Every field goes through the maturation process. Multimedia academic community is going through a similar stage. Multimedia community wants to be recognized as a ‘mature’ area of computer science but wants to maintain the creativity, openness, interdisciplinary nature that is…
First Day at ACM Multimedia
ACM Multimedia 2005 started at the Hilton in Singapore. About 350 researchers in multimedia are attending this premier research conference in multimedia. This year I find more papers on Multimedia compared to only on one media. This is a good…
Going to ACM Multimedia 2005
I am looking forward to this year’s ACM Multimedia conference in Singapore. I am leaving tomorrow morning and will be back on Saturday. It will be interesting to see how much progress has been made in emphasizing ‘multi’ in multimedia.…
When2.0
If people can talk about Web2.0 and Where2.0, then why not When2.0? When is definitely important. Time is arguably the most valuable resource we have. We can produce everything else, well almost everything, but can not produce extra time. Since…
Microsoft strengthens search research
Microsoft announced that it will strngthen its search for better search: The MSR Asia STC will focus on leveraging data mining, machine learning and knowledge discovery techniques to drive information analysis, organization, retrieval and visualization. Search technologies and innovations already…