Well, I was not affected by fires, but somehow my blog stopped working — it would let me see everything except updating it. So I was away from the blog. My systems people, Thanks Hans, tell me that it was…
Back after fires
Fires in Southern California
Fires are not new to southern California, but this time it is really bad. I have never heard close to 300,ooo families being evacuated from so many different areas. If we still lived in San Diego, we would have been…
Indian Technology in the Flat World
The flat world offers some exciting opportunities to developing countries. I was invited to talk in Indian-American Society of San Diego on this topic. I have been thinking about this topic so I was only happy to share my ideas…
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Workshop
Listening to talks on Cultural History Atlas groups in many countries was a very interesting experience. This group of researchers is interested in creating cultural history of different regions in the world. Obviously, history is a sequence of events. This…
Gates’ long list — Natural Interfaces
In a News.com article, Gates is still reported to be addressing challenging issues at Microsoft. And one of his major interest seems to be in — natural interfaces. “Big screens, touch, ink, speech, that’s something that I think, along with…