My young, enthusiastic, and energetic colleagues Charless Fowlkes and Deva Ramanan took initiative and organized the first Southern California Computer Vision MeetUp. It is attended by more than 60 researchers from SoCal. An impressive array of active people. More details…
Dumbing down OR Freeing for creativity
Damon Darlin has interesting thoughts in NYT on Nicholas Carr’s article on how Google is dumbing us down. As correctly pointed It is hard to think of a technology that wasn’t feared when it was introduced. In his Atlantic article,…
Reality is funnier than satire on SNL
I try to stay away from politics in my blog, and this is no exception – though it may sound like political. Sara Palin’s interview by Katie Couric on CBS and its satire on Saturday Night Live are something that…
Multimedia Teaching — need a real text book
I started teaching Multimedia class today. I am using Li and Drew book on Multimedia as the text book and will use Steinmetz and Nahrstadt as a reference book. These books are not bad, but they are not real text…
The New Age of Innovation
C K Prahalad is a master in articulating powerful new ideas. He is even better in presenting those ideas. I just attended his talk on the new age of innovations — based on some his new book. He emphasized importance…