Based on research literature, trade literature, and even popular press it is very easy to get the impression that semantics will be no issue because we are now going to attach metadata to all forms of data. It appears that the current belief is that once metadata is available, semantics problems are solved. Wouldn¡¯t it [...]
My health has been slowly improving towards normal. It does take long time to get back and though I know this, it is still a frustrating process. I still get tired very fast. Now my arthritic knee also bothers me — sometimes more than my energy level. October has been a heavy travel month. Chicago, [...]
Texas Instrument announced that it has developed a chip that will allow TV on mobile phones. See the article in USA Today at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2004-10-21-talk-and-watch_x.htm discussing this. It was expected to happen but now that a reputed company has announced that it has it, it does appear very real. The implications of this for Video-on-Demand are [...]
After the ACM Multimedia conference, there were several very interesting workshops: Effective Telepresence, Continuous archival and retrieval of personal experiences, Next Generation Residential broadband challenges, Story representation mechanism and context, Video surveillance and sensor networks, and Multimedia Information Retrieval. Most of these were on very interesting topics, and though I had registered myself to attend [...]
I am in New York attending ACM Multimedia 2004 and affiliated workshops. The conference was for three days and was finished on Thursday, October 14. It was a great experience both professionally as well as personally, On the personal side, I was very touched by number of people who personally expressed their concern about my [...]