Every field goes through the maturation process. Multimedia academic community is going through a similar stage. Multimedia community wants to be recognized as a ‘mature’ area of computer science but wants to maintain the creativity, openness, interdisciplinary nature that is…
First Day at ACM Multimedia
ACM Multimedia 2005 started at the Hilton in Singapore. About 350 researchers in multimedia are attending this premier research conference in multimedia. This year I find more papers on Multimedia compared to only on one media. This is a good…
Going to ACM Multimedia 2005
I am looking forward to this year’s ACM Multimedia conference in Singapore. I am leaving tomorrow morning and will be back on Saturday. It will be interesting to see how much progress has been made in emphasizing ‘multi’ in multimedia.…
Esther Dyson and When2.0
Yesterday I had a very exciting discussion with Esther Dyson about the role of time and events in computing and in emerging applications. Time has been implicit in many computing applications. Now time has come to make time explicit and…
Events on Yahoo
A friend (Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan) sent me a link to new feature on Yahoo. This is beginning of ‘big guys’ getting into events. Obviously the current version is designed to emphasize their maps, but it is a matter of time when…