In the days of Folksonomy, it is noce to see researchers report interesting progress that could lead to automatic tagging and image feature based searches rather than human assigned tag only. A recent article describes success with Gesture recognition work…
Microsoft Vs Netscape and Microsoft VS Google
In a story on Microsoft, Steve Lohr describes an interesting anecdote: The familiar pattern of a decade ago begs the question that Bill Gates was asked when he met last month with a group of executives and journalists from The…
Young Innovators in ICS 180/280
Yesterday in my class on Entrepreneurism, 9 groups presented their business plans. All students were from Information and Computer Sciences and the course was only a quarter — about 10 weeks — course. It is very interesting to see what…
Future of Visual Maps
Like many people I am fascinated by maps from Google and now from Microsoft. I still find Yahoo maps more useful because they are plain representation of local information and somehow I find them richer in information. This may be…
The Next Google
Elinor Mills asks in a News.com article: Can there be another Google? She goes on to say: Indeed, in such an environment, often the only way to get a seat at the table with the big companies is to introduce…