SIGMM Records - September 2010

Submitted by admin on October 7, 2010 - 10:19

Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2010 (ISSN 1947-4598)

Highlights

Editorial

Welcome to the latest issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!
We have to start this issue of the Records by informing you about the passing of Prof. Nicolas Georganas. Whether you knew Nicolas well or not, we invite you to read the appreciations by Shervin Shirmohammadi and Larry Rowe. We can also pass on good news. You can read about the receivers about the SIGMM's two prestigious awards, the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications and the SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications.

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ACM SIGMM is Sad to Announce the Loss of Nicolas Georganas, distinguished professor and researcher

We are saddened by the passing of Nicolas D. Georganas, distinguished professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) and founding dean of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Engineering. Nicolas was one of today's leading researchers in information technology, particularly multimedia systems, and he won tremendous acclaim. We will thoroughly miss him. We have lost not only an exceptional scientist and colleague, but also a close friend who cared and helped selflessly so many of us.

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SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

The 2010 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Dr. Ramesh Jain. Dr Jain is currently the Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.

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SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

The 2010 winner of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications is Effrosyni Kokiopoulou. Dr. Kokiopoulou is currently a postdoctoral research associate at the Seminar for Applied Mathematics at ETH Zurich.

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Top 10 ACM SIGMM Downloads

Here we present the top downloaded ACM SIGMM articles from the ACM Digital Library, from July 2009 to June 2010. We are hoping that this list gives a much deserved exposure to the ACM SIGMM's best articles.

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Table of Contents

  1. Editorial
  2. ACM SIGMM is Sad to Announce the Loss of Nicolas Georganas, distinguished professor and researcher
  3. A Personal Appreciation of Professor Nicolas Georganas
  4. SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
  5. SIGMM Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications
  6. Top 10 ACM SIGMM Downloads
  7. PhD thesis abstracts
  8. Event Reports
  9. Calls for Papers
  10. Freely available source code, traces and test content
  11. Impressum
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