A Retrospective on Enabling a Connected World

By Shaun D'Souza

Shaun D'Souza, Computer scientist, Researcher, Author, Inventor has published a book titled A Retrospective on Enabling a Connected World: The Race for the Original Primordial Soup. The book is a compendium of his Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) learnings, and includes software and AI/ML manuscripts. In addition to this book, he has numerous publications, including a paper that was recognised in 2018 as part of Social Science Research Network's "top ten downloads" for the "CompSciRN: Artificial Intelligence" category.

An excerpt from the book's Prologue:

As academia and industry, we have vested interests in dissemination of software in society. We explore a broader ecosystem enabling for industry and academia confluence. We explore the AI journey as a contemporary technology. We look at the nuances of how we as a society perceive technology.

The tree and maze illustrate a dichotomy in software and systems infrastructure. They are essential ingredients in an ecosystem. Use cases include the rationalisation of taxonomies/thesauri and cognitive biases e.g. man-woman, snakes-ladders, import-export, left-right, train-test.

About the author:

Shaun is based in Mumbai and has more than 12 years of experience in AI, ML, software engineering, research and development, and business. He completed his B.S. from Cornell University with a Double Major in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cum Laude Honours in 2003. He then completed his MSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005.

Shaun has worked in Software/Business researching machine learning, generative AI, compilers, algorithms and systems. He has published several papers and been granted patents.

His parents (Late) Dr Stanislaus F. D'Souza (former Associate Director, Biomedical Group) and Dr Sandra E. D'Souza were senior scientists at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai. His sister is also a software engineer.

The book is available worldwide on Amazon in 20+ geographies. Website: https://shaundsouza2.wordpress.com