Sugata Mitra
Sugata Mitra (Bengali: স গত ম ত ৰ; born 12 February 1952) is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University, England. He is best known for his "Hole in the Wall" experiment, and widely cited in works on literacy and education. He is Chief Scientist, Emeritus, at NIIT. He is also the winner of the TED Prize 2013. Mitra has been described as a polymath by the University of London, as his 30 years of research spans a wide range of disciplines.