I felt deeply honored when Professor Sumit Ghosh asked me to write the
foreword to his book with an extraordinary perspective. I have long admired
him, first as a student leader at Stanford, where he initiated the first IEEE
Computer Society’s student chapter, and later as an esteemed and inspiring
friend whose transdisciplinary research broadened and enhanced the horizons
of practitioners of computer science and engineering, including my own. His
ideas, which are derived from his profound vision, deep critical thinking, and
personal intuition, reach from information technology to bioscience, as exhibited
in this excellent book. To me, an ordinary engineer, it opens up a
panoramic view of the Universe of Knowledge that keeps expanding and inspiring,
like the good Indian proverb, which says, “a good book informs you, an
excellent book teaches you, and a great book changes you.” I sincerely believe
that Professor Ghosh’s book will help us change and advance the methods of
systems engineering and technology.