My childhood friend Prakash from Nagpur, India, called and told me that in the last month two of my school and college friends, Ashok Yadav and Indrakumar Khakhar suddently died. Ashok got rectal cancer and Indu had a heart attack. …
Losing friends
Semantics in Multimedia
The first IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing was help earlier this week in Irvine. I attended part of it and participated in it. As computing is evolving, semantics is playing increasing tole. In the emerging computing systems ordinary humans…
Computer vision applications in cameras
Sony now has technology to take pictures only when people smile — see the News article. Clearly computer vision technology has started finding interesting applications. I think this is only the beginning. Computer vision can find many applications in different…
Amusing event in religion-politics in India
It is amusing to see how religion and politics play and how politicians have to change facts — and history — in the interest of votes. Read this article about Government of India’s position on Ramayana being history (or not).…
Back home
I have never been out so long from US — left on July 27th and came back on Sept 14th. I entered US first time on Janyary 13th 1978 and have never been away for more than a month or…