So the target has come down from $100 to $12 for a computer that will help third world countries. This is also from a MIT group. The $100 computer never came down to $100, but this one is now only…
TinEye — An Image Search Engine
My student Arjun Satish pointed me to a new image search engine on the Web — www.tineye.com — which takes an image or a url from you and searches for that image on the web. It claims to look at…
Hypelinking Videos — Google getting into it
The idea of creating hyperlinks in videos has been around for long time. Many people tried to create such links using either annotations or content analysis. It did not become mainstream so far. AUtomatic techniques were not ready for prime…
Cuil — a new search engine
It was expected that some people from Google will try to develop better search engines and one of the new efforts is the search engine CUIL. I like the look and feel of the results. Of course Cuil people claim…
Scientific Reviews: PageRank
Peer reviews is an established process in scientific communities to evaluate quality of research. It is is used at many levels but the two most common are the evaluation of scientific publications and scientific proposals. Both these are extrememly important…