Sugata Mitra

Quick Facts

Full Name	Sugata Mitra
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1952(1952-02-12)
Age	72
Birthplace	Kolkata
Country	India
Birth City	West Bengal
Horoscope	Aquarius

Sugata Mitra Biography

Sugata Mitra is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on February 12, 1952 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Mitra was born into the Bengali family living in Calcutta, India on 12 February 1952.

The study proved that children’s groups regardless of their gender or where they reside and from any location, can be taught to make use of computer systems and Internet independently using computers that are accessible to the public in areas like playgrounds, roads and even playgrounds without even knowing English. Mitra’s work was deemed to be to be the most open-access publication in the world in 2005, and he won the Dewang Mehta Prize for ingenuity on IT in 2005.

In a Wired magazine article, it was claimed that a 12-year-old child – Paloma Noyola Bueno – who lived in a Mexican slum, topped the all Mexico Maths exam after her school teacher, Sergio Juarez Correa, implemented Mitra’s teaching method in the classroom. It was also suggested that her class went from 0 to 63 per cent in the excellent category on the Maths exam while failing scores went from 45 percent down to 7 per cent and may have improved on other parts of the test.

On 3 May 2013, Mitra’s TED Talk “Build a School in the Cloud” was featured in NPR’s TED Radio hour on “Unstoppable Learning”. In the program, Mitra discusses the “Hole in the Wall” experiment. 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. He suggested this would lead to “unstoppable learning” through a “worldwide cloud” – where children would pool their knowledge and resources in the absence of adult supervision to create a world of self-promoted learning.

In 1999 1999, in 1999, the Hole in the Wall (HIW) tests on the development of children’s brains began to be conducted. The initial test was conducted it was a computer that was set up on a kiosk within the wall of a neighborhood called Kalkaji, Delhi and children were allowed to use the computer without restriction. The aim of the experiment was to prove that children can be taught using computers quickly and without formal instruction. Mitra described this as minimally Invasive Education (MIE). The study has been repeated. HIW installed 23 kiosks across rural India. The experiment was conducted in Cambodia.

Sugata Mitra Net Worth

Sugata Mitra is one of the richest Computer Scientist from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sugata Mitra 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sugata Mitra (Bengali: sugt mitr ; born on February 12, 1952 ) is a professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. The most famous of his work is the “Hole in the Wall” experiment. He is also widely quoted in his works on education and literacy. He is the Chief Scientist Emeritus, of the for-profit training firm NIIT. He won the TED Prize 2013.

His work with NIIT developed the first curricula, pedagogy and curriculum for the organization, which was which was followed by years of study on learning styles, learning tools that are now patentable, as well as new ways of learning. In the past, Mitra’s research and research have led to the training and development of millions of young Indians including children who are among the most poor around the world. The culmination of some of these efforts was in a heightened interest in early literacy and it led to the Hole in the Wall experiments.

Mitra is a leading proponent of Minimally invasive education. He has a PhD in Physics but is credited with more than 25 inventions in the area of cognitive science and education technology. He was conferred the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in Information Technology in the year 2005. In September 2012 Mitra won the Leonardo European Corporate Learning Award in the “Crossing Border” category. He argued that broken connections in simulated neural networks are a model for Alzheimer’s disease (The effect of synaptic disconnection on bi- directional associative recall. S. Mitra, Proc. IEEE/SMC Conf., Vol.1, 989, 1994 USA).

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Facts & Trivia

Sugata Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Sugata Mitra celebrates birthday on February 12 of every year.

What is Sugata Mitra doing now?

Sugata Mitra is a well-known education researcher and is currently Professor Emeritus at NIIT University.

Why is Sugata Mitra important?

Sugata Mitra was made famous for his experiment where he placed a computer connected to the Internet in the wall of a room with some of the poorest children in the world without telling him anything or learning to treat him.

Who conducted the Hole in the Wall experiment?

Over the next five years Mitra progressed his hole in the wall experiment to focus on delivering more specific knowledge – by posing questions via the computer in the hole in the wall.

What is the grandma cloud?

WELCOME TO THE GRANNY CLOUD The Granny Cloud is an independent team of volunteers that reaches out to children with limited educational resources around the globe, in a variety of settings, and provides them with the opportunity to experience worlds far removed from their own.

Who started school in the cloud?

Current status. A lot has happened since Sugata Mitra shared his wish at TED2013. In November 2013, the first School in the Cloud learning lab — located inside a high school in Killingworth, England — opened its doors to students.