It is amusing to see how religion and politics play and how politicians have to change facts — and history — in the interest of votes. Read this article about Government of India’s position on Ramayana being history (or not).…
Amusing event in religion-politics in India
Back home
I have never been out so long from US — left on July 27th and came back on Sept 14th. I entered US first time on Janyary 13th 1978 and have never been away for more than a month or…
Image Search in multiple languages
An obvious approach for multilingual search that has not been used as much as is possible is to convert a term in to its equivalents in multiple languages and search accordingly. This approach has been used for image recognition by…
Face Recognition Engine
XiD Tech won a competition for all Asian and Australian compunies in security market.  XiD has this powerful technology to create multiple (several hundreds) possible appearences of a person based on one or just a few facial images. This is…
Long (and short) trip — ending
On 29th July when Sudha and I came here to Singapore, we were thinking that it is going to be long time until 14th september. Today I am thinking time went too fast. It is amazing how time went by…