You were the charming brother-in-law to Shilpa and Nim, the mischievous and fun loving chachu to our nephews, Chotu and Ishu, and for me and Manish you were our darling kid brother, the best brother anyone could ask for!!! We are extremely fortunate to have had you as an integral part of our lives, to have shared our growing up days with you.

You were a true friend to your friends, the life of every party, the most helpful and caring soul we have known.You brightened up all our days with your infectious smile and positive attitude towards life. You lived through your most painful moments in health as if they were ordinary instances in everyday living.

Today, we feel an emptiness which can never be conquered,
a void left by your absence that can never be filled and
our perennially wet eyes keep seeking you everywhere.
Words can never be enough to express our pain and loss.

We console ourselves in the fact that you left us for a better and beautiful place – God’s home where there is abundant peace and love. We comfort ourselves that you no longer suffer the pain and helplessness which took over your pristine existence. We are eternally grateful to God to have known such a remarkably selfless soul as yours, for sending you in our family and enriching our lives with your presence.

Dearest kiddo, you will always be remembered and therefore
missed by everyone who has ever known you!!

R.I.P my brother Vishal
(My brother Vishal “won” his fight against brain tumor on 29-04-2011)

Slides will be posted here eventually.

http://www.csi-india.org/web/csi/csitopic4-january11

Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, Sheffield

You’re invited

It’s a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.

It’s a “hack for humanity”, building applications relating to natural disaster risk and response. 

Sounds Good. How do I join in?

If you’re a developer, designer, librarian, statistician, project manager or citizen, head on over to

http://www.rhok.org/
http://www.opendataday.org/
http://rhokbrum.eventbrite.com/

IEEE sponsored International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, Chennai, India, 15 – 17th of December 2010

ICSIP2010

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Title: Semantic web and Linked Data Applications – a Multimedia perspective

Abstract:

Semantic web technologies have been extensively explored and deployed
to provide unifying models of knowledge representation and data
integration across domains and disciplines. The provision of formally
sound data modelling languages such as RDF and OWL, light weight HTML
enriching standards such as RDFa and Microformats, expressive querying
mechanisms such as SPARQL along with a plethora of robust
implementation frameworks have contributed to this success. More
recently, linked open data principles have been proposed, that aim to
strengthen the vision of extracting knowledge from “siloed”
information sources and publishing it on the web as an interconnected
“Giant Global Graph”.

This tutorial will introduce fundamental concepts underlying Semantic
web and linked data. Aligning with the theme of the conference, the
talk will highlight the benefits of applying Semantic web technologies
and linked data principles to ongoing research on context based data
retrieval and knowledge management for multimedia resources. Real
world case studies exemplifying the application of these technologies
in practice will be discussed.

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They have very kindly also invited me to be the Guest of Honour at the conference

http://bit.ly/9wi9ld