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From: Skybuck Flying on 12 Jan 2010 00:28
Ok,

Now that I look at the patent again it says: "International Bussiness
Machines" which means "big" I.B.M.

And the patent was assigned to this guy, who mysteriously died in a
car-crash ?!

Hmmm... this smells fishy to me... does IBM or someboy else have blood on
their hands ?!

Did they "order" his assination in a poor country like India... where people
might kill for 1 dollar ?! ;)

Makes ya wonder doesn't it... if I mysteriously die like that, you know what
happened ! ;) :)

"
Ramesh Agarwal
IBM Fellow Emeritus

Ramesh Agarwal is an IBM Fellow Emeritus and an expert in computer
algorithms. During his more than 20-year career, he made critical
contributions to several of the highest-profile scientific investigations of
his generation.
A native of Gwalior, India, which is located near the Taj Mahal city of
Agra, Agarwal received a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, where he also
received The President of India Gold Medal.

He traveled to the United States to earn first his M.S. (in information
theory) and then his Ph.D. (in electrical engineering/digital signal
processing), both from Rice University. He won the Sigma Xi Award for the
best Ph.D. thesis in Electrical Engineering and an IEEE Signal Processing
Society Best Paper Award (1974) for his published doctoral papers

While a post-doctoral researcher for IBM Fellow Richard Garwin in the
mid-1970s, Agarwal developed an algorithm that helped determine the
three-dimensional molecular structure of insulin from X-ray diffraction data
that reduced computing times 50- to 100-fold over conventional methods.
Agarwal's algorithm made it possible to refine large protein molecules and
is still being used in many laboratories around the world.

In 1978, he returned to India for family reasons and rejoined IIT Delhi as
an associate professor, where he had worked earlier before getting his
doctorate. But tragedy struck in 1981. An out-of-control car plowed into
Agarwal's scooter and he lost his right leg. In the aftermath, Agarwal
decided to return to research at IBM.

Working again with Garwin, Agarwal helped the National Academy of Sciences
analyze the acoustic tapes related to the assassination of President Kennedy
to learn if there was any evidence for a second gunman. Agarwal observed
that the recordings containing the so called "shots" were made about a
minute after the assassination, and eliminated the possibility of a second
gunman or the conspiracy that had been built up around that conjecture.

In 1994, he analyzed the floating-point divide flaw in the Intel's Pentium
chip and showed that the probability of the divide error increases by
several orders of magnitude for spreadsheet calculations using decimal
numbers.

His primary research has been in algorithms and architecture for high
performance computing on RISC workstations and scalable parallel machines.
specific research topics have included developing efficient computational
algorithms that:
compute numerically intensive scientific computations
sort large amount of data in databases such as DB2
organize large amount of data using multidimensional clustering (MDC) for
efficient query executions in DB2
reveal associations buried in large databases and classify data more
accurately than had been possible
execute differential compression of very large files
perform unstructured searches in very large datasets

Agarwal has published about 100 papers and received about a dozen patents.
He is a fellow of the IEEE and was named IBM Fellow in 1997. In 2001, he
received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay. Agarwal retired from
IBM in 2005.
"

Bye,
Skybuck.


From: Skybuck Flying on 12 Jan 2010 00:30
Here is the link to the dude:

http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/bio.agarwal.html

Then you can read it for yourself in nice HTML directly from IBM's webpage !
;)

Bye,
Skybuck.


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