NYT has an interesting article by David Carr that discusses how time has come when a new way to distribute print is required to advance this industry: The newspaper business is in a horrible state. It’s not that papers don’t…
iPod for Print
eventful.com
WWW.evdb.com has now become eventful.com. The site is looking good. It has better interface and addition of new features like recently added events and recently viewed events is an interesting change. I always liked the focus of this site on…
All the world’s information!!!
Google’s mission is to make all the world’s information searchable. Eric Scmidt says that there is 5 Million terabytes of information in the world of which 170 terabytes has been indexed. He projects that it will take 300 years to…
Grand Challenge — for AI
Artificial intelligence has always been a field which goes though wild swings. People either pin lots of (unreasonable) expectations on it or blame it for (unsupportable) hype. The fact remains that AI is an intellectual discupline that addresses some challenging…
Ubiquitous City
Imagine a city where everything is as people have been dreaming but can not do in USA — equipped with ubiquitous computing. Sensors of different types to observe what is going on and to facilitate communication. Everything connected using computers.…