physicist's view of software

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I met this gentleman quite randomly, we were sitting next to each other in a seminar in Germany and Carly (CEO HP, scheduled to give a speech to all employees) was held up somewhere, so we started talking to each other, trying to ignore the German host on the mike who didnt want to waste the audience’s time and wanted everybody to “practice clapping” as a warmup.

He came to know I was from Bangalore and floored me by greeting me with “Namaskaara”!! He turned out to be an American having migrated to Germany. We had surprisingly common similarities wrt the effects of our stay in Germany and so on. Turned out to be a Dr. Ritley, a physicist. He sent me his home page and I was really surprised to see some things. This one makes fascinating reading…

The Switch to IT Consulting

This one is more about physics but the last para is also about his transition.

Just for the record, I had written this on software much before I met him (though was edited later).

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October 30, 2005

Chuck Ritley

Mr. Mysoremutt:

Ken Ritley is my son, so I was surpriesed to see his name as I randomly examined some blogs.

India and the United States seem to come together in many ways. Ken is working temporarily in India, and I am associated here in the United States with many Indian citizens. I teach comnputer sciences in South Texas at Del Mar College, and the University of the Incarnate Word in Corpus Christi. At out schools, and also at the local Texas A&M, about 35 percent of the Computer Science students are from India or from Bangaladesh. Most of them are graduate students who are trying to acquire their Master’s degrees.

I am always surprised at the INdian work ethic. The Indian students work so much harder, and do everything more thoroughly, than their American counterparts. I suspect that our culture here is getting lazy. I try to motivate the students—-and sometimes that works, and sometimes it does not.

-Charles N. Ritley
Corpus Christi, Texas
United States

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October 31, 2005

msanjay

Dear Mr. Ritley,

Honor to hear from you, really wonderful to read your email! 🙂

I am in touch with Ken, have met him several times since last month – we happened to be chatting over the net, and I found that for that day I happened to be in the same building and same floor as him! We had some coffee as well and have a trip planned to some place, don’t know when (or even where).

I am a guest in somebody else’s house at the moment and will write more in detail later or when I get back home.

Cheers,
Sanjay
[You may just address me as Sanjay 🙂 ]

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November 16, 2005

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May 11, 2006

Charles Ritley

Sanjay:

I’m glad you had the opportunity to work with Ken. He seems to like working in India, and sends us newspapers from time to time so we can get a feel for the culture. I believe that many more United States companies will begin starting up subsidiaries and facilties in INdia, particularly in Bangalore. From the newspapers, and mind you I have never been to India, it would appear that Bangalore is very similar in many ways to one of the American cities in our “Silicon Valley” or even here in South Texas, where Austin has become a major computing center.

Best Regards,

Charles Ritley

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May 11, 2006

bellur ramakrishna

sanjay,
interesting that ur friend sends indian newspapers to his parents abroad so that they get to know about our culture!
very nice to know from Mr.Charles Ritley that Indian students work so much harder, and do everything more thoroughly, than their American counterparts.

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