At a dinner meeting today, the talk went to many countries that have glorious (old) past but not so good present or even (recent) past. It was observed that many people in such countries — and that included Iran, Egypt, India — are very proud of their past. Discussion was that most people in these [...]
If you look at the postings on Twitter or status updates on Facebook, one very soon realizes that if there is any important event then there are many ‘metaevents’ around it. Suppose that there is an event: a concert. Many people like to post updates expressing their opinions about the concert. Also, many posts will [...]
While attending a workshop of more than 40 researchers in multimedia funded by IDMPO in Singapore, it was a pleasant surprise that most people were very comfortable with the idea that for expanding communications, from the current generation technology to the next generation, experience should be at the center. Experiential communication was considered to be [...]
Rapid advances in technology for capture, processing, distribution, storage, and presentation has resulted in proliferation of multimedia data, particularly audio and visual data, in almost all applications. On the other hand techniques to understand this data have been very slow to advance due to the inherent variability of environments resulting is difficulties in applying adequate [...]
Technology and advancement of human culture and society have been closely intertwined. Humans innovate to improve their society by enhancing different aspects of environment, human life, and human societal interactions. A very real need of human beings – even in their primitive stage – was to connect with other humans and connecting environments by bringing [...]