The vision of AA is to
make the creation of Content Technologies a profitable business.
AA’s mission is to provide
cutting-edge and best-in-class algorithm solutions for any pattern
recognition application
>> Background
and Basis - AA in a changing world
The 21st century
will be the century when knowledge creates wealth (50% of capital
spending in the US is on technology)
Any solution today
requires use of advanced IT enabled or embedded technology in some form
or other. For example, the biggest recent developments in medical
science have been in technology, not in new drug discoveries
The application of
IT to collect and send information is saturating. There is need for
mining useful content from the huge amounts of information collected
This is not just
for hi-tech applications but even in homes and small businesses
The foundation of
these content mining technologies will be intelligent reusable
algorithms
Companies with such
competencies are the companies of the future
India
is a global player in this area
>> Raison
d'etre
The founder visionaries of AA are
a group of the world's finest minds, each among the top five in the
world in their chosen fields. They have come together to pool their decades
long expertise in various aspects of pattern recognition. The model of
working is that of a network of global experts who form a group to take up
specific projects, complete the project and regroup to handle a new project.
The horizontals at AA are mathematical technologies that can be common
across many verticals, the latter being the real world application domains.
Abstract Algorithms (AA) is a
company of the future. The last decades saw the increasing
predominance of the new giants (Microsoft, Oracle, Wipro, TCS, Infosys) who
specialized in creating reusable software over the older leviathan computer
hardware makers (IBM, Digital, Data General). This was called the age of Information
Technology. The software and sensor revolution ushered in
inter-connectivity and speedy and centralized information gathering. Today,
we need to make sense of these vast amounts of information in real-time.
Today, increasing automation and value-added IT-enabled solutions (see e.g.
in medicine or automotives) are the fastest growing areas of technology. AA
believes that in the coming decade creating reusable algorithms - the core
of these value-enhanced solutions - will take over from creating reusable
software. These algorithms have applications in virtually any area of human
enterprise - industry, healthcare, government, defense, agriculture,
leisure or home. AA likes to term this coming era as the age of Content
Technologies.
AA has developed a cost-effective model for
global R&D. The model has been proven over nearly two decades of
collaborative work. It has resulted in the creation of some of the fastest
algorithms ever and among the most accurate one's too
The founders of AA have over the years been able to work with
Indian talent to consistently develop advanced technology solutions
under-cost and in-time again and again. This model of best-case and
best-cost development is the cornerstone of
AA's ability to be world-class at unmatched costs. (India has a
civilisational and historical fondness for algorithmic mathematics and
logic, education is highly prized in India, it will be a huge market for
technology enabled goods, and needless to say will remain cost-effective in
this area for a long time to come.)
>> Sharing
the Vision
Prabhakar Vaidya
30 years in U.S.: Purdue,
Washington State Univ, Boeing
Discoverer of
Trans-spectral coherence
Inventor of chaotic
cryptography
Mario
Aranha
IIT and Texas educated;
over 20 years at AT&T Bell Labs, Berkeley Lab and Silicon Valley.
Strategic technology
advisor, representative of AA in USA
Areas of interest:
Bioinformatics, High-Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence,
Signal Processing,Graph Theory, Electronic Design Automation
T. K. Sivadas
Winner of President of
India Medal for invention - twice
Widely installed sensor
technology base
Sudarsh V Kailas
Inventor of several world
best technologies
Held several senior
positions in R&D labs and Corporate world
>> Strengths
AA is an IPR company
AA is a company of the
future
AA is a unique model with
unlimited potential
AA is founded by
technologists with many proven world-best and commercialized IP's to
their name
AA has over the years
built a worldwide network of exclusive experts
AA has world-class
ready-to-market technology and prototypes, (see Products)
For example, a detection
algorithm that counts and determines the morphology (shape) of cells in a
digital microscopic image can also count traffic from a 5 dollar camera
image or nanoparticles from an electron microscope image or detect targets
from a radar. Or, from industrial images, it can detect rivets on an
aircraft wing, blow-holes in fine surfaces, objects on a conveyer belt etc.
The mathematics behind these detection algorithms is often
the same. AA uses its strength in the mathematical horizontals in different
application or domain verticals, thus saving significantly on costs and
time-to-market. Just as in a software company a great VC++ coding team
could work in medical domain but also find its VC++ expertise providing
value for, say a team working on banking software.
Also, innovations from one domain area could add value to
those applied to quite a different area.
The 21st century
will be the century when knowledge creates wealth (50% of capital
spending in the US is on technology)
