Communities are for people, designed by people, and managed by people.Connecting people to resources and information effectively, efficiently, and promptly is critical for community wellbeing. A community could be any organization that cares for the wellbeing of its members, such…
AI = Contextual Reasoning + Learning
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has four seasons: hype, disappointment, funding drought, and renewed interest. I’ve been involved in AI research for quite some time—I became a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1993—and I’ve weathered…
Semantic Link in Photos
A picture is worth a thousand words …. Although this phrase emerged in the analog age of the early 20th century, the rise of digital photography offers the tantalizing possibility of joining each image’s thousand words with those of others,…
Photo Album 2015: Breaking the Boundaries
Today, more than 75 percent of people on our planet have mobile phones with cameras, and we use them frequently; in 2014 alone, we took an estimated one trillion photographs. At any important place or event, people are using their…
TOWARDS WEAVING THE VISUAL WEB
Emergence of the Document Web About 25 years ago, people wanted to share documents that were being created on computers that were connected. We had tools like FTP to go and fetch these documents, if we knew where these documents…