I just read that Samsung is launching phones that will have 3-d movement detection and will use it to — yes that is right — to dial numbers by doing some hand waving in space. See more details athttp://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/13/HNphonemovements_1.html?source=NLC-TB2005-01-13 Very…
Google and Aishwarya Rai
CBS program 60 minutes was particularly interesting today. It had two segments one on Google and the other on Aishwarya Rai. First segment was on how Google started, what its culture is, what are the challenges, and where it is…
Personal Communicator and Computer ( PCC)
The rate at which mobile phones are changing is remarkable. Samsung recently introduced a camera phone with 1 megapixels and 1.5GB hard drive. Now Panasonic has announced that they will market a chip for mobile phones that will have a…
Switzerland trip
I just came back from a trip to Martigny, Switzerland. Martigny is located close to Lausanne and Montreaux in an Alpine valley. I was there to review a project supported by their National Science Foundation in the are of multimodal…
ACM Multimedia Conference
I am in New York attending ACM Multimedia 2004 and affiliated workshops. The conference was for three days and was finished on Thursday, October 14. It was a great experience both professionally as well as personally, On the personal side,…