Google’s mission is to make all the world’s information searchable. Eric Scmidt says that there is 5 Million terabytes of information in the world of which 170 terabytes has been indexed. He projects that it will take 300 years to…
Yahoo acquires Upcoming.org
About the acquisition of Upcoming.org by Yahoo, News.com says: Yahoo plans to keep the social-events calendar site separate, but also plans to eventually use the site’s content to enhance Yahoo search capabilities, according to the Associated Press, which first reported…
Presentation on Observation Systems
I attended a meeting to review a program under VACE-2 by ARDA. This program is related to developing Video Surveillance Systems using GRV (Ground Reconnaisance Video) data. Our team consists of Northrop Grummans, U of Central Florida, and I. My…
Image Search and Finding info on a person
Googling a person who you met at the last party or who you are going to meet in a meeting today has become very common. A problem you often face is that the same name uses different spelling. I know…
Surveillance Systems — Obsys
A popular application of observation systems is surveillance. Unfortunately the way our world is evolving, this application is becoming increasingly important. Earlier this week we had a great visit by Dr. Arun Hampapur of IBM. He leads computer vision activity…