Data Management Research Laboratory

This is dmrl.usc.edu
at the University of Southern California's
Integrated Media Systems Center.


2006 News and Events

September 15, 2006: Leslie S. Liu has been selected as one of only 8 students to participate in the 2006 Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop organized by the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY, to be held on October 16-17, 2006 (more).

Video on the Net

September 12, 2006: I participated in a panel at the Video on the Net conference which was part of Fall 2006 VON. The topic was "Is Video Peer to Peer a Money Making Option?" VON was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC). Some news coverage of the event can be found on webpronews.com (more).

September 5, 2006: Sakire Arslan Ay and Leslie S. Liu will be giving presentations at the USC Marshall School's Fall Technology Exposition.

August 31, 2006: The annual Computer Science RAP Day will be held at the Gerontology Auditorium from 8:30 AM to 5 PM. All CS students are invited! Undergraduates, Masters and PhD students are welcome! Registration will close Tuesday, August 29 at 4:00pm. I will give a talk on "IMSC and Ubiquitous Media" at 1 PM.

August 30, 2005: Min Qin passed his qualifying exam today. Congratulations! His forthcoming dissertation focuses on "Supporting Multimedia Streaming Among Mobile Ad-hoc Peers with Link Availability Prediction."

August 26, 2006: The TPC meeting of the 2007 Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN '07) was held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

August 22, 2006: We have been granted a patent on "Pseudo-Random Data Storage" (US Patent #7,096,328). You can find more information from the US Patent and Trademark Office (US PTO) database here.

August 11, 2006: I gave a talk on our HYDRA project at UC Irvine's ITR RESCUE center as part of their RESCUE Seminar Series.

July 17, 2006: The paper submission deadline for the 2007 Multimedia Computing and Networking Conference (MMCN '07) has been extended to July 24. You can find the CfP on the conference web site or here (pdf).

May 4-6, 2006: The team from DMRL competed in the US Finals of the Imagine Cup 2006, held at Microsoft's Headquarters in Redmond, Washington (more).

May 3, 2006: Wei-Shinn Ku passed his qualifying exam today. Congratulations! His forthcoming dissertation focuses on "Location-based Spatial Queries with Data Sharing in Mobile Environments."

April 24, 2006: The IMSC Spring 2006 Newsletter is now available online. Our research on HYDRA is featured on page 4 and information about Leslie Liu's participation at Rice University's Business Plan Competition is on page 5.

April 10, 2006: We have been awarded an Interdisciplinary Grant from USC's James H. Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund. The focus of our work will be on User-centric Patient/Clinician Distribution Platform with Tele-Rehabilitation Application Case Study.

April 7, 2006: The trio from DMRL has been selected as one of 15 teams to compete in the US Finals of the Imagine Cup 2006, held at Microsoft's Headquarters in Redmond, Washington, during May 4-6, 2006 (more).

March 7, 2006: A sidebar entitled Engineering Researchers Develop Next-Generation Videoconferencing Technologies in the article Seeing is Believing by Eva Kaplan-Leiserson is referencing our research on HYDRA. Published in the National Society of Professional Engineers' PE: The Magazine for Professional Engineers, page 36, March 2006 issue (membership required to access the article).

March 1, 2006: A team from DMRL has been selected for the second round of the Imagine Cup 2006 (more).
Coverage by USC's Viterbi School of Engineering is here.

February 27, 2006: A joint IMSC/Marshall team qualifies for the largest business plan competition in the United States. Leslie Liu from DMRL and his teammates from the Marshall School of Business are selected for the competition to be held at Rice University (more).
Coverage by USC's Viterbi School of Engineering is here.

February 10, 2006: We have received an NSF award (IIS-0534761) from the program for Advancing Collaborative and Intelligent Systems and their Societal Implications. The grant supports our HYDRA - High-performance Data Recording Architecture for Streaming Media project.

NSF

January 17-18, 2007: I will be co-chairing the Fourteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2007) conference to be held in San Jose, California (part of the Electronic Imaging Symposium).

October 23-27, 2006: The ACM Multimedia 2006 conference will be held at the Fess Parker Double-Tree Resort, Santa Barbara, California. The conference poster (PDF) can be found here. I am the proceedings chair.

January 18-19, 2006: The Thirteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2006) conference will be held in San Jose, California (part of the Electronic Imaging Symposium).

January 8-10, 2006: The IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2006) conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada.


Our contact information is as follows:

Roger Zimmermann
Associate Professor
School of Computing
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore
3 Science Way 2, S15-04-07
Singapore 117543

Telephone: (65) 6516 7949
Fax: (65) 6779 4580
E-mail: rogerz@comp.nus.edu.sg

Office on campus: S15-04-07


Sponsors

This research is funded in part by NSF grants EEC-9529152 (the Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center), two NSF ITR grants, see awards CMS-0219463 and IIS-0082826. We have also received an NSF award from the program for Advancing Collaborative and Intelligent Systems and their Societal Implications, IIS-0534761. We have received equipment gifts from Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Raptor Networks Technology, and Sun Microsystems.

NSF ITR IMSC HP
Raptor Networks Sun Microsystems Intel


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