Imagine Cup calling..

Its been a while since we've had a post here. We've been busy with work (of all sorts). Just about a week left for us to pack our bags to Korea and as usual, it is the last week during which all the crucial work is being done.

The people at Microsoft have also been busy with the organization of the event. You can check out the updated Imagine Cup website for information about the other teams who will be participating. (check out Team BlueLeaf from India). There are some really good projects and teams, and we're looking forward to be interacting with such a crowd (geeky crowd i must say) on an international stage.

Some good news we've got to convey is that there is another team from our college also coming to Korea. Team Dimensions will be participating in the Embedded Challenge, and have been shortlisted in the final 15. Way to go!

We're working on our software and the presentation, and hopefully it will all get wrapped up soon. The updated website content will be uploaded in a few days time, taking into account the impending competition. We also plan to release the alpha version here so that some of you out there can also tinker around with Recog to find out how easy it is to deal with the information explosion that you're subjected to everyday.

We have absolutely enjoyed being part of the evolution of Recog and can't wait to see how big a part it can play in the lives of many of the future users.

The coming of Recog - Episode 1

Argh! I am last Again! dj and vzu have already posted their blogs and I am sitting here and reading them :s. Now Its my turn...

We have not talked much about Recog on this blog yet. Although you'll get bits of information from elsewhere now and then, we would be revealing this a bit slowly :) we like the suspense part!...

Searching. Searching is something we all do for several minutes (and hours if you are like me) everyday. But are we all satisfied? Do we get the results for what we are searching the first time we search for it? or do we still have to type two or three different combinations of "keywords" to get the right result? Strangely, We notice that even Google does not live up to the expectation of giving you what you want.

Picture this:

You are doing a research on Science Fiction novels and looking at writing styles of various authors. You go to wikipedia coz that is the first link on Google. There you find references to H. G Wells, Issac Asimov and many other great writers. You also find that there is a different genre of "Mystery Fiction" and read about Michael Crichton.

Great!

Now you have about 15 tabs open and you have no place where you can read through all this content and at the same time arrange it and organize it for the 10 page long essay that you need to write for your "Approaches to Science Fiction" course. Any idea how you are going to manage all this? Yes that is where we come in.

With Recog, you write the introduction paragraph for your essay as you read the wiki page and other source material. Soon you write a bit about Asimov, Wells and Mary Shelly! By this time you have written a few paragraphs and Recog has done its job meanwhile! While you were writing the introduction page, it searched the net for various genres of Science Fiction and linked them to your text automatically. When you were writing about Crichton, It searched amazon for his latest books and brought to you the links for the books like State of Fear from the author, along with relevant book reviews. Recog also added the latest media related to the topics to your workspace! Having done all this you prepare your report, rearrange the content with simple drag and drop to arrange it to your liking. Voila! your work is done! And all this stays with you for future reference in case you want to look at it again!

So that was the searching in our Recog... where the software conducts intelligent searches giving you accurate and relevant results.

Remember this is just a small part of what we call Recog! The more important things come after some wait :)

Meanwhile, feel like talking to us? Reach us at:
< ping [at] projectrecog [dot] com >

Welcome to Blog Recog

This is the place where we update our audience with all the news regarding our project Recog. There is still a long way to go in the development of the solution, but we believe it can make a difference to the lives of many people. Will keep you all informed of the proceedings, and looking forward to your valuable comments.
Team BlueLeaf is at work. :)