Prof. B. Yegnanarayana addresses the audience, 1988
Administrators , Visiting VIPs
This photograph was taken during the event held to officially hand over the Siemens 7580-E Computer System to IIT Madras. The Federal Republic of Germany, under a provision of the Indo-German Agreement had agreed to give a new computer system to IIT Madras. It would replace the existing IBM 370 system which the Institute had acquired in 1973.
Prof. Yegnanarayana is currently an INSA Senior Scientist at the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad (As of 2022). He was born on 9 January 1944 in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.
The official function was held in the presence of several important figures from the Federal Republic of Germany who are in the photograph. Seen in the photograph are, from the left, Prof. B. Yegnanarayana (Head of Computer Science and Engineering Department, at the podium), Prof. L. S. Srinath (Director), Mr. A. L. Mudaliar (Chairman, Board of Governors), Mr. Hans Klein (Minister for Economic Co-operation, Federal Republic of Germany), Dr. Konrad Seitz (Ambassador, Federal Republic of Germany) and Mrs. Eva Seitz.
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