Microsoft is suing Kai Fu Lee who help them build Microsoft Beijing research center for joining Google China. This news has two interesting components — after India, Google is going to China for research and Microsoft is now so aggressive…
Frustration or strategy?
Sensor net for traffic
SO finally webcams and sensors are being used for traffic information. See http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/business/19road.html?th&emc=th What is happening to traffic is just the beginning of convergence of powerful sensor networks and internet technology. This convergence is beginning of the EventWeb. Current web…
Future: Google and News (Interesting Viewpoint)
Prof. Susanne Boll is a very active researcher, an interesting person, and a good friend. She is in Singapore for CIVR. During dinner in research context she mentioned a video circulating about how Google is going to take over the…
Visual Info Retrieval
Recently I gave the key note talk at Computer Systems and Technology conference in Varna, Bulgaria. The title of the talk was: Visual Information Retrieval: The next frontier in search. For the proceedings of the conference I had to write…
YRL – Berkeley
Finally it is announced — http://research.yahoo.com/berkeley/. This is a very interesting news. Marc Davis is an interesting researcher and a creative thinker. I have always enjoyed my discussions with him. Formation of this Lab shows how intense is the competition…