Indian Science Cruiser

Dilip Kumar Sinha

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Any bid for literacy has to reckon with takers who keep on increasing. The theme, in particular, has to be necessarily kept in view. The interconnectivity keeps on assuming characteristics that ought to sustain the emerging foci of the theme, to be catered for wider causes.

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Dilip Kumar Sinha

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It sounds to be a pity and perhaps, a misnomer if any adjunct to the word ‘intelligence’ encounters a sort of scepticism. Artificial Intelligence (AI) started off with an initial abode in realms of computer studies, essentially as a facilitator. AI has continued over the decades to convey the ability of a machine of artefact to perform functions similar to those that characterize human thought. J McCarthy and J Haugelaut are oft-quoted names in seeking definitions of AI, since early eighties. There has been no dearth of techniques drawing upon neural, fuzzy, genetics etc. and hence, algorithms associated with them. One can hardly rule out a genuine coupling of some of them e.g. Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy logic. Some sort of cohortism in such directions has come to stay. Even, Neuro-fuzzy algorithms have begun pay off dividends to AI. Multiplicity of AI has kept on seeking some sort of unfolding, implicitly or otherwise. In fact, nuances, of late, are expected to be enablers to reach out to frontiers of AI. Obviously, choice of unifying elements becomes a necessity.

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Dilip Kumar Sinha ¹

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1 Visva Bharati, IN

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The nineteenth century of Indian science witnessed few trios of personalities in some select few areas of science. The birth centenaries of such celeb-trios could focus, mostly on individual scores. 125^th birthday celebrations having taken off recently, there ought to be an expectation whether these can explore another rational grouping of classes of trios. It becomes too fetish an affair to hung up portraits of three of them, as an archival enterprise. It would be, therefore, in the fairness of things to seek in them, possible alignments that reflect the trends of their times.

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Dilip Kumar Sinha

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A write-up on the occasion of a birthday celebration of a celebrity has to reckon with, the passage of years whether this be fifty or more.

It has to be all the more different for Swami Vivekananda; tales, narratives, commentaries and the like, on him exceed irresistibly, almost innumerable limits. ‘Perception’ being a major component of the theme becomes now a pretty complex endeavour. There is every likelihood that ‘perception’ about Swamiji may run the risk of being confused with ‘perspective’. Arguably, three p’s —perception, perspective and precepts — ought to be inextricably interwoven in the exercise being envisaged here. ‘Perception’ being the key element here and that too, for Swami Vivekananda, any perception by any avid taker has to figure prominently. Thus, a sort of succession of ‘perceptions’ can hardly be ruled out.

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Dilip Kumar Sinha

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Scientific pursuits, since the days of their beginnings, are seldom alienated from, to put in simplistic terms, possible applications. Scientific implications and connotations, often beyond scientific realms, still flourish with some important upshots. In a fairly early label on science, namely, ‘natural philosophy’ had its ways obviously in sync with philosophical stances.

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Dilip Kumar Sinha

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There is no gainsaying an emerging reality about Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi being more attended to, rather delineated in depth more than what it used to be so during his lifetime. His one hundred and fifty birthday occasions, to be over soon, keep on wriggling out variegated Gandhian facets. His ‘Autobiography’ continues to be the bedrock of entrepreneurial ventures in such directions. Gandhiji could hardly allow himself to a single caption. He did put up an alternative, relating to experiments, thereby indicating a gaze at realms of science. Gandhiji wound up the title, with the word ‘truth’, which he kept on expounding in the text itself, to the extent developable. Before one proceeds further, one cannot but get oneself stuck up with an ‘OR’ in the title. Doesn’t it have the overtone of an alternative ? Incontestably, alternatives are often impeccably sought for, by an inquirer in mathematics and geometry, in particular. Indeed, in the Autobiography, Gandhi mentioned about his keen alignments for some geometrical propositions, in his school days.

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