parul

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Parul is passionate about the potential of open learning - co-founding Springboard (www.springboard.com) is her way to contribute to the movement. In the past, she has worked at Ittiam systems and IBM Research on problems spanning wireless communication systems, cloud computing, green technologies and analytics. She is a Senior member of IEEE and ACM, and has coauthored 12 publications and 8 patents. She is a recipient of MIT Technology Review India's Top Innovators under 35 award, IIT Bombay Distinguished Service Award and the Foundation of Youth Social Entrepreneurship’s fellowship for 100 changemakers under 30yrs in the Asia-Pacific region. Parul has Bachelors and Masters degrees from IIT Bombay and UCLA respectively.

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Comment · 5 years ago

Great initiative! Need more of these. Sharing with friends.

Comment · 6 years ago

How is this different from Google Maps ridesharing API? https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/ridesharing/

Comment · 8 years ago

+100 to Andrew NGs machine learning. Inspired me enough about the potential of online education to start a (now reasonably successful edtech) company!

Comment · 9 years ago

Looks pretty cool! Do you have something for iOS as well?

Comment · 9 years ago

Try the Khan Academy stats resources - https://www.khanacademy.org/math/statistics-probability

Datacamp also launched a bunch of new stats courses recently. I haven't checked them out yet, but their courses are usually good quality. https://www.datacamp.com/courses/topic:probablity_and_statis...

Comment · 9 years ago

Seems to compete with the Amazon visa they've had for over a decade!

Comment · 9 years ago

I love the crystal Ball analogy, LOL!

Comment · 10 years ago

I would definitely expect a senior manager in a tech company to know that! Keeping an eye on trends, competitors, influencers, big shakeups is a must for doing their job.

Comment · 10 years ago

We are a 3 year old startup and have had product/marketing/ops in San Francisco and engineering in Bangalore all this while. We use Google Docs power users and spontaneous communication happens through Slack and calls. Between these, most of our knowledge sharing needs are covered. Though as the team grows, Slack is becoming too noisy making it easy to miss messages, so we are rethinking that a bit.

Comment · 12 years ago

Part of a VC's job is advertisement (for their portfolio companies) ;-) However, in this case I couldn't find a past association between Flatiron school & Fred Wilson and/or Union Square ventures, so this article seems to be expressing genuine appreciation for the model. Maybe he likes them so much that he will invest in them in the next round :D

To understand the cost of education argument, notice the catch lies here: "teaching students skills that are directly related to job requirements." How much time of a traditional 4 year college is spent on skills that a grad would actually need or use? A lot of it is just archaic legacy. If you take those out, then the cost of education might actually compare favorably for bootcamps.

An additional (or alternate perspective) is that bootcamps are a supplement to, rather than a replacement for traditional education. Bootcamps teach hard job skills, whereas college teaches soft & social skills. Either way, they are a welcome addition!

Comment · 12 years ago

You are right, @Wuliwong. Our learning paths ("tutorials" comprised of online courses, videos, blog posts etc) are free, and experts help curate them for the joy of sharing their knowledge and giving back to the community. We are working on paid online programs, where learners get 1-1 mentorship and greater engagement with experts and the student community. (ps: I am one of the founders of SlideRule)

Comment · 12 years ago

Glad you like it, Sam. You seem to be an expert on -- SlideRules! Want to help create a learning path on them ;-)

Comment · 12 years ago

Thanks for sharing!