Chennai :

Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, will launch the N R Narayana Murthy Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research on April 18. The Chair will be launched by Kris Gopalakrishnan, member, Board of Governors, IIT -Madras, and co-founder of Infosys Technologies, along with professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi, director, IIT Madras, at DoMS Auditorium on the campus.

Gopalakrishnan has set up three Chairs in computational brain research at IIT-Madras with an endowment of `10 crore each. The Chairs will complement a Brain Research Center that will come up in Bengaluru, as well as Chairs created in IISc., Bengaluru and postdoctoral fellows sponsored at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. While the first Chair has been named after Gopalakrishnan’s professor, H N Mahabala, retired faculty of IIT-Madras CSE Department, the second Chair has been named after the co-founder of Infosys Technologies, NR Narayana Murthy.

source: http://www.newindianexpress.com / The New Indian Express / Home> Cities> Chennai / by Express News Service / April 16th, 2015