Few years ago when a typical Indian families party took place on a week end at some NRI’s residence, a favorite topis of discussion was how bad is the situation in India; how bad is everything in India; how lucky…
Professor wins academy award
Yes, Professor Demetri Terzopoulos won an academy award. This work was a great contribution to computer vision/graphics and has resulted in its adoption in movie industry. It won an award that is unique: Scientific and Technical Academy Awards are given…
Research in search — really?
Yahoo! and Microsoft are building research labs to do research in Search to compete against Google. As pointed out in this article the real fight is not about Search but about Advertisements: Instead, the real opportunities come from getting more…
Academic Reviewing — Simone Santini
Simone Santini has a very interesting collection of ‘history’ of reviewing that should be read by all research students so they know that reviewing is not the end of their ideas — it could be the beginning of a new…
India is getting expensive
SAP finds that India is getting expensive for outsourcing. And this is not the first time I heard this.