So far it was common to see that phones and PDAs were extending their functionality to include computing. Now it appears that the trend is changing and laptops are becoming small enough to carry them everywhere and they are getting…
US Innovation Slowing down
Many people are talking about the innovation crisis faced by the long time leader in Innovation — the USA. As reported in NYT by Timothy O’Brien this is becoming a serious issue — some important excerpts from the article are:…
Industry support for Academia
During my Singapore visit on a panel and outside in some discussions, I found that many researchers (even some seasoned researchers) expect that Industry should support research. What they do not say is that they feel that industry should not…
Drama, Architecture, and computers
Just came back from a dinner in which I was with Donald Bren (a real estate tycoon who has endowed several chairs, including mine, at UCI) and Robert Cohen, a noted professor of drama. It was interesting to mix discussions…
Third day at ACM Multimedia
Our community (academic multimedia community) is really going thru its ‘teenage’ years and is looking for its identity. Today’s panel on Foundational issues was another example of that. In this panel, most questions were based on the feeling that we…