Fourth Friday Program as on 09/28/2012 at 'ICC ,Cupertino,CA.
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(The Cupertino Colloquium Chapter of ,ICC.)
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The program started with Ganesh Prayer by Padma Rajgopalan. Thereafter M C Badami took Chair and gave his opening remark on Sir Visveswaraiah and also gave introduction of Guest Speaker.
                                  Prof. A Srinivasan a Guest Speaker presented his power point presentation on 'The work and life of Sir Visveswaraiah, The role of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in the scientific research in India.
                                  Dr Srinivasan described the contribution Sir Visveswaraiah as Diwan in the old Mysore State. He established the Engineering college, Mysore University, Bhadravati Iron and Steel Plant. He also built up Krishna Sagar Dam with beautiful Garden around  Sir Visveswaraiah was man of high character and use to donate large portion of his income for good cause.
                                  The Indian of institute science was established in Bangalore in the year 1909 with the financial support of Jamshedji Tata. Tata was very much inspired to start such institution by Swami Vivekananda.
                                  Dr Srinivasan also talk  regrading the contribution made by Indian Institute of Science in the field of scientific research.  C V Raman, Homi Bhabha, Dr Dhawan, Vikram Sarabhai, Dr G N Ramchandran and Noble Prize winner Dr Venket Raman are all associated with the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.  All those scientists contributed  very well in their fields.  Therefore institute has been great source of strength in the scientific field of Industries  Engineering, Chemical, Aro Engineering, Space Research and Atomic science.
                                      B K Rao also briefed regarding the financial skill of Sir Visveswaraiah as Administrator. He also set right the fiances of Surat and Karachi Municipalities. However He got more projection for his  contribution  in Bombay Municipality. He was the first Engineer who got Bharat Ratna for his overall contributions.
                                   
                           Padma Rajgopal presented devotional and classical music at the end.
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