Microsoft has published a scientific research paper ([PDF] Real-Time Human Pose Recognition in Parts from Single Depth Images (Microsoft Research)) detailing how Microsoft Kinect’s body tracking algorithm works. There is also a video (Kinect Research (youtube.com)) to go along with it. Also, I came across a separate article (Kinect’s AI breakthrough explained (I-Programmer.info)) which summaries [...]

Is it a good idea to share your own personal R&D projects, ideas, and efforts freely with the world? Most of my ideas have probably already been done (better?) by someone else in the past, but my “R&D” projects/ideas serve their purpose of helping me learn new things along the way; and I thought what [...]

There are only a small handful number of operating systems dominant in today’s computing world. Systems software has been stagnant for nearly the past two decades. A good example mentioned in the source article mentions the excitement behind the Linux operating system. It’s true that there is much excitement and commitment for Linux, but did [...]