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    Four generations of engineers: The life and times of my grandfather, CVS Narasimha Rao
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製造業が抱える100年越しの課題

April 18, 2018
Blog February 18, 2016

My first Macs

Stanford, 1985 I am in the process of retiring my old PowerMac 7100 from circa 1994. (I…

Blog October 9, 2014

Does getting admitted to your state public college need to be this hard?

With Chirag getting closer to college, we’ve been more attention to college admissions….
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On why I love T-Mobile

September 10, 2014
Blog September 5, 2014

From father to son

My father (“AKR”) would have been 85 today. Today is also Teacher’s Day — an important….
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Blog August 22, 2014

From Product teardowns to Investor teardowns — interesting use in the finance world…

Back in August, 2011, I wrote about product teardowns and the immense benefits/insights that they bring. I…

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7 Steps to monetize your shares in a (private) company

June 25, 2014
Blog April 5, 2014

Click or Clack? In either case, we will miss you!

I’ve loved cars as far back as I can remember. There are any number of photos of me….
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Blog February 26, 2014

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — starting them young!

The world talks about Silicon Valley, its spirit of entrepreneurship and how unmatched this environment…

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  • Dr. Prasad Akella is a serial entrepreneur who has created and commercialized deep tech products that empower humans — in three very different areas: robotics, business social networks, computer vision/AI.
    He is a Fellow of the ASME and the SME and a Stanford PhD, Michigan MBA, and IIT BS.

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    December 4, 2023

    Assembly’s future: Reducing the cost of quality even as we improve quality

    By Prasad September 22, 2021

    (Originally posted on Sep 22, 2021 on the Drishti blog) Defect rate benchmarks have been…

    Introducing the “right to affordable repair”

    September 15, 2021

    Humans or automation: For now, it’s both

    September 2, 2021

    Why data drives the next industrial revolution and how it impacts the design process

    August 18, 2021

    Thinking long: Prasad Akella on Drishti’s new CEO, Gary Jackson

    July 20, 2021

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