PRESS RELEASE
Navtej Sarna
Counsellor (Press, Information & Culture)
Embassy of India, Washington, DC
(202) 939-7042

MANTRA becomes part of
Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History

Washington, DC
April 12, 1999

MAchiNe assisted TRAnslation (MANTRA) tool that translates from English to Hindi, one of the 18 officially recognized languages of India developed by the Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) Group, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, (C-DAC) Pune, India has become part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, today. Mantra was formally presented to the Smithsonian Institution’s 1999 Information Technology Innovation Collection by Dr. Hemant Darbari, the Chief Architect of MANTRA, who is heading the AAI Group, C-DAC, Pune, India.

Nominated by De. Craig R. Barrett, President & CEO of the Intel Corporation in the Government & Non-Profit Organization category. MANTRA is part of a collection that includes over 470 of the year’s most innovative applications of technology from 42 states and 22 countries.

The case study of MANTRA is available at http://www.cwheroes.org/ the web site of the Computerworld Smithsonian Program, and on the website of C-DAC.