I went to Switzerland to visit, as a review team member, the National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) on Interactive Multimodal Information Management (IM2). This NCCR is centered at IDIAP in Martigny. This center has researchers from several institutes…
Cable Set Top Boxes in Washington State
Yesterday¡¯s Wall Street had an article that started by saying ¡°Beginning next week, about 500,000 Washington state residents will get the first look at the latest advance in television produced by one of the most powerful combinations in entertainment and…
Search and Microsoft
Almost all newspapers, and news sites on Internet, are talking about Microsoft and Search. It is a very big News because Steve Ballmer said that in two years they will be ahead of Yahoo and Google. They are also announcing…
Phone and TV
Texas Instrument announced that it has developed a chip that will allow TV on mobile phones. See the article in USA Today at http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2004-10-21-talk-and-watch_x.htm discussing this. It was expected to happen but now that a reputed company has announced that…
Clusty: a new (supposedly) search engine
Last Thursday, September 30, a new search site was launched. Clusty is launched by a clustering company Vivisimo that was founded in 2000 by some computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University. The launch of Clusty was announced using flattering headlines…