Nagabhushan "Rao Machiraju" is an Indian American scientist and business executive, and holds 10 patents in information retrieval.

Background and career

He has an interdisciplinary educational background:

Masters in Public Health The Master of Public Health or Master of Philosophy in Public Health (M.P.H.), Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH), Master of Medical Science in Public Health (MMSPH) and the Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.), International Masters for Healt ...

(M.P.H. from

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), he studied General Systems and Information Networks under

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and

Kjell Samuelson Kjell Samuelson (1932–4 February 2018) was a Swedish systems scientist, Sci-Tech consultant, Professor Emeritus at the Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, and a pioneer of Systems Science & Cybernetics, Communications & Info ...

(Certificate from

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and

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), and

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in Instructional Technology'(Doctorate from

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). He was an Executive in Residence and co-director of Center for Human Applied Reasoning and the Internet of Things, (Chariot) at the University of Southern California. Formerly he was a

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and the

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of reQall Inc., an

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spin off, a former advisor to Dimagi with Sandy Pentland, and a

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Partner. He is also the co-founder of Magically Inc., N. Rao Machiraju, was a Principal Scientist at

Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company ...

, heading various groups including The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) Learning Communities Laboratory. Rao and his team have won the ''1993 Optimas Award for Innovation and Excellence'' for Apple Inc. Rao also was a co-founder of Magically Inc and ConceptLabs. Rao worked on a number of research and development efforts in information retrieval, organizational memory, wrote a number of articles and also lectured extensively. In 1996, the term "location sense" was coined by Rao Machiraju to refer to a capability of a device that can ascertain its location. Rao was also on the editorial boards of ''Journal of Expert Systems and Journal of Telematics and Informatics'' as a Founding member. He was also on the Board of Councilors of

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National ...

Engineering Research Center on Multi-Media Computing in (

Integrated Media Systems Center The Integrated Media Systems Center (IMSC) is on the campus of the University of Southern California, United States. It was founded using a grant from the US National Science Foundation in 1996 for the study of Integrated Media Systems Integration ...

) at the

, and served on the advisory board of Dimagi.com, an MIT Medialab spin off. Rao also served as Chief Mentor for Ventura Technology Incubator. He is also a faculty member at USC.

Research and publications

* The ATG Learning Communities Laboratory - An Overview by N.Rao Machiraju. * Apple's Education Research Agenda by N. Rao Machiraju. * A study of the usage of an international computer communications network: its implications for distance education. * Handheld computers for Rural Healthcare: Experiences in a Large Scale Implementation. * Microcomputer-based informatics: some training considerations. * Telematics and Informatics: An International Journal on Telecommunications & Information Technology. * International informatics access '87.

References

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