University of Illinois computer science professor Klara Nahrstedt has been named to the 2012 class of ACM Fellows for her “contributions to quality-of-service management for distributed multimedia systems.”  The ACM Fellows Program celebrates the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of information technology throughout the world. The new ACM Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for guidance and leadership in...

The 2012 winner of the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. HongJiang Zhang. He is currently Chief Executive Officer at Kingsoft. He also holds guest professorships at Tsinghua University and Harbin Institute of Technology. The ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions over a researcher’s career, cites Dr. Zhang’s "pioneering contributions to and leadership in media computing including content-based media analysis and retrieval, and...

The SIGMM Ph.D. Award Committee is pleased to recommend this year's award for the outstanding Ph.D. thesis in multimedia computing, communications and applications to Dr. Wanmin Wu.

Wu's dissertation documents fundamental work in the area of unifying systems  and user-centric approaches to managing information flows for supporting 3D tele-immersive environments. She has developed a theoretical framework for modeling and measuring QoE,  and for correlating QoE with Quality-of-Service (QoS) in distributed multi-modal interactive environments. This work has been significant in that...

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Prof Klara Nahrstedt: The ACM society celebrates through its ACM Fellows Status Program the exceptional contributions of the leading members in the computing field. These individuals have helped to enlighten researchers, developers, practitioners and end-users of computing and information technology throughout the world. The new ACM Fellows join a distinguished list of colleagues to whom ACM and its members look for...