0. Context to context Throughout last year, I worked with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf on a new metric, ACE2, that evaluates the efficacy of automatic speech recognition software. Speech recognition products have traditionally been evaluated using a metric self-explanatorily called the word-error rate (WER), but it has…

It has been established time and again that Rokeya Shakhawat Hossain, writer and social reformer from Bengal, constructed a feminist utopia in her 1905 book “Sultana’s Dream,” wherein the traditional gender binary is upturned in a display of creative speculation about a social system diametrically opposed to that of British…

The self’s existence bows down to determinism — yet it wants to reach outside of itself. How do we channel this need when the individual is tamed by society’s exercise of confines? …

As a child I was a voracious reader. One would imagine that children like me would be most likely to break out of molds and tread new paths. But I grew up in a competitive playground and knew that I had to make sure I remained in the safety of…