When I mentioned this term to a few friends, the reaction was usually how come there is no knolwedge science — there is knowledge management, there is knowledge engineering, there is knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation and so on. What I find interesting is that there are all these things related to knowledge, but there is [...]
We have made tremendous progress in many fields. We now know a lot more about the galaxies and so we do about sub-atomic world. And this progress is being accelerated by the tools that have eolved rapidly in the last few decades to allow us to collect, store, distribute, share, and represent data. We have [...]
Long time ago — about 20 years ago — people in US used to say optimists are learning Japanese and pessimists are learning Mandarin (Chinese). That was during the day when Japan economy could do nothing wrong. Globalization and the economic rise of Asia, particularly Cina and India, have resulted in a slightly different situation [...]
Every time I hear about length of experience, I start wondering is length really a good measure for experience. Just because I sleep thru a situation, does not mean that I have knowledge of the situation or insights in it. SO people shold define some other measure for talking about experience. For example, if Hillary [...]
Singapore is known to be a very structured society. That is its strength and that is its limitation. Thigs work so well because of discipline and structure. But sometimes that comes in the way. So can one really establish a truly innovative research center here? The one that will be first to do research in [...]