Subhash Kak

author of "The Wishing Tree"

November 4, 2015

Subhash Kak is Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. He has made contributions to neural networks, information science and quantum theory. He was the first to come up with the idea of quantum neural computing and he has proposed that the brain has three languages: associative, reorganizational and quantum.

His work has been showcased in the popular media including Discovery and History channels, PBS, Dutch Public TV and in documentaries on music and yoga. He is the author of 20 books including "In Search of the Cradle of Civilization" and "The Architecture of Knowledge." He has also authored six books of verse. The distinguished Indian scholar Govind Chandra Pande has compared his poetry to that of William Wordsworth.

Amongst his awards are Science Academy Medal of the Indian National Science Academy, in 1977, and Distinguished Alumnus of IIT Delhi, in 2002. He has served on the academic board of the Smithsonian Project Home-Spun, and he was editor of UNESCO's ICOMOS project on archaeoastronomy, which was a cornerstone project in the International Year of Astronomy 2009.

"The Wishing Tree" presents a panoramic view of new findings in history of Indian science and culture. It is based on invited lectures at Stanford University and the University of California together with much additional material on art and architecture.

URL: https://library.okstate.edu/news/celebratingbooks/2016-honorees/subhash-kak

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