WARFT
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WARFT or WAran Research FoundaTion is a nonprofit organization promoting interdisciplinary research among undergraduate students in the city of Chennai, India. Prof. N. Venkateswaran founded the group in 2000 and continues to manage it as of 2007.
[edit] Groups at WARFT
WARFT is divided into 7 research groups:
- CHARAKA: The Neurosciences Group
- VISHWAKARMA: The Computer Architecture Group
- MARCONI: The Mixed Signal Group
- BHASKARA: Power Aware Design for Nanotech DSP Architectures Group
- NAREN: Testing and Fault Tolerant Group
- RAMANUJAN: Nanotech Design Methodologies Group
- HARDY: Low Power Architectures for Matrix Algorithm Group
According to WARFT's website, it has published 50 research papers as of 2008.[1]
[edit] WARFT's Vision
The ultimate aim of WARFT is to understand and model the brain to enable drug discovery so that spastic children can live a normal life.