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Beyond The Pitch: The Tech Transforming Football

Arshveer ChhabraThe integration of technology in football began modestly, with FIFA or Fédération Internationale De Football Association -- the main governing body over international and club football --emplo

Infocus / 5th March 2024
Is The World Ready for Autonomous Vehicles Yet?

Prashant MishraThe fast-paced world brings with it millions of opportunities and aspirations on one hand and challenges on the other. It is not possible to separate the two as these two aspects are intertwined

Infocus / 6th February 2024
The King’s Gambit: Will Chess Survive AI?

Mukundan GurumurthyWhen we play chess, we hatch grand plans, take risks, fall into traps, succumb to pressure, psych out opponents, and make bold sacrifices — all without knowing whether any of it will pay of

Infocus / 3rd January 2024
THE HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: The Crossroads of Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy

My body is created as a three-dimensional character to dim the light of the spiritual consciousness inside me… –JaneenTisha BhavsarGenesis During a summer visit to the Vatican City, I found myself admi

Infocus / 7th November 2023
Turning A Leaf From The Chola Cookbook: The Story Of The Tapela Idli

Madhulika Naidu Varma ChozhaSeveral years ago, on an arduous journey to Gangotri, my hunger pangs were satisfied by warm, fluffy idlis served with tomato-ginger chutney. The hot and steaming plate in the chilly

Infocus / 4th October 2023
“Not Just The Carcass…But The Spark”: A Critical Reception of Technology

Abhinav Lodha and Samya VermaOur tools also affect our thoughts ~ NietzscheOur perception of the world, as well as our idea of being and what it means to be, is fast donning the garb of a technological framewor

Infocus / 1st August 2023
BEYOND GRADES AND ROTE

Excellence through Experiential LearningDr Brainerd PrinceThe Indian education system is plagued with an obsession for grades, more so amongst the STEM and engineering fraternity. According to Aspiring Minds, a

Infocus / 26th June 2023
Is “Smart” Technology “Sustainably” Smart Enough?

Pranjal RastogiThe word smart is ubiquitous in daily language, especially in the field of technology. The word itself is derived from the Old English smeortan and German schmerzen, meaning causing sharp pain. T

Infocus / 3rd May 2023
Critical Literature Review and Central Research Question: Designing a Research Proposal

Dr Brainerd PrinceWe concluded the last issue by saying that once we have used the technique of committed reading and read through the key texts of the critical bibliography we had put together on the thematic,

Infocus / 1st May 2023
The Art of Committed Reading

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

Infocus / 10th April 2023
MEMORIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE: Untangling the Conundrum of Digital Memorabilia

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

Infocus / 4th April 2023
The Start-up Paradox Inventing New Wineskins

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

Infocus / 6th March 2023
The White Owl and Plaksha University sign MoU

Dimapur, February 18 (MExN): The White Owl and the Centre for Thinking, Language and Communication, Plaksha University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together in the broad areas of acad

Nagaland / 18th February 2023
Locating your Community: Academic Discipline and Research Thematic

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

Infocus / 6th February 2023
Techne+Logos: How the Etymology of Technology can Reform Learning?

Harleen BaggaMany students would likely cite the desire to learn as the primary reason for committing to four years of college. But what do we really mean when we use the word learn? It is something we do right

Infocus / 1st February 2023
Economic Policy’s Courtship with Data Analysis

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

Infocus / 10th January 2023
Rules of the Academic Mountain Tooling up for Research

Dr Brainerd PrinceWe have used the image and metaphor of the mountain as a place to do academic work, away from the city. We find ourselves at the foot of the academic mountain. We have identified a real-life p

Infocus / 3rd January 2023
Approaching the Academic Mountain - Embarking on the Research Journey

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

Infocus / 20th December 2022
VOCALOIDS: Re-imagining AI in Music

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 technology usi

Infocus / 5th December 2022
A public engineer: From ‘Innovating-for’ to ‘Innovating-with’

ApoorvKatochCTLC Fellow, Plaksha UniversityScience 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 professor of

Infocus / 1st November 2022