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இப்பெரியவரின் மறைவு பற்றி ஏற்கனவே குழுமத்தில் பேசினர்.மிகப் பெரிய இழப்பு; வருந்துகிறேன்.
"Both
Rajaraman and Mahabala had obtained their computing education on the
fly, without formal training. They subsequently spent time at leading
centers of academic computing in the United States under the auspices of
the Kanpur Indo-American Program—Rajaraman at UC Berkeley and Mahabala
at MIT. Despite their extensive experience in U.S. universities, the
program they conducted at Kanpur was much different than those conducted
in the United States. Rajaraman and Mahabala undertook research, but
their focus was teaching—teaching not only IIT students, but education
more broadly. Rajaraman, who came to be recognized as the leading figure
in computing education in India, wrote an introductory textbook on
programming and usage in 1969 and later authored books on FORTAN and
COBOL programming. While Rajaraman and Mahabala published research, they
never specialized narrowly. Instead they covered a wide range of areas
and acted to facilitate Indian computing in whatever ways were
necessary." (from Ross Bassett, Aligning India in the Cold War Era:
Indian Technical Elites, the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur,
and Computing in India and the United States. Technology and Culture, Volume 50, Number 4, October 2009, pp. 783-810)
Soon
after the five IITs were set up, Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
had realized that to keep pace with the ever changing world of science
and technology, it is necessary to collaborate closely with the outside
world. The Kanpur Indo-American Programme (1962-1972) at IIT-Kanpur was a
stride in this direction. Now India is a powehouse in software of aout ~
200 billion $. Here, I include two rare photos of PM Nehru's visit to
USA in November, 1961. It was during this visit that American academic
collaboration was consolidated with Govt. of India officials.
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