Aasis Vinayak PG

infobox person
name = Aasis Vinayak PG


caption = Aasis Vinayak PG , 2008
birth_date = birth date and age|1988|07|07
nationality = Indian
birth_place = Kollam, Kerala, India
movement = Free software movement
occupation = Columnist, Programmer
Popular as = Columnist, Developer of V language, CEO of The Analyst Magazine & Mozhi Search,
website = [http://aasisvinayak.com www.aasisvinayak.com]

Aasis Vinayak PG (born July 7, 1988) is a budding physicist , ethical hacker and a free software activist. He does programming in the open source domain [ [http://www.aasisvinayak.com Aasis Vinayak PG - Welcome to my home page ] ] . He is active both in Theoretical Physics and Computer Science. He is the CEO and developer of an Indian Language Search Engine [http://www.hinduonnet.com/2007/12/10/stories/2007121054890500.htm The Hindu : Kerala / Pathanamthitta News : New search engine for Indian languages ] ] , Mozhi, and The Analyst Magazine, through which he extended the philosophies of GNU [ The Analyst Magazine Home Page (which says about its philosophies) http://www.theanalystmagazine.com ] . He is also a columnist in Digit [http://www.thinkdigit.com/lib/download.php?file_path=../current_issues/DVD_Content_Jun_2008_1.pdf] , a technology magazine in India, and Linux for You [http://www.lfymag.com/archives.asp?author=Aasis+Vinayak+PG&month=Select+Month&year=Select+Year&total=1&id=13&Submit=Search Linux For You-The Complete Magazine On Open Source ] ] . He is well-known for his expertise in PHP and Kernel, as well as in advanced C (programming language) and Java programming language. He also writes columns for I.T. Magazine and BenefIT [ See the info provided in the box http://www.aasisvinayak.com] .

Recently , in 2008, he developed a new computer language V [ [http://vlanguage.org V language ] ] which ,he claims, can replace the necessity to learn multiple programming languages. Though the libraries of the program is open only to the developers, netizans can try a web version of the language in an online platform called Grogammer [ [http://grogammer.com Welcome to Grogammer - The Free Programmer ] ] .

Physics

He has many publications to his credit [ [http://www.aasisvinayak.com/works/ Published Works / Other Projects ] ] . He has four papers in theoretical physics [Listing in Arxiv (of Cornell University) http://arxiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+G_A/0/1/0/all/0/1] . Works in physics fetched him many awards and appreciations; even from the President of India [ [http://www.hindu.com/2004/12/10/stories/2004121003570700.htm The Hindu : Kerala News : Young innovator gets invitation from Kalam ] ] , Chief Minister of the state of Kerala and Governor of the state of Tamil Nadu [ [http://www.aasisvinayak.com/picture.html Pictures ] ] . He is currently an NIUS fellow in Physics at HBCSE, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India.

Interest in Computing

Initially he was active only in physics, but an attack by an impersonator (over internet) who disguised himself as a reputed physicist, made Vinayak interested in Computing [ [http://www.aasisvinayak.com/about/ About Me - Aasis Vinayak P G ] ] . In fact, he was deceived by the impersonator and that fetched him many troubles as he believed the impersonator. His intention was to solve the issues related to cyber crimes.

After developing interest in computing Vinayak became active in the free software community and he released his softwares in open source platforms [http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wikinotemaker/selfplatform1.1_alpha.tar.gz?use_mirror=osdnt] .And his works received appreciations from scientists and developers in the field [ [http://www.aasisvinayak.com/personal/rms.html RMS ] ] .

Other fields

He maintains more than 12 websites, most of them are used for hosting his own projects. He launched The Analyst Magazine to "build an environment where one could find quality analysis reports of current events and other educational resources for free". The venture was well appreciated by people in the free software community and even by Richard M Stallman [ [http://www.theanalystmagazine.com/rms.html Stallman on The Analyst Magazine ] ]

He also maintains Free Lecture Notes [ [http://freelecturenotes.org/ Welcome to Free Lecture Notes.Org ] ] that he found in association with the Free Software Foundation [ [http://www.freelecturenotes.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page Main Page - Free Lecture Notes ] ] .

He also launched Evolutionary Communism to voice his ideas in politics [ [http://www.evolutionarycommunism.com/ Evolutionary Communism ] ] .

He recently filed a patent for a novel anti theft device [No. 2529/Che/2007 (Indian Patent Office) ]

Latest

He is currently an undergraduate in Physics at Loyola College, Chennai, India. He is active both in Physics and Computer Science [See the present activities under updates http://aasisvinayak.com] .

Apart from being an NIUS fellow in Physics at the reputed HBCSE of TIFR, he is a dedicated free software activist. After developing the language V, he is now working on the alpha release of an 'intelligent search engine', Integle [Integle Home Page http://integle.org] .

References

External links

* [http://www.aasisvinayak.com Personal home page]
* [http://www.vlanguage.org V-language Official Site]
* [http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/author/A.G Listing of papers in University of California, Davis site]
* [http://www.theanalystmagazine.com The Analyst Magazine]