IBM Multimodal Annotation Tool
A lot of interesting things come from IBM Research. Something new that I found particularly interesting is the IBM Multimodal Annotation Tool. The tool assists in annotating MPEG files with MPEG-7 meta data (both video and audio. Each shot in the video sequence can be annotated with static scene descriptions, key object descriptions, event descriptions, and […]
Wi-Fi and free lunches
WiFi has captured my imagination and I have written a number of things about it here in the weblog. Today C|NET published a short story I wrote called Wi-Fi and free lunches. The feedback confirms the enthusiasm of many others.
Power To The People
Broadband service via either Cable or DSL is spreading around the world. However, there are many places where it is just not available. One of them is the Ruby Ranch neighborhood in Summit County, Colorado. Rather than wait until broadband service would be available — which could be years — the residents decided to take […]
Digital ID Conference
I got a lot of feedback on my short piece called Digital IDs: A Tool To Reduce Spam. Eric Norlin, Senior Editor at Digital ID World, told me about a conference coming up in October that sounds very interesting. Identity is destined to change the computing landscape and our personal interactions forever. Attendees will discuss and debate the […]
Thanks For The Help
Thanks to Mike Nelson at IBM for finding a bad link to the the piece on spam in the reflection about Digital IDs. I am trying hard to clean up any errors I made while consolidating my web sites and importing weblog posts from my old system. Most all of the internal links are fixed but there […]
