Sam Pitroda

Sam Pitroda

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  • Name:
  • Sam Pitroda
  • Other Name:
  • Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda
  • Born:
  • May 4, 1942

Sam Pitroda Biography

Sam Pitroda’s real name is Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda. He is an Indian engineer, business executive and policymaker from Odisha. He is advisor to Indian Prime Minister on public information infrastructure and innovations and also serves as the chairman of National Innovation Council. He has also served as chairman of the National Knowledge Commission during the period, 2005–2009. Pitroda holds around 100 patents on technology. He is the founder chairman of C-SAM. An advisor to the United Nations and technology Advisor to the Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi are other top positions held by Sam. He published his biography Sam Pitroda: A Biography in the year 1992 which was a bestseller. He is one of the pioneers of the telecom revolution in India.

 

Sam was born in Titlagarh, Odisha on May 4, 1942. His ancestors are from Gujarat. He had seven siblings. As the family was deeply influenced by Gandhi’s philosophy, he was sent to Gujarat to learn Gandhian philosophy. His schooling was done at Vallabh Vidyanagar in Gujarat and his degree and post graduation from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Vadodara. He took physics and electronics as the main subject. Later he obtained Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

 

Then he was involved technology research work in telecommunications and hand-held computing and it happened during late 1960’s and early 1970’s. He invented Electronic Diary in 1975 and hence regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of hand-held computing. In 1974, Pitroda joined Wescom Switching and developed 580 DSS switch. In 1980, he became the vice president of Rockwell International. After that, he listed numerous patents in the field of telecommunication. In 1981, he returned to India. Dataquest honoured him with lifetime achievement award in 2002.

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Updated: February 25, 2014

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