Sunday, 9 November 2025

PROFESSOR VAIDYESWARAN RAJARAMAN PASSED AWAY

* PROFESSOR VAIDYESWARAN RAJARAMAN PASSED AWAY ON 8TH NOVEMBER 2025.


BORN IN - 8TH SEPTEMBER 1933 (TAMILNADU) 

PASSED AWAY ON - 8TH NOVEMBER 2025 

* HE WAS AN INDIAN COMPUTER SCIENTIST, ACADEMIC AND WRITER 

* HE WAS THE FIRST TO INITIATE THE COMPUTER SCIENCE IN INDIA. ( IIT KANPUR IN  1965) 

* HE STUDIED IN IISC BENGALURU 

* HE DID RESEARCH IN ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM IN 1961 ( AT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON) 

* ASSISTANT PROFESSOR AT ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING aT IIT KANPUR.

* HE INITIATED FIRST BTECH PROGRAM IN IIT KANPUR ( 1978) 

* IN 1974 - SENIOR PROFESSOR AT IIT KANPUR.

* IN 1982 - HE MOVED TO IISC BENGALURU - AND DEVELOPED LOW COST PARALLEL COMPUTER 

* HE WROTE A MONOGRAPH HISTORY OF COMPUTING IN INDIA : 1955-2010

* HE WAS A MEMBER OF ELECTRONICS COMMISION (1979-1982) 

* THAT COMMISION STARTED THE NEW COURSE MASTER IN COMPUTER APPLICATION ( MCA) 

* HE WAS A COUNCIL MEMBERS OF INDIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE ACADEMY (1986-1988) 

* HE WAS TATA Chem PROFESSOR AT ISSC (1991-1994) 

* IBM PROFESSOR AT JNCAR (1994-2001) 

* HE WAS A MEMBER OF CMC LIMITED 


AWARDS - 

* 1976 - SHANTI SWAROOP BHATNAGAR AWARD 

* 1984 - HOMI BHABA PRIZE 

* OM PRAKASH BHASIN AWARD 

* 1993 - RUSTOM CHOKSI AWARD (IISC) 

* 1998 - PADMA BHUSHAN AWARD 

* 1998 - A H ZAHEER MEDAL

* DOCTOR OF SCIENCE ( IIT KANPUR) 

* CSI LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 


BOOKS - 

* CRITICAL MASS: Decoding India's Nuclear Policy 

* COMPUTER PROGRAMMING C 

* INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL COMPUTER DESIGN 

* HISTORY OF COMPUTING IN INDIA 


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