TAMIL DIGITAL RENAISSANCE

International Forum
for Information Technology in Tamil  (INFITT)

General Council, Executive Committee & Working Groups
2000 - 2001

Members of the General Council (GC) for the period 2000-2001

INDIA (16)

• Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Chennai
• Prof. V.C. Kulandaisamy, Chennai
• Prof. M. Ponnavaiko, Chennai
• Mr. D. Prakash, Chennai
• Mr. S. Senthil Nathan, Chennai
• Mr. T.N.C. Venkat Rangan, Chennai
• Mr. Anto Peter, Chennai
• Mr. A. Elangovan, Chennai
• Mr. P. Chellappan, Chennai
• Mr. S. Rangarajan (Sujatha), Chennai
• Mr. A.J. Balasubramanian, Chennai
• Mr. S. Sourirajan, Chennai (*)
• Prof. P. Kuppuswamy, Pondicherry (*)
• Mr. N. Anbarasan, Bangalore
• Dr. A.G. Ramakrishnan, Bangalore
• Dr. V. Gnanasundaram, Bangalore (*)

SRI LANKA (6)

• Dr. S. Sivathasan
• Mr. M. Somasundaram
• Prof. M.S. Mookiah
• Prof. S. Sandrasegaram (*)
• Mr. T. Kumaradasan (*)
• Mr. S. Nilakshan

SINGAPORE (3)

• Mr. Arun Mahizhnan
• Dr. Tan Tin Wee
• Mr. S. Maniam

MALAYSIA (4)

• Mr. Muthu Nedumaran, Kuala Lampur
• Mr. K. Kuppuswamy, Kuala Lampur (*)
• Mr. Ravindran Paul, Kuala Lampur
• Mr. Sivagurunathan Chinniah

NORTH AMERICA (8)

• Dr. Kumar Mallikarjunan, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• Mr. Mani Manivannan, Fremont, CA, USA
• Dr. Vasu Renganathan, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Mr. D. Sivaraj, Pittsburg, PA, USA (*)
• Prof. George Hart, Berkeley, CA, USA (*)
• Dr. Naga Ganesan, Houston, TX, USA (*)
• to be named
• to be named

EUROPE (5)

• Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Dr. N. Kannan, Kiel, Germany
• Dr. Siva Pillai, London, UK
• Mr. Nadesan Satyendra, London, UK
• Mr. Chinnadurai Srinivas, London, UK (*)

AUSTRALASIA (1)

• Mr. V. Vasudevan, Sydney, Australia (*)

MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA (2)

• to be named
• to be named

MEMBERS AT LARGE (6)

• Mr. A. Palaniappan, Singapore
• Dr. S. Elango, Auckland, New Zealand (*)
• to be named
• to be named
• to be named
• to be named

* those with asterisk did not attend the Tamil Internet 2000 conference, but whose membership to GC were approved during TI2000 meet.

Members of the Executive Committee (EC) for 2000-2001

• Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Tamilnadu, India (Chair)
• Mr. Muthu Nedumaran, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia (Vice-Chair)
• Mr. Arun Mahizhnan, Singapore (Secretary)
  (also Executive Director for the INFITT Secretariat)
• Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram, Lausanne, Switzerland (Member)
• Mr. Mani Manivannan, Fremont, California, USA (Member)
• Mr. D. Prakash, Secretary, Dept of IT, Govt. of Tamilnadu (Member)
• Dr. S. Sivathasan, Colombo, Sri Lanka (Member)
• Mr. V. Vasudevan, Sydney, Australia (Member)
• Dr. Tan Tin Wee, Singapore (Member)

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Working Groups

INFITT Working Group I (WG1): Standardization of a Glossary of Technical Terms in Tamil

Members:

Mr. Mani Manivannan, (Fremont, CA, USA) (Chair)
Prof. Chandrabose (Chennai, India)
Prof. Radha Chellappan (Trichi, India)
Dr. Na Kannan (Kiel, Germany)
Prof. Re. Karthikesu (Malaysia)
Dr. Rm. Krishnan (Chennai, India)
Prof. V. C. Kulandaisamy (Chennai, India)
Mr. A. Palaniappan (Singapore)
Mr. Anto Peter (Chennai, India)
Mr. M. Sivalingam (Chennai, India)
Dr. S. Sivadasan (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Dr. S. Srinivasan (Kalpakkam, India)

INFITT Working Group 2 (WG2): Unicode Tamil Segment

Members:

Mr. Muthu Nedumaran (Kuala Lampur, Malaysia) (Chair)
Mr. Manoj Annadurai (Chennai, India)
Mr. P. Chellappan (Chennai, India)
Mr. Kalaimani (Singapore)
Mr. Mani Manivannan (Fremont, Ca, USA)
Prof.M. Ponnavaiko (Chennai, India)
Mr. D. Sivaraj (Pittsburg, USA)
Mr. T.N.C. Venkatarengan (Chennai, India)

INFITT Working Group 3 (WG3): Internet Names in Tamil for Domains (DNS) and others

Members:

Mr. S. Maniam (Singapore) (Co-Chair)
Mr. V. Vasudevan (Sydney, Australia) (Co-Chair)
Prof. Chandra Bose (Chennai, India)
Mr. P. Chellapan (Chennai, India)
Dr. Kumar Mallikakumarjunan (Blacksburg, VA, USA)
Mr. Muthu Nedumaran (Malaysia)
Mr. A. Palaniappan (Singapore)
Prof. M. Ponnavaiko (Chennai, India)
Dr. Vasu Renganathan (Philadelphia, USA)
Mr. Nadesan Satyendra (London, UK)

INFITT Working Group 4 (WG4): Font (Glyph) Encoding Standards

Members:

Prof. M. Anandakrishnan (Chennai, India) (Chair)
Mr. N. Anbarasan (Bangalore, India)
Mr. C. Ananthan (Chennai, India)
Dr. M. N. Cooper (Chennai, India)
Mr. Duraipandi (Dindigul, India)
Mr. A. Elangovan (Chennai, India)
Dr. V. Krishnamoorthy (Chennai, India)
Dr. P. (Kumar) Mallikarjunan, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Mr. Ravindran Paul - Malaysia
Mr. Sinnathurai Srivas - London, UK

INFITT Working Group 5 (WG5): Standardization of transliteration format for Tamil

Members:

Dr. K. Kalyanasundaram (Lausanne, Switzerland) (Chair)
Dr. Vasu Renganathan (Philadelphia, USA)
Dr. S. Srinivasan (Kalpakkam, India)
Mr. R. M. Suresh (Tirunelveli, India)