<p> The ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is the flagship publication of ACM&rsquo;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, social multimedia, etc.). TOMCCAP is a peer-reviewed, archival journal, available in both print and digital form. The Journal is published quarterly, with roughly eight 20-page articles in each issue. In its debut ranking in ISI&#39;s Journal Citation Report published in June 2009, TOMCCAP has scored an impact factor of 2.465, making it the highest ranked &quot;multimedia&quot; journal.</p>

<p> <b><a href="http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010">ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval </a></b><br /> <br /> <b><a href="http://riemann.ist.psu.edu/mir2010/cfp.pdf">Call for Papers</a></b></p> <p> Multimedia information retrieval is a cross-cutting field. Extending beyond the borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-computing &amp; medical science, the Internet and social networking sites, streaming video, multimedia databases, cultural heritage collections and P2P networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techniques on how to browse, search and summarize multimedia collections and more generally how to afford efficient multimedia content consumption.</p>

<p> Deadline for Nominations: June 1, 2009(extended)<br /> Submission of Nomination Material to Awards Committee Chair: Nicolas Georganas (<a href="mailto:georgana@uottawa.ca">georgana@uottawa.ca</a>)<br /> <br /> 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 is recognized. Towards this goal, contributions are considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, and multimedia applications and interfaces. The award recognizes members of the community for long-term technical accomplishments or those who have made a notable impact through a significant technical innovation.</p>

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<p> The SIGMM Executive Committee would like to call the multimedia community to action to participate in the design competition for the <strong>new SIGMM Logo</strong>. As advertised during the ACM Multimedia 2008 SIGMM Business Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, October 29, 2008, the competition deadline for the new SIGMM Logo is <strong>January 15, 2009</strong>. The winner of the competition will receive <strong>$500</strong> and will be broadly recognized in SIGMM venues such as the SIGMM website, SIGMM Records e-newsletter and at the next ACM Multimedia 2009 premier conference in Beijing, China.</p>

<p class="rtejustify"> Even though the mathematical foundations are very similar, in the past, artificial intelligence research seemed to be strictly divided according to the different types of data that were to be analyzed. Therefore many research groups work on either speech processing, computer vision, or video analysis. Only recently trends, such as Semantic Computing, have emerged that try to merge the different research tracks in order to create unified approaches that can benefit from the synergy of extracting and analyzing data of different modalities in a combined way. The following document tries to provide a quick and dirty introduction to the different methodological, philosophical, and foremost terminological branches that have been taken by speech scientist and by computer vision scientists.</p>

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<p> The Second International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications (<strong>IMMERSCOM 2009)</strong></p> <p> May 27-29, 2009, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA</p> <p> The aim of IMMERSCOM is to promote multi- and cross-disciplinary research on capturing, processing, analyzing, coding, communication and rendering of rich audio-visual content in order to enable remote immersive experiences of people, objects and environments. The body of technologies that enable such immersive experiences is collectively referred to as&nbsp; Immersive Telecommunications Technologies.</p>

<p class="rtejustify"> 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 will be recognized. Towards this goal, contributions will be considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia, including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, and multimedia applications and interfaces. The award will recognize members of the community for long-term technical accomplishments or those who have made a notable impact through a significant technical innovation.</p>

<p> <font style="line-height: 180%;">The National GEM Consortium and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) seek talented applicants with a deep interest in improving science and engineering education for a joint GEM-ASEE fellowship position. The fellow will help develop one or more college-level online introductory engineering courses for the website <a href="http://www.curriki.org/">www.curriki.org</a>, which provides free educational resources for students and educators in third world countries and across the globe. This project is expected to have lasting impact in making engineering more accessible to diverse populations. Under the guidance of an ASEE staff member, course creation will take place through an internship at ASEE headquarters in Washington, DC during the summer of 2009. Prior to this time, the fellow will be expected to gather course materials from ASEE-member (and other) professors, and propose outlines for one or more courses.</font></p>