Friday, April 8, was the main day for what is commonly called Hanami ( Flower Festival) in Japan. The cherry blossoms are supposed to be the peak that day and people celebrate that by going out on that evening to…
Camera binoculars — towards eChronicles
There is a nice article in NYT today about camera binoculars. Another gizmo in popularizing use of digital cameras for taking pictures and videos. Seethis NYT article This is more than a cute device. This in fact is an indicator…
Interesting day in Search business
Today was a interesting day in search related business space. First ASK Jeeves was acquired by Barry Dillard¡¯s company InterActiveCorp for $1.85B. Then came the news that Flickr was acquired by Yahoo. Finally it was announced that Snapfish was acquired…
Dagstuhl Seminar — a real research discussion
This week I attended, in fact co-organized (see the picture above of coorganizers Tat-Seng Chua, Susanne Boll, I, and Nevenka Dimitrova — in back is an active participant Sibel Adali) , a Dagstuhl seminar on future directions in multimedia. Dagstuhl seminars are…
Reverse brain drain
It is truly amazing how things change and how fast. Just a few years ago, it was difficult to find Indias in USA who wanted to go back to India and now the number of students who want to come…