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…
IIT Brands
Web Science 2
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.…
Web Science
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…
Beijing
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…
Subtitles to teach reading
Ish Rishabh sent me a very interesting article by Gurcharan Das. Ish writes that I never knew that subtitling the song might help people learn how to read. In fact, I used to find subtitling irritating. So it was interesting…