Search became a popular term with the rise of the Web. Before that search was a major component of database systems, also called information systems in some circles, and not so popular that time information retrieval systems. In these systems…
British Grand Challenges
British Computer Society has identified 8 grand challenges The British Computer Society (BCS) has laid out the most pressing economic, environmental and social issues facing the world that it feels could be solved with technology within the next two decades.…
Cyber Persona
Increasingly many people spend a significant amount of their life in cyberspace. We participate in professional and social activities through many disfferent mechanisms. We search for information, we buy things, we communicate, we socialize, we participate in entertainment, we now…
Real Virtuality
MOst of virtual reality has trued to create audio-visual worlds around a user. This has been very successful in many applications. But the real world is brought to us through our five senses: vision, audio, smell, taste, and touch. Much…
A Japanese view on the Japneses Crisis
In an opinion piece in NYT, Mr. Masaru Tamamoto has very thought provoking analysis of Japanese crisis. He points out that this is crisis is not what historically Japan has been, but is what Japan has become after the second…