Mumbai in monsoon could be an experience – and I had it first hand though only to a limited extent. I came to Mumbai on my way to Bangalore on Tuesday July 26th. My flight from Nagpur was delayed by about 2.5 hours due to heavy rains both in Nagpur and Mumbai. After one of [...]
The process of conversion of information in cyberspace from only textual to multimedia continues. Now big phot collections of historical importance have announced that they will have a strong database. NY Times article gives details of this. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/arts/design/20east.html? This is quite significant. This announces coming of digital age in the most respected and traditional archives. [...]
Microsoft is suing Kai Fu Lee who help them build Microsoft Beijing research center for joining Google China. This news has two interesting components — after India, Google is going to China for research and Microsoft is now so aggressive (or frustrated) that they are going to find every reson to attack Google and any [...]
SO finally webcams and sensors are being used for traffic information. See http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/business/19road.html?th&emc=th What is happening to traffic is just the beginning of convergence of powerful sensor networks and internet technology. This convergence is beginning of the EventWeb. Current web is the web of documents — and since these documents need authoring, uploading, and then [...]
Prof. Susanne Boll is a very active researcher, an interesting person, and a good friend. She is in Singapore for CIVR. During dinner in research context she mentioned a video circulating about how Google is going to take over the world in 2014. You may find it funny or scary depending on your perspective. I [...]