My mailbox is full of Greetings — this is that time of the year. Paper greetings have been replces largely by these electronic ones. These greetings remind you of the structured calendar and how it affects us. It reminds you…
A memorable evening in Bangalore
Tom Binford has been a respected researcher in computer vision. He spent most of his career at Stanford university leading research in computer vision. Many current prominent researchers in computer vision today were his students. He is now building handwriting…
Yearly tests
Many friends have been asking me about my health. Here is an update. I had CT Scan and PET Scan to check for any traces of Cancer about two weeks ago. I was informed by Dr. Bill Miller that results…
Indian Sentiments (in Cricket)
It was very interesting to read Dileep Premchandran write on a situation in Indian Cricket: Eventually, the need to move on and forge a new direction for Indian cricket lost out to that great enemy of excellence: sentiment. Having stripped…
Esther Dyson and When2.0
Yesterday I had a very exciting discussion with Esther Dyson about the role of time and events in computing and in emerging applications. Time has been implicit in many computing applications. Now time has come to make time explicit and…