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Similarity search introduced by Google

Posted by Ramesh on April 20th, 2009

A major step in the direction of combining context and content has been taken by Google. They introduced similarity search. So after you search for images using tradition Google image search, you could then ask for similar images. It will then return all images similar to the one that you select. It appears — have [...]

Connections among Events

Posted by Ramesh on April 19th, 2009

When thinking about how things happen in the world, it is interesting to relate how events are related. Many times it is difficult to predict how an event in one part of the world can have catastrophic (or wonderful) consequences in another part of the world that is really far away. And this all happens [...]

Progress in mKrishi project

Posted by Ramesh on April 16th, 2009

Yesterday I got a chance to visit the mKrishi project team in Thane office of TCS (Tata Consul ting Services). I got involved in this project some time ago, but yesterday was the first time to meet the team face-to-face and see demos. I believe that this project is going to be revolutionary in its [...]

The ability to communicate effectively is one of the most important ability that distinguishes humans from animals and has been the reason for their evolution to the current stage. Communication is essential for sharing experiences and for creating, maintaining, sustaining, and propagating knowledge. In the history of human civilization many very influential inventions were related [...]

(This is the first post in a series on this topic. I plan to do a book with Gerald Friedland in this area and will share some of my thoughts with you here. Please do provide me feedback — that will help in my thinking and writing.) Only a few inventions in the history of [...]