High-level Knowledge on the Web
Posted: December 29, 2011 Filed under: Idea | Tags: AI, Common Sense Computing, Data-driven Vision, Human-based Computation, Siri 2 CommentsLet computers “think” like a human being is probably the dream of almost every computer scientist. However, despite extraordinary capability in repetitive computation, computers totally lack the high-level knowledge that human possess. For instance, while a five-year old child can easily understand what the object is given a photo, the image understanding problem is still an open problem in the computer vision community. The same can also be true to many other problems, e.g., translation between two different human languages.
Vikipedia (Visual Wikipedia)
Posted: December 27, 2011 Filed under: Idea | Tags: Networked Image, Open Data, Panaroma Leave a commentImagine that you can move your cursor on a digital map, tap and see the real time photo or video of that physical point as if you were there. You use this to check the traffic condition from your home to your office; to check whether your favorite restaurant is open today or not; to check whether maple trees in the mountain is in its best and deserve your trip, etc. That kind of life there would be easy and awesome. How can we achieve it?
About the Title
Posted: December 23, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment“Beauty is our business” is a birthday salute to computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra. I borrowed the quotation to show that beauty can also be one of the main target of technology.
Beauty is My Business 