• Next Generation Residential Broadband Challenges
Organizers:
Roger Zimmermann, University of Southern California
Seon Ho Kim, University of Denver
This workshop will bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss various issues involved in developing and deploying systems related to the next generation of residential broadband networks.

• 2nd ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks
Organizers:
Edward Chang , UC, Santa Barbara
Yuan-Fang Wang , UC, Santa Barbara
Feng Zhao , Microsoft Research
This workshop will bring together researchers, developers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss various issues involved in developing large-scale video and sensor networks.

• Effective Telepresence
Organizers:
Gopal Pingali, IBM Research
Frank Nack, CWI
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State U.
The goal of this workshop is to foster a community of researchers advancing the various technical and socio-technical aspects of telepresence.

• Continuous Archival & Retrieval of Personal Experiences
Organizers:
Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Research
Hari Sundaram, Arizona State U.
CARPE 2004 is the first ACM Workshop on Continuous Archival and Retrieval of Personal Experiences. This workshop will bring together researchers from around the world to share their findings and insights into this burgeoning field.

• Story Representation, Mechanism and Context
Organizers:
Barbara Barry, MIT Media Lab
Kevin Brooks, Motorola Labs
This one-day workshop will include talks by invited speakers, morning and afternoon panel presentations and discussions, and group exercises in story and representation.

• 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval
Organizers:
Michael Lew, LIACS Media Lab, The Netherlands
Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chabane Djeraba, LIFL, France
Following the success of the five previous MIR workshops held in conjunction with the ACM Multimedia Conferences, the purpose of the 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR 2004) is to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry.