SIGMM Award 2008 - from Chair of the SIGMM Awards Committee

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Sigmm Award 2008

SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

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<table cellpadding="0" valign="top"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p class="rtejustify"> The 2008 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is <b>Professor Ralf Steinmetz</b> from the Technical University Darmstadt in Germany. Professor Steinmetz receives this award &quot;for pioneering work in multimedia communications and the fundamentals of multimedia synchronization&quot;. The SIGMM award will be given to Professor Steinmetz at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2008 in October.<br /> &nbsp;</p> </td> <td valign="top"> <img align="right" alt="Ralf Steinmetz" src="/Announcement/sigmm_award_Ralf" /></td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

 

MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL Competition

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MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL

ZDNet Asia (Singapore, Oct. 23) ―

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<p class="rtejustify"> 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&#39;s University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, China&#39;s Peking University, France&#39;s Laboratoire d&#39;Informatique de Grenoble and Japan&#39;s National Institute of Informatics made it to the final round. The challenge was organized by Singapore&#39;s Agency for Science, Technology and Research.</p>

ACM International Conference on Multimedia

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<p> 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.</p> <p> <font color="blue"><a href="http://www.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/acmmm2008/index.php">Read More&hellip;</a> </font><br /> &nbsp;</p>

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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