Now vending machines will recognize whether you are an under age person trying to buy cigarettes. I am sure very soon we will see face recognition as our password on laptops and phones. It is only a very natural thing…
Face recognition in vending machines
Social Networks for Art enthusiasts
I knew that Liza Marchenko was working on building a site for social networking for art enthusiasts. Here somebody beat her to that. So it is clear that we will see social networks for many applications, including many long tails.
Named Event Extraction
A popular topic in text processing is ‘Named Entity Extraction’. This has obvious applications in search. An equally important topic could be ‘Names Event Extraction’. Event extraction appears more difficult and Event Detection Technology has not made much progress —…
Google Phone: a step towards folk computing?
All this talk about Google Phone is starting to become a bit more clear now. There is a picture emerging — though it is still very unclear. It does appear that this will provide an environment — if you like,…
Bai is no more with us
Today morning around 10 AM — India time late evening — Sudha’s mother left this world. When the ventilator was removed, she could not survive and left. That means Sudha’s previos generation is gone. For me my mother is there.…