Just a brief note.

I’ve been quiet lately because I’m neck-deep in a rather interesting research problem: speech-to-text translation for low-resource languages.

I’m up at the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Here’s a summary of what we are researching, from …

OK, genealogy, and academic genealogy at that, are perhaps not the most stimulating of topics. But throw in scientific and mathematical giants such as Euler, Bernoulli, Lagrange, Poisson, Hadamard, and a cameo by Leonardo da Vinci himself, and what began as a dry exercise turned into a …

Something made me look at the calendar and then there was a small epiphany, kind of like one small firecracker going off.

I realized that, today, I’ve been blogging for 10 years!

Wow, 10 years. This was even before 9/11, which in some ways seems like almost yesterday. But in other ways, like when …