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Creative Communities Are Key to Innovation -reposted from Scientific American magazine

The best actors, directors and screenwriters receive Oscars; the top scientists, Nobel Prizes. Society doles out a multitude of awards every year to celebrate the creative achievements of individuals. Such events feed a popular conception that creativity is a gift only certain people possess and constitutes the apotheosis of individuality. Albert Einstein once observed, “Everything

Lamentations of an old patriot!

  During my school days I have been an ardent patriot greatly influenced by Gandhi and his auto-biography “My experiments with truth” and many other factors.Partially this spirit might have influenced my decision to stay back in this country and share/endure with fellow brethren rather than pursuing my first passion-pursing science/research.This feeling changed my life

An idiot’s comment on 3 idiots movie

Watched this movie twice. Normally I won’t see a commercial movie twice. This because of the theme and because of Aamir. I am a great fan of him.Secondly the theme. It is too relevant today. Our education system may collapse because of too much emphasis on mugging and less motivation for creativity or original thinking.

Impulse response

In signals and systems the impulse response means the response of a system to signal of very small duration which abruptly occurs.We studied (thanks to ISTE workshop on signals & systems in Jan2014) that even though the impulse lasts for a very small very duration the response of the systems may not be so.It can

Genesis of the quest forum-A labour of love-part 3

Now coming to second point –Knowledge and understanding of things (knowledge is not just data collection-but first part of knowledge is data collection-data collection can have many ways(reading books, watching TV, interacting with people who has already got data in that area of knowledge, internet etc)data collection should be followed by processing of that data

Genesis of the quest forum- A labour of love-part2

Why going public with QUEST?Is there any hidden agenda?To tell the truth there is nothing of that sort except for some head fakes in late Prof.Randy’s terminology. First thing, As Gibran said that Life is indeed dark except when there is urge-(yearning or craving) and all that craving is blind (unwilling or unable to understand

Genesis of the quest forum-A labour of love-part1

(A few years back- we have gone through 5 seasons so far) along with some students who shared the same thoughts as mine ventured into the formation a forum which was christened as the quest forum-In August 2010 in a blog I had written its genesis and hidden agendas.Here I am re-posting it). Somebody may