The first half day of Where 2.0 conference has been very interesting. Mapping seems to be really taking off. Many applications are being designed and the interfaces that Google and MSN showed are really taking us closer to experiential interfaces.…
Computer vision
Computer Vision is a field of study that studies visual processes to understand recovery of information from one or more images of a scene. This understanding can then be used to develop useful application systems to extract meaningful information. These…
Prague is pretty impressive
On the way back from Bulgaria, I decide to spend about two days in Prague. I had heard that Prague is a beautiful city and that turned out to be a correct statement. Prague has beuatiful old buildings, typical European…
eChronicles
Yesterday Gopal Pingali from IBM Reseach came to visit us. He gave a talk in my class on Next Generation Search Systems as well as in a seminar under Rescue and CalIT2. His talk was on eChronicles or Multimedia Electronic…
IPTV will bring FolkTV
After a false start about a decade ago, Video-on-Demand (VoD) may really be arriving. Of course things have changed a lot in the last 10 years, both in technology and social-business aspects, and hence the character of VoD appearing now…