Reactions to Slumdog Millionaire in India as well as among Indians in USA has been very diverse. SOme people are very upset about the movies, while others are ecstatic. For example in an article author says: Make no mistake, I…
Slumdog
Venture Funding for University Research
Many Venture Capitalist companies have been formed to work with universities to license research results or products from university research laboratories. I had a chance to interact with multiple of those. Most of them had difficulties because many universities really…
To Do or To Have? That is the question
I came across a research article with the title: To Do or To Have? That is the question. This research was done at University of Colorado at Boulder and at Cornell University. The basic finding of the research, completed about…
Five Year Check-up
Yesterday I had endoscopy of my Gastro-esophageal area (of stomach and esophagus). Third time in about five years. About 5 years ago, I underwent a similar inspection that revealed that I had cancer at the junction of my esophagus and…
MMGC: Multimedia Grand Challenge
I am seeing lot of excitement among students and even among some industrial people about the Multimedia Grand Challenge launched by ACM Multimedia Conference Committee. I am happy to see good leadership demonstrated by Naaman and Chua in this area.…