There was an interesting article written by Stefanie Olsen of CNET News. The article states boldly ˇ°Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are quietly developing new search tools for digital video, foreshadowing a high-stakes technology arms race in the battle for control of consumers’ living rooms.ˇ± You can read the article at: http://news.com.com/Striking+up+digital+video+search/2100-1032_3-5466491.html This is a very [...]
Visualization of data to get insights into it is a very powerful tool used commonly. This tool has been used for long time, but was really popularized once computerized tools became available. The first electronic mechanism developed to visualize data appeared in the form of oscilloscope. Oscilloscopes revolutionized science and engineering. Before oscilloscopes, people tried [...]
I am here in San Diego for Thanksgiving. It seems that every culture has a festival like this when people are suppose to remember what they should be thankful for and to thank people. For me, the year since the last Thanksgiving has been truly remarkable and has been a reason for me to THANK [...]
I went to Switzerland to visit, as a review team member, the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2). This NCCR is centered at IDIAP in Martigny. This center has researchers from several institutes spread across Switzerland and does have a very strong research team. The most attractive part [...]
I just came back from a trip to Martigny, Switzerland. Martigny is located close to Lausanne and Montreaux in an Alpine valley. I was there to review a project supported by their National Science Foundation in the are of multimodal information management. This project brings together many universities and research group to address research issues [...]