Citation We all know that some technical topics become hot, stay hot for some length of time, and then fade away from attention in academia, and the research world more generally. And then there are some topics that stay more stable for extended periods of time, for say one career span of years. This post […]
What’s Multitasking Doing to Me?
Citation We believe that multitasking is the essential ingredient to being healthy, wealthy, and happy. We do it incessantly in our work lives and even in our personal lives. While conversing with the person across the dinner table, our Google Glass, or if you have upgraded, the VR goggle, keeps telling you of the latest […]
The Power of the Crowd
Citation “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke When diktats come down from the high up, i.e., the corridors of administrative power, and these are not helpful to society at large, does the crowd, i.e., a mass of people, mobilized through technology have the […]
Datacenter outages and stranded passengers
Datacenters – these distant, idealized instantiations of our digital present – do fail at times. When they do, they affect our physical present. Here is one (of several) reason why this happens and this one is only too human.
The Lazy Hacker
Citation The latest crippling ransomware to hit our digital world has been Wanna Cry, which raised its head around May 12. Ransomware is a kind of software used by bad actors (or simply put “bad guys”) to make data in computer systems unavailable, such as, by encrypting the data. The bad actors promise to make […]
How to Fall … and Stay in Love for Long
Citation A little town to all outside observers, miles away from anything exciting happening, is where I have been for the last eight years. When I try to answer why this town has grown on me, and now all around me, many vignettes come jumping up all agog to get the prime spot in this […]
Imponderables of academic publishing
An academic’s journey from writing papers to writing a book.
