Durga Prasad Pandey is a techie with a small startup in Silicon Valley. He earned an MS from MIT where he worked on viral radio networks that have no core or backbone, and that combine the technical challenges of high mobility with social adaptation. He chairs the website comittee of the InterPlanetary Internet SIG at the Internet Society, and has served on the editorial boards of ACM Crossroads, PennScience and TechExpress. Durga writes short stories and an occasional poem, and has been published in Sulekha, Counterpoint, PennScience, Scolomin and Reorient magazine. In his spare time, he's known to run along the charles, bike in california, sketch boring professors in class, cook the best food he has ever eaten and appreciate music others have made.

Webpages: Momentum, Media Lab page, Blog, ProudISMite, FastForward India

Mentors: Scott Burleigh, PJ Singh, Adrian Hooke, Dr Vint Cerf, Prof Sandy Pentland, Prof Leonard Kleinrock, Chris Ramming

Past Advisors/Supervisors: Dr Andy Lippman, Dr David Reed, Dr Achim Autenrieth, Vivek Kulkarni, Dr Vishnu Priye, Stuart Gannes, Dr Mahesh Kumar, Subrata Barman

Stories: The flowers from Rashi, In Quietness, The Morning Dew, Sophie, The Bindi, A suitable girl, The Melhni, The Trip, The X-perience

Poems: Barter, Change, Deceptions, Denial, Fertility, Flashes of the past, Home coming, Is it green there, Kiss, Nudity, Rain, Suicide, Waiting, You

Friends' webpages: Adam Tow, Amit Jain, Bill Thies, Birendra Jha, Himanshu Rai, Jitendra Mohan, Mehak Beri, Pallav Sarma, Parag Goswami, Paulina Modlitba, Priyank Nandan, Rohit Dwivedi, Shishir Dhulla, Shulabh Gupta, Vikrant Yagnick

Inspiration: The Birth of the Internet, Climbing the Digital Mountain, What is AI?, The Robot And The Baby, The Emotion Machine, Dabbling in Cryptography, Original proposal for WWW , Computing Machinery and Intelligence