Sam Pitroda
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Sam Pitroda Satyan Gangaram Pitroda, also known as Sam Pitroda, was born in Titlagarh in the eastern Indian state of Odisha in 1942. After completing a master's degree in physics, he went to the United States in 1964 and obtained a master's degree in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is popularly known as the Father of India's Computer and IT Revolution due to his work on improving the technology and communication infrastructure in India. He is also regarded as one of the earliest pioneers of hand-held computing because of his invention of the Electronic Diary in 1975.
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