Even now, the unabashed elite-worshipping that IIT graduates command in India would make Zeus blush.
With top graduates getting juicy offers from abroad, fewer stay for graduate studies at IIT.
Since that time he has invested in a dozen companies founded by other IIT graduates.
"That's when I realized how rigorous our math training at IIT had been, " he says.
The company launched in December of 2011, by students from the prestigious IIT Kanpur.
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While Vindi attended IIT, the elite engineering school, Banga graduated in economics from Delhi's prestigious St.
Basab is an engineer from IIT Kanpur and has an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad.
Sheth, an IIT grad, later did research at MIT's Media Lab but dropped out of the Ph.
He's collaborating with IIT Delhi on the prototype, which is being tested at the LV Prasad Eye Institute.
The ministry has put professors' lectures from IIT on the device, which can, of course, also play movies.
"Most IIT-ians don't have a problem dealing with cutthroat corporate America, " says Gupta, who wrote Oracle's first business plan.
The IIT's Mr. Number 19 represents a generation of driven, talented students who are intent on improving their lives.
The six campuses of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) admitted just 2% of applicants last year (Harvard College took 11%).
Recently, researchers at the Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) in Genoa created an artificial retina made of a biocompatible photovoltaic polymer.
IIT-Chennai, who has been instrumental in bringing several technologies to rural markets, points out that there are 600, 000 villages in India alone.
"Our name has huge brand equity in educational institutions everywhere in the world, " says Prem Vrat, a former director of the IIT Delhi campus.
"A delegation from Germany's top five universities has been pleading with us to send our students there, " says Amitabha Ghosh, the director of IIT Kharagpur.
If Gupta were to fast forward from his years as a student at IIT and Harvard, it is inconceivable that he saw this as an outcome.
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Over the next six months, about 100, 000 tablets are scheduled to be delivered to IIT, which plans to install a number of engineering and other educational Android apps.
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It is the product of a joint venture between one of India's elite Institutes of Technology -- IIT Rajasthan -- and DataWind, the manufacturer that won the bid.
After graduating IIT and working for five years in India, Ajit was looking for something more and set out to make a future for himself on his own term.
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As she told me in a January 17th interview, Sankar attended an all-girls high school in India and was then admitted to one of its top engineering programs IIT Kanpur, India.
We help some of the poorest children on the planet beat tremendous odds and make it into one of the most exclusive university systems in the world, the Indian Institute of Technology, or IIT.
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Born in 1968 in the town of Hisar in the northern state of Haryana to middle-class parents, Mr Kejriwal graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Kharagpur with a degree in mechanical engineering.
"I was at IIT nearly 30 years ago, but just last week I woke up sweating in the middle of the night dreaming that I was back there sitting for one of those killer exams, " admits Sudhakar Shenoy, the CEO of IMC, a software services company in McLean, Virginia.
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