Present searches for 'TIFR' on Google news give way stories about the contribution of the Tata Institute of Fundamental investigate in the Big Bang experiment. But, even as scientists are in look for of the 'god particle,' my discussion with Prof Sugata Sanyal of the Institute's School of skill and Computer Science activities back in time… To an era when TIFR built computers despite meet.

What is so dissimilar about explore in computer science, from the work in other regulation? I push Sugata, during the course of a new email exchange. Computer science is a divide discipline, but is never disjoint as of other disciplines, he clarifies.

In good old days when the control of computers was partial, it was more of hardware efforts, based on (mainly digital) electronics and engineering, give details Sugata. Afterward, when the influence of computers increased by leaps and limits, and system software opened lots of vistas of possibility to the users, computer science became much more academic and had much overlap with a range of branches of mathematics.