A Conversation with C. R. Rao

Talking TOR: a conversation with Joe Heitman and Rao Movva.

A Century with Rao

The current article is a translation of a paper published in Significance journal, 2020, Vol. 17, No. 4 captioned as “C.R. Rao’s ‎Centurychr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))chr(chr(chr('39')39chr('39'))39chr(chr('39')39chr('39')))‎, which has been scripted as a perception of an appreciation  note by involvements of  Bradley Efron, Shun-ichi Amari, Donald B. Rubin, Arni S. R...

A conversation with Vaidya C. P. Shukla in Jamnagar

A quote from Charaka Samhita depicts the entire world as a teacher, suggesting Vaidyas should study other systems of medical knowledge in addition to Ayurveda. Chandrakant Prabhushanakar Shukla, former Dean of the Institute of Post Graduate Training and Research in Ayurveda, Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar, has practiced this vision himself for over five decades. He is known as ‘Charaka V...

H. C. Andersen Conversation Corpus

This paper describes the design, collection and current status of the Hans Christian Andersen (HCA) conversation corpus. The corpus consists of five separate corpora and represents transcription and annotation of some 57 hours of English spoken and deictic gesture user-system interaction recorded mainly with children 2002-2005. The corpora were collected as part of the development and evaluatio...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...