We all know, and as I discussed in my last post, that the volume of visual information on Internet is exploding. We started discussing about the volume of visual information being created by rapid progress in hardware for cameras – both for photographs and videos. We also discussed that the infrastructure to deal with this information [...]
Something very interesting happened a little more than 10 years ago: WWW arrived. Like most successful things, there are many factors behind the exceptional exponential growth of WWW. One of the most important factor, in my opinion, is the freeing of content. Content received freedom due to the democratization of the production of content and [...]
I have been thinking about several basic issues in what is commonly called search technology. The way data sources, types, and (spatio-temporal) nature of data is changing, if the technology continues to address search problem, then we are all going to be in trouble. The days when we needed search technology were the last few [...]
I thought of giving a personal update after some time so some of my friends who used this blog to find about my health and related things can get an update here. The fact that I don¡¯t write daily updates on my health and most of my scribbles here (less regular that used to be) [...]
We all use books. Education system in almost all countries for centuries has relied on books as the primary source of knowledge. We all know very well how books like like and usually what they contain. A typical book today contains printed pages. These pages may contain pictures in addition to text. Many books contain [...]