Information & Communication Technology

YEAR	WINNERS	SUBJECT OF RESEARCH
2008	Shri Vivek Sawant Managing Director, Maharashtra, Knowledge Corporation Ltd. Pune.	For contribution in the field of e-Governance & I.T. literacy in the State of Maharashtra.
2007	Dr. Rajeev Sangal Director, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.	For development of "anuskara system" (Paninian Grammer framework for Natural language Processing, NLP) where translation of Information from regional such as Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali & Punjabi into Hindi is made feasible languages.
2006	Dr. Surendra Prasad Director, IIT, Delhi.	For development of new techniques and algorithms for signal processing and its application in Sonar and Seismic signal processing and in Digital Communication Networks
2005	Dr. Rajendra Pawar Chairman NIIT Ltd.	For contribution to education and training in information technology.
2004	Prof D Dutta Majumdar Professor Emeritus,ISI Kolkata.	For pioneering contributions in computer's memory system, intelligent recognition of non-numerical information and fuzzy soft computing approaches to pattern recognition.
2003	Dr. R Narasimhan Former Professor of Eminence,TIFR, CMC Fellow, Banglore.	For his contribution to parallel-processing techniques retinal-image processing system and visual data processing
2002	Dr. Om Vikas Senior Director, M/o Communications & Information Technology, New Delhi.	For contribution to Indian language processing, translation support and human machine interface systems.
2001	Dr. N. Vijayaditya Director General, National Informatics Centre, New Delhi.	For contribution in Computer data base management system NICNET.
2000	Dr. P. P. Gupta Former Mng. Director, CMC.	For significant and distinguished contributions to the growth of Information Technology in India.
1999	Shri F. C. Kohli Dy. Chairman, TCS.	For contribution to information technology. He participated in information revolution and software development. He has been pioneer in emerging technologies such as speech and handwriting recognition systems.