1 Brahm Prakash 2 This paper reviews the development of information and communication technology (ICT) in the recent past and focuses on the pattern of its growth in Asian countries 3. It tries to assess ICT's development potential for developing countries of the region where the bulk of the world's poor reside and to capture some of the challenges ICT now faces there. Developments in ICT have ...

Personal epistemology and information management activity can deeply affect each other; the links between them are attracting more and more attention. By comparing with the organizational information management, the connections between PIM (personal information management) and PKM (personal knowledge management) are analyzed. Based on the development of PIM, a new personal epistemology model is...

Recent studies have shown that the total energy consumed by the Internet has followed an increasing trend over the years. A considerable part of this energy is wasted due to an inefficient utilization of edge devices, i.e., Personal Computers (PCs) and other user equipment in homes and offices. PCs are often left on even when they are not used (e.g., overnight or during weekends), while other e...

Pcmail is a distributed mail system that provides mail service to an arbitrary number of users, each of which owns one or more personal computers (PCs). The system is divided into two halves. The first consists of a single entity called the "repository". The repository is a storage center for incoming mail. Mail for a Pcmail user can arrive externally from the Internet or internally from other ...

In this paper we propose an over-arching namespace that serves to abstract away the Internet’s current and obscure naming schemes from users. We argue for users to have personal namespaces that are not concerned with unique naming of resources, but rather focused on aiding user’s interactions with the system. This additional namespace does not replace any of our current (or future) naming syste...

My research agenda examines the conflicts and compromises shaping the boundary between academic science and the commercial world -especially those wrought by substantial growth in the enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights over basic scientific research. In particular, while the expansion of IP rights provides many opportunities for science-based firms and universities to commercializ...

It is well, and I think timely, that we state publicly our appreciation of men while they are living. It is difficult and perhaps impossible to describe Dr. UWinternitz physically. His features are sharp, his head large, shoulders broad, and as to height, he is on the short side. Not infrequently men with this type of physical make-up are gifted with great drive. That he possesses this characte...

2. Research: Summarizes my research projects, the student research I have advised, and future research plans. Unlike my Aug. 1 Research Summary, which was targeted at external reviewers who are experts in the programming language field, this section is targeted at a general audience. In this section, I also discuss the evaluation of computer science research — in particular, the relative import...

In this personal statement, I give a non-technical description of my research. I only cite my own papers, numbering them as they appear on my CV. This non-technical description mostly discusses my work in symplectic geometry, but also some recent work in string topology. In the separate self-contained research statement, I provide a technical description of the research. In the research stateme...