Minor update to change blogspot.in to blogspot.com on 24th Sept. 2020
A few weeks ago I had put up a rather hurriedly written partial autobiography kind of document; see the post, An Indian Software Techie's (My) Material and Spiritual Journey So Far (till Sept. 2002), http://ravisiyer.blogspot.com/2016/06/an-indian-software-techies-my-material.html, dated June 20th 2016.
The question that popped up was what about the period from Oct. 2002 to now. I don't know when I will get around to that. However, over the past few years I had written some blog posts with autobiographical content which included the period Oct. 2002 to now. I decided to go through the rather tedious task of going through the posts of this blog (Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism) and listing out the ones that have autobiographical content. Note that this content would typically deal with my software industry and software teacher/consultant in academia life. That list is given below. I think I have got most, maybe all, of the posts of this blog with autobiographical content as of today (13th July 2016) in this list but I cannot rule out the possibility of having missed out some.
List of posts with partial (sometimes little) or mainly autobiographical type content OR significant posts capturing my Indian CS & IT academic reform activism efforts
1) God is One, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/08/god-is-one.html, Aug. 14th, 2011 [This post was my first post-Mahasamadhi blog post, which started my serious blogging career. Prior blogging was minor stuff related to a few tech. review and info. kind of posts. So though this is a very small post, I viewed it as a kind of foundation to my blogging efforts, even at that time, if I recall correctly. Note that this is the first post of this eklavyasai/Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism blog.]
2) CS & IT Academia: Serious Systemic Problems?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/09/cs-it-academia-serious-systemic.html, Sept. 2011 [This post was my first serious technical post on Indian CS & IT academic reform, which received fair amount of views over time - 318 views as of today, 13th July 2016. So I felt it appropriate to include it in this list.]
3) CS & IT Academia: How to Teach Programming?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/09/cs-it-chittar-comment-response.html, Sept. 2011
4) Pursuing CS/IT Research Individually - Ph.D. Possibility?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/09/pursuing-research-individually-phd.html, Sept. 2011
5) IT Finishing Schools, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/cs-it-academia-it-finishing-schools.html, oct. 2011
6) CS & IT Academia: The PhD Glass Ceiling, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/cs-it-academia-phd-glass-ceiling.html, Oct. 2011
7) CS & IT Academia: A Bureaucratic POWER structure, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/cs-it-academia-bureaucratic-power.html, Oct. 2011
8) Dennis Ritchie, a Truly Great Software Guy, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-truly-great-software-guy.html, Oct. 2011
9) A Defense of The CS/IT PhD Teacher, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/defense-of-csit-phd-teacher.html, Oct. 2011
10) Programming: Practical Solution Mindset vs. Scientific Mindset, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/programming-engineering-mindset-vs.html, Oct. 2011
11) Does a Teacher of Programming Need to Know Turing Machine?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/does-teacher-of-programming-need-to.html, Oct. 2011
12) CS & IT Academia: Is Teaching Excellence Important?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/01/cs-it-academia-is-teaching-excellence.html, January 2012
13) Ethics Policy for Sharing Content of Mail Exchanges on This Blog, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/03/ethics-policy-for-sharing-content-of.html, March 2012
14) Comments on Stroustrup's paper, "Software Development for Infrastructure" in IEEE Computer, Jan. 2012, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/03/comments-on-stroustrups-paper-software.html, March 2012
15) Google's Hybrid Research + Development Model, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/07/googles-hybrid-research-development.html, July 2012
16) Poor software development skills Indian CS graduates - Google Search Results, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/01/poor-software-development-skills-indian.html, dated Jan. 2013. [This post links to my academic pre-print paper, Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1715, dated Dec. 21st 2012. This paper gives my view of some aspects of Indian CS & IT academia based on my experience in it, and suggestions to improve them. I view it as an important contribution of mine to efforts to improve Indian CS & IT academia.]
17) Should M.Tech.(CS) Project be CS Research Oriented Or Software Engineering Project Oriented?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/04/should-mtech-cs-project-be-cs-research.html, April 2013
18) Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality in Practice-Oriented Computer Science/Information Technology streams, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/06/concrete-suggestions-for-measuring.html, June 2013
19) Book Summary: Digital Republic, India’s Rise to IT Power by Mathai Joseph, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-summary-digital-republic-indias.html, June 2013
20) Content of Programming Courses shared on Blog For Free Access To Anybody, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/03/content-of-programming-courses-shared.html, March 2014
21) Nature April 2014 article - Policy: Free Indian science by Dr. Mathai Joseph et al., http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/04/nature-april-2014-article-policy-free.html, April 2014
22) Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions should put up Detailed Course contents on the Internet, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/04/publicly-funded-highed-education.html, April 2014
23) The very strange case of 20th century era Department(s) of Mathematics and Computer Science in Indian academia in today's early 21st century world, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-very-strange-case-of-20th-century.html, April 2014
24) Information Technology - Products vs. Services, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/05/information-technology-products-vs.html, May 2014
25) Mumbai college principal arrested over charge of demanding donation for admission to XIth standard Science class, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/05/mumbai-college-principal-arrested-over.html, May 2014
26) Wrote to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on improving practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/05/wrote-to-prime-minister-shri-narendra.html, May 2014
27) NPTEL - IIT Madras - offers online course and certification in Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/06/nptel-offers-online-course-and.html, June 2014 [BTW this post seems to have the maximum views of 1023 in this blog.]
28) Eminent Indian computer scientist-cum-administrator Dr. S. Ramani writes: this Indian CS & IT academic reform activism blog is interesting, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/07/eminent-indian-computer-scientist-cum.html, July 2014
29) Mainstream Indian newspaper article on Delhi University's Academic Council - "Everyone is terrified ...", http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/07/mainstream-indian-newspaper-article-on.html, July 2014
30) Ten Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) higher education policy changes to improve practice of software development in India, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/08/ten-computer-science-cs-information.html, Aug. 2014
31) Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/08/improve-practice-of-software.html, Aug. 2014. [This is an HTML version of paper with same title put up on http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1715, dated December 21st, 2012 (mentioned in a previous entry in this list).]
32) Noted Indian professor of education on young foreign Ph.D. qualified Indians finding it difficult to get good academic jobs in India, and on temporary teacher positions, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/09/noted-indian-professor-of-education-on.html, Sept. 2014
33) My perception of senior ex-administrator of a spiritual-cum-secular university being sarcastic about bhajans (devotional songs/singing), http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-perception-of-senior-ex.html, Dec. 2014
34) Dangers of pro-MATLAB-research and anti-software-development Computer Science higher education policy, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/02/dangers-of-pro-matlab-research-and-anti.html, Feb. 2015
35) My suggestions related to skill development in Indian higher education on mygov.in discussions on New Education Policy, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-suggestions-related-to-skill.html, Feb. 2015
36) Suggestion to Committee on attracting and retaining talented and quality manpower in Teaching Profession, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/09/suggestion-to-committee-on-attracting.html, Sept. 2015
37) How MHRD (& DIRECTOR IIT) disposed of my "Serious Systemic Problems in Indian CS IT Academia" grievance dated Nov. 2011, DOING NOTHING REALLY, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-mhrd-director-iit-disposed-of-my.html, Sept. 2015
38) Andy Grove, big tech leader, passes away; Unease with his "Only the Paranoid Survive" mantra, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/03/andy-grove-big-tech-leader-passes-away.html, March 2016
39) 22 Fake universities in India; Fear of top political leaders & academic administrators culture in Indian academia, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/05/hrd-education-minister-smriti-irani.html, May 2016
40) Sebastian Thrun of Udacity - Hindu interview; Udacity Nanodegrees in India, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/05/sebastian-thrun-of-udacity-hindu.html, May 2016
41) Stark look at problems faced by some Indians doing Ph.D. in USA today; UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/06/stark-look-at-problems-faced-by-some.html, June 2016
The question that popped up was what about the period from Oct. 2002 to now. I don't know when I will get around to that. However, over the past few years I had written some blog posts with autobiographical content which included the period Oct. 2002 to now. I decided to go through the rather tedious task of going through the posts of this blog (Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism) and listing out the ones that have autobiographical content. Note that this content would typically deal with my software industry and software teacher/consultant in academia life. That list is given below. I think I have got most, maybe all, of the posts of this blog with autobiographical content as of today (13th July 2016) in this list but I cannot rule out the possibility of having missed out some.
List of posts with partial (sometimes little) or mainly autobiographical type content OR significant posts capturing my Indian CS & IT academic reform activism efforts
1) God is One, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/08/god-is-one.html, Aug. 14th, 2011 [This post was my first post-Mahasamadhi blog post, which started my serious blogging career. Prior blogging was minor stuff related to a few tech. review and info. kind of posts. So though this is a very small post, I viewed it as a kind of foundation to my blogging efforts, even at that time, if I recall correctly. Note that this is the first post of this eklavyasai/Indian CS & IT Academic Reform Activism blog.]
2) CS & IT Academia: Serious Systemic Problems?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/09/cs-it-academia-serious-systemic.html, Sept. 2011 [This post was my first serious technical post on Indian CS & IT academic reform, which received fair amount of views over time - 318 views as of today, 13th July 2016. So I felt it appropriate to include it in this list.]
3) CS & IT Academia: How to Teach Programming?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/09/cs-it-chittar-comment-response.html, Sept. 2011
4) Pursuing CS/IT Research Individually - Ph.D. Possibility?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/09/pursuing-research-individually-phd.html, Sept. 2011
5) IT Finishing Schools, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/cs-it-academia-it-finishing-schools.html, oct. 2011
6) CS & IT Academia: The PhD Glass Ceiling, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/cs-it-academia-phd-glass-ceiling.html, Oct. 2011
7) CS & IT Academia: A Bureaucratic POWER structure, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/cs-it-academia-bureaucratic-power.html, Oct. 2011
8) Dennis Ritchie, a Truly Great Software Guy, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/dennis-ritchie-truly-great-software-guy.html, Oct. 2011
9) A Defense of The CS/IT PhD Teacher, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/defense-of-csit-phd-teacher.html, Oct. 2011
10) Programming: Practical Solution Mindset vs. Scientific Mindset, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/programming-engineering-mindset-vs.html, Oct. 2011
11) Does a Teacher of Programming Need to Know Turing Machine?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2011/10/does-teacher-of-programming-need-to.html, Oct. 2011
12) CS & IT Academia: Is Teaching Excellence Important?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/01/cs-it-academia-is-teaching-excellence.html, January 2012
13) Ethics Policy for Sharing Content of Mail Exchanges on This Blog, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/03/ethics-policy-for-sharing-content-of.html, March 2012
14) Comments on Stroustrup's paper, "Software Development for Infrastructure" in IEEE Computer, Jan. 2012, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/03/comments-on-stroustrups-paper-software.html, March 2012
15) Google's Hybrid Research + Development Model, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2012/07/googles-hybrid-research-development.html, July 2012
16) Poor software development skills Indian CS graduates - Google Search Results, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/01/poor-software-development-skills-indian.html, dated Jan. 2013. [This post links to my academic pre-print paper, Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1715, dated Dec. 21st 2012. This paper gives my view of some aspects of Indian CS & IT academia based on my experience in it, and suggestions to improve them. I view it as an important contribution of mine to efforts to improve Indian CS & IT academia.]
17) Should M.Tech.(CS) Project be CS Research Oriented Or Software Engineering Project Oriented?, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/04/should-mtech-cs-project-be-cs-research.html, April 2013
18) Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality in Practice-Oriented Computer Science/Information Technology streams, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/06/concrete-suggestions-for-measuring.html, June 2013
19) Book Summary: Digital Republic, India’s Rise to IT Power by Mathai Joseph, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2013/06/book-summary-digital-republic-indias.html, June 2013
20) Content of Programming Courses shared on Blog For Free Access To Anybody, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/03/content-of-programming-courses-shared.html, March 2014
21) Nature April 2014 article - Policy: Free Indian science by Dr. Mathai Joseph et al., http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/04/nature-april-2014-article-policy-free.html, April 2014
22) Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions should put up Detailed Course contents on the Internet, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/04/publicly-funded-highed-education.html, April 2014
23) The very strange case of 20th century era Department(s) of Mathematics and Computer Science in Indian academia in today's early 21st century world, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-very-strange-case-of-20th-century.html, April 2014
24) Information Technology - Products vs. Services, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/05/information-technology-products-vs.html, May 2014
25) Mumbai college principal arrested over charge of demanding donation for admission to XIth standard Science class, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/05/mumbai-college-principal-arrested-over.html, May 2014
26) Wrote to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on improving practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/05/wrote-to-prime-minister-shri-narendra.html, May 2014
27) NPTEL - IIT Madras - offers online course and certification in Programming, Data Structures & Algorithms, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/06/nptel-offers-online-course-and.html, June 2014 [BTW this post seems to have the maximum views of 1023 in this blog.]
28) Eminent Indian computer scientist-cum-administrator Dr. S. Ramani writes: this Indian CS & IT academic reform activism blog is interesting, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/07/eminent-indian-computer-scientist-cum.html, July 2014
29) Mainstream Indian newspaper article on Delhi University's Academic Council - "Everyone is terrified ...", http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/07/mainstream-indian-newspaper-article-on.html, July 2014
30) Ten Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) higher education policy changes to improve practice of software development in India, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/08/ten-computer-science-cs-information.html, Aug. 2014
31) Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by Having a Software Development Career Track in Indian CS & IT Academia, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/08/improve-practice-of-software.html, Aug. 2014. [This is an HTML version of paper with same title put up on http://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.1715, dated December 21st, 2012 (mentioned in a previous entry in this list).]
32) Noted Indian professor of education on young foreign Ph.D. qualified Indians finding it difficult to get good academic jobs in India, and on temporary teacher positions, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/09/noted-indian-professor-of-education-on.html, Sept. 2014
33) My perception of senior ex-administrator of a spiritual-cum-secular university being sarcastic about bhajans (devotional songs/singing), http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2014/12/my-perception-of-senior-ex.html, Dec. 2014
34) Dangers of pro-MATLAB-research and anti-software-development Computer Science higher education policy, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/02/dangers-of-pro-matlab-research-and-anti.html, Feb. 2015
35) My suggestions related to skill development in Indian higher education on mygov.in discussions on New Education Policy, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/02/my-suggestions-related-to-skill.html, Feb. 2015
36) Suggestion to Committee on attracting and retaining talented and quality manpower in Teaching Profession, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/09/suggestion-to-committee-on-attracting.html, Sept. 2015
37) How MHRD (& DIRECTOR IIT) disposed of my "Serious Systemic Problems in Indian CS IT Academia" grievance dated Nov. 2011, DOING NOTHING REALLY, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2015/09/how-mhrd-director-iit-disposed-of-my.html, Sept. 2015
38) Andy Grove, big tech leader, passes away; Unease with his "Only the Paranoid Survive" mantra, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/03/andy-grove-big-tech-leader-passes-away.html, March 2016
39) 22 Fake universities in India; Fear of top political leaders & academic administrators culture in Indian academia, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/05/hrd-education-minister-smriti-irani.html, May 2016
40) Sebastian Thrun of Udacity - Hindu interview; Udacity Nanodegrees in India, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/05/sebastian-thrun-of-udacity-hindu.html, May 2016
41) Stark look at problems faced by some Indians doing Ph.D. in USA today; UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar, http://eklavyasai.blogspot.com/2016/06/stark-look-at-problems-faced-by-some.html, June 2016
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