I started teaching Multimedia class today. I am using Li and Drew book on Multimedia as the text book and will use Steinmetz and Nahrstadt as a reference book. These books are not bad, but they are not real text…
Video Communication is starting
An article by Anne Eisenberg in NYT has interesting information on this trend that has to happen. Here is how the article starts — and then gives interesting details: STILL keeping in touch with friends by texting? How old-fashioned. Some…
Abstraction Matching
In a discussion yesterday, a thought occurred: many problems in different areas are about selecting proper abstractions to match applications. Abstraction matching is a challenging and interesting problem. In computer science particularly, abstraction matching is very important. I hear long…
Sharing your Visualizaion
After sites that allow you to share, pictures (Flickr), videos (YouTube), thoughts (blogs), now there is a site that will allow you to share not just your data but your visualizations. As reported in NYT, At an experimental Web site,…
Metamorphosis of India
It is always interesting to see a place going through metamorphosis. This is the time when the place exists in multiple time periods. Usually these time periods may span over several decades. But in some places this span could be…