Experiential Computing

A popular topic in text processing is ‘Named Entity Extraction’. This has obvious applications in search. An equally important topic could be ‘Names Event Extraction’. Event extraction appears more difficult and Event Detection Technology has not made much progress —…

All this talk about Google Phone is starting to become a bit more clear now. There is a picture emerging — though it is still very unclear. It does appear that this will provide an environment — if you like,…

Sites like Flickr are facilitating many interesting applications. Creative researchers find new ways of ‘mass photos’ (photos taken by masses of people and posted on such sites) to do things that could not be imagined earlier. One such thing is…

In a News.com article, Gates is still reported to be addressing challenging issues at Microsoft.  And one of his major interest seems to be in — natural interfaces. “Big screens, touch, ink, speech, that’s something that I think, along with…

Listening to different aspects of ‘Computer Vision in Developing Countries’ at the workshop with this name was exciting.  Clearly time has come to apply visual computing techniques to many industrial problems in developing countries.  But more important is to develop…