Introduction

1. What is your e-mail address (e.g., yourname at domain.com)? akb2810 at gmail dot com.
2. What is your academic standing? 2nd year Masters, Computer Science
3. Where are you originally from? Any one heard of Kashmir, India. I am from there.
4. Why are you taking this class? 1. Interested in the field of HCI. 2. Liked the special topics course which I took previously with Dr. Hammond.
5. What do you expect to be doing in 10 years? Be an expert in some field. It could be on a job or something I am doing on my own.
6. What do you think will be the next biggest technological advancement in computer science? Computers as we know them getting obsolete. We will just have terminals (popularly called thin clients) and all computation and storage will move to the cloud.
7. What current sight and/or touch-related technology do you find interesting and why? Except for the IPhone and Microsoft Surface computer, I haven't come across any such technologies in the market. IPhone was very interesting few years ago, now its behavior is more expected than interesting. I like Microsoft's vision for Surface Computing .. well I forgot what it exactly was.. but something to the effect that every surface should come alive - the walls, table tops and what have you.
8. If you could have lunch with someone famous in history, who would it be and why? After thinking a lot about this I decide to go beyond history. It would be Krisna, the hero from the Indian epic Mahabharata. If he indeed wrote the book called Gita, I would like to discuss rationality with him over lunch.
9. What is your favorite movie? Hotel Rwanda, and one Indian movie called Swades.
10. Tell us some details about yourself that you would like to add to the class poster. Every once in a few years I paint. I think about it daily.