Samarendra Kumar Mitra was an Indian scientist and mathematician. He designed, developed and constructed, in 1953-54, India's first computer at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta. He began his career as a research physicist at the Palit Laboratory of Physics, Rajabazar Science College. In 1950, he joined the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Calcutta, an Institute of National importance, where he worked in various capacities such as professor, research professor and director.
Samarendra Kumar Mitra
Mitra demonstrating India's first indigenous computer, an electronic analogue computer, to the Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, at the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
Commemoration plaque at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California, USA
India's first indigenous digital computer, ISIJU-I
Indian Statistical Institute
Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is a public university which is recognized as an Institute of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Indian parliament. It grew out of the Statistical Laboratory set up by Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis in Presidency College, Kolkata. Established in 1931, this unique institution of India is one of the oldest institutions focused on statistics, and its early reputation led it to being adopted as a model for the first US institute of statistics set up at the Research Triangle, North Carolina by Gertrude Mary Cox.
Main Building of Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata
ISI Kolkata board on the gate 205.
CV Raman Hall, ISI Kolkata.
Main road inside the Institute
