WSJ has a very nice piece on search by Gordon Crovitz. I particularly liked: It’s hard to imagine a more useful area for innovation in the world of information than improving search. That’s the first place we look for information on the Web, and the Web has become the first and often last place we [...]
I have seen a few people use the term ‘reverse search’ for searches performed by engines like shazam.com. I find it very awkward term. Maybe it is just me. I feel that people are so much used to living in the ‘keyword box’ that the fresh air offered by other modes to search are considered [...]
Twitter has made Real Time Search a new field. First it was associated with what people called ‘ambient awareness’ and now this microblogging site has been called a real time search engine. Of course, the popularity of microblogging started with the rise of Twitter and is now a popular concept. Even those who don’t yet [...]
A new concept of Scent Opera is going to be introduce soon. See WSJ report. a “scent opera,” a new performance art that pairs music with a carefully orchestrated sequence of smells, some pleasant and some real stinkers. The opera, titled “Green Aria,” will test the boundaries of scent art when it opens at the [...]
For the last several years people have been talking about ‘visual computing’ as a discipline within computer science. The idea has been to bring together elements of image processing, computer vision, graphics, 3-d processing, multimedia search and all such disciplines under the same umbrella and solve common problems under these areas. I taught a course [...]