John Markoff reports in NYT about a camera that will help bring sophisticated 3D effects. As pointed out: The system could change the nature of cinematography in several ways, according to leading Hollywood producers and technologists who are planning to use the system. For example, it will make it possible to create compellingly realistic synthetic [...]
A team from University of California, Irvine (from Bren School of Information and COmputer Science; my school) has demonstrated a powerful text mining approach based on topic modeling. This approach is based on a ‘bag of word’ model to represent a topic. As reported in the blog by Roland Piquepaille (Thanks to Rajesh Jain for [...]
WSJ has a piece by Lee Gomes today (July 26) with the title: It may be long time before the long tail is wagging the web. He says Let’s start this discussion where Mr. Anderson starts his book, with his discovery of what he calls a paradigm-changing statistic. In the introduction, he tells how he [...]
Video has been in entrepreneurial activities a lot lately. Interesting companies are emerging and big media and related companies are struggling to decide how they want to deal with the rapid changes that are happening. An interesting article in this area is in knowledge@wharton. This article discusses the state of emerging companies and talks about [...]
Now the News has been announced that Raghu is joining Yahoo Research. The News.com piece says: Yahoo hired Raghu Ramakrishnan, 45, as vice president and Yahoo research fellow in charge of defining the strategy behind Yahoo’s “social search” system, based on his expertise in databases, data-mining and privacy-preserving technologies. Social search–a broad effort to enhance [...]