Yesterday I attended the first Anniversary of Uday Sengupta leaving this world. It brought back some touching memories. Uday went thru cancer treatment for his brain tumor before I was diagnosed with cancer. He and his family, like most people,…
Memories — Uday Sengupta
A New Folk Art — Self Photographs
NYT has an article on an emerging Folk Art — a result of digital cameras — that is growing in popularity. Self portraits are becoming more common than ever imagined.
Invented in India
InformationWeek has an interesting article — not only for Indians but anybody who wants to understand the global scene — on changes taking place in India. The part that I like is: Technology developed and sold inside India is roughly…
Timeline Segmentation: Holistic perspective
An information management system needs to assign some semantics to incoming data and organize the data using this semantic interpretation of the data. This organization based on semantics is the key to organization and retrieval of data and the success…
Kosmix — One more from Stanford
There have been many articles since Kosmix was announced starting from touting them as another Google to another vertical search engine. Here is another interesting take from Stanford perspective — well the founders of Kosmix (like founders of Yahoo and…