For the first time India won three medals — 1 gold in shooting and 2 bronzes in boxing and wrestling. Good reasons for India and Indians to celebrate this. Let’s hope that the process of excelling in sports has started.…
Abstractions and Experiential Computing
Most abstractions in early computing stages were close to data level. Computation was considered as ‘data processing’ and hence addressed issues related to data. Once comuting matured, abstractions related to text started taking center stage and resulted in what we…
Abstractions, Operations, and Transformations in Computing
Computing is about identifying (or inventing) abstractions, defining operations on these abstractions, and transforming abstractions from one abstraction to another. Ultimately everything is a bit — the simplest abstraction used in current computing. It may be changed by quantum or…
Metamorphosis of India
It is always interesting to see a place going through metamorphosis. This is the time when the place exists in multiple time periods. Usually these time periods may span over several decades. But in some places this span could be…
Real and Virtual: Cybereal
YeSun points out that MPEG has started an initiative that has similar goals as co-space does. This initiative is called MPEG-V. The way things are evolving, it is clear tha the real world and virtual world will need to intermingle.…