Ankit Fadia

Ankit Fadia

The following is a timeline of Ankit Fadia's "career", compiled using information in public sources such as news articles, his web sites and more. This will help explain how someone his age simply cannot be an "expert" by any commonly accepted meaning of the word. Such a timeline also better highlights contradictions and discrepancies he has told various reporters or published in his biographies.

 
1989 .. 2003 - Delhi Public School, India (2004 resume)

1995 May , 24 - Turned 10 years old.

* "gifted a PC" (indiaPRwire, thehindu), contradicts several other publications where he was quoted saying "gifted a PC at 12"

1997 May, 24 - Turned 12 years old.

* "gifted a PC" (rediff, SWG), contradicts several other publications where he was quoted saying "gifted a PC at 10"
* "developed interest in computer hacking" (indiaPRwire)


1998 May, 24 - Turned 13 years old.

* "wasted on playing games" (several sources)
* "developed interest in computer hacking" (SWG)
* "began writing a website on computer security and started his own Internet forum." (expressbuzz)
* "hacked front page of CHIP magazine" [reference], contradicts claim it was Indian .gov site
* "At the age of thirteen I performed my first hack and defaced the Indian government website." [reference], contradicts claim it was magazine site


1999 May, 24 - Turned 14 years old.

* "started my own web site" (rediff) [Archive], yet site says "Established: 16th February 2001"
* "published first book" (indiaPRwire, expressbuzz)
* "He claims that when he was 14, he trashed the front page of an Indian magazines website." [reference]


1999 June, 28 - Publishes "The Unofficial Guide To Ethical Hacking" (ISBN 0333 93679 5) at 628 pages in 15 days (rediff), yet asks simple questions that an author should know. Some biographies claimed it sold 500,000 copies and was translated into 11 languages.


2000 May, 24 - Turned 15 years old.


2001 - He claims that he discovered links between the Chinese government and the China Eagle Union, a cracker group responsible for defacing many U.S. web sites. [reference]

2001 May, 24 - Turned 16 years old.


2001 June 29 - Publishes guide to defacing web pages. [reference]. This can be easily argued that any claims of "ethical" hacking are invalid.

2001 Nov - "consulted by a classified intelligence agency for breaking an encrypted message sent by one of Osama Bin Laden's men (indiaPRwire) and "After the September 11 attacks, the U.S Government found some encrypted mails. The mails apparently had only pictures and no text accompanying them. “The pictures followed the steganography pattern where in photographs with embedded messages are used. I gave a few suggestions on decoding them." (thehindu.com) - The oOnly reference, other than Fadia, is reputedly from Jack Kelley of USA Today who was later fired for fabricating stories.


2002 Aug - Moves personal site to ankitfadia.com.


2003 - Fadia's site, Ankitfadia.com, was attacked in 2003 by a cracker who self-identified as "SkriptKiddie". Fadia explained that he was using a private web server for hosting his website and they were responsible for the lack of security. [reference]


2003 Apr - Several biographies claim he spoke at the "52nd International Programme on Auditing Information Technology" [reference]. However, no other mention of this conference can be found, and the liklihood of a 52 year old conference on auditing IT not being more well-known is hard to believe.

2004 May 24, Turned 19 years old.


2004 - Fadia's resume says that two of his books have sold a combined 87,000 copies. This contradicts some biographies that say it sold 500,000 copies.


2004 - Freshman at Stanford University (2004 resume)


2007 - Stanford University '07 Alum (facebook)

2008 May 24 Turned 23 years old.


2008 July 11 - First evidence his site http://hackingmobilephones/ hit by viagra spammers. [reference]


2008 Aug - "consulted by the Navi Mumbai Police Department to trace the terror email sent just a few minutes before the Gujarat serial blasts" (indiaPRwire)


2008 Dec 16

* "author of 14 pubs" (indiaPRwire)
* "delivered more than 1000 talks in 25 countries" (indiaPRwire)
* "received 45 awards" (indiaPRwire)
* "senior at Stanford University" (indiaPRwire). This may contradict his claims of being "07 Alum" depending on use of word. While generally accepted this is used to mean "graduated", the technical definition includes "or student". However, why would he keep "'07 Alum" on his Facebook page that he actively updates in 2009?


2009 May 24 - Turned 24 years old.


2009 Nov - "has a degree in information security from Stanford University in the US." (tech2.in.com). His Facebook page in 2009 says "Management Science and Engineering".


2009 Nov 24 - "[The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking] became an international bestseller, sold over three million copies and was translated into 11 languages." [reference]


2009 Dec - Public notices his site has viagra spam, yet Fadia didn't notice since July of 2008. [reference]


2009 Dec - "The Unofficial Guide to Ethical Hacking has sold more than 7.5 million copies worldwide and is still counting." (rediff) This makes sales of the book over 4 million in a matter of months, or contradicts previous numbers.


2009 Dec 21 - According to his web site, "His books have sold a record 10 million copies across the globe".

Vinod Khosla - co-founder of sun microsystems

 

Achievement: One of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems.

Vinod Khosla is an epitome of Indian success story at Silicon Valley. He is a venture capitalist and is better known as one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems.

Vinod Khosla came from an ordinary middle class background. His father was in army. At the age of 16, Vinod Khosla read about the founding of Intel. This motivated him to nurture dreams of starting his own technology company. At the age of 20, after graduating in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi, Vinod Khosla started a soy milk company to cater to those people in India who did not have refrigerators. But his venture failed.

Vinod Khosla went to the US and did his Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. His entrepreneurial ambitions attracted him to Silicon Valley and subsequently he did his MBA from Stanford University in 1980.

After graduating from Stanford, Vinod Khosla founded Daisy Systems with two other founders. Daisy Systems was the first significant computer aided design system for electrical engineers. The company went on to make huge profits but driven by the frustration of having to design the computer hardware on which the Daisy software needed to be built, Vinod Khosla left the company.

In Vinod Khosla, started the standards based Sun Microsystems in 1982 to build workstations for software developers. Sun was funded by his long time friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. At Sun Microsystems, Vinod Khosla pioneered "open systems" and RISC processors. He left Sun Microsystems in 1985 and joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) in 1986, where he continues to be a general partner of KPCB funds through KP X.

Vinod Khosla also challenged Intel's monopoly by developing Nexgen/AMD. He also conceptualized the idea and business plan for Juniper to take on Cisco's dominance of the router market. Vinod Khosla is also one of the founding fathers of The Indus Entrepreneur (TiE), a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992. In 2004, he formed khoslaventures to fund knowledgeable entrepreneurs in their new "social impact" ventures.

Vinod Khosla has a keen interest in nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society. Presently, he is looking into practicality of the use of ethanol as a gasoline substitute

Vinod Dham- Father Of Pentium Processor

Born: 1950
Achievement: Known as the father of the Pentium processor.

Vinod Dham is popularly known as the father of the Pentium processor. Born in 1950 in Pune, he had his initial schooling in Pune. He did his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering in 1971. Thereafter he had a brief stint with Continental Devices, a Delhi based semiconductor company.

In 1975, Vinod Dham went to the US and did his Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. After completing his Masters in 1977, Vinod Dham joined the National Cash Register (NCR) at Dayton, Ohio. Vinod was a team member of the NCR's memory design group. He received many patents for his work at NCR.

While making a presentation at the IEEE conference in Monterrey, California on re-programmable memory, Vinod Dham received an offer from the Intel to work with them. In January 1990, Vinod was in-charge of developing the 586 or Pentium processor. He worked relentlessly on the project and the Pentium processor was a big hit in the market. Vinod Dham rose up the corporate ladder and reached the position of the Vice President of the Intel's Microprocessor Products Group. He quit Intel in 1995.

Thereafter, Vinod joined NexGen, a start-up firm as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.. When Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) acquired NexGen in 1996, Vinod Dham looked after the development of AMD's famous K6 Processor, world's fastest personal computer microprocessor. Later on he quit AMD.

Presently, Vinod Dham is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Silicon Spice, a communications technology development firm.

Ajay Bhatt - co-founder of USB

Current

* Chief Client Platform Architect/Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation
* Chief I/O Architect/Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation
* Chief Architect PCI Express Development at Intel

Past

* Intel Fellow at Intel Corporation
* Sr. Principal Engineer at Intel
* Chief Architect USB Development at Intel

* Sr. Staff Architect at Intel
* Principal Engineer at Wang Laboratories

Education

* City University of New York City College
* Maharaja Sayajirao University

Ajay Bhatt

Ajay Bhatt is an Intel Fellow and Chief Client Platform Architect in a Mobile Platforms Group. Ajay leads definition and development of the next-generation Client Platform architecture. He is primarily focused on the novel advances in platform hardware and software by working with key internal and external technology partners to develop the future Client Platform Architectures and Technologies. As a lead Client Platform Architect, Ajay also works with key business and planning groups to be at the forefront of the future Client Platform innovation areas by setting Intel-wide and industry-impacting strategies.

Ajay is an industry-recognized expert in the area of I/O technologies. At Intel, Bhatt has been instrumental in driving definition and development of broadly adopted technologies such as USB, Accelerated Graphics Port, PCI Express, Platform Power management architecture and various chipset enhancements. Bhatt joined Intel in 1990 as a senior staff architect on the chipset architecture team in Folsom.
Ajay received his master’s degree from The City University of New York. He holds ten U.S. patents with several in various stages of filing. In 1998, 2003 and 2004 Bhatt was nominated to take part in a Distinguished Lecture Series at leading universities in the United States and Asia. He received an Achievement in Excellence Award for his contribution in PCI Express specification development in 2002. Ajay Bhatt was featured in July 2010 issue of GQ India Magazine, as one of " The 50 Most Influential Global Indians!"

Ajay Bhatt’s Specialties:

Client & Server Platform Architecture, PC Architecture, I/O Architecture