Trafo #132 - Fachschaft Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik - TUM

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Professoreninterviews
Fachschaft Elektrotechnik und
Informationstechnik e.V.
Trafo Ausgabe 132
Diesmal haben wir uns zwei sehr interessante Professoren ausgesucht, die man nicht sofort zu Beginn des
Studiums kennenlernt. Dabei handelt es sich einerseits um Herrn Prof. Kramer, der die Leitung des Lehrstuhls
für Nachrichtentechnik übernommen hat und zum anderen Herrn Prof. Chakraborty, der die Nachfolge von
Herrn Prof. Färber am Lehrstuhl für Realzeit-Computersysteme angetreten hat.
Interview mit Prof. Chakraborty
Institute:
Institute for Real-Time Computer Systems (RCS)
Lectures:
Real-Time Programming Languages, Real-Time
and Embedded Systems, Advanced Real-Time and
Embedded Systems
At the TUM since:
February 2009 (although I officially joined TUM in
October 2008, I was on leave for a couple of months
to complete my teaching and research obligations in
Singapore, before permanently moving to Munich
in February 2009)
Florian Wilde, Andrea Reitböck
Where and when were you born?
I was born in Calcutta (now called Kolkata), which
is a city in the eastern part of India, on the 25th December,
1972.
Did you have a happy childhood?
Yes, I had a happy childhood. I grew up in a typical
Indian joint family, which means that we had a big
house and I was living there not only with my parents,
but also with my uncle and my aunt and their children.
There lived a lot of people in the house, so I had a lot
of company. I studied at a Catholic missionary school
where I had many friends. So overall I had a happy
life in a conventional sense. But it was a missionary
school with very strict discipline. I rather preferred
doing whatever I felt like than going to school every
day. This was unfortunately not possible. That’s why I
probably feel better now, because there’s no one telling
me what to do. In Sanskrit (an Indian language) there
is a saying that “the happiest part of one’s life is his
childhood”. But I am probably happier now, without
any school and examinations and teachers.
Have you been a good and tidy student?
Yes, I think I was. I was not among the students
who were very difficult to manage. I remember I always
used to get a prize in Moral Science and I think
I was fairly well organized and disciplined.
What was your preferred subject at school and
which one didn’t you like at all?
Overall, I was more orientated towards Math and
Science rather than literature. But when I was in
school, I also liked history, so I spent a lot of time
reading history books. Computers were introduced
in schools during the mid-80s. Our school was
among the first to get a couple of computers and
Computer Science was one of the subjects that we