Brazil is also an emerging country. After China and India, it is considered the next largest and potentially the most important emerging country. My impressions of Rio de Janeiro are very positive. The only real negative thing is their notoriety…
Women Accepting Wife Beating
Times of India has a story that I found ‘shocking’ but on deliberating on it found it also not very surprising. This is a comprehensive survey. If you thought domestic violence was on the wane in India with the rise…
Back and in the middle of action
I came back from Germany and now have to teach two course this quarter — Multimedia Systems and Applications and Entrepreneurship. There is no good text book for Multimedia. The book by Nahrstedt and Steinmetz is OK and I am…
Oktoberfest
Oktoberfest is an environment to be experienced — this is all about German (or Bavarian) passion for Beer. I joined the MM 2007 Organizing team for this famous Munich Oktober fest (which always takes place in September). In a tent…
Attending ACM Multimedia 2007
ACM Multimedia 2007 is in Augsburg, Germany. Augsburg is about 1hour car/train ride from Munich. I arrived here yesterday and met some friends from this community. Looking forward to the 4 busy days at the conference. But before that is…