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IIT
Kanpur
was
established
by
an
Act
of Parliament in
1960
by
the
Government
of
India.
The
institute
was
started
in
December
1959
in
a
room
in
the
canteen
building
of
the Harcourt
Butler
Technological
Institute at
Agricultural
Gardens
in
Kanpur.
In
1963,
the
institute
moved
to
its
present
location,
on
the Grand
Trunk
Road near
the
locality
of
Kalyanpur
in
Kanpur
district.[5] The
campus
was
designed
by Achyut
Kavinde in
a
modernist
style.
During
the
first
ten
years
of
its
existence,
a
consortium
of
nine
US
universities
(namely MIT, UCB, California
Institute
of
Technology, Princeton
University, Carnegie
Institute
of
Technology, University
of
Michigan, Ohio
State
University, Case
Institute
of
Technology and Purdue
University)
helped
set
up
IIT
Kanpur's
research
laboratories
and
academic
programmes
under
the
Kanpur
Indo-American
Programme
(KIAP).[6] The
first
director
of
the
institute
was P.
K.
Kelkar (after
whom
the
Central
Library
was
renamed
in
2002).[7]
Under
the
guidance
of
economist John
Kenneth
Galbraith,
IIT
Kanpur
was
the
first
institute
in India to
offer Computer
science education.[7][8] The
earliest
computer
course
was
started
at
the
institute
in
August
1963
on
an IBM
1620 system.
The
initiative
for
computer
education
came
from
the Electrical
engineering department,
then
under
the
chairmanship
of
Prof. H.K.
Kesavan,
who
was
concurrently
the
chairman
of
Electrical
Engineering
and
head
of
the
Computer
Centre.
Prof. Harry
Huskey of
the University
of
California,
Berkeley,
who
preceded
Kesavan,
helped[7] with
the
computer
activity
at
IIT-Kanpur.[7] In
1971,
the
institute
began
an
independent
academic
program
in
Computer
Science
and
Engineering,
leading
to
MTech
and
PhD
degrees.
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