Playing the guru

The Guru Effect

Obscurity of expression is considered a flaw. Not so, however, in the speech or writing of intellectual gurus. All too often, what readers do is judge profound what they have failed to grasp. Here I try to explain this “guru effect” by looking at the psychology of trust and interpretation, at the role of authority and argumentation, and at the effects of these dispositions and processes when th...

GURU vs

After centuries of little change, the role of the Guru or a teacher as it has been traditionally defined and practiced in Thailand and the rest of South East Asia is on the verge of becoming an anachronism. Now it is Google, not the Guru who has all answers to the big questions of life and learning. New and emerging pedagogies are harnessing the power of Internet and Communication Technologies ...

The GURU System in TREC-6

GURU: Information Retrieval for Reuse

Although software reuse presents clear advantages for programmer productivity and code reliability, it is not practiced enough. One of the reasons for the only moderate success of reuse is the lack of software libraries that facilitate the actual locating and understanding of reusable components. This paper describes a technology for automatically assembling large software libraries that promot...

Asbestos magnate to environmental guru: the morphing of Stephan Schmidheiny.

Part of what Schmidheiny has done is to reinvest in Latin American forest properties. According to recent Swiss accounts, Stephan Schmidheiny began buying Chilean forest land in 1982, and he now owns over 120,000 hectares in Southern Chile, near Concepcion, land which the Mapuche Indians claim has been theirs since time immemorial. The Mapuche charge that some of the land Schmidheiny bought was...