Prospecting Information

SO finally webcams and sensors are being used for traffic information. See http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/19/business/19road.html?th&emc=th What is happening to traffic is just the beginning of convergence of powerful sensor networks and internet technology. This convergence is beginning of the EventWeb. Current web…

Recently I gave the key note talk at Computer Systems and Technology conference in Varna, Bulgaria. The title of the talk was: Visual Information Retrieval: The next frontier in search. For the proceedings of the conference I had to write…

When we are looking for any information on a topic, we usually want the information to come from a source that we can trust.  But trust alone is not enough.  We may trust the source but the information may not…

The new feature of providing answers to questions posed by people at Google is interesting from multiple perspectives. It is good that Google recognizes the importance of providing answers rather than links to potential answers.  History of search has clearly…

Search space is now becoming very active.  And Diller’s interest in ASKJ is not the only reason.  There has been a lot of talk about image, audio, and video search lately.  Recently there is a lot of talk about a…