Rohit Gupta

Rohit Gupta (born April 9, 1976) is a polymath and inventor based in India.

His science fiction and non-fiction was published widely in journals since 2000, followed by the E-author 1.0 Award. Gupta wrote India's first SMS novel, and invented trancewriting - writing for days without pause or sleep. A popular newspaper columnist, he dropped out from mainstream journalism and started writing comics and blogs. During the December 2004 tsunami, Gupta was in the news after publishing on a blog the SMS text messages sent by some friends in Sri Lanka, which proved to be critical information. At the same time, he designed a system known as "Alert Retrieval Cache" (ARC) for automated reception and delivery of SMS messages in disaster situations. The ambitious project met an early failure and was abandoned.

He later promoted post-Gandhian psychogeography as part of performance art, and sat as one of the judges for the 2007 Lulu Blooker Prize. Two innovations in locative media and image recognition followed, as part of the laboratory he had co-founded in 2005 - AlgoMantra Labs. Their recent work explores models of artificial physics towards the goal of designing unusual methods of space flight.

Education

He graduated with a B.Tech(Chemical Engineering) in 1999 from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Works

* [http://www.oxfordbookstore.com/oxfordonline/asppages/item_final.asp?strSKU=BD32927&strSKUSrl=1&sid=PQDJT5REWVSR2M7300NGS42S6EUJ9DC7 Play On Edward & Other Stories] (Embassy Books)
* [http://www.namingdistances.com/mutatis/doppler.html The Doppler Effect] , a free online comic-book.
* OrganicPoetry
* [http://www.geocities.com/micereign/index.htm The Great Mahakali Write-a-thalon]
* [http://algomantra.blogspot.com/2007/07/cellphabet-10-how-i-can-walk-in-english.html Cellphabet]
* [http://algomantra.blogspot.com/2007/11/parab0xx-light-controlled-musical.html parab0xx]

External links

* [http://www.algomantra.com AlgoMantra Labs]
* [http://rohitgupta.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/download/Main/WebHome/BBC+-+cellphabet.mp3 BBC Radio 5 Live] : Audio mp3 of interview about Cellphabet with Chris Vallance(5.5MB, 6min)
* [http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/upload/050318_Blogging.rm Voice of America] : On legal bullying by Indian media
* [http://www.theworld.org/content/12293.wma NPR with Clark Boyd] : On 2004 Tsunami Coverage by SMS
* [http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050721gupta/ Article by Gupta on Wikipedia] , in USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review