I am suppose to be giving a talk — I really need to prepare for it — on Indian Technology and how it may (or may not) play an important role in the Flat WOrld. Here is the abstract that…
Indian Technology in the Flat World
E2E: Environment-to-Environment communications
Much communication started as a person-to-person and then became from a person-to-many-persons. This was then mediated by devices. That brought to us the age of device-to-device communication. Telephones, radios, television, and many similar techniques are enhancements and extensions of person-to-person approaches using…
A picture is worth a thousand lies
Yes, it is easy to lie using pictures — possibly more effective than with statistics. Interesting article and interview at News.com gives a nice introduction to this area. Â
Fast Image Similarity Search
Hitachi announced a fast image similarity search — a million images can be searched in 1 second.  Hitachi Ltd. has developed a search technology that can find images similar to a specified image from millions of images and video data…
Interest in Nagpur
Many Nagpurians (or Nagpurkars) are getting serious about doing things in Nagpur to help the momentum to make it a great city in India. One of them is a great friend, Dinesh Jain, who has formed a group called Nagpur-first…