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Archive for June, 2006

SEraja Updates

Posted by Ramesh on June 30th, 2006

It appears that some of you are interested in my periodically providing Seraja updates. I will start doing that. SEraja team continues its progress. The very early version for Mobile is now available to access. On your internet connected phone you can go to m.seraja.com and access events. I just did that (currently I am [...]

Web Video and Cable

Posted by Ramesh on June 29th, 2006

WSJ has an article Cable takes on Web Video. It discusses how Cable companies, particularly Comcast, are aggressively pursuing policies related to web video. It says: The initiatives are part of the cable industry’s efforts to stay in front of the radical changes the Internet is making in the television landscape. The burgeoning supply of [...]

Phone as a Guide in Real World

Posted by Ramesh on June 28th, 2006

It was going to happen — but did not anticipate that it will happen so soon. Cell phones will use GPS to bridge the cyberspace with the physical world — a nice story in NYT today. If you stand on a street corner in Tokyo today you can point a specialized cellphone at a hotel, [...]

VACE2 Close out workshop

Posted by Ramesh on June 28th, 2006

I am attending ‘Video Analysis Content Extraction’ (VACE) Phase 2 Closeout Workshop. VACE is an interesting and important program sponsored by different groups of the Department of Defense. This program recognizes the fact that enormous volumes of video are being generated in different contexts as varied as Broadcast News, video surveillance, meetings, reconnaissance, and unmanned [...]

Giving Back to Society: Gates and Buffett

Posted by Ramesh on June 26th, 2006

In the last few days, something really great has happened. We all loved, hated, or loved to hate Mr. Bill Gates. Ultimately, he is the person who became the richest man by developing this dominant technology company called Micrsoft. But what he did now is definitely less controversial and more respectable than anything he did [...]