Microsoft announced that it will strngthen its search for better search: The MSR Asia STC will focus on leveraging data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery techniques to drive information analysis, organization, retrieval and visualization. Search technologies and innovations already…
Microsoft strengthens search research
Real Reality
We all hear about Virtual Reality. Virtual reality is used to provide an experience of “being there.â€? Virtual reality systems fabricate a detailed model of an environment and render it in response to user actions. In video games, for example,…
Video or Photo
Home video is becoming popular medium to capture important moments. The notion of ‘Kodak Moment’ is changing from capturing an experience of a ‘moment’ to really of an ‘interval’. By capturing short videos one can capture the dynamics better and…
Terrible state of search engines
“Internet search engines are still in a terrible state compared to where they could be.” I am definitely very happy to hear these words from Bill Gates. He further added: “This is a situation that we hope will change for…
Death of Databases
Gartner to DBAs, BI vendors: Time to reinvent yourselves by ZDNet‘s David Berlind — As long as the reach, bandwidth, and targeting of networking technologies — particularly the wireless kind — continues to improve on a nearly Moore’s Law like…