After we moved to Irvine, we subscribed to Z channel on Cox cable. ANd for the first time, we started getting an Indian channel. We thought that this will keep us in touch with India and Indian culture. One thing that surprised me and I find it unbelievable are the commercials on Z. These commercials [...]
With the increasing popularity of desk top search the limitations of current hierarchical file system are becoming obvious and painful to users. Before people experienced desk top search, they did not realize how it could be without folders — not they know that the current folder system in which a file belongs to only one [...]
I started teaching this quarter. The course I am teaching is ‘Entrepreneurism in Information Age’. This course is for Information and COmputer Sciences student so this will be a very different course comapred to normal courses in this area. I am running an experiment in this course. Here is something from my syllabus about projects: [...]
Last week I gave a talk in our department on Immersive Search. I presented my ideas how search has been limited by the ‘key word box’ and the evolving technology now requires that we go beyond that. This presentation is now available here.
In business world, in fact in every other situation also, a very important thing to know is what is the business you are in. I saw this interesting article — via Rajesh Jain — from Broadband Directions that suggests that Comcast should buy AOL. It asks a very intersting, but obvious question, what is the [...]