“Open Source” images
I just read a news item that Picasa is giving users the ability to use creative-commons licenses for their images. The original news story is here (note that Nick in the story’s comments is not me):
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/09/picasa_web_albums_goes_cc.html
Perhaps we should explore this as potential future source for object recognition datasets?
Project to record much of the first year of a child’s experience
MIT Media Laboratory: The Human Speechome Project
Stepping into a Child’s Shoes
http://www.apple.com/science/profiles/mit/
Yes, it’s an article by Apple meant to highlight the use of Macs in Science, but it’s interesting all the same.