A colleague of mine mentioned that I am listed in a List of Computer Scientists on Wikipedia. I visited the list and must say that I am honored and surprised. Honored is obvious — and surprised is because I never…
VisR is in Android Marketplace
I have been working with a team of entrepreneurs in designing a Visual Sharing and Reflection system based primarily on mobile phones. It is nice to see that this application, called VisR, is now released on Android. From the description…
Milkshake, Drunk Researcher, and Problem Solving
Let me paraphrase a famous story in the context of research, with an example from computer vision and multimedia. A drunken multimedia researcher loses the keys to his house and is looking for them under a lamppost. Another researcher comes…
Likes, loyalties, and choices
While reading some historical account of how reading is evolving. In addition to many other interesting ideas, one idea that I could not get out of my mind – and hence this short musing on a really serious topic –…
C.K. Prahalad
In our life, we meet several people. Some people make a deep impression and change you in many ways. In fact some people have amazing ability to make deep impression on many people. C.K. Prahalad was one of those remarkable…