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Samarendra Kumar Mitra - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Samarendra Kumar Mitra
- Samarendra Kumar Mitra (14 March 1916 – 26 September 1998) was an Indian scientist and mathematician.
- He designed, developed and constructed, in 1953, India's first computer (an electronic analog computer) at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta (presently Kolkata).
- He began his career as a research physicist at the Palit Laboratory of Physics, University of Calcutta.
- In 1950 he joined the ISI, Calcutta, where he worked in various capacities such as professor, research professor and director. Mitra was the founder and first head of the Computing Machines and Electronics Division at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta. In 1953, India's first indigenous electronic analogue computer for solving linear equations with 10 variables and related problems was designed and developed by Samarendra Kumar Mitra and was built under his direct personal supervision and guidance by Ashish Kumar Maity in the Computing Machines and Electronics Laboratory at the (ISI), Calcutta.
- This computer was used in computation of numerical solutions of simultaneous linear equations using a modified version of Gauss–Seidel iteration. Mitra was and is still known as the "father of computers in India" by the Calcutta Mathematical Society and most people.
- Also, his work and biography can be found in the History Museum of Computers in California.
- Subsequently, in 1963, the ISI, Calcutta began design and development of the first second-generation indigenous digital computer of India in joint collaboration with Jadavpur University (JU), Calcutta. This collaboration was primarily led by Mitra, as he was the Head of the Computing Machines and Electronics Laboratory, ISI.
- He designed, developed, and constructed a general purpose High Speed Electronic Digital Computer, namely called the ISIJU computer (Indian Statistical Institute – Jadavpur University Computer).
- Under the leadership of Mitra, the first second-generation indigenous digital computer of India was produced, namely the transistor-driven machine ISIJU-1, which became operational in 1964. The Computer and Communication Sciences Division of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) produced many eminent scientists such as Samarendra Kumar Mitra (who was its original founder) and was instrumental in the first annual convention of the Computer Society of India (CSI) being hosted by ISI in 1965. Mitra was a keen learner and as such a self-taught scholar having wide-ranging interests in varied fields such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, poultry science, Sanskrit language, philosophy, religion and literature.
- He served on many research and development committees in independent India.
