BENGALURU: Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, extensively considered the “Pitamah” of pc science schooling in India, handed away on account of age-related illnesses at his Tatanagar residence right here on Saturday aged 92. The scholars he taught included Faqir Chand Kohli, the primary CEO of TCS, and Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy. Instrumental in establishing India's first formal educational programme in pc science in 1965 at IIT Kanpur, Rajaraman laid the muse for the nation's technological revolution. Born in 1933, Prof Rajaraman devoted greater than six many years to shaping India's computing panorama. “I used to be his pupil at IIT Kanpur within the late Sixties. He was a scholar and a gentleman. He and his very type spouse, Dharma, have been like guardians for each pupil within the EE division at IITK. He was at all times accessible for any mentoring,” Narayana Murthy mentioned. As chairman of the Supercomputer Schooling and Analysis Centre (SERC) at IISc from 1982 to 1994, Prof Rajaraman constructed India's supercomputing and parallel computing capabilities, empowering analysis establishments with superior computational assets. His imaginative and prescient led to the creation of the grasp of pc functions (MCA) programme for science and commerce graduates, addressing vital human useful resource wants within the rising IT trade. In 1987, chairing a committee arrange by the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, he beneficial establishing the Centre for the Improvement of Superior Computing to develop indigenous supercomputers. “He is without doubt one of the nice visionaries who considered supercomputers when folks did not know if it was spelt as one phrase or two. In pc schooling, there are not any two opinions about his contributions in any respect. Above all, he was an ideal human being. I've by no means seen him indignant in all my years of affiliation with him. It's a nice loss,” Prof N Balakrishnan (Balki), a supercomputer knowledgeable instrumental in establishing SERC, instructed TOI. Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, mentioned: “Prof Rajaraman is the doyen of Indian pc science schooling… His textbooks are the primary introduction to programming for a lot of Indian college students. We now have misplaced a pioneer of the pc trade in India.” Prof Rajaraman's contributions to e-governance have been transformative. As a member of Karnataka's Technical Advisory Panel (1985-2014), he guided landmark initiatives, together with the Bhoomi mission for land registration and the Kaveri mission for property registration, pioneering digital governance in India. Prof Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman acquired the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1976) and was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1998. Prof Rajaraman, whose remaining rites have been carried out Saturday, is survived by his spouse Dharma Rajaraman.
