1. Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was born on 1933 and is an Indian Computer scientist academic and writer who is known for his pioneering efforts in the field of Computer Science Education in India.
23 Facts About Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman is credited with the establishment of the first academic program in computer science in India, which he helped initiate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1965.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman passed the HSC examination as a student of first batch of Madras Education Association Higher Secondary School, New Delhi, in 1949.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was awarded a scholarship by Delhi University after passing the All India Entrance Scholarship Examination and graduated with BSc in Physics from St Stephen's College of University of Delhi in 1952 and continued his higher studies at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore to obtain a Diploma of IISc in 1955.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman stayed on at IISc and designed and constructed non-linear units for an analogue computer and applied it for solving a number of engineering problems for which he was awarded an associateship by IISc in 1957.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was awarded an overseas scholarship by the government of India and joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge from which he obtained his MSc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1959.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman started his career as an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman initiated the first BTech program at IITKanpur in 1978 with an initial batch of 20 students.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman became a Senior Professor at IITKanpur in 1974 and stayed there till 1982.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman moved to Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and developed low-cost parallel computers and a supercomputing facility of which he served as chairman from 1982 to 1994.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman published over 70 scientific papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals and 23 text books, including the first on computer programming published in India titled Principles of Computer Programming, Computer Programming in FORTRAN 90 and 95 Computer Oriented Numerical Methods, 3rd ed.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, besides developing parallel computers, contributed in the development of real-time control system for Bhilai Steel Plant, designed the training modules for Tata Consultancy Services, and designed computer science curriculum for All India Council for Technical Education, the national council for technical education in India.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was a council member of the Indian National Science Academy from 1986 to 1988.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman served as a consultant to Bharat Electronics, TCS, Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Steel Authority of India Limited and Kerala Venture Capital.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman chaired a committee set up by the Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister in 1987 that recommended establishing Centre for the Development of Advanced Computing to design and develop supercomputers in India using parallel computing technology.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was a member of CDAC's governing council in its formative years.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was TataChem professor at IISc from 1991 to 1994 and the IBM Professor of Information Technology at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research from 1994 to 2001.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was a member of the board of directors of CMC Ltd.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was a member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Government of Karnataka from 1985 to 2014.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman's hobbies include listening to classical Karnatik and Western music and reading fiction and non-fiction books.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman received Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the highest Indian science and technology award for young scientists, in 1976, for his contributions in optimizing the use of decision tables and his pioneering work in computer science.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman was awarded Om Prakash Bhasin Award of the Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation and Rustom Choksi Award of the Indian Institute of Science in 1993.
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Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman is an elected fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and has held the fellowships of the Computer Society of India and the Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.