WWW.evdb.com has now become eventful.com. The site is looking good. It has better interface and addition of new features like recently added events and recently viewed events is an interesting change. I always liked the focus of this site on events. As far as I know this is the site that really focuses on events [...]
Google’s mission is to make all the world’s information searchable. Eric Scmidt says that there is 5 Million terabytes of information in the world of which 170 terabytes has been indexed. He projects that it will take 300 years to index all the world’s information. Since I don’t know all the detailed calculations required in [...]
Artificial intelligence has always been a field which goes though wild swings. People either pin lots of (unreasonable) expectations on it or blame it for (unsupportable) hype. The fact remains that AI is an intellectual discupline that addresses some challenging problems. Like any other field, there is good research in it and there is bad [...]