In many cases, books are related to events. Novels, stories, business accounts, history, … and many other fields are based on relating and presenting a sequence of related events. In many of these cases, these events are captured by an author and are presented in the way (s)he considers it best. Using text, these descriptions [...]
Books have played a dominant role in the evolution of human cuture. Interestingly, technology played equally important role in the evolution of books. Starting from the days of papyrus to today, technology shaped books. Now the technology has brought us to a very interesting pint that is chalenging the nature of books from many perspectives [...]
Lately I have been looking at many researchers and research papers in the field of computer vision. I could not help but start thinking about this area as a researcher and a faculty member. I have experience in this field. I started working in computer vision in 1976 and was one of the most active (based on [...]
Search for music by humming a tune has been a topic of research in academia for some time. Now it seems there is something that really is going to be avaialble. Based on a report and the beta site of the company, www.midomi.com, it appears that technology is ready for use. Midomi has a very [...]
It was great to see this story in Samachar.com: A female policy wonk who challenges the Indian-American prototype of a wealthy upper class background has been asked to head 2008 Presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s think tank. This person, Neera Tanden, does have an interesting background and personality: Tanden attributes her preference for policy to her difficult [...]