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 [...]
One of the best post that I read in some time on ‘data’ is by Om Malik. See here. This post made me think about all the buzz about Big Data. The situation is exactly same as that described in the famous fable of ‘Six Blind Men and an Elephant”. Different communities approach big data [...]
There was a time, not really long ago, when all information about a person was very subjective. Even self opinions were subjective and other people’s opinion were always way out there. But that was before the information technology revolution. The info tech revolution started changing things. And the last few years have been nothing but [...]
Two common buzz words in computing are currently big data and social computing. As with most new technologies, both these terms mean different things to different people. Big data to some people is defined only using the size, to others it has equally important other dimensions such as the variety or heterogeneity of data, speed [...]
We are living in the age of transformations. Even the most ancient and most popular art, the art of storytelling, is being transformed by the emerging technology, particularly first by Computers and now by Mobile Phones. My research in the last few years has been related to some aspects of storytelling using emerging technology. Storytelling [...]