Indian computer pioneers biography
Indian computer pioneers biography
Early computer pioneers!
Rangaswamy Narasimhan
Rangaswamy Narasimhan (April 17, 1926 – September 3, 2007) was an Indian computer and cognitive scientist, regarded by many as the father of computer science research in India.[1][2] He led the team which developed the TIFRAC, the first Indian indigenous computer[3][4] and was instrumental in the establishment of CMC Limited in 1975, a Government of India company, later bought by Tata Consultancy Services.[5] He was a recipient of the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri from the Government of India in 1977.[6]
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Narasimhan was a pioneer in the field of computer sciences in India and the principal architect of India’s first indigenous computer, TIFRAC. I would rate him as the scientific equivalent of the linguist-philosopher Dr. Noam Chomsky in this country for his work relating to language, linguistics and cognitive sciences, said M.
G. K. Menon, on hearing about