Times of India has a story that I found ‘shocking’ but on deliberating on it found it also not very surprising. This is a comprehensive survey. If you thought domestic violence was on the wane in India with the rise…
Women Accepting Wife Beating
Computers for emerging markets and emerging segments
News.com has an interview of Bill Poole from Microsoft ‘At Microsoft, Seeking the next billion computers’ . The company has a number of efforts under way in the area, from the Starter Editions of Windows XP and Vista, to shared…
Computer for developing world from OLPC
George Ou has an interesting piece on social reactions to OLPC — you are not allowed to evaluate it because it is not a right thing to criticize such social endeavors. See his article here. I have several reasons to…
Computer Vision for Developing Countries
A workshop is being organized in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on Computer Vision in Developing Countries. I was asked to review a few papers for the workshop. As usual, people had taken their rejected research papers from the main conference,…
Smile — you are on camera!
Companies are developing technology to detect smile on faces and are finding different applications of this. See an article on this here.  Smile detection can infact be very useful in many applications — in addition to the customer satisfaction and…