As difficult as it may be difficult to believe to many people, computing is a relatively young discipline. Until recently, most computing systems received input from people and represented it in cyberspace mostly in form of abstract information. For efficiency reasons most representations of real world in computing systems captured only application-specific essential abstract aspects [...]
We address more detailed aspects of observing and analyzing all data sources to get objective self health information A very thought provoking book called Creative Destruction of Medicine by Eric Topol paints a very data oriented future of medicine. Future of healthcare is likely to utilize an individual’s lifestyle information with personal genomics to provide [...]
RIP Osito. My four legged son, and my BFF. I still remember July 1996 when Swati brought home a small creature that we could hold in our palm — and we fell in love with him. Suzi name him Osito. Neil became his best buddy. And Sudha, well he became the most important ‘person’ in [...]
So how do people tell stories when they have lots of events that are seemingly related to the what needs to be told but telling everything in gory details makes a story boring and may be counterproductive to the goal of the storyteller. Another common constraint is the time or space available. Thus, a storyteller [...]
One one hand we have micro-stories that reflect experience of just one ‘small’ event. Such an event could be a meeting, a party, or anything that is considered by user as something worth sharing experience but not worth a detailed sharing. In fact the same event could be shared in more details then it may [...]