Indo-German centre on computer science opens at IIT Delhi
03 Feb 2010
India and Germany today announced the launch of the Indo-German Max Planck Centre on Computer Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi for carrying out joint research in computer sciences.
The centre was inaugurated jointly by Prithviraj Chavan, minister of science and technology and earth sciences and Horst Koehler, president of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The centre would engage researchers from institutes like the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Indian Institutes of Technology at Kanpur, Mumbai and Chennai from the Indian side and Max Planck Institute for informatics (MP-INF), Saarbruecken from the German side.
IMPECS will engage in collaborative basic research in computer science (CS) between Indian and German scientists and serve as a bridge between computer scientific communities from both sides. The centre will act as a center of excellence for faculty and students from both sides. The research areas envisaged under the Indo-German Computer Centre would be algorithms and complexity, database and information retrieval; graphics and vision and networking.
The Indo-German centre will benefit both countries. While India would benefit from a stronger research base in computer science and develop expertise of highest caliber needed by academia and industry, Germany would benefit through improved collaboration with leading Indian scientists and a highly professional environment and large pool of young talent.
The Indo-German Centre on Computer Centre has been set up jointly by the Department of Science and Technology and the Max Planck Society of Germany under the aegis of Indo-German S&T Cooperation programme for an initial duration of 5 years at a total cost of around Rs12 crore from the Indian side and approximately 2 million euros by Max Planck Society from the German side.
The concept of setting up Indo-German Centre on Computer Science in India was discussed during the visit of German chancellor to India in October 2007.