The second day of the symposium on Computational Journalism was also very interesting. Clearly, this is the area where some interesting innovations are likely to come both from computational side as well as from journalism side. At the symposium people were excited but not yet critical. I guess that is how the first conference is [...]
Attending a symposium in TSRB Bldg at Georgia Tech brought back several memories. I was one of the first occupants in this bldg — funnily even after leaving more than 3 years ago, I still found that the directory on the third floor showed that Ramesh Jain is in office 344. This area has grown [...]
I am in Atlanta, at TSRB on the campus of Georgia Tech, attending a Symposium on Computational Journalism. This is the first event of this kind and I already feel that this is likely to become a field of some good activity.The first (half) day had two keynote talks and 4 panels. See details at [...]
It’s amazing that there could be so many political groups protesting against a movie. See stories on the movie — Jodha Akbar. Here is one.
Sometimes societies so remarkable obsession with non-issues. Real issues are not even considered and non-issues take center stage. Patriotism in many forms in India seems to be going in the similar direction. Indian flag, commonly called tri colours, keeps on becoming an issue all the time at trivial places consuming much energy, including this blog, [...]