Stanley Kurbic’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb was a 1964 masterpiece of cinema making. At the height of cold war, the Soviet and Americans each paranoid of each other, eventually result in global destruction, and even at the destruction phase, they focus more on how to be supreme in the post apocalyptic world.
BUET uses a BIIS system, that tracks registered students on a course. Course teachers can download their attendance sheet in .csv format. Teachers also use Teams for sharing class materials and assignments. Unfortunately, registration deadline is almost 2 weeks into the classes, and letting unregistered students do class causes later administrative problems. So, teachers often add all students in team of the section. It is a tedious process to check if a member teams is also registered in BIIS. In an ideal world, BIIS should have integrated Canva / Moodle for each class. However, at present, we can use this method to quickly cross check Teams and BIIS members. Please check my previous tutorial on PowerShell to see how it is installed and used.
2023 is probably the year of Artificial Intelligence. Though AI was working in the background to imrpove search suggestions and images, ChatGPT truly showed us the power of AI and how it can reshape our future. Though the sinister undertone of getting replaced by AI, or the possibility of making human race dumber looms in the horizon, AI is here to stay. Probably library work, critical thinking, research, manuscript writing - everything will be delegated to AI in the future, and academia will drastically shrink. Those who remain in the academia must adapt to use the AI tools of the future. Here is a nice list of AI tools especially for an academic (Courtesy Dr. Mustaq Bilal. It is difficult to say how many of the tools will survive once the AI bubble bursts and we start to see more giant AI companies absorbing and acquiring the small ones. I wish more decentralized and stand alone AI apps were available.