At RESCUE center, there was a very interesting presentation by Estrin, Burke, and Srivastava on use of mobile sensors as an organic sensor networks that could be used for many interesting applications. These researchers have been leaders in sensor networks. They used…
Internet Video on TV
NYT has a story on TiVo planning to bring Internet Videos on TV.  Until now, TiVo has not been able to tap into the explosion of Web video — clips uploaded by amateurs and, increasingly, professional segments made for…
NYT likes Like
A few days ago I mentioned Like.com here. Today’s NYT has an article on Like. On the one hand it is surprising that people (reporters) have such a short memory that they call it first visual search, but on the…
EventWeb 13: Crowdsourcing
Events are unique in the sense of attracting people. People are attracted to attend events and know about past events. More importantly, people are interested in reports on events. And people really want to get reports on events from many…
Human Centered Multimedia
On the last day of the ACM Multimedia conference, there were many workshops. In fact, there were many that I wanted to at least sample to see what is going on in that area — like in video surveillance, multimedia…