Ashoka Reflections_JULY 2023
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The Ashoka School of Advanced Computing (ASAC) will be situated in a liberal arts environment, and, as such,
will be distinct in character from other academic computer science establishments in the country. It will
endeavour to introduce the epistemological methods of computer science – algorithmic problem solving,
argumentative methods, logic, impossibility results, models of universal computation, process models,
systems and security frameworks, complexity analysis and the limits of computation and communication, AI
and data-driven models – into multidisciplinary research spanning the natural, social, and political sciences. It
will also build a unique programme that will expose Ashoka students to computational thinking with CS+X
courses at all levels, and train graduate leaders with strong humanistic and ethical perspectives in addition to
strengths in core computer science.
In addition to the department of computer science – which will engage in core disciplinary CS research and
teaching – the ASAC will initially be composed of three centres with focussed research themes.
C O V E R S T O R Y
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The first of these is the Centre for Data Science and Analytics (CDA). It envisages providing a common data
infrastructure platform for all data initiatives at Ashoka University. Apart from well-established research
centres like the Centre for Economic Data Analysis (CEDA) and the Trivedi Centre for Political Data (TCPD), it
will also host repositories for a variety of other types of data, ranging from clinical, health and epidemiological,
to satellite, GIS, and remote sensing, to data related to agriculture, food and nutrition, ecology, astronomy and
even humanities, languages, and history.
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