9 April 2010 View Comments

Video Presentation at Google I/O Developers Conference

Everyone talks about Google and its search methodologies and even its home page design. But whatever you know about Google, if that is not enough then go thru the below attached 60 minutes video presentation by “Marissa Mayer” – Vice President of Search Product.
Mayer was the first female engineer hired at Google and one of [...]


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9 April 2010 View Comments

SixthSense technology: Pranav Mistry on TED.com

TED India Conference held in Infosys Campus, Mysore between 4 – 7’th Nov 2009. There were lot many sessions over here on different subjects. One of them was on 6’th Sense Technology mixing physical world with digital world taken by Pranav Mistry – a well known MIT engineer. He talked about the technology he developed [...]


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8 April 2010 View Comments

Google – Don’t be Evil (Video)

Google is not just a company but now it is also used as a verb. For search operations, we generally use the term “Google it” to ask our friends to perform search for a term. Besides search, there are lot many other initiatives started in Google and here I found one video which shows the [...]


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19 March 2010 View Comments

TinEye: Reverse Image Search Engine

TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather [...]


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14 March 2010 View Comments

Ubiquity: Command the Web with Language

Ubiquity is an experimental interface for the browser, allowing users to control the web with language. The presentation will include demos for end users and developers to experience the power and extensibility of the Ubiquity platform. Particular focus will be placed on the difficulties of working with natural language as well as Ubiquity’s natural language [...]


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14 March 2010 View Comments

Visualizing Finance Crisis Using Processing

Data-Based Video Manipulation. How fall of stocks changes expression.
Experiment in visualizing data the josef ackermann statement is pitched in relation to the share price value of deutsche bank. Build with processing, data is read from a share price chart image taken from the web.


13 March 2010 View Comments

Financial Markets: Human Foibles, Fraud, Manipulation, and Regulation (Part 8)

Regulation of financial and securities markets is intended to protect investors while still enabling them to make personal investment decisions. Psychological phenomena, such as magical thinking, overconfidence, and representativeness heuristic can cause deviations from rational behavior and distort financial decision-making. However, regulation and regulatory bodies, such as the SEC, FDIC, and SIPC, most of which [...]


12 March 2010 View Comments

Illustration of Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) & Credit Default Swaps (CDS)

Introduction to collateralized debt obligations (to be listen to after series on mortgage-backed securities).

Does the bailout have a chance of working?

Credit Default Swaps

Credit Default Swaps 2


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