After a big — a real BIG — success of automatic search technology in search engines, it appears that the humans (editors or guides or whatever term you like) are back in refining search. Mahalo launched a human powered search…
Conference Non-Proceedings
Conference proccedings have changed in the last few years. Two major changes are their size and media. Now for most major conferences there are so many papers that 2-3 volumes are needed. The weight of the proceedings usually doubles the…
Travel to Singapore
I arrived in Singapore to work with researchers at NUS for a few days and define and start research in some areas in this August/Sept when I will be here for a longer period. Â Travel on long distance flights is…
Revolutionary changes thru inputs
In a very interesting article in WSJ, Bill Gates emphasized that r4evokutionary changes in computing will come thru inputs. Mr. Gates predicted that a “revolutionary” change to computing will come as new ways of inputting data into the computer gradually…
Richer Maps
While on the topic of maps, I think it is equally interesting — in fact in some respects more impressive, to visit Microsoft’s maps.live.com and see the 3D maps of New York or other areas there. Â