This story is from April 19, 2015

Chair set up on ex-Infosys chief at IIT-Madras

‘What determines attention span or old age diseases like selective amnesia’? The N R Narayana Murthy Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research, which was inaugurated by Infosys Co-founder and IIT Madras alumnus Kris Gopalakrishnan at IIT-M campus on Saturday, will seek to address such questions and further advancement in the field of brain research.
Chair set up on ex-Infosys chief at IIT-Madras
CHENNAI: ‘What determines attention span or old age diseases like selective amnesia’? The N R Narayana Murthy Distinguished Chair in Computational Brain Research, which was inaugurated by Infosys Co-founder and IIT Madras alumnus Kris Gopalakrishnan at IIT-M campus on Saturday, will seek to address such questions and further advancement in the field of brain research.

This is the second of the three Chairs set up at IIT-M by Gopalakrishnan with an endowment of 10 crore each. They have been set up to focus on computing aspects of architecture and model of the brain.
While the first chair (Prof H N Mahabala Chair) was inaugurated last year, the second one, named after Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy, will be occupied by Professor Mriganka Sur, MIT, Cambridge, US, who specializes in the organisation, development and plasticity of the brain’s cerebral cortex.
Speaking at the inaugural event, Narayana Murthy said that the setting up of the three chairs would help in providing an integrated perspective on brain research and place India on the map of cutting-edge research in this field.
“It is an aspiration for us to emulate institutes like MIT. I am positive that the students and the faculty have the competence and the inclination to do so. Therefore it is the task of our government, bureaucrats, leaders and alumni to make life easier for them to achieve these aspirations,” he added.
The Chairs at IIT-M will complement a ‘brain research centre’ that will be set up in Bengaluru along with Chairs created in IISc, Bangalore and postdoctoral fellows sponsored at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US.
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