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"In the last few years, I have taken the IBM story to many industries beyond telecom - banking, financial services and insurance, industrial and retail segments"

"Before I came here, I thought of myself as a telecom person - I spent 20 years in that industry. For the first time, I have started working with companies in manufacturing and industries I have not worked with before"

"It has defined my IBM career. It helped me lay a foundation - you respect the industry of your client and sometimes, the client is your best teacher"

"Apart from a job in a department store, IBM is my only job. It was the only place where I wrote a professional resume and was interviewed"

"IBM wanted somebody with an appreciation for the market, for what it needed from a local perspective. I brought my experience with IBM, in global and local roles. Plus, they had me here for the last four years learning the market and running parts of the business"

"I don't have these night-and-day moments"

"I don't have these night-and-day moments, she says. My first decade was about appreciation for an industry and a client. The second decade was about bringing value, about building organizational capability. The third decade is about leadership in different cultures and environments"

"Now, there is no looking back, because I have realised that I can be challenged and be very happy in any job"

"I have always been a person who speaks up about things that matter. To me, what has always mattered in addition to patient care and research and teaching, is social justice. At Michigan, a university where social justice is core value, I was able to learn how much can be accomplished through collaboration with people in every corner of the university."

"Professor Ryan’s course helped shape how I think about bioethics in my day-to-day work and the career path I’ve ultimately chosen to follow. The students at SIU are the future doctors and lawyers who will determine the landscape of health care and justice in our country. They will inevitably be faced with daily ethical quandaries that will have real impact on whether people live or die, whether they thrive or struggle. That is a tremendous amount of power."

"We have taken on 23,000 people, in addition to the 62,000 that we had. This has taken our combined strength to 85,000"

"I am leading the integration work in India"

"The global M&A team drove the deal. I was involved as it had a big impact on India"

"By January, we will start operating as a single company"

"But that's a very small part of what we do in India"

"We do more work for global clients out of India"

"There was no point in getting into an argument with this opinionated, old-fashioned lady. But women feel a lot of such pressures. You can’t be just strong, you have to be super-strong and be extremely determined to overcome these challenges"

"May be because I never really faced them. I come from an environment where you are treated as an individual — you do what you have to do"

"So I have no nice story to tell you about how I overcame anything"

"But then I realized there was some merit in talking to women, people who are thinking of leaving for family and such reasons, and tell them it was high time they stood up for themselves"

"But I have seen women in our offices in Bangalore and Chennai also feel the family pressure"

"So I worked from home till one day before my daughter was born. And three weeks after she was born I was back at work, in the office. I had worked two months from home and I was going nuts. I had to see my colleagues. I was sick of being in conference calls and on email"

"My daughter may be the greatest looking thing on Earth, but you can’t spend 18 hours a day looking at her. It’s also social conditioning that makes you feel that the baby needs you. I figured out that the baby doesn’t even need you. They just need someone to wash them and take care of them"

"There is no glass ceiling. It is a myth. If it exists, it is in your head. I have worked in the IT industry for the last 27 years, and I know it doesn’t exist. Our growth rates are so high, our industry is so hungry for talent, why would there be any discrimination? Get over this.”“Wipe out any guilt today. Even if you have an iota of it, you will hesitate"

"I don’t like this job at hand right now, let me go somewhere else I am not sure this is always the right way to look at things. You have to take a much broader view of your career. I am not saying that people should not change jobs, you can and you should. But take a much broader view of your career, and focus on the big picture"

"I don’t care about the environment, but I will make it work"

"Go get the job done, who cares whether you come to office at 7 or you don’t come to office at all"

"And finally, one has to have fire in the belly and a strong desire to succeed – without that you don’t get anywhere"

"Their spiritual powers do not require them to have any such physical coordinates and would manifest at will"

"I have met him on occasions in holy places. No locational co-ordinates are given"

"I met him for the first time on the banks of the Ganges nearly 20 years ago directly. Subsequently, over the years I have taken his guidance on many personal and professional matters. Along the way, since he would manifest at will and I did not have any locational co-ordinates I requested him for a way in which I could seek his guidance whenever I felt the need. Accordingly, he gave me an id on which I could send my requests"

"As we know, senior leaders often seek informal counsel from coaches, mentors or other seniors in this industry which are all purely informal in nature. In a similar strain I felt that this guidance would help me perform my role better"

"India bourse head was a 'puppet' of unnamed yogi, regulators say,14 February 2022"

"A GAN stands for Generative Adversarial Network and is a machine learning technique for generation of content. It works by using two systems, one which tries to make convincing output by learning from a dataset and another which judges if the output is real or not. The generator keeps adapting to try to fool the tester and eventually it makes output that is fairly convincing."

"GANs are interesting because the output, while in the same style as the input, is almost always surprising and interesting."

"Indeed, someone asked us: “I’m curious what type of parameters DADAGAN is set to so he doesn’t go too far, doesn’t disobey, nor do anything unwanted cause of an oversight in the programming”. They were quoting Isaac Asimov’s rules for robots, “particularly where they are supposed to obey their master.”"

"Right now “AI” is not smart, at all. For very thinly defined problems, it works well, but AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is quite far away, if it is ever achieved. Also, the system is not a robot, there is no physical component, there is no way for it to interact with or modify the world."

"The DADA dataset was very diverse, which can be both a good and bad thing. It’s good because there is a lot of variety to learn from, and it’s bad because it is hard to “converge” on. So, the output that the model generates is quite abstract, however, this aligns with the spirit of DADA."

"Still, some of the output veers into the figurative. In a relatively short time, it could draw human faces and some creatures that look like animals. How do you imagine DADAGAN evolving?"

"There is more that can be done by cleaning up and sorting through the data set. For instance, it can be trained on drawn faces, or many images of a particular style."

"It’s hard not to antropomorphize DADAGAN, because it’s easy to play around with the idea that it is making art. Where do you draw the line?"

"We see many things as alive, it is part of our social and survival instincts. Drawing a line is a philosophical question which comes down to each individual’s interpretation of life and consciousness."

"How do we transcend human limitations but always have the human making the decisions and in control?” I feel like on the surface, there are many different applications of robots, but essential to every project I’ve worked on has been helping people.”"

"It’s crazy that we’re so immune to those deaths,I thought self-driving cars would be a way to save lives proactively, and I also see self-driving cars as the world’s first mass-scale robot, and that’s going to come with a lot of challenges."

"Hopkins has an altruistic focus that pervades all through the university, In a time where AI and computer science can impact so many different fields, it was really interesting to realize that a lot of startups didn’t care about ethics or the customer in a human way—it was more about earning money or selling your company. It made me realize that everything at Hopkins is very human-centric, and people were very front and center. It was mission-focused."

"Out of all my projects, this is the research area that’s resonated the most with people, I think everyone is interested in the arts and creativity, and how AI and technology will impact it for the future. Like how the computer enhances the way people work, I’m hoping AI technology can enhance how artists work, freeing them up to be more creative."

"It’s such an important subject for any age,Everyone in life experiences failure, and this book is about how to strategize getting unstuck. Some people may even view Drive.ai being acquired by Apple last year as a failure instead of it becoming the next stand-alone billion- dollar company. I see it as an opportunity for my next company to get there.”"

"I became kind of hooked on CS, but at that point I wasn’t contemplating jumping sideways into a CS career."

"At some point, I wanted a break from being a student."

"I noticed that they were talking about these cases the same way I talked about some examples."