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Archive for May, 2005

1st Anniversary!!

Posted by Ramesh on May 20th, 2005

Exactly one year ago today, one of the biggest transformation came in my life.

EVDB

Posted by Ramesh on May 16th, 2005

EVDB is all about events and it wants to bring all events to prople.  It wants to emphasize that most people are interested in very specialized events in their neighborhood and currently there are no good mechanisms to make these events visible to people.   We know interesting events that we only find out after they [...]

Event Information: Venues and Calendars

Posted by Ramesh on May 16th, 2005

An event has both informational data as well as experiential data.  To capture events and make them available to people both types of data play important role.  

Since we are all familiar with informational data related to events, first we discuss that here.  Type of event – politics, entertainment, technical conference, sports, or personal are just [...]

Information and Experience (2)

Posted by Ramesh on May 10th, 2005

There is a continuum between information and experience.  You experience when you are immersed in an environment and can use your sensors to feel or experience the environment.  On the other extreme is purely abstract information where you are given a symbol corresponding to the immersive experience.  In between there are many variations in which [...]

Information and Experience (1)

Posted by Ramesh on May 7th, 2005

Originally computers were designed to perform computation on data.  Obviously, that was the reason to call them computers.  As their evolution continued, they became more information devices than computing machines.  Most of us use computers more for communicating information, accessing information sources, and searching for appropriate information sources.  The last few years are a clear [...]