1. Sugata Mitra was born on 12 February 1952 and is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist.
11 Facts About Sugata Mitra
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Sugata Mitra is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education.
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Sugata Mitra is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India.
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Sugata Mitra published a paper on a zinc-chlorine battery and a speculative paper on why the human sense organs are located where they are.
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Sugata Mitra then worked setting up networked computers and created the "Yellow Pages" industry in India and Bangladesh.
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Sugata Mitra has a PhD in Physics but is credited with more than 25 inventions in the area of cognitive science and education technology.
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Sugata Mitra was conferred the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in Information Technology in the year 2005.
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In September 2012 Sugata Mitra won the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award in the "Crossing Border" category.
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On 3 May 2013, Sugata Mitra's TED Talk "Build a School in the Cloud" was featured in NPR's TED Radio hour on "Unstoppable Learning".
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Sugata Mitra claimed that children in the rural slums of India, many of whom had never seen a computer in their lives had, when left with computers in kiosks, taught themselves everything from "character mapping" to advanced topics such as "DNA replication" on their own, without adult assistance.
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Sugata Mitra's publication was judged the best open access publication in the world for 2005 and he was awarded the Dewang Mehta Award for innovation in IT that year.