Category: Research & Development

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is organizing an event by speaker Kazuhiro Otsaka , NTT on the topic of  “Communication Scene Analysis Based on Probabilistic Modeling of Human Gaze Behavior”. This topic is a hotbed in the key HCI area of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). AAC is to provide access to technology…

National Geographic and IBM are embarking on a landmark five-year study that will assemble the world's largest collection of DNA samples to map how humankind populated the planet. The Genographic Project will use sophisticated computer analysis of DNA contributed by hundreds of thousands of people—including indigenous populations and the general public—to reveal man's migratory history…

I've been following Udi Manber for some time now; his work as Yahoo! chief scientist and later at Amazon / A9, Udi is author of several books and research papers[1]. He's among few people who are zealous about academia's close participation in industry. Good news is,  he is now @ Google...Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post…

Via Microsoft Research Overview We are happy to introduce Microsoft Research Group Shot. MSR Group Shot helps you create a perfect group photo out a series of group photos. With Group Shot you can select your favorite parts in each shot of the series and Group Shot will automatically build a composite image. Download Group…

“Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!” –John Ciardi   After being free from exams, I started catching up on my readings and was browsing through November’s Forbes when I saw Allison Fass’s article on game theory in marketing section. This article discusses the…

via University of Michigan news service ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Researchers at the University of Michigan have produced what is believed to be the first scalable quantum computer chip, which could mean big gains in the worldwide race to develop a quantum computer. Read More

Recently for a software engineering exam, I had to answer an interesting Schach's problem from "Object-Oriented and Classical Software Engineering" 6th edition, McGraw Hill, 2005 (ISBN: 0-07-286551-2) Can correctness proving solve the problem that the product as delivered to the client may not be what the client really needs? Give reasons for your answer. Correctness proving aka…

After my futile attempt to take GLAT, I looked up some of the sequences and found pretty comprehensive solutions on Mathworld. It's one of my favourite resources when working on a statistics / mathematical problem. They like to mention two interesting facts: Minutes after posting of the puzzle on their website (the first 10-digit prime number…

ADIOS caught my eye in December's issue of Dr Dobbs Journal and I decided to try it out. It's a really cool idea (and implementation); a not-so-novelle but relatively newer approach to unsupervised learning. The algorithm performs the autonomous learning by regenerating and repeatedly aligning sentences and checking the overlapping parts. More ..from their website "The…