Interestingly, it was Mukhi who also convinced the maverick actor and technophile, late Shammi Kapoor, who hop on the internet bandwagon. His wife, Sonal, who is also from tech background, has always stood by him in his various endeavours," said Mehta. He was very enthusiastic to take artificial intelligence forward in a big way to help trade, commerce, creativity among other things. "The very last conversation I had with Vijay at the launch of his new books was on virtual reality and AI. Dewang Mehta also died young (in 2001), and now we have lost Vijay too," he added.Ĭoincidentally, Mehta had met Mukhi early on Tuesday evening in Mumbai for the launch of his two new technology books, which included one on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Vijay was also instrumental in getting the dynamic Dewang Mehta onboard in 1991 thereby helping scores of InfoTech companies leapfrog ahead along with Nasscom. "However, today Nasscom is a major tech force to reckon with. In fact, Nasscom was launched in 1986 from his lovely house itself." Mehta further noted that there were barely 35 technology companies as Nasscom members in 1986. We used to often meet at his Nepean Sea Road home to chat about tech and other things along with likeminded people. He was always very excited and enthusiastic about new technologies. Founder member of Nasscom and CMD of Onward Technologies Ltd, Harish Mehta, commented, "Vijay (Mukhi) was a close friend since the early '80s. Call him tech evangelist, cyber expert or the internet guru, Vijay Mukhi was certainly the man who introduced internet to India in 1995 when the Net had taken baby steps in the country through the gateway of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited. He was 61, and his demise has shocked and saddened many of the top IT entrepreneurs, technocrats and hundreds of his friends, followers and "shishyas" (students) who learnt C++ among other things from him. MUMBAI: Tech expert and author of over 80 books on information technology, Vijay Mukhi, passed away at his Lower Parel residence on Tuesday night due to a cardiac arrest.
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