Wolfgang Mueller (from Germany, University of Bamberg) sent me the following: While reading the newspaper, I stumbled over this, and just in case you have not heard about it, yet: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,425256,00.html which links http://www.sportflashback.com/ So immersive technology is being used…
Search Infrastructure
NYT had an interesting article on Google’s inventor culture. An interesting little known fact about Google is: “Google is as much about infrastructure as it is about the search engine,” said Martin Reynolds, an analyst with the Gartner Group. “They…
July 4th
Today is July 4th — Independence Day — in USA. A patriotic and a fun day here. I found that at the Laguna Beach even in the morning at 7:30 people had started putting their umbrellas and towels on the…
Words: A picture is worth a thousand words
Let’s assume that computing resources are not the limitation. Remember the famous saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. So let’s apply our computing resources to identify which one thousand words from our lexicon are most relevant to…
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…