Sugata Mitra

Sugata Mitra is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of

Education, Communication and Language Sciences, Newcastle University,

England, and a visiting professor at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge,

Massachusetts. Professor Mitra works in the areas of cognitive

science, information science and educational technology, and he has a

keen interest in engineering and software development. His current

research interests include technologies for remote and rural

education, distance education, instructional robotics, self-organizing

systems and collaborative systems on the Internet.