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…
Finding is better than searching
Reverse Search is just Search
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…
Real Time Search
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…
Smell comes to operas
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,…
Visual Computing Institute
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…