Technical Blogs

Here are some blogs to make technical work more accessible to general audience. See viewer statistics from LinkedIn here.

1. [3 Mar 2024, AI, Elections] A Challenge for Our Times and AI Technology – Giving Accurate Information About Elections, by Biplav Srivastava

2. [19 Dec 2023, Teaching Trusted AI] Teaching introductory (trusted) AI in the age of ChatGPT after three decades in the trenches , by Biplav Srivastava

3. [6 May 2023, Teaching Programming] C(++) for the ChatGPT age - teaching undergraduate programming course after three decades of coding, by Biplav Srivastava

4. [16 Feb 2023, AI, Elections] AI for Credible Elections (2) - A Brief Summary of AAAI 2023 Workshop, by Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Andrea Hickerson, Tarmo Koppel, Sachindra Joshi, Chris Dawes, Siva Likitha Valluru, Kausik Lakkaraju, Vishal Pallagani and Bharath Muppasani 

5. [29 Jan 2023, Chatbot, Society] Working with ChatGPT-like LLM-based-AIs Reliably: Don’t Look at Only the Technology Pillar For All The Answers, by Biplav Srivastava

6. [26 Dec 2022, Social Media, Management] Managing Twitter or its Kins – Is It More Complex Than Managing a Joint Family ?! , by Biplav Srivastava

7. [7 Aug 2022, Digital Services, Value-add] Eating Someone Else’s Lunch - How Can a Third-Party Provide Better Digital Service Than an Offering Owner ? It Happens With a Focus on Customer Value, by Biplav Srivastava

8. [2 June 2022,  Baggage Services, Experiment]  A Natural Experiment on Service Competence at Delta and KLM: Damaging Two Independent Baggage Pieces, Their Resolutions and Hints to Systemic Issues, by Biplav Srivastava

9. [12 May 2022, Teaching Programming]  Back to C(++) – teaching undergraduate programming course after three decades of coding, by Biplav Srivastava

10. [19 March 2022, CASY2  phase 2 chatbot workshop]  CASY 2.2 - Building Momentum for Collaborative Assistants for Society, by Biplav Srivastava and Utkarshani Jamini

11. [7 January 2022, AI, Elections]  AI for Credible Elections - A Brief Summary of Neurips 2021 Workshop, by Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich, Huan Liu, Natwar Modani and Tarmo Koppel

12. [1 November 2021, Soft Skills]  What Soft Skills I Look for in my Junior Research Colleagues to Promote a Fun Learning Experience Together, by Biplav Srivastava

13. [18 October 2021, CASY2  phase 1 chatbot workshop]  CASY 2 - A Practical Way to Look at Collaborative Assistants for Society, by Biplav Srivastava

14. [18 August 2021, Summer Interns Projects]  Learning with Students – A Showcase of Efforts by 2021 Summer Interns, by Biplav Srivastava

15. [25 April 2021, Covid, Information Gap]  Lesson from Two (Covid) Peaks – People Helping Each Other Works!, by Biplav Srivastava

16. [8 December 2020, AI, Culture]  AI, Ethics and Constructive Change – Being Grateful of the Advancements, Showing Light on What to Change, by Biplav Srivastava, Anita Nikolich.

17. [25 October 2020, Coding, Data Science]  A Few Tips for New Data Scientists That Software Engineers Know, by Biplav Srivastava

18. [14 February 2020, Conference Summary]  An Impression About AAAI 2020 – The Inclusive Annual AI Party !, by Biplav Srivastava

19. [9 December 2019, Service Experiences]  A Gamut of Experiences in Services During an India Trip, by Biplav Srivastava

20. [21 July 2019, Conference Summary]  An Impression About ICAPS 2019 – Robotic Decision Making!, by Biplav Srivastava

21. [22 June 2019, Election Process & Services]  Process and Technology Behind State-of-the-art (SOTA) Election in India, by Biplav Srivastava

22. [30 March 2019, Trust, Human AI]  Trust, Technology, and Humans … To Keep Society Safe, Human Role Should Not Be That of Slave to Technology, by Biplav Srivastava

23. [4 February 2019, Conference Summary]  An Impression About AAAI 2019 – Trusting AI to Deliver!, by Biplav Srivastava

24. [14 May 2018, Chatbot Ethics] With Great Chat Comes Great Responsibility, by Biplav Srivastava

25. [10 February 2018, Conference Summary] An Impression About AAAI 2018 – A Major AI Rejuvenation Camp!, by Biplav Srivastava

26. [29 December 2017, AI History] A Brief, Personal, History of AI, by Biplav Srivastava

27. [22 November 2017, Social Innovation] Technology Based Social Entrepreneurship: Innovations That Matter, by Biplav Srivastava

28. [22 August 2017, Public Health] Small Steps Matter When Big Ones Are Harder to Come By: An Actionable, Ground-level Perspective, Seeing JE/AES in India for Over a Decade, by A. K. Srivastava and Biplav Srivastava

29. [18 June 2017,  Dialogs] Designing Talking Alecks That Look Smart and Make Users Happy, by Biplav Srivastava

30. [14 March 2017,  AI, Jobs] An Untapped High Paying Job That May Get Automated Due to Human Failings, by Biplav Srivastava

31. [13 February 2017,  Conference Summary] An Impression About AAAI 2017 – Many Exciting Ideas to Root For, by Biplav Srivastava

32. 8 February 2017,  AI, Water] A Tutorial on AI for Data-Driven Decisions in Water Management, by Biplav Srivastava

33. [27 January 2017,  AI, Ethics] Reinventing Society with Ethics and AI, by Biplav Srivastava

34. [8 November 2016,  Women Safety, App] A Women’s College Hopes to Improve Women Safety While Commuting on Public Transportation with CarPooling Ideas – The Humsafar App, by Biplav Srivastava

35. [1 August 2016,  Water pollution data] Ganga Watch and Blue Water Revisited – Collected Data is Now Externally Available, As-is, by Biplav Srivastava

36. [3 July 2016, Traffic simulation] Insights for Managing Traffic with Privacy-Preserving Simulation as a Service – Indian Case Studies, by Biplav Srivastava

37. [4 June 2016, Automated Cars, AI] In Contrast to Fully Automated Cars, Assistive Automation to Drivers is Both Desirable and Easily Doable, by Biplav Srivastava

38. [3 May 2016, Talent mobility] Bheja Fry – Move to and From India is No Longer a Big Deal, by Biplav Srivastava

39. [4 April 2016, Traffic policy odd-even] Delhi’s Second Take on Odd-Even Traffic Rationing for Reducing Pollution: Will It Make the Scientific Cut Now?, by Biplav Srivastava

40. [3 April 2016, Cognitive / AI] Understanding AI / Cognitive Systems – a Perspective, by Biplav Srivastava

41. [15 March 2016, Health Contest Open Data] A Data Contest to Promote Public Health Using Indian Open Data – DataView 2016, by Biplav Srivastava

42. [12 March 2016, City Explorer Open Data] City-Explorer App: Open Data based City Exploration and Comparison, by Biplav Srivastava

43. [13 February 2016, Responsibility on educated] Beyond “Educated Fools” – Educated People Solving Society’s Pressing Problems, by Biplav Srivastava

44. [18 January 2016, Water usage app] Ganga Watch – An App for Using Water Data in Every Day Decisions, by Biplav Srivastava

45. [13 January 2016, Tourism] Discovering Tourist Events and Data-derived Experience Indicators With Bharat Khoj (Discover India) App, by Biplav Srivastava

46. [26 December 2015, Traffic policy odd-even, 115K+ reads, top-20 on LinkedIn that week] The Odds Against Delhi’s Odd-Even Traffic Formula for Air Pollution and How to Even Them Out, by Biplav Srivastava

47. [20 December 2015, Water data collection] Two Days on Yamuna – Collecting Water Pollution Data is Both Simple and Complex, by Biplav Srivastava

48. [3 December 2015, Water crowd source app] Neer Bandhu, for Water Friends, by Biplav Srivastava

49. [10 November 2015, Open data] The Urgent Need to Overcome a Generation Gap in Public Data Management Practices for Digitalized India, by Biplav Srivastava

50. [13 October 2015, Mobile apps/ data privacy] Diwali-Pe-Diwala - Beware of Mobile-Only Goodies in a Digital-Challenged Ecosystem, by Biplav Srivastava 

51. [20 September 2015, Survey Design] Collecting Wrong Data by Design – Starting from the Schools, by Biplav Srivastava

52. [26 July 2015, Smart City/ Open Data/AI] A Tutorial on AI for Smart City Innovations with Open Data, by Biplav Srivastava

53. [15 May 2015, Pollution] Connecting Pollution Efforts to People’s Everyday Benefits, by Biplav Srivastava

54. [2 May 2015, Smart City Sensors] Building Smart City Quickly and Cheaply Seeded by People-as-Sensors, by Biplav Srivastava

55. [28 Apr 2015, IoT and Taxis] IoT and Taxis – The Road Ahead for Safe Travel in Indian Cities, by Biplav Srivastava

56. [28 Mar 2015, Smart City Challenges] Challenges to Smart City Initiatives in India, by Biplav Srivastava

57. [2 Mar 2015, Trust and cloud] Do you trust your cloud platform service provider?, by Biplav Srivastava

58. [14 Jan 2015, API / Smart city and cloud]  Smarter cities with hybrid cloud: A promising way forward, by Biplav Srivastava

59. [4 Dec 2014, API / Service Composition] A brief history of composition (and why it still matters), by Biplav Srivastava

60. [22 Oct 2014, Cloud and Health] Five reasons why cloud is the right pill for healthcare providers, by Aredis S Oliveira and Biplav Srivastava.

61. [Sep 2012] What does it take to build a Smarter Nation, One City at a Time?, by Biplav Srivastava