Category Archives: Internet

Internet, Social Media

My journey on Social Media & Internet

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Internet is the greatest enabler of work and education in human history as per me and the opportunities it opens up in terms of what we can study, learn and work on are amazing. My suggestion to all youngsters in school, college and who recently have started their career in terms of job / startups is to use this enabler in a positive sense to collaborate, learn, absorb knowledge, fuel creativity and build their own ecosystem especially with professional networks like LinkedIn.

I got introduced to computers in standard 4th, 5th, 6th at Air-force School, Gwalior, MP, India. After that stint in LOGO programming building basic shapes & creating rudimentary BASIC language programs in computer labs there was a slow down in terms of access to computers when I moved to my home state. Then again in 1999 I got a HP desktop computer with dial-up modem and good features for that time with an internet connection (ICENET was the first private ISP in Gujarat at that time). Dial up modem would support me for accessing internet at slow speeds and I got introduced to the online world. I never looked back or logged off since then.

Things I have had access to over time:

  1. ICQ
  2. Yahoo Messenger & Portal
  3. Yahoo Search followed Google Search
  4. Many tutorials, free websites to build web pages which got me freelance contracts for building product pages for few people followed by building my own basic websites and learning CPanel, Web programming & Databases along with DNS and basics of computer networks
  5. Experts-Exchange.com, ASP, upcoming PHP, VB – I got exposure to all of these in early days of 1999/2000/01/02
  6. Local portals of Gujarat and so on
  7. Exploring Linux (Red Hat Fedora) and trying to configure Conexant modem on it (I failed at it)
  8. Exploring IETF, IEEE, CSI, AIMA, Wikipedia, Internet Archive, News Portals, MSN, etc. as they came onto the scene
  9. Then came onto the scene – Gmail and I was among the first few to use Gmail in India via invitation followed by YouTube, Google News, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on all the while going through Dot Com Bubble and 2008/9 recession
  10. Post this Coursera, NPTEL, MIT OCW, AWS and so many more sources / portals / websites / apps / universities / products

All the while, my focus was on learning around software, management & engineering. Based on that passion and unending desire to learn, I could succeed in teaching as well as software industry with help of internet and my network. Big thank you to all who have helped / interacted with me over the years directly or indirectly via their work / websites and artifacts over internet.

To me LinkedIn has been one of the biggest sources of learning around Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and many other topics other than for networking with people from across the globe in the last few years.

If you have access to internet, you have no excuse to stay behind. Be thankful to those who created all these amazing things on internet. That’s my message to all in my network. 🙂

Internet, Software, Trends

History & Future of Information Technology

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Late 1970s – Ethernet

Late 1980s & Early 1990s – Internet

Late 1990s – Y2K was the trend and revolution of easy operating systems like Windows with word processing and spreadsheets happened. Also, LINUX. ERP, CRM, BPM, HRM and similar software pick up in market.

Early 2000s – Internet boom, Email, Browsers, Dot Com, Start of E-Commerce, Java, boom in Portals, Scanning solutions, Enterprise Content Management, Search and associated technologies

Post 2011- Shift to Mobiles, GPS, Location tracking, cameras, virtual / augmented reality on mobiles and so on. Lot of growth for companies like Google / Apple.

Post Mobiles – Cloud, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, IoT, Beacons, Business Intelligence & BigData

2010/11 onwards – RPA, SAAS/PAAS/IAAS, Facebook, Social Media, Agile, DevOps, Crypto currency, Focus on Internet, Network & Cloud security

Time is now right to have an AI / ML based System in Enterprise IT ecosystem that can create and manage systems on it’s own or at least most of it at Enterprise / Technical & Solution Architecture level along with automated creation, deployment and maintenance of software systems using Cloud

Reach out to me at neil@techandtrain.com if you want to discuss Data Science / R / Java / etc. or want to conduct a training for MBA / BE / MCA / MSc students or are interested in having a workshop for your managers / executives on Data Science / R / Java / AWS / Excel / etc.

Innovation, Internet, Social Media

Integrate and evolve with digital, not resist and disrupt

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We hear lot of thoughts by people worrying about integrating with digital world like cloud, internet and so on with respect to privacy. Humanity is all about evolution and not about resist and disrupt.

What we need to do is embrace the digital world and find best practices and standards to move forward. Digital is not going anywhere. Its only going to be more and more around us. Rather than fight and disrupt, lets embrace it and integrate with it. Its just not about data and cyber security, its about what to store where, how much access, when, governance, what to do incase of data breach, backups, best practices, standards and so on.

Lets evolve with digital. 🙂

 

Information processing, Internet, Universe, Visualization

Visualization

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Visualization in the digital world is an important area often ignored by techies. Visualization in traditional sense of user interface / user experience / mobility for systems and applications has now long been considered an important area.

But another interesting area to look at in visualization would be internet and understanding universe both – yes I am linking both. With petabytes of data/information now on internet and machines with GBs of RAMs and Octa-core CPUs now common place there is an information overload. If you compare the information being generated every year by internet and computers it’s not something that probably a human being could go through in his/her life. Same is the case with the universe, every year we are finding new areas of unexplored universe with new galaxies, stars, planets, etc. An example: The Great Attractor

To understand and process so much information for a normal human brain at current capability does not seem possible (debatable but that’s my view point).

What we need is a little help from visualization and using something like a dimensional / visualization helmet of virtual reality type. Fighter pilots have helmet mounted displays and we need something similar that processes lot of information from internet and universe which could come from multiple dimensions say 5/6+ (more than four dimensions is difficult for us to understand: time, x, y and z axis, etc.)  and parses through petabytes / zetabytes of information and presents it based on normalization for  our senses.