Dr Shoumen Palit Austin Datta
Email • shoumen@mit.edu • shoumen@alumni.ucsf.edu • shoumendatta@gmail.com
MIT Libraries Collection • http://dspace.mit.edu/browse?value=Datta%2C+Shoumen&type=author
SINS
Innovate, disseminate and diffuse ideas to stir imagination. Catalyze entrepreneurs to create products or services.
Global economic growth for and from billions based on micro-payments. Sensory informatics network of systems.
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7 LIVELY SINS : An Imperfect Sense of the Future
• Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity
This is a review of what AI based Agents may accomplish. This is an essay that attempts to explain the idea embedded in this
statement: "When I want to go out to the movies, rather than read reviews, I ask my sister-in-law. We all have an equivalent
who is both an expert on movies and on expert on us. What we need to build is a digital sister-in-law." (Quote from Nic
Negroponte, MIT Media Lab) http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41914 and http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/56251
• Sustainability and Global Economic Growth: Is Chemistry Necessary?
The petroleum-poor post-2050 era may evolve a new global currency which will segue to a paradigm shift in world power
dictated by the national per capita number of biochemists and chemical engineers. This essay explores chemistry as the
catalyst for the future where energy will decide the rise and fall of nations. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/42903
• Semantic Web: A Numerical Approach?
The syntactical web with its directed graph approach continues to dominate because a numerical approach to context, one key
contribution of semantics, is still missing. The relationships that semantic web proposes to catalyse are still based on syntax,
the use of which is influenced by language. This paper is an imperfect idea that suggests one mechanism (using an IPv6 type
format) to digitize the context and semantics of relationships. http://esd.mit.edu/wps/2007/esd-wp-2007-17.pdf
• Econometric and Time Series Tools in Operations Management and Supply Chain
Risk analysis and forecasting in business operations as well as supply chain management may benefit from recent advances in
econometrics. http://esd.mit.edu/wps/esd-wp-2006-11.pdf and http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/43948
• Future Healthcare: Bio-Informatics, Nano-Sensors and Emerging Innovations
Health, not healthcare, should be our focus if systemic cost reduction is one key goal. Attentive healthcare deals with the crisis
while preventive health curtails the crisis from occurring. The latter may be boosted through innovation in health and
telemedicine through remote monitoring coupled with auto-analytics using semantics based intelligent knowledge discovery.
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/58972 and http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41911 (bMDs)
• Bio-Inspired Energy Dynamics
Energy efficiency optimization drawing on wireless sensor data and intelligent feedback control. Comment on de novo energy
production through the convergence of solar-aided glucose-on-a-chip synthesis with microbial metabolic (genetic) engineering
to generate liquid fuel (butanol, pentanol). http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/59804
• Catalyst for Evolution of Public Education Systems
It is an over-simplification but the 25 year bust-bust cycle of public education is upon us, again. It calls for robust action
(Innovation: in his ordo est ordinem non servare). If October 1957 and April 1983 may serve as previous milestones (Sputnik and
Nation At Risk) then 2008 was the due date for another bust. It happened, on time. The US recession started in 2008. Education
seeks renewal and a relationship with entrepreneurial innovation. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/54837
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Dante’s (1300) Divine Comedy; Balanchine, Brecht and Weill's 1933 ballet Seven Deadly Sins; Hieronymus Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things (1485)
Brief Bio: Dr Shoumen Datta is an academician, author, advisor and arbitrageur • http://en.scientificcommons.org/shoumen_datta