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Thinker and thought leader, researcher and innovator, scientist and philosopher, educator and educationist, author and articulator, policy architect and institution builder, Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is one of the internationally acknowledged scientists and IT leaders of India. Dataquest magazine 1 has acclaimed
Dr. Vijay Bhatkar amongst 25 pioneers who shaped India’s celebrated IT industry (US$ 60 Billion in 1998) during the last 25 years.
Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is best known as the architect of PARAM 2 supercomputers and bringing IT to the masses through a wide range of path-breaking initiatives, such as GIST 3 multilingual technology,
MKCL’s MS-CIT 4 computer literacy program and Education To Home (ETH 5 initiative. He is truly an
institutional builder and is credited with the creation of several national institutions such as C-DAC 6,
ER&DC 7, Techno Park, IITMK, I2IT 8, ETH Research Lab and Multiversity. He led the development of
several innovation-based products and systems and in this process nurtured many creative minds, enterprises and start-ups including ETH, MKCL, Divinet 9, Dishnet, Multiversity, Know-IT and others.
For advancing the concept of integrative education through the synthesis of science and spirituality for
service of society, Dr. Bhatkar has founded a new generation university called Multiversity.
Dr. Vijay Bhatkar is one of the most acclaimed and decorated scientists of India in terms of national and international awards, fellowships of professional societies and public recognitions including PADMASHRI & Maharashtra Bhushan Awards, the highest recognitions of Government of India and Government of Maharashtra, respectively.
He has authored and edited 11 books and over 80 research and technical papers in the field of supercomputing, artificial intelligence, distributed computer control, optimal control and education technology as well as in science and philosophy. His contribution to non-local systems based on his doctoral research have been acclaimed and his books on distributed computer control and artificial intelligence have been used as graduate level text books in the US and Indian universities. He has addressed the Royal Society of Londo n, conventions of leading professional societies, convocations of over 10 Indian universities and delivered keynote addresses in many national and international conferences and seminars.
1 Dataquest is India’s leading IT magazine placed Dr. Bhatkar amongst 25 pioneers including Rajiv Gandhi, F. C. Kohli, Narayan Murthy and others who shaped India’s IT industry
2 Development of PARAM supercomputer placed India amongst world’s 5 nations that possess this technology
3 GIST multilingual technology dissolved the language barrier on computers in India, having 22 official languages, with 10 diverse scripts
4 Largest computer literacy program in the world covering 5 million people in 5 years
5 ETH mission will span 10000 schools in 3 years
6 India’s largest & most acclaimed R&D laboratory in computing & IT
7 Winner of FICCI & ELCINA Awards for Excellence in R&D in Electronics
8 Winner of Government of Maharashtra Information Technology Awards in HRD
9 Winner of Global e-Biz Innovation Award
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