At National University of Singapore, I attended a talk by Prof. Leonidas Guibas of Stanford University on sensor networks. He had a very interesting perspective on sensor networks — he called them ‘Macrosopes ‘. I like the characterization. Microscopes helped…
Macrosopes
On Tags
There is much talk about tags and ESP game and much excitement about it in many blog circles. It appears now a days that people believe that all the difficult problems that we can NOT solve today using computers because…
Google and Images
A game developed at CMU by researchers to tag images has become popular in image search community. This game was presented at CHI conference by Ahn and Dabbish. First Yahoo started using this philosophy and now Google has licensed this…
EventWeb6: Explicit Referential Links
Referential nodes are behind most of the current Web. All of these nodes are created by authors of documents, usually at the time of the creation of the document. Of course, the author of the document, commonly called a page,…
Vision and/or Hype in Search
Sometimes it is difficult to separate vision from hype. A recent report about search engines (see News.com report) is a good example of this. It reports: “Search engines try to train us to become good keyword searchers. We dumb down…