Daily Archives: January 7, 2010

your very own babelfish?

Who has read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and not thought a Babelfish would be a pretty cool thing to have? Ever since I first came across speech-to-text technology about 15 years ago, I’ve imagined an electronic Babelfish – a pair of glasses with a ‘head up’ display and a directional microphone coupled with some [...]

A racist Australia?

The debate is raging again about attacks on Indian Students in Australia. Are Australians racist? Obviously, the answer is yes and no. I don’t profess any expertise in this area, but there is nothing clear cut about it. I am appalled by the level of street violence that occurs in my city – desperate, savage [...]