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- Born
- 1947
- Works
- 26
Top works
- Patanjali and cognitive science
- Computing science in ancient India
- Computing science in ancient India
- The Architecture of Knowledge
- The astronomical code of the Ṛgveda
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Key facts
- Born
- Srinagar , Jammu and Kashmir , British India
- Alma mater
- NIT Srinagar , IIT Delhi
- Discipline
- Computer Science
- Sub discipline
- Cryptography Quantum cryptography Quantum information History of science
- Institutions
- Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
- Notable works
- In Search of the Cradle of Civilization
- Notable ideas
- Instantaneously trained neural networks
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- British Raj
- Place of birth
- Srinagar
- Sibling
- Avinash Kak
- Occupation
- physicist
- Educated at
- Indian Institutes of Technology
- Employer
- Jawaharlal Nehru University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Kashmiri
- Religion
- Hinduism
- Doctoral advisor
- Pavaguda V. Indiresan
- Image
- Subhash Kak at Single Photon Workshop, Geneva, July 2015.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1947-03-26
- Commons category
- Subhash Kak
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- name in native language
- Subhash Chandra Kak
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Encyclopedic overview
Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and Hindutva historical revisionist. He is the Regents Professor of the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and a member of the Indian Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
Kak has published on the history of science, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics. Kak has also published on archaeoastronomy, and advocated the idea of Indigenous Aryans. Many scholars have rejected his theories on these topics in entirety, and his writings have been heavily criticized.
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