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Indo-German Max Planck Centre for Computer Science at IIT Delhi

By Assam News on February 3, 2010 at 8:59 am

Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Indian Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences along with H.E. Mr. Horst Koehler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany inaugurated the Indo-German Max Planck Center on Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi today. The Indo-German Max Planck Centre for Computer Science (IMPECS) will be engaged 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 concept of setting-up Indo-German Center on Computer Science in India was discussed during the visit of German Chancellor to India in October 2007. 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 Centre inaugurated today at IIT Delhi would also engage researchers from Institutes viz Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, IIT Kanpur, IIT Mumbai and IIT Madras, Chennai from Indian side and Max Planck Institute for informatics (MP-INF), Saarbruecken from German side.

The Indo-German joint Centre will benefit both countries. The major benefits for India would be further strengthening of the research base in Computer Science that would develop expertise of highest caliber needed by academia and industry. Germany would benefit through improved collaboration with leading Indian scientists and a highly visible outpost with highly professional environment and large pool of young talent.

The Indo-German Center on Computer Science has been set up jointly by Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India) and Max Planck Society of Germany under the over-all aegis of Indo-German S&T Cooperation programme for an initial duration of 5 years at a total cost of approximately Rs.12 crores from Indian side by DST and approximately 2 million Euros by Max Planck Society from German side.



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