Based on Internet2 research, this article in PC magazine speculates the next 10 years of the Internet. Some interesting thoughts on different aspects ranging from healthcare to video-conferencing. I liked the following about mobile-net: Asked to speculate on how the…
The Net’s next 10 years
Surveillance Systems — Obsys
A popular application of observation systems is surveillance. Unfortunately the way our world is evolving, this application is becoming increasingly important. Earlier this week we had a great visit by Dr. Arun Hampapur of IBM. He leads computer vision activity…
Experiencing maps
Peter Lewis has a fascinating article in Fortune on experiencing maps. He says: Google and Microsoft are both testing ambitious new mapping programs. Beware: Even guys who are genetically incapable of asking for directions will be addicted. Even in their…
citizen photojournalists
Mobile phones are being increasingly considered as leading to creation of ‘citizen photojournalists’. As the quality of cameras for taking better quality of photos and videos increases and ability to edit them on the phone becomes easy enough to be…
Towards TelePresence
People always have a dream of beingat remote places and participating in activities as if they are there. All the teleTECHs are suppose to take us close to that and infact have been slowly taking us there. Video conferencing was…