Deepak B. Phatak (born 2 April 1948) is an Indian computer scientist and academic, and a recipient of the Padma Shri Award for his contribution in science and technology in 2013.
[3] Phatak completed secondary school at Dayanand Arya Vidyalaya, graduated third in his class with a degree in electrical engineering from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS) Indore, completed his master of engineering (specialising in instrumentation, control and computers), and received his PhD in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
[citation needed] Born in April 1948, Phatak obtained his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from SGSITS Indore in 1969, and his M Tech and Ph D from IIT Bombay.
Recognizing that smart cards are essentially low-cost computers without a monitor or keyboard, Dr Phatak started development of meaningful affordable applications of this technology.
Dr Phatak has continued development work on smart card technology, designing low cost point-of-sale (POS) terminals and a multi-application framework[clarification needed].
Specific security issues were addressed and novel deployment schemes were evolved through PhD and MTech level research.
2004–2007 – To prevent and catch malpractices such as insider trading in stock markets, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) wanted to deploy a state of art surveillance system.
Initially it aimed to provide web-based mentoring to final year computer engineering students of colleges for their project work.
With his encouragement, the IITB School of Management set up the India Centre for Creative Commons, which provides open source license terms for the content.
a "clicker," a portable, handheld device intended for student or presentation environments, designed to allow participants to submit answers to a quiz or poll by clicking on one of a set number of choices.
In the late 1980s he was involved in a major effort by Industrial Development Bank of India to use relational data bases on Unix platforms.