Applied Reasoning and the Internet of Things, (Chariot) at the University of Southern California.[3] Formerly hewas a Co-founder and the CEO of reQall Inc., an MIT Media Lab spin off, a former advisor to Dimagi with Sandy Pentland,[4] and a NASA Research Partner.[5] [6] [7] He is also the co-founder of Magically Inc.,[8] [9] [10] N. Rao Machiraju, was a Principal Scientist at Apple Inc., heading various groups including The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) Learning Communities Laboratory.[11] [12] Rao and his team have won the 1993 Optimas Award for Innovation and Excellence for Apple Inc.[13] Rao also was a co-founder of Magically Inc[14] [15] and ConceptLabs.[16] [17]

Rao worked on a number of research and development efforts in information retrieval, organizational memory, wrote a number of articles and also lectured extensively.[18] [19] In 1996, the term "location sense" was coined by Rao Machiraju to refer to a capability of a device that can ascertain its location.[20] Rao was also on the editorial boards of Journal of Expert Systems and Journal of Telematics and Informatics as a Founding member. He was also on the Board of Councilors of National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Multi-Media Computing in (Integrated Media Systems Center) at the University of Southern California,[21] [22] and served on the advisory board of Dimagi.com, an MIT Medialab spin off.[23] Rao also served as Chief Mentor for Ventura Technology Incubator.[24] [25] He was also a faculty member at USC.[26] He is also a founding board member of the Don Norman Award.[27]

Research and publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Seminar on People Computers and Design, at Stanford university. Stanford University. 2011-06-25.
  2. Web site: reQall Team. reQall.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725002738/http://www.reqall.com/about/team. 2011-07-25. dead. 2011-06-25.
  3. Web site: New research center envisions the Internet of Things applied to personalized learning.
  4. Web site: reQall's CEO on 'reqallable in-car to help reduce distracted driving'. www.csun.edu. 14 September 2016 .
  5. Web site: reQall Team . reQall.com . 2011-06-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725002738/http://www.reqall.com/about/team . 2011-07-25 .
  6. Web site: Spin-Offs; MIT Media Lab . Media.mit.edu . 2011-06-25.
  7. Web site: NASA Research Park . Researchpark.arc.nasa.gov . 2011-06-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727045129/http://researchpark.arc.nasa.gov/Partners/search/dynamic/details.php?partner_id=26 . 2011-07-27 .
  8. Web site: Magically Inc. Executive Team . magically.com . 2011-06-25.
  9. Web site: Virtual Desktop for Mac users stores files via web . Magically Inc. Press Release . 2011-06-25.
  10. News: 'Webtop' Services for the Computer Commuter . Los Angeles Times . 1999-02-22. 2011-06-25 . Ashley . Dunn.
  11. Association for Computing Machinery . ACM SIGCHI Bulletin . April 1998 . 30 . 2 . 106–107 . deepdyve.com . 10.1145/279044.279169 . 2011-07-01 . Machiraju . N. Rao . 37126105 .
  12. Web site: 1993 Innovation Optimas Award Profile: Apple Computer Inc. . Workforce.com . 2011-06-25.
  13. Web site: Innova Optimus award . Implicity Learning . 2011-06-25.
  14. Web site: 1999-02-22. 'Webtop' Services for the Computer Commuter. 2021-03-05. Los Angeles Times. en-US.
  15. Web site: N. Rao Machiraju: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek .
  16. Web site: IMSC Board of Councillors . IMSC, University of Southern California . 2011-06-25.
  17. News: Insta-Firms: Just Add Dollars . https://web.archive.org/web/20010128094200/http://www.forbes.com/global/2000/0417/0308108a_print.html . dead . January 28, 2001 . Forbes.com . 2011-06-25.
  18. Web site: Seminar at Stanford university - Heat and Dust: Designing Solutions on the Other Side of the World . Stanford University . 2011-06-25.
  19. Web site: CSLI Calendar of events . CSLI, Stanford University . 2011-06-25.
  20. Web site: WorldBoard: What Comes After the WWW? . 5 April 2012 . Service Science . 2012-07-02.
  21. Web site: IMSC begins new inititatives to transfer technology . IMSC News . 2011-07-01.
  22. Web site: IMSC Board of Councillors, NSF Engineering Research Center . Integrated Media Systems Center, University of Southern California . 2011-06-25.
  23. Web site: Dimagi Advisors . dimagi.com . 2011-06-27.
  24. Web site: Former Apple scientist plans to open Ventura office . vcstar.com . 2011-07-01.
  25. Web site: Startup's founder helps to lead the way as Ventura Ventures Technology Center takes shape: Hatching ideas . TMCnet.com . 2011-07-01.
  26. Web site: 2017-04-19. Nagabhushan Machiraju. 2021-03-05. Press Room. en-US.
  27. Web site: Design for a Better World.
  28. The ATG Learning Communities Laboratory - An Overview . ACM SIGCHI Bulletin . April 1998 . 30 . 2 . 106–107 . deepdyve.com . 10.1145/279044.279169 . 2011-06-25 . Machiraju . N. Rao . 37126105 .
  29. The ATG Learning Communities Laboratory - An Overview . ACM SIGCHI Bulletin . April 1998 . 30 . 2 . 106–107 . ACM Digital Library . 10.1145/279044.279169 . 2011-06-25 . Machiraju . N. Rao . 37126105 .
  30. Web site: Apple's Education Research Agenda by N. Rao Machiraju . SySDOC. 2011-06-25.
  31. A study of the usage of an international computer communications network: its implications for distance education . 1987 . ACM Digital Library . 2011-06-25. phd . Machiraju . Nagabhushan Rao .
  32. Book: A study of the usage of an international computer communications network: it's [sic] implications for distance education ]. 2011-06-25. Machiraju . Nagabhushan Rao . 1987 .
  33. Web site: Handheld computers for rural healthcare: Experiences from research concept to global operations. nextlab.mit.edu . 2011-06-25.
  34. Web site: kaash.sourceforge.net . kaash.sourceforge.net . 2011-06-25.
  35. Web site: academic.research.microsoft.com . Microsoft.com . 2011-06-25.
  36. Web site: TierStore: A Distributed Filesystem for Challenged Networks in Developing Regions . usenix.org . 2011-06-25.
  37. Microcomputer-based informatics: some training considerations . 1987 . ACM Digital Library . 10.1016/S0736-5853(87)80033-3 . 2011-06-25 . Havard . Russell . Machiraju . N. Rao . Telematics and Informatics . 4 . 3 . 215–220 .
  38. Book: Telematics and Informatics: An International Journal on Telecommunications & Information Technology . 1992 . 2011-06-25.
  39. Book: International informatics access '87 . 1987 . 2011-06-25.

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