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New Delhi, May 11,
2020 (National Technology Day)
Inaugurating a national level Webinar on the Role of Computers
in bringing productivity and efficiency in the Government
Systems, the President of the Confederation of Indian
Universities (CIU) and Chairman of the Institute of Information
Technology (India) recalled that he had successfully organized a
National Seminar on “Computers in Government” 35 years ago on
12th December 1985 which was inaugurated by the then Governor of
Bihar Hon’ble Shri P. Venkatasubbaiah and attended by more than
300 experts of Computers and Information Technology from the
Central and the State Governments besides Professors and other
Faculty Members from selected Colleges and Universities from
South Asia.
Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi inaugurating the 29th National
Technology Day on 11 May 2020
While presenting the
theme during the deliberations on the effective role of
computerization in bringing productivity in the Central and the
State Governments, Public Sector Organizations, Dr. P R Trivedi
stressed the need for preparing a competent cadre of hardware
and software experts for taking care of the manpower needs by
providing effective training in the areas of computer
operations, computer programming, computer maintenance, computer
applications, informatics, computing techniques etc.
The Governor Shri P. Venkatasubbaiah complemented the efforts
jointly made by Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi and Dr. Uttam Kumar
Singh, the pioneers in the area of computer education and
training in the country who had imported latest computers way
back in 1979 for the Department of Computer Sciences at the
Indian Institute of Business Management (IIBM), Patna.
1985 : Dr. Priya Ranjan
Trivedi (35) and the Governor of Bihar Shri P. Venkatasubbaiah
discussing important issues relating to computerisation and its
perceived effectsrelating to productivity in different
Departments and Public Sector Organization under the Government
of India and the State Governments
Placing his views on the auspicious occasion of the 29th
National Technology Day 2020, Dr. Priya Ranjan Trivedi said that
developments in computing are driving the transformation of
entire systems of production, management, and governance. He
further added that computers are everywhere we touch, all day
long. We still have an image of computers as being rectangular
objects either on a desk, or these days in our pockets; but
computers are in our cars, they are also in our thermostats,
they are in our refrigerators. Actually increasingly computers
are no longer objects at all, but they suffuse fabric and
virtually every other material. We really need to care about
what the future of computing holds because it is going to impact
our lives.
Biological computing addresses how the body itself can compute,
how we can think about genetic material as computing. You can
think of biological computing as a way of computing RNA or DNA
and understanding biotechnology as a kind of computer.
The future of computing as a convergence of the biological, the
physical and the digital (and the post-digital quantum), using
as examples 3D-printing, biotechnology, robotics for
prosthetics, the internet of things, autonomous vehicles, other
kinds of artificial intelligence, one can see the extent of how
life will change. There is a need to make sure that these
developments benefit the entire society, not just the most
wealthy members of society who might want these prosthetics, but
every person who needs them.
All technologists need to keep in mind a multi-level, multi-part
model of technology that takes into account the technological
but also the social, the cultural, the legal, all of these
aspects of development. All technologists need to be trained so
that they understand uses to which their technology could be put
and reflect on the uses they want it to be put to.
Forecasting the state of computing by 2030, he said that most of
us have no idea yet because change is happening so quickly. We
know that quantum computing – the introduction of physics into
the field of computer science – is going to be extremely
important; that computers are going to become really, very tiny,
the size of an atom which is going to make a huge difference;
nano-computing, very small computers that one might swallow
inside a pill and that will then learn about the illness and set
about curing it; that brings together biological computing as
well, where one can print parts of the body. Everybody is going
to see the increasing infusing of computing into all aspects of
our lives.
Dr. P R Trivedi finally opined that his organization : Computers
(India) Limited and the Institute of Information Technology
(India) in association with the Buddha Institute of Technology
will continue researching on also an important aspect of
computing by using computers and information technology tools
and techniques for online education and training viewing the
disastrous effects of COVID-19 which is compelling the
Government of India and the State Governments to keep the
Institutions, Schools, Colleges and Universities closed for an
indefinite period in order to save the lives of the students and
the teachers. Such developments in the area of computing will
make it easier for the students to learn almost everything with
the help of their computers, laptops, cellular phones, mobile
devices etc.
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