K. Gopinath

Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Computer Science and Automation Department,
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore, INDIA

K. Gopinath is a professor at Indian Institute of Science in the Computer Science and Automation Department. His education has been at IIT-Madras (B.Tech'77), University of Wisconsin, Madison (MS'80) and Stanford University (PhD'88). He has also worked at AMD (Sunnyvale) ('80-'82), and as a PostDoc ('88-'89) at Stanford and also at Sun Microsystems Labs ('90). His research interests are primarily in the computer systems area (Operating Systems, Storage Systems, Systems Security and Systems Verification).

Title: Computational Thinking in early India and its current relevance

Abstract: In an interesting paper, Roddam Narasimha talks about the “computational positivism” in the Indian scientific tradition. The talk will discuss some interesting examples in this perspective, including that of the “grue” paradox (Goodman in 1950’s) in the theory of induction that was articulated and and discussed carefully as early as the 13th century by Gangesa.

http://drona.csa.iisc.ernet.in/~gopi/