2009 Call for Nominations of Multimedia Researchers for the SIGMM Award(DEADLINE EXTENSION)

Deadline for Nominations: June 1, 2009(extended)
Submission of Nomination Material to Awards Committee Chair: Nicolas Georganas (georgana@uottawa.ca)
This award is presented every year to a researcher who has made significant and lasting contributions to multimedia computing, communication and applications. Outstanding technical contributions through research and practice is recognized. Towards this goal, contributions are considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, and multimedia applications and interfaces. The award recognizes members of the community for long-term technical accomplishments or those who have made a notable impact through a significant technical innovation.
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SIGMM web will be offline!

SIGMM web will be offline on Monday May 18th 2009 due to planned power outage.
System will be back on Tuesday May 19th 2009.

September 14th-16th, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA

October 27-30, 2009 - Berkeley Art Museum & UC Berkeley

The 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages support collective action? How can we incubate innovation?
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July 3, 2009 - Hilton Cancun, Cancun, Mexico

Human health and performance are broad terms that describe the quality of life but are difficult to quantify. Human health can be broadly identified by two components: physical health and mental health. While there is no "official" definition for mental health (considering cultural differences and subjective assessments), physical health is typically attributed to health of various body organs including muscles, bones, and joints. Human performance can be considered as "focused behavior" or "purposeful work" and hence performance is typically domain specific such as sports performance, or performance of a physically challenged person.
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Call for Participation

The SIGMM Executive Committee would like to call the multimedia community to action to participate in the design competition for the new SIGMM Logo. As advertised during the ACM Multimedia 2008 SIGMM Business Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, October 29, 2008, the competition deadline for the new SIGMM Logo is January 15, 2009. The winner of the competition will receive $500 and will be broadly recognized in SIGMM venues such as the SIGMM website, SIGMM Records e-newsletter and at the next ACM Multimedia 2009 premier conference in Beijing, China.
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Analytics for Experts - by Dr. Gerald Friedland from ICSI

Even though the mathematical foundations are very similar, in the past, artificial intelligence research seemed to be strictly divided according to the different types of data that were to be analyzed. Therefore many research groups work on either speech processing, computer vision, or video analysis.
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SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

The 2008 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Professor Ralf Steinmetz from the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany. Professor Steinmetz receives this award "for pioneering work in multimedia communications and the fundamentals of multimedia synchronization". The SIGMM award will be given to Professor Steinmetz at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008 in October.

ZDNet Asia (Singapore, Oct. 23) ―

For winning the Star Challenge 2008 on Thursday, the team comprising three researchers at the National University of Singapore Lab for Media Search walked away with $100,000 and the honor of having the most efficient multimedia retrieval technology. Apart from the NUS, teams from the United State's University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, China's Peking University, France's Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble and Japan's National Institute of Informatics made it to the final round. The challenge was organized by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research.

July 2007 ― June 2008

The ACM SIGMM Annual Report for FY 2008 has been posted.

2nd International Conference on IMMERSIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS

The conference invites original technical papers that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere. Topics include, but are not limited to:
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Announcement for GEM-ASEE Fellowship Position:

The National GEM Consortium and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) seek talented applicants with a deep interest in improving science and engineering education for a joint GEM-ASEE fellowship position.

ACM Multimedia 2008 invites your participation in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices.

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