Overview

My research has been concerned with certain dimensions in people's intellectual activities:

  • the learning and use of language to encode and decode information;
  • the potential of a wiki-based knowledge base like Wikipedia to facilitate topic-oriented resource sharing;
  • the potential of a wiki to index problems and solutions and to aid in problem solving, or intelligence.

The Big Picture

Data connectivity, language connectivity, knowledge connectivity and intelligence connectivity are four pillars of a future civilization that will make the world work as a single mind. Read my essay Four Connectivities of the Information Age to learn more.

Areas

Browse my specific interests in each area: