I talked about Exilim S500 camera. Today Randy Paul sent me a link to say that this camera is now a bargain and is available for as low as $329. This indeed is a bargain. More importantly, it suggests something very important — how fast this area is developing and hence how soon these devices [...]
Googling a person who you met at the last party or who you are going to meet in a meeting today has become very common. A problem you often face is that the same name uses different spelling. I know that my first name — Ramesh — appears in mails from my ‘friends’ at least [...]
I spent this week end in Ann Arbor Michigan attending a wedding. Since I spent some of the most important years of my professional careers at University of Michigan (from 1982 to 1993) and was well rewarded by Michigan for my efforts, Ann Arbor has very good memories. I have many friends in town. During [...]
Based on Internet2 research, this article in PC magazine speculates the next 10 years of the Internet. Some interesting thoughts on different aspects ranging from healthcare to video-conferencing. I liked the following about mobile-net: Asked to speculate on how the Internet might advance in the next decade, Van Houweling says, “I think we don’t yet [...]
A popular application of observation systems is surveillance. Unfortunately the way our world is evolving, this application is becoming increasingly important. Earlier this week we had a great visit by Dr. Arun Hampapur of IBM. He leads computer vision activity at IBM Watson research labs and video surveillance is becoming one of the major focus [...]