Non Tactile, Natural Computing Interface: The idea of interacting with computers without any mechanical interface has long been a desirable goal in computing. Some of the many challenges that remain in this area include the ability to detect gestures, developing a gesture dictionary and the need for real-time processing. Another set of challenges relate to natural language processing, which include speech synthesis, speech recognition, natural language understanding, natural language generation, machine translation and translating one natural language into another.

http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=643117

Alabot tech comes under one of these challenges - and we have cracked the best part of the code!!!

You want to know more - send a mail to akshat@alabot.com

After getting delayed for couple of times barcamp delhi 4, was finally held on May 17 at Amity Innovation Incubator at Noida ,around 250 campers registered on wiki and around 220 turned which is fairly good turnout , BCD4 had around 25 sessions this time on topics ranging from usual blog , social networking (facebook api, opensocial etc) , Indian IT scenario , startup best practices and product demos (check http://wiki.barcampdelhi.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#Product_Demo.28s.29 for info) besides Bug Stories and Quiz at the end of the event . One of the interesting product demo was of entrip.com (social travel mash up ? ) by two buddies from London Imperial College(Nick & Anthony) , for which they choose Pune for their startup (talk about reverse brain drain !! ) . Entrip.com UI has an intuitive interface which shows your trip tagged on Google Maps , on each trip location or tag , you view upload , videos, photos and notes . Another worth thing mentioning about is about venue itself Amity Innovation center , which is DST supported Incubation center (Dept of Science and Technology, which also means incubated start-ups can avail tax rebates etc ) which offers among other things(business plan , VC funding & Legal and IPR, Assessment assistance), a affordable infrastructure . They have good links with many VC firms land also fund themselves . Right now there are couple of companies being incubated and most of them got funded .

Also present were SIDBI( Nilajana Shrivastva), India larges t SME bank Ventures ,for which Govt. has set fund of whopping 2,500 crores ( http://www.sidbiventure.co.in/) , Mukul from Canaan partners and Bakshish from Sun Start up Essential program . Overall its seems BarCamp is becoming an essential part of startup ecosystem in India with big institutions supporting it. So whether you are planning startup or already running one , or just want to meet some cool creative people , you might want be there at next barcamp , I know I certainly will !

Times Of India Article

“As RBI prepares guidelines for payment through mobile phones, a statement said: “This channel facilitates small value payments to merchants, utility service providers and the like and money transfer at a low cost.”

 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mobile_to_be_your_credit_card_soon/articleshow/2996614.cms

Excellent news for us, we were waiting for something like this to happen at the top level.

Now closing the loop would become possible from within our ecosystem seamlessly.

Jai Hind.

Recently I was in deep hibernation and somewhat still in it , Reason for it was we are preparing for our next big release. We have many new modules , enhanced device support , increased scalability (Grid based computing) and brand new reporting and testing, monitoring framework not to forget core enhancements in ALA Algorithm itself .

Also coming up is intelligent GUI framework which generates UI on runtime based on user interaction /context … phew !! All these plus many new features will out in our first public release soon!

Team plans to head for RishiKesh after the release and once all major bugs are nailed , for white river rafting, clean fresh air and some chilled beer !!

roundup of last months activities

1. upgrade in Ala brain - major upgrade in progress with new improved algo (details to be given by GP)

2. content providers list - we have narrowed down on who our content providers for our public bot would be - no names yet - bear with us for a couple of weeks.

3. Team increased - Ala has got more people tinkering with his innards - we welcome the new people into Ala land.

4. thats it - enough work done in a month

bye

akshat