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==Academic career== During 1975–1976, Kak was a visiting faculty at [[Imperial College]], London, and a guest researcher at [[Bell Laboratories]], Murray Hill. In 1977, he was a visiting researcher at the [[Tata Institute of Fundamental Research]], Bombay.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ece.okstate.edu/sites/default/files/biography.pdf|title=Short Biography|website=Ece.okstate.edu|access-date=3 December 2018|archive-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412013619/http://www.ece.okstate.edu/sites/default/files/biography.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1979, he joined [[Louisiana State University|Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge]], where he was appointed the Donald C. and Elaine T. Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2007, he joined the Computer Science department at [[Oklahoma State University–Stillwater]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ece.okstate.edu/content/kak-subhash-phd|title=Kak, Subhash, Ph.D. – School of Electrical and Computer Engineering|website=Ece.okstate.edu|access-date=2 December 2018|archive-date=19 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150119014358/http://www.ece.okstate.edu/content/kak-subhash-phd|url-status=dead}}</ref> Kak proposed an efficient three-layer [[feed-forward neural network]] architecture and developed four corner classification algorithms for training it.<ref name=":7">{{Cite journal|last1=SHORTT|first1=A|last2=KEATING|first2=J|last3=MOULINIER|first3=L|last4=PANNELL|first4=C|date=2005-03-04|title=Optical implementation of the Kak neural network|journal=Information Sciences|volume=171|issue=1–3|pages=273–287|doi=10.1016/j.ins.2004.02.028|issn=0020-0255|url=http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/8663/1/JK-Optical-2005.pdf}}</ref> Despite being criticized for scalability issues; it gained the attention of the electronic hardware community.<ref name=":7" /> Kak has argued that there are limits to [[artificial intelligence]] and that it cannot match biological intelligence.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/will-artificial-intelligence-become-conscious-87231|title=Will artificial intelligence become conscious?|first=Subhash|last=Kak|website=Theconversation.com|date=8 December 2017 |access-date=2 December 2018}}</ref> Kak has been critical of the generalization of the [[quantum computing]] to commercial scale; he argues [[error detection and correction|error correction]] is a significant challenge for scalability although it's fundamental to [[General-purpose macro processor|multi-purpose computing]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://theconversation.com/a-quantum-computing-future-is-unlikely-due-to-random-hardware-errors-126503|publisher=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]]|date=3 December 2019|title=A quantum computing future is unlikely, due to random hardware errors|author=Subhash Kak|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714121527/https://theconversation.com/a-quantum-computing-future-is-unlikely-due-to-random-hardware-errors-126503|url-status=live|archive-date=14 July 2021|access-date=4 October 2021}}</ref> Kak is the [[Professors in the United States#Distinguished (teaching / research) professor|Regents Professor]] of Computer Science Department at [[Oklahoma State University–Stillwater]]<ref name="Hindu"/> and an honorary visiting professor of engineering at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name="jnu.ac.in"/> He is also an honorary visiting professor of media studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.<ref>{{Cite web|title=CMS Faculty|url=https://www.jnu.ac.in/sss/cms_faculty}}</ref> On 28 August 2018, he was appointed member of the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) in India.<ref name="thehindubusinessline.com"/>
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