Research is considered a very important part of academic institutions. Ultimately top academic institutions are the ‘temples of knowledge’ and one of the major activities that professors in these temples are involved is not just collecting knowledge from other places…
India — Today
InformationWeek has a very interesting article by Aaron Ricadela about what is happening in India. A good balanced picture of the situation. Not just a one sided (positive or negative) article.
Internet growth in China
Reuters story in News.com says The number of Web users in China, the world’s second-largest Internet market, grew by 18 percent in 2005 to 111 million, the Economic Daily reported Wednesday. I wonder what is the number in India, Brazil,…
Globe-divide
People talk about digital divide among society for people who have access to computing related technology and who don’t have; and bottom of pyramids for poorer segment of society. There is a different kind of ‘divide’ being created across thw…
Image Search — Retrievr
On Arun Katiyar’s suggestion, I played with retrievr. Very impressive and cool. Good direction for image search. A good reason for success here is the fact that this approach uses some image primitives (I’d love to know exactly what they…