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HP Techcon

I was in Boston from May 4-May 7 at HP Techcon. HP Techcon is an HP internal technical conference where some of HP’s top technologists meet and present their work. Competition is extremely fierce and the probability of getting a paper accepted is lower...

Published 05-15-2008 3:51 AM by rkrish67

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Electricity bill payment and CRM 2.0

Recently, I had an unpleasant experience with my electricity provider in Bangalore. I had set up automatic bill payment with my bank. Something went wrong, and the bill was not paid on time. I did not check my monthly balance to verify whether the debit...

Published 03-25-2008 8:41 AM by rkrish67

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Personalization tutorial slides

We have put up the slides of the Personalization tutorial we gave at the ACM Compute Conference in Bangalore on Slideshare. The slides are available here

Published 01-24-2008 9:31 AM by rkrish67

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Tutorial on Personalization technologies

We will be giving a tutorial titled Personalization: Techniques and Applications at the ACM Compute conference in Bangalore on January 20, 2008. Besides myself, two other researchers from HP Labs, Geetha Manjunath and Somnath Banerjee will be conducting...

Published 01-14-2008 3:02 AM by rkrish67

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The Wikia search engine

I am a big fan of Wikipedia and had been waiting for the launch of the Wikia search engine . I tried it as soon as it launched and liked the clean interface and the manner in which the search results are presented. Wikia uses the open source Nutch search...

Published 01-09-2008 2:34 AM by rkrish67

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The Web and India

The Web and India The Web has ushered in the most dramatic improvements in productivity in the history of mankind. Why is this? A simple explanation is: The Web makes everything go faster. Communication has become much faster. Today, email delivery is...

Published 12-13-2007 10:41 AM by rkrish67

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Life, identity and consciousness

Came across some interesting blog posts and articles on the nature of life and consciousness in the last month or so. John Wilkins provides a great summary of various attempts at providing a definition of life. The thermodynamics view views life as using...

Published 09-11-2007 4:22 AM by rkrish67

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Craig Mundie on Personalization

Came across this speech by Craig Mundie of Microsoft on personalization and next generation personal computing. He asks the question “How will desktop applications of the future look” and makes the point that applications on desktop computers today wait...

Published 08-06-2007 5:51 AM by rkrish67

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Attributes of a good ad experience

All mass media from print to the mobile phone have utility because of the content they deliver or the service they enable (such as communication in a mobile phone). Almost all mass media depend on advertising for sustenance. However, advertising when...

Published 06-21-2007 8:12 AM by rkrish67

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First day at work

Came across this amusing video (via Sadagopan ) on how a Bangalore software company welcomes new joinees. Brought back memories of my first day at work. I took a bus to my workplace where a VAX veteran introduced me to the VAX Job control language. How...

Published 05-27-2007 3:28 AM by rkrish67

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The economic value of a Personal Computer

Mass media such as books, cinema, radio and television are usually consumed in an entertainment context. One doesn’t usually think of the economic value derived from reading a book or watching a television show and in most cases it might be hard to quantify...

Published 05-08-2007 11:14 AM by rkrish67

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Learning mathematics

A few months back, I had the privilege (along with Shekhar Borgaonkar of HP Labs India) of getting a five minute tutorial on information theory from Abraham Lempel (of Lempel-Ziv fame) at Los Angeles airport. During the course of the conversation, Abraham...

Published 04-23-2007 6:09 AM by rkrish67

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Product localization: Content, packaging and design

I recently bought some picture books for my daughter that were re-published by a local publisher under license from foreign publisher. The “foods we eat” page had pictures of foods that are rarely (if ever) eaten in India. There were a few other pages...

Published 04-16-2007 6:30 AM by rkrish67

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Document delivery over television broadcast networks

There are multiple mass communication media in existence today. Print is the oldest and has been in existence since the fifteenth century. Other mass communication media include recordings, cinema, radio (all introduced between 1900-1920), television...

Published 04-05-2007 10:27 AM by rkrish67

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The wisdom of the crowds versus herd mentality

The wisdom of the crowds is an important aspect of Web 2.0. User generated meta-data such as deli.icio.us bookmark tags, Digg tags and Amazon reviews use the aggregate behavior of multiple people for content recommendation. Question answering sites like...

Published 03-28-2007 5:14 AM by rkrish67

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