As difficult as it may be difficult to believe to many people, computing is a relatively young discipline. Until recently, most computing systems received input from people and represented it in cyberspace mostly in form of abstract information. For efficiency…
Physical-Social-Cyber Computing Systems
Using Big Data for Storytelling
One of the best post that I read in some time on ‘data’ is by Om Malik. See here. This post made me think about all the buzz about Big Data. The situation is exactly same as that described in…
Corelation is the Mother of Causality
I have always heard, for as long as I remember, that correlation and causality are not the same. That is OK. They are indeed different. But there is always this implication by many, if not the most, people that correlation…
Building on the Disruption in Learning and Education
The last decades have been the decades of disruption. Books (including encyclopedia and newspapers), music, phones, and retails are among those who have already been metamorphosed, thanks to rapid advances in technology, and have to be creative just for survival.…
Focused MicroBlogs (FMBs): Going Beyond Twitter
Twitter became a very powerful medium and its popularity soared rapidly. Twitter became a major News source for the latest events. And it remains a popular site. Many academic researchers are exploring all aspects of twitter ranging from how it…