TIFRAC Professor Rangaswamy Narasimhan demonstrating the first Indian digital computer to Jawaharlal Nehru and Homi J. Bhabha at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator) was the first computer developed in India, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai.
This general purpose digital computer designed by the Computer Group of TIFR was the first digital electronic computer to be designed and built in India.
First Computer Developed in India, Know the Name of Computer TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator) holds the distinction of being the first computer developed in India. Built at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, it played a crucial role in India's early advancements in computer science.
The first computer in India was TIFRAC (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Automatic Calculator), developed at TIFR, Mumbai. Started in 1955 and commissioned in 1960, it was created under the leadership of Dr. Homi J. Bhabha and a team of Indian scientists.
When India made its first computer Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) had a pivotal role in shaping India’s computer-tech capability, as early as the 1960s. An extract from ‘Against All Odds: The IT Story of India’ by Kris Gopalakrishnan, N. Dayasindhu and Krishnan Narayanan
In the first of a 3-part series, we discuss the origins of India’s quest, first to procure and then to build a homegrown computer in India. Coming very close to the Indian independence, this is ...
TIFRAC, India’s First Computer – A Retrospective P V S Rao was with Tata Institute of Fundamental Research for 43 years and retired in 1998 as Senior Professor and Head of the Computer Systems and Communications Group. His research interests are computer architecture, speech, script and natural language.