ahmedabad suril shah 25 a software engineer with google wears many hats the amdavadi lad was among the youngest in the world to get developer certificates from the likes of sun and oracle between the age of 11 and 15 years and he had gone to stanford university on scholarship recently motion stills an application developed by him and his team for google has been made available for android platforms after iphone in a chat with toi shah shared his journey with google and his take on future of technology developmentafter stanford i landed an internship with google research in computer vision team where i discovered my interest in machine learning and decided to pursue my masters at stanford specializing in artificial intelligence ai i joined google afterwards working with machine learning team said suriltalking about google he said that after working on a wrist gesture recognition system for android smartwatch he started working on a 20 project where google allows employees to spend 20 of their time typically one day a week on any project of their choosing with computational video along with dr karthik raveendran the project finally took shape of motion stillsmotion stills is a threesecond video optimized for looping and can be shared as videos or gifs on social media in fast forward mode it can capture videos up to 1 minute which are converted in hyperlapses suril said that india is one of the fastest growing user bases for the appspeaking about the future of technology suril said virtual reality vr is taking a backseat and ar augmented reality is now getting its day in the sun pokemon go was an early success example albeit using very lightweight ar but ar harbours the potential to fundamentally change user experience beyond gaming in next two years he saidwhat are the opportunities for techies from india and especially gujarat in changing work environment in the us suril admitted that it is getting tougher for indian techies due to change in rules but he is optimistic on the outlook in near futureindia is rapidly arriving in the age of digitization and connectivity and has already surpassed the us in the number of internet users this unlocks a lot of potential for technology to solve problems requiring many bright minds suhil said adding in many case it is not possible to simply transplant western ideas for our problems and thus indian engineers are uniquely positioned