I have been reading lots of books related to experience, knowledge, insights and related things. one message that comes out loud and clear is that experience is the beginning of most scientific and other knowledge. Whether it is an apple’s…
EventWeb Symposium
On Friday May 9th HumaniTech at UCI organized a symposium called Event Webs. For details, visit http://seraja.ics.uci.edu/ewc/ This symposium had speakers from very diverse background ranging from computer science (yours truly) to a novelist like Ngugi Thiong’o. Don Hoffman (Cognitive…
Telepresence and E2E
Wall Street Journal had an article today about Telepresence. Traditional video conferencing systems are slowly morphing into telepresence systems. Traditional videoconferencing setups are essentially a monitor, camera and microphone, placed in a conventional conference room. Telepresence systems, by contrast, require…
Web Science 3
On Friday I had a chance to spend 2 hours discussing Web with Tim Berners-Lee. Tim is the founder and father of the WWW. The most important aspect of WWW is not only the technology but the social aspects of…
3-D viewfinder for photos
COnsidering the ever increasing volume of photos, no wonder many interesting approaches are being developed in this space. A new approach was described by Naimark of USC here. This is an interesting and simple approach to geographically organize photos.