COMPUTER LABORATORY DEPARTMENT
In 1994,
the Late Professor Fatunla, then of the University of Benin, Benin
City, Nigeria was engaged as Consultant to setup the Computer
Laboratory Department. Following his transition to glory in 1995, Mr
Elekwa was appointed Deputy Computer Systems Manager and acted as
Head until 1998 when Dr. O. A. Fakinlede then of University of
Ilorin, Nigeria was appointed Head of the Department and Computer
Systems Manager of. the Centre. Following his resignation in 2003,
the Director and Chief Executive of the Centre, Prof. Sam O. Ale,
appointed the incumbent Mr John O. Ebiaku as Acting Head/Computer
Systems Manager.
Mr John Ebiaku , is the Acting Head/Computer
Systems Manager..
Currently, the Department's priorities are:
The Computer Laboratory Department was created to address the following:
- Computational Support for Research Projects carried out at the centre
- Computational Support for Visiting Scientist and their projects.
- Support for Foundation and Research Lecture Series.
- Administrative Computing Support.
- Software Engineering.
- Computer Consultancy for Government and Industry.
- Support for Students of NMC Joint Higher Degree (M.sc and PhD) programme
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OPERATIONAL STRATEGY
Under the strategic scenario, the Ag. Head/Computer Systems Manager administer the Department through two units namely :
a) Software and Scientific Packages Research headed by Engnr Niyi Abiri.
b) Hardware and Networking headed by Mr I.T.C.Nwabufor.
Over the years, the Department has been able to effectively discharge its statutory function as spelt out in the enabling Decree of the Centre. However lack of funds to acquire necessary hardware, software and training which is being estimated at 2 Million US Dollars has hampered implementation of some laudable projects strategically planned in line with the Centre's mandate as a Software Engineering Development Centre and a Centre of Excellence in the Mathematical Sciences in the West African sub region.
