P Sadanandan, Co-Founder of the National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), and a pioneer in database research, passed away this morning (12-Feb-2022). He had served the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research for about twenty years starting in 1964. He moved to the daughter institution, NCST, in 1985. He had headed NCST's Database Division. In addition to being a researcher, he was a very popular teacher and consultant. A large number of professionals had attended his courses on relational data bases at TIFR and at NCST.
Sadanandan was Associate Director, NCST and had headed NCST, Bangalore. He had played a key role in creating and developing this campus. Sadanandan retired from the NCST in 2001.
NCST was merged with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) by the end of 2001.
Srinivasan Ramani
The Hindi Version of this article appears at https://hindimestem.blogspot.com/2022/03/blog-post.html
