Naren Ramakrishnan, associate professor of computer science, and his students will collaborate with K.P. Unnikrishnan, research scientist at the General Motors Research and Development Center, to create new algorithms that will process the massive amounts of data neuroscientists are now…
CALO is in the news. I heard about it from Adam Cheyer about four years ago, when it was just starting. In fact, we were looking at integrating HyperScope into it some how. May still be a good idea. CALO…
I got an email from Google today. Browsing around, I found a bunch of things happening that I was not aware of. OpenSocial and Android have been getting a lot of coverage recently. Here are a bunch of others: Google…
Everyday you read a bunch of stuff. I like to keep the links around to share with others. First I used to bookmark them. Then social bookmarks (like del.icio.us) came along. So I started putting them up there. It became…
You keep hearing about Mathematical thinking. What is it? How do you develop a Mindset for Math? Khalid has a nice post on How to Develop the Math Mindset. Math uses made-up rules to create models and derive relationships. When…
I have been active on Facebook the past couple of months. Forming groups, inviting friends, interacting. And I do a bit of the same on LinkedIn and Sulekha and in my Yahoo Groups and Google Groups (even though the social…
A movement caught my attention. I suddenly looked up from my reading. I could see a few snowflakes falling. I watched with fascination. As I was watching, they started disappearing. It is almost turning into light rain. What is the…
Kingsley Idehen in Why we need Linked Data. The Data Web is about Presence over Eyeballs due to the following realities: Eyeballs are input devices for a DNA based processing system (Humans). The aforementioned processing system can reason very well,…
From Web bots, spiders and screen scrapers: Without a little fun, it’s easy for developers to get bored and conclude that software is simply a sequence of instructions that do the same thing every time a program runs. While predictability…
Thanks to a link from programming.reddit.com, I found this fascinating study today. It is different from TIOBE Programming Community Index. This study looks at programming language popularity from the following angles: Search results Job listings from Craig’s list Book counts…
