It had to happen — so I am happy to read about it. To enhance an image or prepae an image one can use the large volume of photos on the web and cut correct part from those to paste…
Large Scale cut-and-paste to enhance photos
iPhone — a good step towards Folk Computing
The talk of iPhone has dominated (technical) news media for some time. I was always fascinated by it because of my interest in folk computing (this is what I wrote more than 4 years ago) and my belief that folk…
Brave New World at so called High Quality Conferences
In many technical fields, particularly related to computer science, it is commone that only about 15% research papers are accepted at the conference. The acceptance percentage is so low because it is considered that by making it difficult to get…
Sobering Data
In the midst of all the great News about 9% growth and all those sparkling new Shopping Malls in India, it is really a sobering reading in Samachar.com today  With a +9% plus economic growth, rising stock prices and…
Rising wages in India starting to hurt
Hopfully the story mentioned here is an exception not a common occurrence. Image search firm Riya is to pull its research and engineering operations out of India to consolidate in the U.S. due to rising wages in Bangalore. There has been…