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Premji first Indian to get prestigious Faraday Medal
By agencies
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Friday, 11 November 2005, 20:30 IST
BANGALORE: Wipro Chairman Azim Premji today became the first Indian to receive the prestigious Faraday Medal from the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), the largest professional engineering society in Europe.
The IEE awarded the medal to Premji in recognition of his business leadership and contributions to elementary education in India.
Sir Robin Saxby, Chairman of the U.K. based ARM Technologies, a recipient of this award in 2002, awarded the medal to Premji.
"The medal is actually a recognition of the untiring contribution made by the software engineers at Wipro and the Indian software community in general towards global technology," Premji said in his acceptance speech.
The Faraday Medal in bronze was established in 1922 to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the first ordinary meeting of the Society of Telegraph Engineers (now IEE).