If a film were made about Anant Agarwal, it’d be called The Man Who Stuffed 100 Processors on a Chip. That’s because his firm Tilera, is soon to ship its 100-core chip which could revolutionise computing. A serial entrepreneur, Anant is a professor of Electrical Engg & Computers at MIT, and heads it’s famous Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. A BTech from IIT Madras and a PhD from Stanford, he has founded several start-ups and been part of ground-breaking projects on microprocessors at MIT. He led teams that developed different multiprocessors, of which Raw (a tiled microprocessor), Sparcle (multithread), and Alewife (scalable) are the most notable. He’s currently leading the Carbon Project to develop scalable multicore architectures, and was instrumental in taking the tech he developed to the market with startup’s like Virtual Machine Works in 1993 that commercialised virtual wires.