I am here in San Diego for Thanksgiving. It seems that every culture has a festival like this when people are suppose to remember what they should be thankful for and to thank people. For me, the year since the…
Thanksgiving
Interactive Multimodal Information Management
I went to Switzerland to visit, as a review team member, the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2). This NCCR is centered at IDIAP in Martigny. This center has researchers from several institutes…
Switzerland trip
I just came back from a trip to Martigny, Switzerland. Martigny is located close to Lausanne and Montreaux in an Alpine valley. I was there to review a project supported by their National Science Foundation in the are of multimodal…
Cable Set Top Boxes in Washington State
Yesterday¡¯s Wall Street had an article that started by saying ¡°Beginning next week, about 500,000 Washington state residents will get the first look at the latest advance in television produced by one of the most powerful combinations in entertainment and…
Search and Microsoft
Almost all newspapers, and news sites on Internet, are talking about Microsoft and Search. It is a very big News because Steve Ballmer said that in two years they will be ahead of Yahoo and Google. They are also announcing…