Power of Wikipedia: Italian Wiki Shuts down to protest against wiretap

Posted: October 5th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Research Work | Tags: | No Comments »

This shows the power of the wikipedia, Yesterday I was working on putting together some research questions to the project that I plan to work with Paolo Massa and checked my wikipedia user page on italian wiki. First I didn’t understand what was written so I translated and I realized that Italian Wiki has started to protest against the new wire tap act. This shows the power of open collaboration and especially in wikipedia.

Gender Related Topics are Facinating Research topics

Posted: March 24th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Research Work, World is Crazy | Tags: , | 1 Comment »

Gender gap is an interesting topic and it gets more interesting when you narrow it down to different domains. Since women have a extra-chromosome they should be the dominating gender in the world but in most areas that’s not the case. I am currently working on research publication and things that we found blew my mind off. Some of our research questions turned out to be way different that we predicted. I ll promise to put more information once the paper get publish. Till then stay tuned.

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