I saw one more advertisement of a timeline maker – you can see it at
http://www.timelinemaker.com/education.php
I am hearing more and more about events. Starting from Twitter, to Facebook updates, to timeline makers, everybody realizes that events are important. And something needs to be done using events. I definitely feel that we are going [...]
I am in final stages of agreeing to do a text book on Multimedia computing. This is a serious project that will require good amount of time to finish. I am thinking of doing it with a very energetic young fellow — Gerald Friedland.
Multimedia has become a way of life in computing. [...]
Sitting in the advisory board of National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo with my colleagues (CEO/directors of majore national research labs in France, Germany, Holland, and Thailand) and listening to their perspectives has strengthened my belief that things definitely work differently in USA compared to many other countries.
NII has a very strong research program and [...]
A drunken scientist loses the keys to his house and is looking for them under a lamppost. Another scientist comes over and asks what he’s doing.
“I’m looking for my keys” he says. “I lost them over there”.
The new scientist looks puzzled. “Then why are you looking for them all the way over here?
“Because the light [...]
Today was the workshop day at ACM MM 2009. I felt that we had too many workshops. I gave keynote at one and presented a paper at another. So whole day was shuttling between the two workshops. I did enjoy preparing for my Social Media workshop Keynote talk. Good news [...]