Editorial

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the second year of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!

In this issue, we present and explain to you three calls for contributions that are highly important for the multimedia community. You can find the call for nominations for the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications that will be awarded for the third time this year. Read more

Editorial

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the fourth issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!

In this thesis we offer you a new kind of article. Based on an initiative by Mr. Mu from Lancaster University, we interviewed several video quality experts. Those of you who subscribe to SIGMM’s goal of evaluating research in terms quality-of-experience will hopefully find the experts’ insights valuable. Read more

Editorial

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the third issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!

This issue is full of good news from the SIGMM and its members. First, we can announce that Professor Lawrence A. Rowe has been awarded the SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. He will be presented with the reward at ACM Multimedia in Beijing, where it is held from October 19-24, 2009. We want to congratulate Professor Rowe already now! Read more

Editorial

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community,

Welcome to the second issue of the ACM SIG Multimedia Records!

In this issue, we can present to you the new board of ACM SIG Multimedia. The election results have been announced on June 21, less then ten days before the publication of this issue, but the new board members can already announce some of their plans for the following period in this issue. Find out about the new board in this issue. Read more

Editorial

Dear Member of the SIGMM Community, Welcome to the brand new ACM SIG Multimedia Records! The SIGMM Records are the SIG Multimedia’s quarterly newsletter that provides SIGMM members with a channel for disseminating their achievements to the research community at large. Through the SIGMM Records, SIGMM members can contribute opinions, review papers, books and online material, participate in critical discussions, and present outrageous opinions, or stories about the dissemination of research. The SIGMM forums provide a platform for discussions about SIGMM Records articles that we encourage our readers to use. Read more