Nagarjuna G.

Dr. Nagarjuna G. is a science educationist in Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. Nagarjuna did a M.Sc. in Biology and a M.A. in Philosophy from Delhi University, and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science from IIT Kanpur. He is currently carrying out research and development in the area of structure and dynamics of knowledge networks, an inter-disciplinary domain covering the issues in cognitive science, epistemology, and computer science. Some of his areas of interest are semantic web, knowledge organization, AI, philosophy of science, biological roots of knowledge and modelling complex systems with specific interest in cognitive development. He is the author of a specification and implementation of a distributed knowledge base called GNOWSYS1, and an architect of gnowledge.org, a community portal, which was launched on 2 February 2007. He contributed as a core developer and architect of SELF Platform2. He is currently guiding three research scholars in the area of science education at HBCSE, TIFR. He teaches graduate courses in the area of History and Philosophy of Science and Cognitive Development.

As an activist he focuses on promoting free knowledge and free software and serves as the chairperson of Free Software Foundation of India.

Current engagements include the continued development of gnowsys, gnowsys-mode (a major mode of emacs for Knowledge networking), gnome-gnowser (a GNOME based client for knowledge networking), building an Atlas of knowledge, writing neighbourhood theory of meaning, and training teachers in free software for science and mathematics education.

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