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Wednesday, Oct 26, 2005
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Science & Technology Scientific community told to educate society Our Bureau
Kolkata , Oct. 25 THE scientific community needs to step up efforts to "interact with and educate" society, especially the political establishment and the business community, with a view to explaining what science is all about and what the scientific community has been doing in terms of research & development that would ultimately benefit society at large. This was stated by Prof. M.G.K. Menon, President of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), while inaugurating a "Centre for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility" here today. Prof Menon's observations were in response to a question that had been raised by a Member of Parliament on the floor of the House on why the Centre for Soft Computing Research would be located at ISI in Kolkata. Prof Menon said it was a little known fact that the first digital computer in India was housed at ISI way back in 1956. The country's first computer education programme started in ISI a few years later even as work on soft computing in India first began in ISI in the 1970s. "The scientific community needs to do more in terms of interacting with and educating society about what science is all about and what the scientific community is doing with regard to research & development," he said. Prof Menon highlighted the vast scope of the "application areas of soft computing in industry" and talked of the importance of scaling-up developments pertaining to science & technology in India. He said it would be imperative to think in terms of the applications of scientific innovations and connecting systems with applications. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Bikash Sinha, Director of Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre and Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, said there was huge scope of soft computing in "innumerable applications, especially in complex, non-linear systems". According to Dr Sinha, India's must leverage upon its vast pool of scientific and technical manpower and seize opportunities that exist in areas such as semiconductors and nanotechnology. Dr V. Rao Aiyagari, Head of Science & Engineering Research Council of the Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, said the Central Government would welcome enhanced industry-academia laboratory interface. In this regard, he said industry, too, could fund academic institutions.
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