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SUMMARY:The Story of CDOT - Centre for Development of Telematics: 36 months
 \, 36 crores and a 5* hotel
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: M.V. Pitke\nTata Institute of Fundamental Research\nHo
 mi Bhabha Road\nMumbai 400005\n\nAbstract: \nCDoT completes 25 years in th
 e month of August 2009. Set up as a response to a Government tender for a 
 factory with an annual production capacity of half a million lines of tele
 phone exchanges\, it developed technology for a family of switches\, more 
 than 52 million of lines which were delivered to the Department of Telecom
 munications alone. Much less known is the very crucial role played by TIFR
  in this project that gave a boost to the local electronics industry and h
 elped create more than 100 entrepreneurs around the world.\n\nIn this talk
  Dr. Pitke will attempt to describe the strategy that helped CDOT to deal 
 with several impediments and roadblocks that were natural in an atmosphere
  that was\, and still continues to be\, not very helpful to indigenous dev
 elopment. \n\nAbout the speaker:\n\nProf. M.V.Pitke's career at the Tata I
 nstitute of Fundamental Research includes several contributions to the dev
 elopment of computer electronics and communications technology for over 35
  years. He pioneered the development of a switching system for mobile netw
 orks (1975-80) that was forerunner to the current ad-hoc networks. As Foun
 der Director of the Center for Development of Telematics - CDoT (1984) he 
 guided the development of technology for central office switching systems 
 in the late 80s. He directed the development of a large parallel processor
  using a unique SAMD architecture for weather research.\n\nHe is an Adjunc
 t Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT
 ) Bangalore\, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engi
 neers\, the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Institution of Electronics 
 and Telecommunication Engineers.\n\nDr. Pitke is currently engaged in desi
 gning systems for new all IP mobile networks.\n
URL:https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/web/events/12
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LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre (AG-66)
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