May hold upwardly I should rename this spider web log equally "IITK Awards Announcement Blog." Too many awards to buy the farm along runway of. Yesterday, inward a ceremony at Pune, 1 of my colleagues in addition to a batchmate from IITK pupil days, Manindra Agrawal, was presented H K Firodia Award for 2011. The citation especially mentions the cryptography piece of job that he has done in addition to the encryption algorithms that he has developed for Indian Armed forces. So hither is a theoretician who solves practical problems.
And interestingly enough, only similar the Infosys Prize that nosotros wrote close two days ago, another recipients of H K Firodia Award too convey a potent IIT Kanpur connection. Prof. C northward R Rao, non exclusively spent the early on piece of job of his career inward IIT Kanpur, he was too Chairman, Board of Governors of IIT Kanpur a few years ago. He received the Firodia lifetime achievement award.
Congratulations to both Manindra in addition to Prof. Rao.
And interestingly enough, only similar the Infosys Prize that nosotros wrote close two days ago, another recipients of H K Firodia Award too convey a potent IIT Kanpur connection. Prof. C northward R Rao, non exclusively spent the early on piece of job of his career inward IIT Kanpur, he was too Chairman, Board of Governors of IIT Kanpur a few years ago. He received the Firodia lifetime achievement award.
Congratulations to both Manindra in addition to Prof. Rao.
