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Wipro founder Azim Premji turns nostalgic at IISC convocation

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Updated: September 12th, 2019, 18:48 IST
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Bangalore: Founder chairman of Wipro, Azim Premji turned nostalgic here Thursday at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) here, where the company’s information technology (IT) business was born four decades ago.

Addressing Convocation 2019 at the IISC, Azim Premji recalled that in 1979, Wipro approached the newly set up Centre for Scientific and Industry Consultancy at IISC for a consultancy project. “The institute constituted a committee to advise us on what computer we should make,” Azim Premji told the gathering.

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The consultancy project involved surveying literature on the computers being made all over the world. And it was also a platform for technical discussions, conceptualisation and design review between Wipro’s R&D team and IISC.

“It was here (IISC) that we began to think about what chips, bus and microprocessor should be used in the first Wipro computer,” Premji informed.

Apart from the transfer of technology and expertise, IISC also helped in organising the R&D manpower of Wipro.

The first employee of Wipro IT division was an M Tech student at IISC and was hired to anchor the project in its initial stages. Sridhar Mitta from ECIL joined Wipro soon after. In the first few months, they worked out of the Digital Lab at IISC.

“This really was the birth of our IT business – what is now the globally successful business by which Wipro is most known across the world. So, it would be quite accurate to say that Wipro IT business was born in IISC. This is our birthplace,” Premji stated.

Premji pointed out that Wipro’s association with IISC has continued over the past 40 years, and the company has continued to recruit from IISC and do collaborative projects at the cutting edge of technology.

“…for example, we are together doing a project on ‘driverless cars’ and building India’s first indigenous ‘Metal 3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing) Machine,” the IT Czar stated.

According to him, there are two big lessons from this story (Wipro-IISC association).

“The first one is that collaboration matters more than we realise. We must encourage and foster collaboration across different sectors – across education and research institutions, industry, civil society and government,” asserted Wipro’s founder.

“The second lesson is that the role and contribution of good and open-minded institutions in society cannot be measured in money terms. They have far-reaching and deep impact. We must build more such institutions, which pursue excellence in their chosen fields – and are deeply engaged with society,” added Premji.

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