Sudha and I had dinner with Dr. Abhay Bang today. Dinner turned out to be intellectually very stimulating. In addition to being a very socially conscious and dedicated medical practitioner, he is a very well read intellectual. He is one…
Life is not Infinite
Routine in Atlanta
Many friends have expressed concern to me that by coming to Atlanta and going to office I may be overstretching myself. I want to reassure everybody that I am not pushing myself to the point where my energy levels will…
Holistic Presentations in Search: EC 6
I want to get back to search to address few issues that will be very important in the next generation search systems, but are not available in the current systems. Today I want to discuss the role of holistic picture…
Exciting ideas
Today turned out to be a very interesting day in terms of discussions. First Prof. Irfan Essa came by and we discussed about computer vision, multimedia and related areas. In evening we went for dinner to Prof. Jagadish Sheth¡¯s house.…
A day in office
My car has been standing for about 5 months so its battery was dead. We had to get it started by calling local service station and then they told us that our battery was in bad shape so advice us…