Rao Machiraju

N Rao MachirajuCEO & Co-founder of reQall Inc.

Nagabhushan "Rao Machiraju" is the Co-founder and CEO of reQall Inc., an MIT Media Lab spin off and a NASA Research Partner.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]} He is also the Co-founder of Magically Inc.,^{[16][17][18][19][20][21]}

N.Rao Machiraju, was a Principal Scientist at Apple Inc., heading various groups including The Advanced Technology Group (ATG) Learning Communities Laboratory.^{[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]} Rao and his team have won the 1993 Optimas Award for Innovation and Excellence for Apple Inc.^[33] Rao also was a Co-founder of Magically Inc ^[34][35] and ConceptLabs.^[36][37][38]

Rao Machiraju is an Indian American Scientist and holds 10 patents in information retrieval. He has an interdisciplinary educational background: Masters in Public Health (M.P.H. from California State University, Northridge), he studied General Systems and Information Networks under James Grier Miller ^[39] and Kjell Samuelson ^[40] (Certificate from United Nations Institute for Training and Research, University of Stockholm and UCLA), and Ed.D in Instructional Technology (Doctorate from University of Southern California).^[41][42][43] Rao worked on a number of research and development efforts in information retrieval, organizational memory, wrote a number of articles and also lectured extensively.^{[44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]} In 1996, the term “location sense” was coined by Rao Machiraju to refer to a capability of a device that can ascertain its location.^[54] 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 Engineering Research Center on Multi-Media Computing in (Integrated Media Systems Center) at the University of Southern California,^[55][56] and serves on the Advisory Board of Dimagi.com, an MIT Medialab spin off.^[57] Rao also serves as Chief Mentor for Ventura Technology Incubator.^{[58][59][60][61][62][63][64]}

Patents

• November 24, 1998 Patent 5,842,009 for System for automatically retrieving information relevant to a user's scheduled event - Richard D. Borovoy, Michael J. Graves, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju.
• February 16, 1999 Patent 5,873,107 for System for automatically retrieving information relevant to text being authored - Richard D. Borovoy, Michael J. Graves, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju, Sunil Vemuri.
• February 22, 2000 Patent 6,028,601 for FAQ link creation between user's questions and answers - Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju, Michael James Graves, Sunil Vemuri, Ravinder Paul Chandhok, Catherine Abbott Lofgren.
• June 5, 2001 Patent 6,243,090 for FAQ-linker - Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju, Michael James Graves, Sunil Vemuri, Ravinder Paul Chandhok, Catherine Abbott Lofgren.
• July 9, 2002 Patent 6,418,429 for Portable browsing interface for information retrieval - Richard Daniel Borovoy, Michael Graves, Michael Robert Hanson, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju.
• June 3, 2003 Patent 6,574,620 for Portable browsing interface for information retrieval - Richard Daniel Borovoy, Michael Graves, Michael Robert Hanson, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju.^[65]
• November 3, 2009 Patent 7,613,684 for Portable browsing interface for information retrieval - Richard Daniel Borovoy, Michael Graves, Michael Robert Hanson, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju.
• August 3, 2010 Patent 7,769,741 for Portable browsing interface for information retrieval - Richard Daniel Borovoy, Michael Graves, Michael Robert Hanson, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju.^[66]
• March 22, 2011 Patent 7,912,454 for Method and system for archiving data in real-time communications - Sunil Vemuri, Nagabhushan Rao Machiraju.
• July 3, 2012 Patent 8,214,208 for "Method And System For Sharing Portable Voice Profiles". Jacqueline Mallett, Sunil Vemuri, N. Rao Machiraju.

Research and Publications

• The ATG Learning Communities Laboratory - An Overview by N.Rao Machiraju.^[67][68]
• Apple’s Education Research Agenda by N. Rao Machiraju.^[69]
• A study of the usage of an international computer communications network: it's (sic) implications for distance education.^[70][71]
• Handheld computers for Rural Healthcare: Experiences in a Large Scale Implementation.^{[72][73][74][75]}
• Microcomputer-based informatics: some training considerations.^[76]
• Telematics and Informatics: An International Journal on Telecommunications & Information Technology.^[77]
• International informatics access '87.^[78]

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