16 Facts About Subhash Kak

Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist and historical revisionist.

Subhash Kak has published on archaeoastronomy, and advocated the idea of Indigenous Aryans.

Subhash Kak's brother is the computer scientist Avinash Kak and his sister is the literary theorist Jaishree Odin.

Subhash Kak received a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Regional Engineering College, Srinagar and a Ph.

Subhash Kak proposed an efficient three-layer feed-forward neural network architecture and developed four corner classification algorithms for training it.

Subhash Kak has argued that there are limits to artificial intelligence and that it cannot match biological intelligence.

Subhash Kak has been critical of the generalization of the quantum computing to commercial scale; he argues error correction is a significant challenge for scalability although it's fundamental to multi-purpose computing.

Subhash Kak is an honorary visiting professor of media studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Subhash Kak has claimed to find evidences of advanced computing and astronomy in the Rig Veda, in what Noretta Koertge deems to be a "social constructivist and postmodern attack on modern science".

Subhash Kak insists that Vedic scientists discovered the physical laws by Yogic meditation and that it is a valid scientific method which can be only evaluated within the paradigm of Vedic assumptions and by those who have attained Yogic enlightenment.

Subhash Kak prepared the section on archaeoastronomical sites in India for the thematic study on Heritage Sites of Astronomy and Archaeoastronomy in the context of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention prepared for UNESCO by the International Council on Monuments and Sites and the International Astronomical Union.

Subhash Kak's method depends on the structure of the Rigveda as redacted by the shakhas in the late Brahmana period, well within the Indian Iron Age, when it was organized into mandalas.

Witzel concludes that the entire issue boiled down to an over-interpretation of some facts that were internally inconsistent and more, to the creativeness of Subhash Kak who was pre-motivated to find evidence of astronomy at every verse of Rig Veda.

Subhash Kak's work influenced Raja Ram Mohan Roy's 1999 book Vedic Physics: Scientific Origin of Hinduism, which sought to prove that the RigVeda was coded per the laws of quantum and particle physics.

Subhash Kak wrote the foreword to this book commending Roy's interpretations as a new way of looking at Vedic Physics.

Subhash Kak co-authored In Search of the Cradle of Civilization with Georg Feuerstein and David Frawley, equating the Vedic Aryans with the Harappans and thus, participating in the political controversy around the "Indigenous Aryans" theory.