ENIAC @80: CS Chapter Hyderabad
Hyderabad Section, IEEE Computer Society Chapter
ENIAC at 80 : India at 80 & beyond
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” - George Santayana, 1905 , The life of Reason.
Remembering the ENIAC, The Hyderabad Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society is pleased to invite you to this Symposium with a unique perspective of learning from the past 8 decades into 2047 standing at India@80.
Event Details * Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2026
* Time: 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM IST
* Venue: The Plaza, Begumpet, Hyderabad, Telangana
* Target Audience: Research Students, Faculty, Researchers, and Industry Professionals
In 1846, the rise of Electronic Telegraph changed the world. Triggered global undersea cables, global communication, information security concerns, weather forecasting, formation of the ITU and time zones.
In 1946, another electronic innovation, the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)) was invented, ending the era of mechanical calculators. The first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer.
In 1947, India was liberated. In its 80 year of indepednance, a software services superpower, India now looks at 2047 as a significant atmanirbhar Bharat goals. It is developing unique Digital Public Infrastruture. AI is evolving fast and new security and privacy measures are evolving.
In this context of India 2047, looking at the future, this symposium reviews 80 years of computing history to learn from it as we build the future. Join us for this Nolan-movie like time travel Journey.
IEEE Fellows who have contributed to advances in computing, seen the transitions to modern computing talk us through the history and lessons for future computing, lay out the Indian future of AI, population scale soverign computing infrastructure. and the upcoming field of privacy engineering. A privacy engineer, a term non existent, non imagined, in 1946 makes us ready for the future with must have design elements.
As computing moves into Quantum which gives us speeds improvement like ENIAC gave over mechanical ones, data centers consume gigawatts, like ENIAC consumed 150 KWatts, similar challenges of thermodynamics, power, floor space talent etc crop up. AI too was thought of then, look at it now and where it is going. This was one machine, where security meant physical. A nation had one ENIAC, now everyone and everything have interconnected computing on them. So we have privacy concerns.We now talk of population scale compute infrastructure, and talk of inter planetary networks, (Voyager spacecrafts still send signals). Past solutions : what can be stopped, what can we start, what can we continue?
So we dont forget history. So we learn from history, So we make smarter designs for the future.
Key Takeaways by Audience
* Research Students: Master first-principles system design from computing history and identify emerging career paths across India’s DPI and cybersecurity ecosystems.
* Faculty: Modernize curricula to reflect sovereign platforms, DPDP mandates, and pedagogical frameworks drawn from computing pioneers.
* Researchers: Pinpoint open research gaps in trusted hardware, cryptographic privacy, and population-scale digital public infrastructure.
* Industry Professionals: Extract practical architectural patterns for sovereign platforms and implement vital security controls required under the DPDP Act.
Registration is mandatory, but free.
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- Manjeera Hall, Hotel The Plaza
- Greenlands, Begumpet
- Hyderabad, Telengana
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- Building: The Plaza
- Room Number: Manjeera Hall
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- Starts 05 September 2026 06:30 PM UTC
- Ends 15 September 2026 06:30 PM UTC
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Speakers
Vidyasagar of IIT Hyderabad
Artificial Intelligence in the era of hypercomputing
Biography:
Dr. M. Vidyasagar (FRS, IEEE Fellow)
SERB National Science Chair & Distinguished Professor, IIT Hyderabad
A world-renowned control theorist, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and IEEE Fellow. Previously served as the Founding Director of CAIR (DRDO), Executive Vice President at TCS Advanced Technology Center, and Cecil & Ida Green Chair at UT Dallas. His work spans control systems, statistical learning theory, and computing architectures.
Address:India
Sandeep of IIIT Hyderabad
Computing Directions for Atmanirbhar (Self-Sovereign) India: DPI and Indian Platforms
Atmanirbhar Bharat in technology is not about isolation — it is about earning the right to set the terms of identity, payment, data, and compute. This talk examines why India must build self-reliance across technology, economy, education, and innovation, especially as tariff wars, geopolitical tension, energy politics, and climate policy expose fragile global supply chains. We trace how India has turned domestic digitisation into global leadership in Digital Public Infrastructure, exporting the India Stack — Aadhaar's identity layer, UPI's payment rails, the Ayushman Bharat health mission, DigiLocker's document infrastructure, and sovereign rails like RuPay, ONDC, and e-Rupee — to dozens of nations across the Global South. We then turn to the frontier: India's semiconductor, quantum, and AI missions, and the race to lead in 6G, alongside a maturing sovereign cybersecurity industry and a rapidly growing defense-export base. It closes by weighing the risks of this high-tech trajectory — the climate cost of gigawatt-scale data centres, and the danger that digital dependence excludes as easily as it includes — before arguing that a self-sovereign India, built the right way, can lead the Global South's digital future
Biography:
Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla (IEEE Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist)
Director of IIIT Hyderabad and a leading authority on cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, and blockchain. Formerly Poonam & Prabhu Goel Chair Professor and Head of CSE at IIT Kanpur, where he founded and coordinated the C3i Cyber Security Center.
Address:India
Sreenu of naitik.ai
The Evolution of Cybersecurity: Navigating DPDP & Future Must-Haves
Cybersecurity did not exist then. But today, it is not just about the perimeter of the computing but privacy of the individual at large. India has published the DPDP act which goes into operatione in June 2027.
How can we prepare for DPDP and what are the design must haves for future system design.
Biography:
Mr. Sreenu Pasunuri
Founder, Naitik.Ai & Director, Certiva.Global
Senior enterprise technology and cyber governance leader with over 20 years of experience operationalizing privacy architectures, DPDP Act frameworks, and AI governance models for modern enterprise systems.
Address:India
Agenda
Program Agenda
* 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM: Sign in & Delegate networking over chai
* 02:30 PM – 02:45 PM: Introduction to the symposium theme, Speaker Welcome
* 02:45 PM – 03:45 PM: Artificial Intelligence in the era of hypercomputing, Speaker: Dr. M. Vidyasagar IEEE Fellow, (SERB National Science Chair & Distinguished Professor, IIT Hyderabad)
* 03:45 PM – 04:45 PM: Computing Directions for Atmanirbhar (self soverign) India: DPI & Indian Platforms
Speaker: Prof. Sandeep K. Shukla IEEE Fellow, (Director & Professor, IIIT Hyderabad)
* 04:45 PM – 05:45 PM: The Evolution of Cybersecurity: Navigating DPDP & Future Must-Haves
Speaker: Mr. Sreenu Pasunuri (Founder Naitik.ai; Director Certiva Global)
* 05:45 PM – 06:00 PM: About The IEEE Hyderabad Section Computer Society, Closing Remarks
* 06:00 PM – 06:30 PM: High Tea & Networking discussions
Notte: bio breaks can be taken during speaker interchange times.
Limited Seats, first come first serve.