Since many of my friends ask me about my yearly medical check-up due to my health problem of a few years ago, here is the first part of the repot. Everything is going OK with respect to Cancer — no problems there. They will still want me to put through CAT and PET scans in [...]
Latest decision to form 9 more IITs has been a controversial one. A good article to read is here. It will be interesting to see how resources, particularly Professors, are acquired for new IITs to maintain even a partial quality that made IITs what they are.
Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt are involved in building Web Science Research Institute to promote study of Web Science. This institute is brain child of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the developer of basic concepts behind WWW and now championing Semantic Web. In addition to the above three, Daniel Weitzner of MIT is another co-director of the [...]
Yesterday I attended a workshop on Web Science. See for more details and the program. Web Science is an interesting evolving area. Since people from so many different discipline are working in aspects of the Web and its further evolution depends on combination of technology, social infrastructure around it, and businesses, the whole area becomes [...]
I arrived in Beijing for WWW 2008. I will give a talk at a workshop and participate on a panel. That begins tomorrow. I arrived yesterday evening — local time, 15 hours ahead of USA, so it is Monday morning now. The new airport is very impressive — nice imposing architecture with lots of nice [...]