Scientific American has an article related to image search with the title: A Farewell to Keywords. This article gives progress in image search using image features.
WSJ on citizen journalism
Wall Street Journal had a story yesterday (on July 13) (Thanks to Rajesh Jain for pointing it to me) in their print version and that story is available here (paid subscription required) that described how citizen journalism played a role…
Words: Space and Time
When dealing with actions and concepts, words start losing their concrete grounding in the real world. When a word refers to an object like a dog, there is a concrete object that can be used by multiple people and there…
Words: Atoms of Semantics
The difficult problem in applying the BoW to other than text is, however, more fundamental problem also. Words are a crisp semantic unit in text. Letters do not have semantic significance until a juxtaposition of letters is identified as a…
Web Video and Cable
WSJ has an article Cable takes on Web Video. It discusses how Cable companies, particularly Comcast, are aggressively pursuing policies related to web video. It says: The initiatives are part of the cable industry’s efforts to stay in front of…