New Delhi: On Wednesday i.e. February 3, 2010, an Indo-German Max Planck Centre on Computer Science (IMPECS) was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT-D). IMPECS was inaugurated by Mr. Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences along with H.E. Mr. Horst Koehler, President of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Indo-German Centre on Computer Centre would be engaged in collaborative basic research in Computer Science between Indian and German scientists and serve as a bridge between computer scientific communities from both sides. It will act as a center of excellence for faculty and students for both the countries. The research areas envisaged under Centre would be Algorithms and Complexity, Database and Information Retrieval; Graphics and Vision and Networking.
IMPECS has been set up jointly by Department of Science & Technology (Govt. of India) and Max Planck Society of Germany under the over-all aegis of Indo-German S&T Cooperation programme for an initial duration of 5 years. The centre was set up at a total cost of approximately Rs 12 crores from Indian side by DST and approximately 2 million Euros by Max Planck Society from German side.
As per sources, the Indo-German Centre on Computer Centre would also engage researchers from institutes including Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai; Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K); Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) and Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) - from the Indian side and Max Planck Institute for informatics (MP-INF), Saarbruecken from the German side.
