News.com has an interview of Bill Poole from Microsoft ‘At Microsoft, Seeking the next billion computers’ . The company has a number of efforts under way in the area, from the Starter Editions of Windows XP and Vista, to shared…
Computer for developing world from OLPC
George Ou has an interesting piece on social reactions to OLPC — you are not allowed to evaluate it because it is not a right thing to criticize such social endeavors. See his article here. I have several reasons to…
Computer Vision for Developing Countries
A workshop is being organized in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on Computer Vision in Developing Countries. I was asked to review a few papers for the workshop. As usual, people had taken their rejected research papers from the main conference,…
Smile — you are on camera!
Companies are developing technology to detect smile on faces and are finding different applications of this. See an article on this here.  Smile detection can infact be very useful in many applications — in addition to the customer satisfaction and…
ACM Multimedia 2007: Day 3
 The keynote talk by Dr. Minoru Etoh  from DoCOMo showed the future of mobile phones and its applications. The perspective that I really liked was –Heart of Cell Phone: Alaways on, anywhere + Sensor Hub that interacts with real…