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Siri, Google Now as information retrieval systems

Wed, 2012-11-28 08:24 — seema

With Google launching a voice search to compete with Siri on the iOS platform, and Apple being set to launch Siri even on the new Mac OS, I’m led to question the role of such voice based search assistants in the future of information retrieval.

Describing Image Resources

Mon, 2012-09-17 15:32 — seema

At first, these might look like yet another bunch of intriguing pictures, but its interesting how it is difficult to perceive these images as being a century old, just because they are in color.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/08/russia_in_color_a_century_ago.html

These extraordinary images from 1909-1912 are not colored in photoshop. The photographer clicked successive images with a black and white camera using red, green and blue filters, recombined them, and projected them with filtered lanterns to get true color effects!

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Chapter 4 – Resource Description and Metadata

Organizing our autobiographies : The Facebook Timeline

Tue, 2012-09-04 01:06 — seema

Facebook’s “Timeline” feature which was introduced in December 2011 has now been made mandatory. This feature allows the users to highlight photos, events and posts from the past on their profiles and create a story that represents their life in the way they want to share it with the world.

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