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"believe my duty as a professor is to mentor students and other young scientists to get excited to learn and to contribute to the very long conversation exploring hard questions in computer science."
"I hope to empower my students to make progress in science and in their own lives. To date, the 34 or so PhD students who I have worked with are as important in my professional life as are my four real children in my life."
"There is no beating around the bush in this Brooklyn-kid-gone-Ivy."
"After working with large datasets of credit card transactions, I learned that humans are remarkably predictable - at least where money is concerned."
"Fraud detection research with Citibank led to my interest in developing automated machine learning infrastructures and applying this infrastructure to security problems. The JAM project (Java Agents for Meta-learning) was way ahead of its time."
"I am quite proud to have started a line of work now pursued by many – including investors: machine learning applied to security problems."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.