WWW conference in Raleigh showed the changing nature of the Web clearly. When you see more papers on social aspects of the Web and the Key Note talks are all related to social aspects of the Web (on future when every thing gets connected to every thing, privacy issues due to social networks, and on [...]
In a couple hours I will be participating in a panel ‘What the Web can’t do’ at WWW 2010 in Raleigh North Carolina (at 10:30 AM). Interesting topic. The Web started as a document web — a web of linked pages or documents. Most things on the web still have the legacy of that — [...]
I attended NSF Information Integration and Informatics workshop. This workshop was for principal investigators funded by III division of NSF. Ironically, I am not funded and in fact my proposal was declined, but I was invited to give a Key Note talk at this meeting to provide my perspective on important research directions in this [...]
I had no idea that CK had so deep influence in my memories. The impact of somethings you don’t realize until you experience the loss. I had to be in the Bay Area (Palo ALto and other places) and I thought that the busy program that I will have will keep my mind away from [...]
In our life, we meet several people. Some people make a deep impression and change you in many ways. In fact some people have amazing ability to make deep impression on many people. C.K. Prahalad was one of those remarkable people. I was very lucky to enjoy very close friendship with him and his family [...]