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Visakhapatnam, Sept. 30 The radical changes sure to occur in the fields of information and communication technologies in the next fifty years can be made use of by India, if only high-speed broadband connectivity is made accessible to all citizens (at a cost of less than Rs 1,000 a month) and people’s PCs are made available, with stress on computer literacy for all, according to Prof. Raj Reddy, of Computer Sciences and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (US).

He was delivering the convocation address in Andhra University on Saturday evening, after honorary doctorates were conferred on him, Mr B. Ramalinga Raju, Chairman of Satyam Computers, and Mr K. Rosaiah, State Finance Minister.

Prof. Raj Reddy observed that “information and communication technologies are not a cure to the world’s problems, but a powerful tool to facilitate and enable affordable solutions to economic development.”

He said that “in the past, every 10 years we have witnessed a hundred-fold increase in computational power. In some areas, we have seen a thousand-fold improvement. For the next five decades or so, the trend will continue and the results will be quite astounding.”

However, educationists should not focus on technology alone, but make students aware of the cultural heritage of India as well as the traditional values. All the three recipients of the honorary doctorates were felicitated on Sunday by Wisezen club.

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