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Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman
BENGALURU: Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, wide regarded arsenic the "Pitamah" of machine subject acquisition successful India, passed distant owed to age-related ailments astatine his Tatanagar residence present connected Saturday aged 92.
The students helium taught included Faqir Chand Kohli, the archetypal CEO of TCS, and Infosys laminitis NR Narayana Murthy. Instrumental successful establishing India's archetypal ceremonial world programme successful machine subject successful 1965 astatine IIT Kanpur, Rajaraman laid the instauration for the nation's technological revolution. Born successful 1933, Prof Rajaraman dedicated much than six decades to shaping India's computing landscape. "I was his pupil astatine IIT Kanpur successful the precocious Sixties. He was a student and a gentleman.
He and his precise benignant wife, Dharma, were similar guardians for each pupil successful the EE section astatine IITK. He was ever disposable for immoderate mentoring," Narayana Murthy said. As president of the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) astatine IISc from 1982 to 1994, Prof Rajaraman built India's supercomputing and parallel computing capabilities, empowering probe institutions with precocious computational resources.
His imaginativeness led to the instauration of the maestro of machine applications (MCA) programme for subject and commerce graduates, addressing captious quality assets needs successful the emerging IT industry.
In 1987, chairing a committee acceptable up by the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, helium recommended establishing the Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing to make indigenous supercomputers. "He is 1 of the large visionaries who thought of supercomputers erstwhile radical didn't cognize if it was spelt arsenic 1 connection oregon two.
In machine education, determination are nary 2 opinions astir his contributions astatine all. Above all, helium was a large quality being. I've ne'er seen him aggravated successful each my years of relation with him. It is simply a large loss," Prof N Balakrishnan (Balki), a supercomputer adept instrumental successful establishing SERC, told TOI. Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, said: "Prof Rajaraman is the doyen of Indian machine subject education...
His textbooks are the archetypal instauration to programming for galore Indian students. We person mislaid a pioneer of the machine manufacture successful India." Prof Rajaraman's contributions to e-governance were transformative. As a subordinate of Karnataka's Technical Advisory Panel (1985-2014), helium guided landmark initiatives, including the Bhoomi task for onshore registration and the Kaveri task for spot registration, pioneering integer governance successful India. Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman received the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1976) and was honoured with the Padma Bhushan successful 1998. Prof Rajaraman, whose last rites were performed Saturday, is survived by his woman Dharma Rajaraman.
