The first computing activity in IIT Bombay started with the arrival of the Minsk II computer in 1967, which had 2nd generation discrete transistor based circuitry, paper tape input-output, and off-line printers. Prof. J.R. Isaac spearheaded the initial efforts in setting up the Computer Center assisted by five faculty members.

The center was initially allocated space in the same premises as that of the Department of Mathematics. Immediately thereafter, the Centre started offering elective courses in Computers as a part of the UG and PG programmes in Electrical Engineering. In 1973 the center started offering academic programmes in the form of an inter-disciplinary M.Tech. programme and a DIIT (Post Graduate Diploma of IIT) in Computer Science.   More detail...