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Ideological Search

Posted by Ramesh on March 31st, 2009

Yahoo reports beginning of a new search direction – ideological search. In this approach, you can select your ideology and then the system will present results that you want to see — will not show any results that will offend you. Interesting direction. Some people may like it a lot. For me, I want to [...]

Complete sensual immersion — Holodeck reality

Posted by Ramesh on March 30th, 2009

I had not heard of creating an immersive environment that will include all five human senses. Audio, visual, and tactile are common, and smell has been tried. But had not heard of serious claims to use of taste in an immersive system. Two Welsh scientists are experimenting with total sensual immersion as reported recently. SOunds [...]

Formalism and Research

Posted by Ramesh on March 28th, 2009

Once again I was amused, and slightly irritated, when a good friend of mine, who thinks that he is a scientist, once again commented — My thought about XYZ model is that it is not a formal model. It is just an idea. Many people who think that they are scientists have a very narrow, [...]

3D TV — a new version

Posted by Ramesh on March 26th, 2009

Some researchers in Japan have developed a new version of 3DTV: “The greatest advantage of our system is to provide interactive control of the viewing parameters,” lead author of the study Yuichi Taguchi, a Ph.D. student at the University of Tokyo, told PhysOrg.com. “The interactive control is essential for reproducing a dynamic 3D scene with [...]

Semantics comes to Google Search

Posted by Ramesh on March 25th, 2009

It is very encouraging to see Google executives have acknowledged that semantic search technology will be an important component of search engines in the future. “Right now, Google is really good with keywords and that’s a limitation we think the search engine should be able to overcome with time,” says Google’s Marissa Mayer. “People should [...]