Technical Thoughts

It is definitely important to enhance teaching approaches using technology, or any other approaches.  However, over-emphasis on teaching results in undesirable effects on students.  Students start considering their role to be passive in learning.  They start relying too much on…

From early computing days, the data landscape has been changing because of two major factors: advances in technology and requirements of evolving applications.  Technology has been evolving to capitalize on technology advances to meet requirements of new applications.  On the…

Our ability to view the world through a filter of our past knowledge underlines the importance of having systems that understand the difference between data and knowledge and their strong interdependence. We need both data and knowledge to perceive with…

Data represents just observations or facts.  People look at this data and try to find patterns in it and assign meanings to it.  But the data is just the data.  How does any pattern or meaning emerges from it? Consider the…

Considering the way technology has been evolving and the demands new applications are putting on it, we need to reconsider our current approaches.  We are starting to work against ourselves, when we expect systems to decide how to extract information…