STEP – Science, Technology, and Education in Pakistan

Dynamic Language Tools is a bookmarklet application which I have developed, which helps users read and write Urdu easily on any web page without installing any software. This tool uses the Google Transliteration API to do the on-demand transliteration of the roman script to... Read the rest of this entry

Is division, confinement, and hierarchy of knowledge the model to create and sustain an organization in the upcoming decades? No. This is supported by theory with successful case studies and field evidence from around the globe. However, little attention and application... Read the rest of this entry

“Get good education and move to a bad neighborhood” was a constant advice I received from my advisor over the last six years that I spent at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) as a Fulbright scholar for my MS and PhD programs in Computer Science. As soon as I... Read the rest of this entry

The third talk of the STEP Lecture Series will be given by Dr. Aristeidis Karalis on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 6:00pm PST. The talk has been organized in collaboration with Air University, FAST-NU Islamabad, LUMS Department of Computer Science, MCS, and NUST School of... Read the rest of this entry

In collaboration with IEEE-LUMS and IEEE-NUCES as part of IEEE-week, STEP has organized talks by Saad Fazil and Kellee Santiago on February 7th, 2010. The talks will be streamed live and a brief Q&A session will follow each talk. The talks will be aimed at a general... Read the rest of this entry

In an effort to enforce quality, the HEC recently announced that they would not recognize PhD degrees awarded unless the recipient manages to score a 40 percentile on the GRE subject test at the time of admission to the graduate program, reported here. This is a... Read the rest of this entry

The history of Special Education in Pakistan goes back farther than the history of Pakistan itself. With the earliest school for disabled children established in Lahore in 1906, it has now been more than a century since institutions dedicated to the education of special... Read the rest of this entry

STEP: Informed, perhaps, by your experiences as a student at MIT during the Vietnam War, you have spoken in favor of re-establishing student unions in Pakistani Universities. Could you briefly make the case for re-instituting student unions in Pakistan? PH:... Read the rest of this entry

The purpose of developing university-based research should be much broader. You cannot, or rather should not, try to build a research ecosystem just for the purpose of achieving short-term, balance-sheet like, measurable goals. Read the rest of this entry

When schools decide to operate far beyond the reaches of ordinary citizens of a country, then they also bear an awesome social responsibility. Read the rest of this entry