Designing a Research ProposalDr Brainerd PrinceWe have indeed arrived at our academic home in the mountain. We have located the research community or the academic discipline in which we want to locate our resea
Nainika GuptaWith the advent of the digital age, technologies such as the internet have become an irreplaceable part of our lives. Interacting with the internet every day is almost unavoidable; people cannot he
Dr Brainerd PrinceI have always found myself happy and thriving in the first stage of a start-up. There is a certain adrenaline rush, with all the buzz – late nights of never-ending work, exciting conversatio
Dr Brainerd PrinceThe bags are packed, the water bottle shut tight, and the rucksack firmly secured on the back. The researcher, all tooled up, is ready to begin her climb.She is very clear in her head about wh
Nimrat KaurPlaksha UniversityData is something we have all heard of but need to learn more about. At times, it is even something that scares us. We are sceptical of data and the possibility that it might lead t
Dr Brainerd PrinceA quick review, ofwhere we have got in this story so far,might be useful in setting the context for our next steps. We began with being in a posture of an authentic search in which we fin
Zoya GhoshalVocaloid. An interesting term, right? Probably a word you never heard of before. But the term ‘vocal’ should ring a few bells.A Vocaloid, in essence, is a new type of voice synthesizing technolo
ApoorvKatochCTLC Fellow, Plaksha University‘Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world’ – Isaac Asimov. The above quote by the Russian born writer and profes
Dr Brainerd PrinceThis last month, I have been teaching about ‘intentionality’. The word is an abstract noun, and hence is quite distant from our everyday usage. Frequently used terms that are connected to
Nitika BanhaniThe Government of India has been aggressively advocating for a revolution in education, healthcare, banking, and travel. Technology is one among the many drivers executing the government’s visio
Dr Brainerd PrinceWe have been talking about children under the bridge in the past few issues and how our response to them gives us a vision for life and research. We began the story with our observation of the
Mayanglambam Pooja DeviThe relationship between humans and nature has increasingly become unequal and exploitative. Man has caused immense environmental destruction such as habitat degradation, overexploitation
Alli Ajagbe“The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race…it would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by sl
Akshat Sogani
There are about one billion active Instagram users, two billion WhatsApp users and three billion Facebook users. These figures are astronomical for a 7 billion world population! So,why is there
Maanal Gauri, Abhigyan Mehrotra, Prachi Parakh, Vaishnavi Rathi, Tanya Sravan Plaksha UniversityMark Zuckerburg bought an island to protect his privacy. What are you doing to protect yours?As we all know,