• SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
    02/14/2011
    Award Description This award will be presented every year to a researcher whose PhD thesis has made contributions and has the potential of very high impact in multimedia computing, communication and applications. The goal will be to evaluate contributions towards advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, multimedia applications and interfaces. The award will recognize members of the SIGMM community and their...
  • 1st ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (MMSys 2010)
    02/14/2011
    The ACM Multimedia Systems conference provides a forum for researchers, engineers, and scientist to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems is regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating system, real-time system, and database communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to...
  • The 20th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2010)
    02/14/2011
    NOSSDAV 2010 is the 20th anniversary of SIGMM's leading workshop on network and operating systems support for digital audio and video. The workshop, hosted by the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), will continue to focus on emerging research topics, controversial ideas, and future research directions in the area of multimedia systems research. As in previous years, we will maintain the focused single-track format a setting that stimulates...
  • ACM Awards 2010
    02/14/2011
    ACM MM 2010 Publicity chair Yong Rui, who was a General Co-Chair for ACM Multimedia 2009, became one of 58 ACM Distinguished Scientists inducted in 2009 for contribution in multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval. The Distinguished Member Grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 15 years of professional experience and 5 years of continuous Professional Membership who have achieved significant accomplishments or have made a significant impact on the computing field. (...
  • SIGMM Award 2009
    02/14/2011
    The 2009 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. Lawrence A. Rowe. Dr. Rowe is currently President of FX Palo Alto Laboratory and an Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions over a...
  • ACM International Conference on Multimedia
    02/14/2011
    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. Read More…  
  • Call For Papers : ACM Multimedia Systems Conference 2010
    02/14/2011
    Important Dates: * September 25, 2009: Full Paper Submission * November 1, 2009: Notification of Acceptance * December 1, 2009: Final Paper Due Over the years, ACM SIG Multimedia has received numerous requests to create a multimedia systems conference, targeted at the systems aspects of handling audio, image, video, and graphics data. We are pleased to announce the First Annual ACM Multimedia Systems (MMSys) Conference to be held February 22-23, 2010 in Scottsdale, Arizona. www.mmsys.org...
  • SIGMM FY'09 Annual Report
    02/14/2011
    The ACM SIGMM Annual Report for FY 2009 has been posted. SIGMM FY’09 Annual Report June 2008 – June 2009 Submitted by: Klara Nahrstedt, SIGMM Chair Read More…
  • Journal Citation Reports - TOMCCAP
    02/14/2011
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  • ACM TOMCCAP is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief
    02/14/2011
    The ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is the flagship publication of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM). It focuses on multimedia computing (innovative I/O devices, storage systems, streaming media middleware, media coding, etc.), multimedia communication (real-time protocols, end-to-end streaming media, multicast protocols, etc.), and multimedia applications (distributed collaboration, video conferencing, 3D virtual environments,...