T. V.

Sundaram Iyengar
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T. V. Sundaram Iyengar
T. V.

Born 1877

Thirunelveli, Madras Presidency,British India

Died April 28, 1955

Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India

Occupation Industrialist

Children T. S. Soundaram, T. S. Rajam, T. S. Santhanam, T. S.

Srinivasan and T.S. Krishna

Relatives Venu Srinivasan (grandson)

T. V. Sundaram Iyengar (Trichur Venkagaruswamy) was an industrialist, the founder of TV Sundaram Iyengar

and Sons group of companies, one of India's largest industrial conglomerates. [1] With his humble beginning as a
lawyer, he grew into one of the most successful industrialists of his time. The Flagship Company of the group
is TVS Motors. He laid foundation for road transport industry in the erstwhile Madras Presidency through the
states first bus service. The TVS group he thus started now extends from motor industry, auto services to
financial services.

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1 Birth and early life

2 As an industrialist

3 Personal life and

death

4 References

[edit]Birth and early life

Sundaram Iyengar was born in Thirukkurungudi, Tirunelveli District in the present day Tamil Nadu (then part
of Madras Presidency) in 1877. Sundaram Iyengar started his initial career as a lawyer, as per his father's
wishes, then moved to work for the Indian railways and later in a bank.[2]

[edit]As an industrialist
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into TVS Group. (Discuss)

Sundaram Iyengar later quit his job[2] and laid the foundation for the motor transport industry in South India
when he first started a bus service in the city of Madurai in the year 1912.[2][3]He established the T.V.
Sundaram Iyengar and Sons Limited in 1923, which by his death in 1955, operated a number of buses and
lorries under the title of Southern Roadways Limited. [3] This paved the way for the genesis of the TVS Group.
During the times of the second world war, Madras Presidency was met with petrol scarcity. To meet the
demands, Sundaram Iyengar designed and produced the TVS Gas Plant. He also started a factory
for rubber retreading, besides two more concerns, the Madras Auto Service Ltd. and the Sundaram Motors
Ltd., the former was the largest distributors of General Motors in the 1950s. [3] What started as a single man’s
passion soon became the business of a family. Sundaram Iyengar had five sons and three daughters, and in
his patriarchal Tamil Brahmin family all male members got into the business. With his eldest son, Duraisamy’s
early death, four other sons— T. S. Rajam, T. S. Santhanam, T. S. Srinivasan and T.S. Krishna — became an
integral part of the business and ever since there have been four largely distinct branches that, however, have
worked under the TVS umbrella.[2] The group established by Sundaram Iyengar, according to the company, is
currently the largest automobile distribution company in India, enjoys a turnover of about US$ 1 Billion (INR
40,000 Million) and has an employee strength of 4000. [1] The group operates in diverse fields like automotive
component manufacturing, automotive dealerships, finances and electronics, [4] as well as into IT solutions and
services[5]. Some of the TVS group are:

 Wheels India

 Brakes India

 Sundram Fasteners

 TVS Infotech (Visit Website)

 TVS Motor Company

 Sundaram Finance

 Turbo Energy Limited

 Axles India

 Sundaram Clayton

 Lucas TVS

 Sundaram Motors
 Sundaram Brake Linings

 TVS Logistics

 TVS Southern Roadways LTD

[edit]Personal life and death

Sundaram Iyengar proved himself as a forward thinker when he got his daughter T. S. Soundaram, then a
teenage widow, remarried, under the auspice of Mahatma Gandhi.[6] TS Soundaram then involved herself in
the Indian independence movement along with Gandhi. He was later honoured with a postal stamp released in
her honour.[7]

Apart from being a successful business man, Sundaram Iyengar was a patron of the arts. [8] He was praised
by Rajaji, a senior statesmen in the Congress party of India at that time, for his gesture of retiring and handing
over the trade to his sons.[9] He died in the early hours of April 28, 1955 at his residence in Kodaikanal at the
age of 78 and at that time was survived by his wife, four sons and three daughters. [3] Sundaram Iyengar was
honoured by the Union Government of India by unveiling busts in bronze and in marble in the city of Madurai,
Tamil Nadu on August 7, 1956.[10]

Sanjeev Bikhchandani
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Sanjeev Bikhchandani

Born 1964

Nationality Indian

Alma mater IIM Ahmedabad

Occupation Founder and Executive Vice Chairman Naukri.com

Website
 Naukri.com

Sanjeev Bikhchandani (born 1964) is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman
of Naukri.com, a job portal.[1][2]

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education

2 Career

3 References

4 External links

[edit]Early life and education

He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, (Delhi University) in
1984. After working for three years he got into Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and got a Post
Graduate Diploma in Management in 1989.[1]

[edit]Career

Sanjeev after his PG left a fairly comfortable job marketing Horlicks at HMM (now known as GlaxoSmithKline)
in 1990 to set up two companies Indmark and Info Edge. In 1997, Bikhchandani set up Naukri.com, jobs portal
on a server in the United States, and later Quadrangle, an offline executive search business. [3]

He was selected as a finalist for "Ernst and Young - Entrepreneur of the Year" award in 2005.

After the launching of IPO of Info Edge in 2006, jumped 85% on its debut, he and his wife Surabhi were worth
Rs 722 crore.[1]

Gordon Moore
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Gordon Moore
 Born January 3, 1929 (age 82)

San Francisco, California, USA

Alma mater University of California, BerkeleyCalifornia Institute of

Technology

Occupation Retired / Chairman Emeritus, co-founder and former

Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation

Net worth  $3.7 billion USD (2008)

Gordon Earle Moore (born 3 January 1929) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and
the author of Moore's Law(published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine).

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career

2 See also

3 References

4 External

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[edit]Life and career

Moore was born in San Francisco, California, but his family lived in nearby Pescadero where he grew up. He
received a B.S. degree inChemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in
Chemistry and minor in Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1954. Prior to studying
at Berkeley, he spent his freshman and sophomore years at San José State University, where he met his future
wife Betty.

He joined Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman

Instruments, but left with the "Traitorous Eight", when Sherman Fairchild agreed to back them and created the
influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.

Moore co-founded Intel Corporation in July 1968, serving as Executive Vice President until 1975 when he
became President and Chief Executive Officer. In April 1979, Dr. Moore became Chairman of the Board and
Chief Executive Officer, holding that position until April 1987, when he became Chairman of the Board. He was
named Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation in 1997.

Moore has joined Gilead Sciences’ Board of Directors since 1996, after serving as a member of the company’s
Business Advisory Board from 1991 until 1996.[1] It has also been reported that Moore is a former Chairman
and present Life Trustee of the California Institute of Technology, a member of the National Academy of
Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineering (UK). He is the recipient of the National Medal of
Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.

In 2001, Moore and his wife donated $600 million to Caltech, the largest gift ever to an institution of higher
education. He said that he wants the gift to be used to keep Caltech at the forefront of research and
technology. Moore was chairman of Caltech's board of trustees from 1994 to 2000, and continues as a trustee
today. In 2002, he received the Bower Award for Business Leadership. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The library at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge is named after him and his
wife Betty, as is the Moore Laboratories building (dedicated 1996) at Caltech.

With his wife he endowed the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

On December 6, 2007, Gordon Moore and his wife donated $200 million to Caltech and the University of
California for the construction of the world's largest optical telescope. The telescope will have a mirror 30
meters across. This is nearly three times the size of the current record holder, Large Binocular Telescope.

Moore was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for "pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit
processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer and the
semiconductor industry."[2]

Moore enjoys many different recreational activities, including car painting and making model airplanes. He has
said his conservation efforts are partly inspired by his interest in fishing

William Reddington Hewlett

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William Reddington Hewlett

Hewlett (left) and Alan Tripp in a 1993 photograph at Tripp's first SCORE!

Center

Born May 20, 1913

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Died January 12, 2001 (aged 87)

Palo Alto, California

Known for Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)

William Reddington Hewlett (May 20, 1913 – January 12, 2001) was an engineer and the co-founder,
with David Packard, of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP). He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan but moved
to Oak Brook, Illinois, when he was two. Less than one year later, he moved to San Francisco at the age of 3
years. He attended Lowell High School and was accepted at Stanford University as a favor to his late father,
Albion Walter Hewlett, a former faculty member at the Stanford Medical School who had died of a brain tumor
in 1925[1].

Hewlett received his Bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1934, an MS degree in electrical

engineering from MIT in 1936, and the degree of Electrical Engineer from Stanford in 1939. He was a member
of the Kappa Sigma fraternity during his time at Stanford and MIT.

Hewlett attended classes taught by Fred Terman at Stanford and became acquainted with David Packard
during his undergraduate work at Stanford. He and Packard began discussing forming a company in August
1937, and founded Hewlett-Packard Company as a partnership on January 1, 1939. A flip of a coin decided the
ordering of their names.[2] The company incorporated in 1947 and tendered an initial public offering in 1957[1].
Also in 1939 he married Flora Lamson, and the couple eventually had five children: Eleanor, Walter, James,
William and Mary. There are 12 grandchildren.

He was President of HP from 1964 to 1977, and served as CEO from 1968 to 1978, when he was succeeded
by John A. Young. He remained chairman of the executive committee until 1983, and then served as vice
chairman of the board until 1987.

In 1966, he and his wife founded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Flora Hewlett died in 1977. In
1978, Hewlett married Rosemary Bradford.

He died of heart failure at Portola Valley, California on January 12, 2001 and was interred at Los Gatos
Memorial Park, San Jose, California.

[edit]Awards

 Vermilye Medal (1975)

 Lemelson-MIT Prize Lifetime Achievement Award (1995)

 The 3rd Annual Heinz Award Chairman's Medal (with David Packard) (1997)[3]

John Warnock
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John E. Warnock
Born October 6, 1940 (age 70)
Salt Lake City, Utah

Fields Computer Science

Institutions University of Utah

Alma mater University of Utah

Doctoral David C. Evans

advisor
Ivan Sutherland

Known for Adobe Systems

PostScript
Portable Document Format (PDF)

Notable Software Systems Award (1989,Association for Computing Machinery);

awards
Edwin H. Land Medal (2000, Optical Society of America); Bodley
Medal(2003, Bodleian Library at Oxford University); Lovelace
Medal (2004,British Computer Society); Medal of Achievement
(2006, AeA); Computer Entrepreneur Award (2008, IEEE Computer
Society); United StatesNational Medal of Technology and
Innovation (2009), Marconi Prize (2010)
John Edward Warnock (born October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-
founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Dr.
Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two years and Chairman and CEO for his remaining sixteen years
at the company. Although retired as CEO in 2001, he still co-chairs the board with Geschke. Warnock has
pioneered the development of graphics, publishing, Web and electronic document technologies that have
revolutionized the field of publishing and visual communications.

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2 Recogniti

on

3 See also

4 Reference

5 External

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[edit]Biography

Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is married with three children. Warnock has a Bachelor of
Science in Mathematics and Philosophy, a Master of Science in Mathematics, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
(Computer Science), and an honorary degree in Science, all from the University of Utah. At the University of
Utah he was a member of the Gamma Beta Chapter of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. [1] He also has an honorary
degree from the American Film Institute.

In 1976, while Warnock worked at Evans & Sutherland, a Salt Lake City-based computer graphics company,
the concepts of the PostScript language were seeded. Prior to co-founding Adobe, with Geschke and Putman,
Warnock worked with Geschke at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC), where he had started in
1978. Unable to convince Xerox management of the approach to commercialize the InterPress graphics
language for controlling printing, he, together with Geschke and Putman, left Xerox to start Adobe in 1982. At
their new company, they developed an equivalent technology, PostScript, from scratch, and brought it to
market for Apple's LaserWriter in 1984.

Warnock's earliest publication and subject of his master's thesis, was his 1964 proof of a theorem solving
the Jacobson radical for row-finite matrices,[2] which was originally posed by the American
mathematician Nathan Jacobson in 1956.
In his 1969 doctoral thesis, Warnock invented the Warnock algorithm for hidden surface
determination in computer graphics.[3] It works by recursive subdivision of a scene until areas are obtained that
are trivial to compute. It solves the problem of rendering a complicated image by avoiding the problem. If the
scene is simple enough to compute then it is rendered; otherwise it is divided into smaller parts and the
process is repeated.[4]

In the Spring of 1991, Warnock outlined a system called "Camelot", [5] that evolved into the Portable Document
Format (PDF) file-format. The goal of Camelot was to "effectively capture documents from any application,
send electronic versions of these documents anywhere, and view and print these documents on any
machines". Warnock's document contemplated, "Imagine if the IPS (Interchange PostScript) viewer is also
equipped with text searching capabilities. In this case the user could find all documents that contain a certain
word or phrase, and then view that word or phrase in context within the document. Entire libraries could be
archived in electronic form..."

One of Adobe's popular typefaces, Warnock, is named after him.

Adobe's PostScript technology made it easier to print text and images from a computer, revolutionizing media
and publishing in the 1980s.

In 2003 Warnock and his wife donated 200,000 shares of Adobe Systems valued at over 5.7 Million dollars[6] as
the main gift for a new engineering building. The John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building was
completed in 2007 and houses the University of Utah College of Engineering.

Dr. Warnock holds seven patents. In addition to Adobe Systems, he serves or has served on the board of
directors at ebrary, Knight-Ridder, MongoNet, Netscape Communications andSalon Media Group. Warnock is
a past Chairman of the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of
the American Film Institute and the Sundance Institute.

Hobbies include Photography, Skiing, Web Development, Painting, Hiking, Curation of rare scientific books and

historical Native American objects.[7]

A strong supporter of higher education, Warnock and his wife, Marva, have supported three presidential
endowed chairs in computer science, mathematics and fine arts at the University of Utah and also an endowed
chair in medical research at Stanford University.

[edit]Recognition

The recipient of numerous scientific and technical awards, Warnock won the Software Systems Award from
the Association for Computing Machinery in 1989.[8] In 1995 Warnock received the University of
Utah Distinguished Alumnus Award and in 1999 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing
Machinery. Warnock was awarded the Edwin H. Land Medal from the Optical Society of America in 2000.
[9]
 Oxford University's Bodleian Library bestowed the Bodley Medal on Warnock in November, 2003.[10] [11] In
2004, Warnock received the Lovelace Medal from the British Computer Society in London.[12] In October 2006,
Warnock—along with Adobe co-founder Charles Geschke—received the American Electronics Association's
Annual Medal of Achievement Award, being the first software executives to receive this award. In 2008,
Warnock and Geschke received the Computer Entrepreneur Award from the IEEE Computer Society "for
inventing PostScript and PDF and helping to launch the desktop publishing revolution and change the way
people engage with information and entertainment".[13] In September 2009, Warnock and Geschke were chosen
to receive the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the nation's highest honors bestowed on
scientists, engineers and inventors.[14][15] In 2010, Warnock and Geschke received the Marconi Prize,
considered the highest honor specifically for contributions to information science and communications. [16]

Warnock is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
and the American Philosophical Society, the latter being America's oldest learned society.

He has received Honorary Degrees from the University of Utah, American Film Institute and The University of
Nottingham, UK.[17]