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September 6th, 2001, 02:05 PM
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
YDERABAD: Co-chairman of the US president’s IT advisory committee, Prof Raj Reddy, advised Indian techies, who are facing difficulties on account of slowdown, to take up assignments in the various centres opened by the MNCs in India.
“The strongest, established and the best of the MNCs will set up their centres in India in a year’s time and the IT professionals can find similar kinds of jobs in India,” Prof Raj Reddy, who is on a visit to Hyderabad, said.
Prof Raj Reddy said if the techies do not leave the US, even after losing their jobs, they would run the risk of remaining unemployed forever and get ‘stuck’ in the US itself.
Comparing the IT professionals of Andhra Pradesh to those of other states, such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Delhi, Prof Reddy said, AP stood fifth in the country in terms of quality.
“IT professionals here are mostly those who get their certificates from small-time institutes and do not have enough education and training,” he said. On a scale of 1 to 10, the technical skills of techies from AP were between 5.5 and 6.
Prof Raj Reddy said most of the IT professionals from AP were trained only in Cobal and Y2K programming, which were outdated. Qualifications of professionals from AP tend to be limited and routine, compared to the capability of Avionic software engineers who are usually from Bangalore.
“If AP professionals re-train themselves, add high value services and product upgrading services, they can gain technical expertise,” he opined.
Prof Reddy, who advises the US President on IT matters, extensively researched human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. His current research projects include spoken language systems, gigabit networks, universal digital libraries and distance learning on demand.
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YDERABAD: Co-chairman of the US president’s IT advisory committee, Prof Raj Reddy, advised Indian techies, who are facing difficulties on account of slowdown, to take up assignments in the various centres opened by the MNCs in India.
“The strongest, established and the best of the MNCs will set up their centres in India in a year’s time and the IT professionals can find similar kinds of jobs in India,” Prof Raj Reddy, who is on a visit to Hyderabad, said.
Prof Raj Reddy said if the techies do not leave the US, even after losing their jobs, they would run the risk of remaining unemployed forever and get ‘stuck’ in the US itself.
Comparing the IT professionals of Andhra Pradesh to those of other states, such as Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Delhi, Prof Reddy said, AP stood fifth in the country in terms of quality.
“IT professionals here are mostly those who get their certificates from small-time institutes and do not have enough education and training,” he said. On a scale of 1 to 10, the technical skills of techies from AP were between 5.5 and 6.
Prof Raj Reddy said most of the IT professionals from AP were trained only in Cobal and Y2K programming, which were outdated. Qualifications of professionals from AP tend to be limited and routine, compared to the capability of Avionic software engineers who are usually from Bangalore.
“If AP professionals re-train themselves, add high value services and product upgrading services, they can gain technical expertise,” he opined.
Prof Reddy, who advises the US President on IT matters, extensively researched human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. His current research projects include spoken language systems, gigabit networks, universal digital libraries and distance learning on demand.
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