This week I attended, in fact co-organized (see the picture above of coorganizers Tat-Seng Chua, Susanne Boll, I, and Nevenka Dimitrova — in back is an active participant Sibel Adali) , a Dagstuhl seminar on future directions in multimedia. Dagstuhl seminars are…
Dagstuhl Seminar — a real research discussion
Arrogance of incumbents
It is common for incumbents to start thinking that they have a big advantage over the new players or challengers. It is interesting to see that key search players (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) agree that search is in early stages yet…
Desktop search and revenue stream
The competition among major search engines is intense, to say the least. Here is a very interesting article about this: http://hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=4628&sid=-1&t=special_reports_convergence2005
Reverse brain drain
It is truly amazing how things change and how fast. Just a few years ago, it was difficult to find Indias in USA who wanted to go back to India and now the number of students who want to come…
Podcasting: How will we search?
Podcasting is now entering mainstream. See:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/25/technology/25podcast.html?th If people are producing audio files and posting them on the web for others to access them, there should be a mechanism to easily search them. As we saw new approaches to search with…