mangalore mangalorean anant agarwal has been named by forbes magazine as a classroom revolutionary who uses innovative technologies to reinvent education he is the president of edx an online learning initiative of the massachusetts institute of technology and harvard the forbes list names 15 innovators who are harnessing a slew of disruptive technologies to change everything from the way we teach school math to how we train the next generation of teachers agarwal who studied at mangalores st aloysius college from class i to xii holds a phd from stanford and a bachelors degree from iitmadras he led the development of raw an early tiled multicore processor sparcle an early multithreaded microprocessor and alewife a scalable multiprocessor he also led the virtualwires project at mit and was the founder of virtual machine works which took virtualwires to the market he is an author of the textbook foundations of analog and digital electronic circuits anants brother ruchir is ecstatic i have been trying to contact him ever since i got the news he is unavailable probably due to his work also he has shifted residence after hurricane sandy struck ruchir told toi anant had served as director of the computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory he is the leader of the carbon project which is developing new scalable multicore architecture a new operating system for multicore and clouds called fos and a parallel simulator for multicore and clouds called graphite