I am seeing lot of excitement among students and even among some industrial people about the Multimedia Grand Challenge launched by ACM Multimedia Conference Committee. I am happy to see good leadership demonstrated by Naaman and Chua in this area.…
Google: Maps and Latitude
Google Latitude may be again a major introduction in mobile networking space that may result in many new applications like Google Maps did. Google maps made maps a common utility that could be used in the ‘background’ (an active one)…
Uncertainty in Databases
While attending a talk on uncertainty in databases, it became clear to me that the approach that is being adopted to deal with uncertainty in databases is very different than what I have seen in other areas. I could not…
Research at Fuji-Xerox Lab (FXPAL)
I came back from a visit to FXPAL lab on invitation by some friends, including their President Larry Rowe — or Prof. Larry Rowe. This trip gave me a chance to share m,y views, but in my selfish interest, more…
No Text book on ‘Search Systems’!
When I started looking for a book on search systems so I could use it in the first week of my course on ‘Next Generation Search Systems’, I was very surprised that there is absolutely nothing close to a book…