MUSCAT: During an inspiring, motivational talk held at the British School Muscat, Associate Professor Basel Dayyani, Department of Computer Science at the Germany University of Technology in Oman (GUtech) encouraged the students to think as inventors, creating ideas from an early age onwards, while helping to solve everyday problems.
Computer Science is not only about programing but about “how to think” about problems our world is facing, said Prof Basel, during an afternoon talk entitled ‘The Young Innovator’.
Inventions could be “anything that makes you more comfortable in everyday life.
“Anything that brings comfort and is easy to use,” he said. “Once you like doing something it becomes fun and you can achieve many things. For example, I love to code with artificial intelligence,” he said.
He stressed that technology has become the second nature of the Generation Z — those born after 1997. At the same time it is important to play games, to do sports and to read to enhance the production of neurons in our brains and therefore to enhance imagination. “When children play with toys it is not a waste of time.”
During the talk he showed a short video about the Nasa Mars exploration that started in the 1980s. Prof Basel was part of the initial team that started its research about Mars already around 30 years back.
To achieve certain goals, patience, hard work and failure are essential. He said that failure is important for the entire learning process. “You will fail many times, but the tenth time you will succeed — do not give up. You learn from your failure. Keep on going until you find the solution,” he said, encouraging the students to pursue their ideas.
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