Joyojeet Pal, a PhD student
from Berkeley Institute, US, visited a school run by Azim Premji Foundation in
2005. He found several students sharing one PC. One aggressive kid was handling
the mouse, while the rest were mere spectators.
When Joyojeet began
his summer internship at Microsoft Research in Bangalore, he met assistant
researcher Udai Singh Pawar and assistant MD of Microsoft Research India,
Kentaro Toyama, who listened to his experiences at the Azim Premji
Foundation.
The duo from Microsoft sensed a big opportunity in it for
the software giant. In order to improve the learning ability of these children,
they thought they could develop a system wherein each student would have a
mouse, and all could operate simultaneously on a single PC.
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