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SIGMM Technical Achievement Award <Call for Nominations>
09/11/2012
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2012
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 are recognized. Towards this goal, contributions are considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia content analysis, multimedia systems, multimedia network...
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Call for Nominatins for the new Nicolas Georganas TOMCCAP Award
09/11/2012
The Editor in Chief of ACM TOMCCAP invites you to nominate candidates for the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper.
The award is given annually to the author(s) of an outstanding paper published in ACM TOMCCAP within the previous legal year from January 1 until December 31. The award carries a plaque as well as travel funds to the ACM MM conference where the awardee(s) will be honored.
Nominations for the...
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2012 Call for Proposals: ACM History Fellowship
07/26/2012
The Association for Computing Machinery, founded in 1947, is the oldest and largest educational and scientific society dedicated to the computing profession, and today has 100,000 members around the world. To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee plans to make two types of awards. Travel grants of $2,500 support smaller projects, while a fellowship grant of $5,000 may support a larger or more demanding project. Projects should focus on ACM activities, including those of...
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SIGMM Award 2011
09/11/2012
The 2011 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. Shih-Fu Chang. Dr. Shih-Fu Chang is currently professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the Columbia University, NY. The ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions over a researcher’s career, cites Dr. Chang’...
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ICMR Rules and Principles
09/28/2012
We post a document about the SIGMM-sponsored ICMR conference rules in terms of its mission, and overall organization.
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SIGMM FY'11 Annual Report
09/11/2012
SIGMM FY'11 Annual Report (SIGMM activities July 2010-June 2011) is posted on the Administrative Reports page. ( http://sigmm.org/reports )
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Report of ACM Multimedia Conference Review Committee
07/26/2012
Highlights of Key Review Recommendations
ACM Multimedia Conference Steering Committee to play an active role in ensuring the high quality of the conferences, including the appointment of general and technical program co-chairs.
Stricter criteria for choice of Technical Program Committee (TPC) members.
Change the paper review system from the current track-based to area-based.
Increase the number of accepted quality papers from the current 15-17% to around 20%.
To...
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SIGMM Technical Achievement Award <Deadline Extended>
09/16/2011
AWARD DESCRIPTION
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 are recognized. Towards this goal, contributions are considered
from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia
including multimedia processing, multimedia content analysis, multimedia
systems, multimedia network protocols...
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2011 SIGMM Best PhD thesis award - <Deadline Extended>
04/19/2011
The PhD thesis should be uploaded at: http://sigmm.utdallas.edu:8080/drupal
For details see: http://www.sigmm.org/Awards/thesisaward
We are now calling for submissions for the SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD
Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.
The deadline is extended to April 18, 2011.
This award will be presented every year to a researcher whose PhD thesis has
made contributions and has the potential of very high...
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Call for Paper - ACM Multimedia 2011
03/20/2012
ACM Multimedia 2011 (http://www.acmmm11.org) is the worldwide
premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific
achievements and innovative industrial products. The conference offers
to scientists and practitioners in the area of multimedia plenary,
scientific and technical sessions, tutorials, competitions, panels and
discussion meetings on relevant and challenging research
questions. ACM Multimedia 2011 will also provide the opportunity of
interaction between artists and...
