Narasimaiah Seshagiri (10 May 1940 – 26 May 2013) was an Indian computer scientist, writer and a former director-general of the

National Informatics Centre The National Informatics Centre (NIC) is an Indian government department under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The NIC provides infrastructure, IT Consultancy, IT Services including but not limited to architecti ...

, an apex organization of the Government of India, handling its

e-governance Electronic governance or e-governance is the application of information technology for delivering government services, exchange of information, communication transactions, integration of various stand-alone systems between government to citiz ...

applications. He was a member of the ''Y2K Action Force'' of the Government, formed to combat the 9999 computer bug. He is credited with many publications which included ''The bomb! : fallout of India's nuclear explosion'' and ''Information systems for economies in transition''. The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 2005, for his contributions to science and technology.

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Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in science & engineering 1941 births Indian computer scientists Indian technology writers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Indian non-fiction writers {{India-scientist-stub

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