Professor Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman, widely regarded as the “Pitamaha” of computer science education in India, passed away due to age-related ailments at his Tatanagar residence here on Saturday, at the age of 92. The students he taught included Faqir Chand Kohli, the first CEO of TCS, and the Infosys founder N. R. Narayana Murthy.

His efforts were instrumental in establishing the first formal academic programme in computer science in 1965 at IIT Kanpur. Rajaraman laid the foundation for the nation’s technological revolution.

Born in the year 1933, Professor Rajaraman dedicated more than six decades to shaping India’s tech landscape.

He was the Chairman of the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) at IISc from 1982 to 1994. Prof. Rajaraman built India’s supercomputing and para

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