After the ACM Multimedia conference, there were several very interesting workshops: Effective Telepresence, Continuous archival and retrieval of personal experiences, Next Generation Residential broadband challenges, Story representation mechanism and context, Video surveillance and sensor networks, and Multimedia Information Retrieval. Most…
Multimedia Information Retrieval 2004
ACM Multimedia Conference
I am in New York attending ACM Multimedia 2004 and affiliated workshops. The conference was for three days and was finished on Thursday, October 14. It was a great experience both professionally as well as personally, On the personal side,…
Photos: Write only memory!!!
Mohan Kankanhalli sent me a link to a very interesting article by David Weinberg. This article, ¡°Point. Shoot. Kiss it Good-Bye.¡± is available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.10/photo.html . Some interesting quotes from this article are: ¡°But having thousands of photos on a…
Interactive Digital Multimedia at UC Santa Barbara
I visited University of California Santa Barbara as an advisory board member for there Graduate program in Interactive Digital Multimedia. I am hearing about programs that are getting established between new media and computer science. This is an interesting area…
Clusty: a new (supposedly) search engine
Last Thursday, September 30, a new search site was launched. Clusty is launched by a clustering company Vivisimo that was founded in 2000 by some computer scientists from Carnegie Mellon University. The launch of Clusty was announced using flattering headlines…