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2003 News and EventsDecember 19-22, 2003: I visited the College of Engineering and Petroleum and the Business School at Kuwait University where I gave a talk on IMSC, the Entertainment Vision and the HYDRA project. December 19, 2003: Beomjoo Seo and Leslie S. Liu received the IMSC Industry Award for Excellence in Technology Demonstrations for their countless and tireless demonstration of our Remote Media Immersion system to hundreds of visitors of IMSC, the Engineering School, and the University. Congratulations to both! December 3, 2003: Wei-Shinn Ku received the Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award  November 25, 2003: Our RMI system was demonstrated to Dr. Charles McQueary, Under Secretary, Science and Technology of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The demonstration was part of the announcement that USC was selected as the site of the first Homeland Security University Center for Excellence. The center will be known as The Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events. November 20, 2003: We demonstrated the HYDRA HD live streaming system during IMSC's semi-annual Board of Councillors/Scientific Advisory Board meeting.  October 28, 2003: We are celebrating the unveiling of our new HYDRA high definition live video streaming system! Video at 1280x720 pixel resolution (in HDV format) is transmitted at approximately 20 Mb/s over traditional IP networks such as the Internet. The MPEG-2 transport stream video is acquired from a JVC JY-HD10U camera via FireWire, packetized, transmitted and displayed with a software or hardware decoder on Linux. This streaming component is part of our HYDRA architecture.  October 12, 2003: We have a book chapter in the following book, which is now available: Handbook for Video Databases: Design and Applications, Editors Borko Furht and Oge Marques, CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, Florida, September 2003. ISBN 0-849-37006-X. (For more book information see Amazon.com).  October 10, 2003: Our paper "Design of a Geotechnical Information Architecture Using Web Services" has been featured on the http://www.svgx.org web site. We are using Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) to automatically visualize geotechnical borehole data. October 9, 2003: Barry Davis of EPI (Discovery Channel Canada's production arm), and Producer/Director of "One Second" was shooting a story on our RMI system, panoramic video and live HDTV/DV streaming research. All the demonstrations were shot in HDTV. October 8, 2003: The funding for the next phase (covering 2004) of our Audio Peer system based on our YimaCast research architecture for P2P streaming has been approved by the Lord Foundation. September 25, 2003: We performed the first successful test of the YimaCast Audio Amphitheatre software with a three-way discussion session between two peers in our USC laboratory and a third peer approx. 40 km away, connected via a cable modem link. This alpha stage test proved very encouraging. Below are two pictures of the client software at the remote location. 
 September 17, 2003: The Remote Media Immersion system was demonstrated at a library dedication at Inha University, South Korea. The library is dedicated by Y.H. Cho, the Chairman of Korean Airlines in memory of his father. This milestone marks the first international demonstration of RMI. A complete Yima system (including server, client, and communications components) is installed to power the resident RMI demo, which includes an immersive audio system. This latest version of Yima has also been configured for live streaming capabilities to allow for two-way, interactive sessions in the future (see our Distributed Immersive Performance project for more details). 
 Additional information and some pictures of the event can be found here. August 26, 2003: The German ARD television ("Das Erste") was airing a story on RMI today on the show "Morgenmagazin" on the The Future of Television. (05.30 - 09.00 am: Morgenmagazin, Das ARD-Frühstücksfernsehen; Moma live: Visionen - Zukunft des Fernsehens / Bericht aus Los Angeles über die Zukunft des digitalen Fernsehens.) August 22, 2003: We received a NSF Major Research Instrumentation (MRI 2003) equipment grant, #0321377. The award information is listed here. August 21, 2003: The German ARD television was taping a story on our RMI system and other IMSC research. August 14, 2003: I was attending the MMCN 2004 PC meeting at UC Irvine. August 6 & 7, 2003: I was attending the NEES Metadata Workshop at NCSA/UIUC in Urbana-Champaign, IL, and the NEES Summit in Chicago, IL. June 25, 2003: I will be serving on the program committee of the 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2003). June 25, 2003: Our Geotechnical Data Management and Exchange project now has its own web site at GDME. In addition to more details about the project the site also includes a sample Java client application that lets users access our borehole data repository.  June 20, 2003: I attended the first Watson Workshop on Multimedia (WWM-2003) at IBM's T.J. Watson laboratory. My talk focused on the Remote Media Immersion system (RMI). June 10 & 11, 2003: A group from our lab attended the ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2003 conference in San Diego, CA. Next year's conference will be in Paris, France: ACM SIGMOD/PODS 2004. June 5, 2003: We received a Hewlett-Packard Advanced Technology Platform - Itanium 2 Academic Grant 2003 #89928.1 together with Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna from EE. One purpose of this grant is to bring the power of high-performance computing to the classroom. We plan to use our Itanium 2 server for class projects in the Fall 2003 CSci585 "Database Systems" course. 
 June 2 & 3, 2003: IMSC was hosting its bi-annual Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) meeting and its annual NSF Site Visit. We demonstrated our Distributed Immersive Performance system for the first time. The photos below show Dennis Thurmond (Accordion) from USC's Thornton School of Music and Elaine Chew (Piano, remotely on big screen) performing together "Le Grand Tango" by Astor Piazolla.
 May 14, 2003: I'll be joining the ACM DiSC editorial board. May 9, 2003: The USC Database Group web site has been launched! Of course we are part of this site, so check it out.  May 6, 2003: The Phase I option of the STTR N02-T005 proposal has been awarded to nvis, inc.. We will be working on an Internet-protocol based interface to high resolution head mounted displays. A description of the project is here. April 23, 2003: Visited CERN in Switzerland. April 22, 2003: The IMSC Remote Media Immersion (RMI) project has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the CENIC 2003 "On the Road to a Gigabit" Awards in the "Gigabit or Bust" category. IMSC faculty participants in the project include: Chris Kyriakakis, Roger Zimmermann, Christos Papadopoulos, Cyrus Shahabi, Ulrich Neumann, Tom Holman and Alexander Sawchuk. April 17, 2003: We have successfully performed live video streaming from the New World Symphony to our lab by transmitting a DV-encoded video feed from Miami Beach to Los Angeles. April 1, 2003: We worked with Clemson University's Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF) NSF ERC to demonstrate a remote scientific visualization application.  April 26, 2003: Our Streaming Media Server Design book is out! Published by IMSC Press and Prentice Hall PTR, 1st Edition, ISBN: 0-130-67038-3. (For more book information see Amazon.com). The support and companion website is http://streamingmedia.usc.edu. 
 March 28 & 29, 2003: The RMI/Yima system was demonstrated as part of the Internet2 Performance Production Workshop and the Internet2 Music Education Symposium at the New World Symphony's Lincoln Theater in Miami Beach.  March 25, 2003: I gave a talk on the Remote Media Immersion system as part of the SURA/ViDe 5th Annual Digital Video Workshop at the GCATT center, Atlanta, Georgia. All presentations were webcast - check here for streaming media links. Oct. 2002: Our Yima streaming system was featured at the Fall Internet2 Member Meeting. Additional information and some pictures of the performance event can be found here. 
 Sept. 2002: Our project "Solutions for Exchange and Utilization of Geotechnical Information" is now supported by an NSF ITR grant, see award #0219463.
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