In the passage of your life, you meet some people who make a lasting impression on you and you want them to be always part of your life. Dave Lehman was one such individual. A very creative and entrepreneurial individual,…
Progress in mKrishi project
Yesterday I got a chance to visit the mKrishi project team in Thane office of TCS (Tata Consul ting Services). I got involved in this project some time ago, but yesterday was the first time to meet the team face-to-face…
Semantics comes to Google Search
It is very encouraging to see Google executives have acknowledged that semantic search technology will be an important component of search engines in the future. “Right now, Google is really good with keywords and that’s a limitation we think the…
MM Grand Challenges
Two more MM Grand challenges have been included in ACM MM conference. Bothe these are related to new things happening — one is related to social media and the other is related to defining events and tracking them in unstructured…
Search Inside
Search became a popular term with the rise of the Web. Before that search was a major component of database systems, also called information systems in some circles, and not so popular that time information retrieval systems. In these systems…