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Awards

TATA Swach wins Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award 2010 (Oct 2010)

TATA Swach has been declared the winner of the Wall Street Journal Asian Innovation Award 2010. The Journal received more than 300 nominations this year, from China, India, Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore and other nations in Asia.

Teams from Innovation Labs of both TCS and TATA CHEMICALS have been involved in the creation of the filter. TCS Innovation Labs – TRDDC took up testing and design of size, geometry and flow configuration. In parallel, the Tata Chemicals Innovation Centre worked on developing a more optimized method for depositing nano-silver on RHA for maximum process utilization.

mKRISHI- A Mobile Agro Advisory System from TCS Innovation Labs- Mumbai was also among the 12 finalists who represented a cross-section of some of the most exciting products and services being developed in Asia.

The WSJ Asian Innovation Awards recognize innovations that break with conventional processes in creative ways. It also recognizes importance of having a strong business model behind an innovation which in turn would ensure that a new application makes it to the market where it can benefit a wider audience.

mKRISHI in Wall Street Journal's Asian Innovation Awards 2010 finalists (Aug 2010)

mKRISHI- A Mobile Agro Advisory System, an offering from TCS Innovation Labs- Mumbai has been selected as one of the twelve finalists for Asian Innovation Awards 2010.

mKRISHI, a TCS Innovation Labs- Mumbai offering stood out from nearly 300 entries to be shortlisted for the prestigious award.

The Asian Innovation Awards is committed to finding the next big ideas in Asia, from entirely new inventions to the advancement of a classic. Entries to the awards come from individuals, small businesses, large corporations and academia in Asia Pacific.

mKRISHI & Home Infotainment Platform wins Aegis Graham Bell Innovation Award (June 2010)

TCS mKRISHI awarded Business in the Community's (BitC) Awards for Excellence 2010 (June 2010)

TCS mKRISHI – an innovative platform to deliver personalized integrated services to farmers developed by TCS Innovation Labs – Mumbai, has received the Big Tick Award for Excellence bestowed by Business in the Community in association with the Department for International Development, Government of the United Kingdom

The Big Tick recognition is a public acknowledgement for companies who have demonstrated significant focus on responsible business, and is a valued endorsement. The Coffey International Award recognizes company programmes that can demonstrate positive impact around one or more of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Read More: http://www.bitc.org.uk/awards_for_excellence/big_ticks_2010.html

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) honors Prof. Mathai Joseph with ACM Presidential Award 2010 (June 2010)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has honored Prof. Mathai Joseph, TCS Executive Vice President, with the prestigious ACM Presidential Award 2010. Professor Mathai received the ACM Presidential Award at the 2010 ACM Awards Banquet on June 26, 2010 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California.

Prof. Mathai received this prestigious award for his devoted commitment to establishing an ACM presence in India. He was instrumental in the formation of the ACM India Council, launched in Bangalore in January 2010. Prof. Joseph also serves ACM as a member-at-large on ACM Council, to which he was elected in 2008.

ACM recognizes excellence through its eminent series of awards for outstanding technical and professional achievements and contributions in computer science and information technology.

TCS mKrishi wins Nasscom Social Innovation Honours 2010 (Feb 2010)

TCS Mobile Agro Advisory System – mKrishi has won the Nasscom Social Innovation Honours 2010 in the ICT Led Business Innovation for Development category. Dr. Arun Pande, Head – TCS Innovation Labs, Mumbai collected the award on behalf of TCS in a function held on 9 February 2010 in Mumbai, India.

Nasscom Foundation Social Innovation Honours recognises excellence and encourages innovation in social development initiatives. The Honours showcases projects that demonstrate best practices through exemplary use of Information and Communication Technologies in the areas of social transformation.

The honours were judged by an eminent jury comprising Narayana Murthy (Founder – Chairman, Infosys Technologies Ltd.), T. N. Ninan (Chairman and Editorial Director, Business Standard Ltd.), Rama Bijapurkar (Independent Market Strategy Consultant), Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao (Chairman, Nasscom Foundation) and Saurabh Srivastava (Trustee, Nasscom Foundation).

Nasscom Foundation is the leading Indian development organisation that works towards galvanising the corporate social responsibility (CSR) space in the IT industry in India.

IEEE honours Prof Jeffrey Ullman with IEEE John von Neumann Medal-2010 (Feb2010)

Prof Jeffrey Ullman, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University, USA and Member, Research Advisory Board, TCS has been awarded IEEE John von Neumann Medal-2010.

He received this prestigious award “For laying the foundations for the fields of automata and language theory and many seminal contributions to theoretical computer science.”

The IEEE John von Neumann Medal was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 and may be presented annually 'for outstanding achievements in computer-related science and technology.' The achievements may be theoretical, technological, or entrepreneurial, and need not have been made immediately prior to the date of the award.

Prof. P. Somasundaran, one of our academic collaborators, has been awarded Padmashree by the Govt. of India (Jan 2010)

Professor P. Somasundaran, one TCS’ long-standing academic collaborators, has been awarded Padmashree by the Government of India for the year 2010. He is currently the La von Duddleson Krumb Professor, and Director, Langmuir Center for Colloids & Interfaces, and National Science Foundation I/ UCR Center for Advanced Studies in Novel Surfactants at Columbia University, New York.

He received his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and his Bachelor of Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He was inducted in l985 into the National Academy of Engineering, among the highest professional distinction that can be conferred to an engineer and later to the Chinese, Indian and Russian National Academies.

Som has a long association with TCS Innovation Labs – TRDDC. Two of the scientists from TCS innovation Labs - TRDDC, obtained PhD under Som's guidance.

TCS wins Golden Peacock Award 2010 (Jan 2010)

TCS data masking tool Masketeer™has been awarded the ‘Golden Peacock Innovative Product/Service Award 2010’ by the awards jury, under the Chairmanship of Justice P. N. Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India and Member, UN Human Rights Commission.

Masketeer is the data privacy product of TCS designed to mask sensitive data. While taking care of privacy Masketeer retains realistic look and feel of data so that utility of data is not lost. By using Masketeer, organizations can share sensitive data across geographical boundaries without violating various privacy regulations (GLBA, HIPPA, UK Data Protection act and so on) governing the region.

The award was presented by Ramchandra Gowda, Medical Education Minister of Karnataka, at a specially organized ‘Gala Award Nite’ in the presence of business and political leaders on 16 January 2010 at Convention Hall of The Lalit Ashok hotel in Bangalore, India.

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