While in Singapore, I met Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt. They mentioned the ‘Memories for Life’ (M4F) project in UK. Very interesting project. One can visit this project at: http://www.memoriesforlife.org/ The project description says: We are our memories. Our memories…
Memories For Life
Video Communication is starting
An article by Anne Eisenberg in NYT has interesting information on this trend that has to happen. Here is how the article starts — and then gives interesting details: STILL keeping in touch with friends by texting? How old-fashioned. Some…
Going Back to USA — without Neil
This trip to Singapore and other places was the longest trip out of USA for me — close to two months. Since going to USA in Jan 1978, this was the longest period I stayed out. I am now ready…
Abstraction Matching
In a discussion yesterday, a thought occurred: many problems in different areas are about selecting proper abstractions to match applications. Abstraction matching is a challenging and interesting problem. In computer science particularly, abstraction matching is very important. I hear long…
Interactive Digital Media in Singapore
I had a chance to see efforts in Singapore in Interactive Digital Media (IDM) area. I was asked to serve on an International Panel to review this program. The program received about US $ 350 Million (S $500M) to build…