Prof. Sugata Mitra works in the areas of Cognitive Science, Information Science and Educational Technology. He has been working in these areas, as well as Physics and Energy for more than 30 years.
His contributions include a number of inventions and first-time applications. Among other applications, he is credited with having started the database publishing industry (particularly the Yellow Page industry) in India and Bangladesh, as well as having implemented the first applications of digital multimedia and Internet-based education in India. His experiments (often referred to as “The Hole in the Wall” experiments) with children and the Internet have been reported worldwide since 1999.
His current research interests include technologies for remote and rural education, distance education, instructional robotics, self organizing systems, and collaborative systems on the Internet.
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