Pausch shares his experience of how students at the entertainment technology center at CMU when allowed to design their own perfect virtual world incorporating technology, arts and humanities with unlimited imaginations, …show more content…
In Junior year, while designing the website www.vibanote.com for upcoming music artists to get a broader exposure, I experienced the synergy between technology and music. Knowing music, it was relatively easy for me to learn computer languages like Java and Python and use the musical concepts of regularity, patterns, and structures in conceiving the software program for my website. I first coded the basic constructs, then developed extensibility patterns and assembled them to deliver desired functionalities. The designed website can dynamically extend to accommodate new requirements. I can only imagine, how a brain wired to understand music’s spatial and visual characteristics can be applied in designing solutions around AI, machine learning, natural language processing, unstructured data processing, and a host of other cognitive capabilities. I aspire to pursue life by permeating the boundaries between the two disciplines and learn from one