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Sugata Mitra

1952 - Today

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Sugata Mitra (born 12 February 1952) is an Indian computer scientist and educational theorist. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Professor Emeritus at NIIT University, Rajasthan, India. A Ph.D. in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as visiting professor at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sugata Mitra has received more than 271,747 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sugata Mitra is the 181st most popular computer scientist (down from 164th in 2019), the 884th most popular biography from India (down from 743rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Indian Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Sugata Mitra ranks 181 out of 245. Before him are Alan Cooper, Peter Shor, Yoshua Bengio, Audrey Tang, Henriette Avram, and Luis von Ahn. After him are Edward F. Moore, Noga Alon, Andrew Morton, Pat Hanrahan, Geir Ivarsøy, and Brian Acton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Sugata Mitra ranks 595. Before him are Hossein Sheikholeslam, Hubert von Goisern, Ekkehard Fasser, Arun Jaitley, Marina Solodkin, and Reinhard Häfner. After him are Mary Badham, Tamás Faragó, Dick Schoenaker, Thomas Ahlström, Bappi Lahiri, and Guillermo La Rosa.

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In India

Among people born in India, Sugata Mitra ranks 884 out of 1,861. Before him are Mahendra Kapoor (1934), Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916), Annapurna Devi (1927), Nitin Gadkari (1957), Gita Mehta (1943), and Krishan Kant (1927). After him are Mah Laqa Bai (1768), Simon Pimenta (1920), Fareed Zakaria (1964), Norman Pritchard (1877), Kenneth Anderson (1891), and Bappi Lahiri (1952).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In India

Among computer scientists born in India, Sugata Mitra ranks 3. Before him are Sudha Murty (1950), and Raj Reddy (1937). After him are Manindra Agrawal (1966).

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