We went to Microsoft Research India today (sorry Nicole) and despite my love of all things Apple it was pretty cool. Our hosts for the day, Ed Cutrell, Kalika Bali, & Indrani Medhi, are part of the Technology for Emerging Markets. We specifically went to the research and development department and they are doing some innovative things to help this part of the world. Specifically, they are working on technology for emerging markets. Microsoft showed us two projects that they're working on. One was about getting the computer to recognize code mixing. For example, Spanglish would be code mixing. VideoKheti is the project that Microsoft worked on.The other was an app for illiterate people but since they're currently working on it, I'm not sure how much I can go into it. The person we spoke with at Microsoft is an American so it was insightful to hear about living in Bangalore from an expat.
We finished pretty early, so we decided to kill some time by going back to the Times Square-like market places again. Watching Dr. Kanti negotiate with the street vendors on prices is pretty interesting.
I like Bangalore but I'm looking forward to mixing things up and heading the 2/3 hours away to Mysore this weekend. There we'll do some site seeing and visit a few more schools/ companies.
In India, the national language is English first, then Hindi but each state also speaks its own language. In but in the Bangalore area, most speak and write in a language called Kannada.
School notes:
See handwritten notes.
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