Just came back from XiD, a face processing company in Singapore. I am advisor to this company so my views are not totally objective, but I am trying to be as objective as possible in this post. Face detection and…
Face Processing Technology
India: A mystery land
My this trip to India was one of the longest for me. I had enough time to see India from professional as well as personal and non-professional sides. India is really a mystery land. I remember that the first president…
Folk Computing: Sub $100 computer
On CNN International (sitting in my Singapore Hotel at 7:25 PM on Jan 3, 2006), I saw a pitch by N. Negroponte of MIT Media Labs on his computer that will be below $100 and will revolutionize use of computing…
Bill Gates on Speech Recognition
This interesting post by Matthew Thomas on Bill Gates and Speech Recognition technology is interesting. Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is definitely making progress but not fast enough.
Reflections
My mailbox is full of Greetings — this is that time of the year. Paper greetings have been replces largely by these electronic ones. These greetings remind you of the structured calendar and how it affects us. It reminds you…