R. Narasimhan

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R. Narasimhan ( Rangaswamy Narasimhan ; born April 17, 1926 in Chennai , † September 3, 2007 in Bengaluru ) was an Indian computer scientist and computer pioneer in India.

Life

Narasimhan graduated from the College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Madras University, and Caltech (Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering) and received her PhD in Mathematics from Indiana University . From 1954 he was involved in the development of the first Indian computer at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research at the invitation of Homi J. Bhabha . It was put into operation in 1959 (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator, TIFRAC).

From 1961 to 1964 he was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and then built a national Indian software center at the Tata Institute (National Center for Software Technology, merged with the Center for Development of Advanced Computing, C-DAC from 2003). In the 1960s he headed a state committee that should point out ways for more national independence in the computer sector. This led to the establishment of the Indian state-owned computer company CMC Limited (Computer Maintainance Corporation) in 1977, which took over the maintenance of computers from IBM and other foreign companies and was taken over by the Tata Group (Tata Consultancy Services) in 2001. Narasimhan was founding director of CMC and remained associated with the company even after it was acquired by the Tata Group. In 1990 he retired from the Tata Institute.

He researched artificial intelligence, taking language learning in children as an object of study. In the 1960s he also studied pattern recognition in computer vision.

In 1977 he received the Padma Shri . In 1964 he founded the Computer Society of India and was its founding president until 1969.

Fonts

  • Modeling Language Behavior, Springer 1981
  • Language Behavior: Acquisition and Evolutionary History, Sage Publ. 1998
  • Characterizing Literacy: A Study of Western and Indian Literacy Experiences, Sage Publ. 2004
  • Artificial Intelligence and the Study of Agentive Behavior, Tata-McGraw Hill 2004

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personal data
SURNAME Narasimhan, R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Narasimhan, Rangaswamy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Chennai
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 2007
Place of death Bengaluru