Based on several presentations in the afternoon on June 29, it is obvious that people – or developers from many different areas – have realized that information displayed on maps, where relevant, is very compelling. Many applications were shown. The…
Where 2.0 (first afternoon)
First morning of Where 2.0
The first half day of Where 2.0 conference has been very interesting. Mapping seems to be really taking off. Many applications are being designed and the interfaces that Google and MSN showed are really taking us closer to experiential interfaces.…
New research directions
Attending three doctoral research presentations in one day is overwhelming. Pil Ho Kim and Bin Liu had their thesis proposal presentation to their committee and Matt Wolenetz (Kishore Ramachandran’s student) had his doctoral defense today at Georgia Tech. Before these…
Computer vision
Computer Vision is a field of study that studies visual processes to understand recovery of information from one or more images of a scene. This understanding can then be used to develop useful application systems to extract meaningful information. These…
Prague is pretty impressive
On the way back from Bulgaria, I decide to spend about two days in Prague. I had heard that Prague is a beautiful city and that turned out to be a correct statement. Prague has beuatiful old buildings, typical European…