[UCI-Calit2] Upcoming Lecture -- Electronic Chronicles: Empowering Individuals, Groups and Organizations

[Anna Lynn SPITZER]

Title:                             Electronic Chronicles: Empowering
Individuals, Groups and Organizations

 

Speaker:                       Gopal Pingali, manager and research staff
member in pervasive computing solutions at IBM's T.J. Watson Research
Center

 

Time:                            4 p.m.

 

Date:                            Wednesday, June 8

 

Location:                       Calit2 Building, Room 3008

 

Abstract:                       Continuing strides in processing,
storage, sensing and networking technologies are enabling people to
capture their activities 

and experiences as greater volumes of ever-richer media. Consequently,
an emerging challenge today is the organization, retrieval 

and exploitation of such data surrounding the activities of individuals
or enterprises. The field of electronic chronicles deals with the 

unified contextual organization, presentation and analysis of temporal
streams of multimedia data captured by individuals, groups or 

organizations. The value of electronic chronicles is in converting
activity and experience from the past into actionable intelligence in 

the present. Such multimedia electronic chronicles, with their
associated techniques for search and navigation, analysis and 

reasoning, and prediction and alerting, can have enormous impact on
various spheres of life, spanning enhancement of personal life, 

business productivity, entertainment and government operations. Pingali
will introduce the notion of electronic chronicles, present 

some of his work in this area and outline the research challenges in
this field.

 

Bio:                              Gopal Pingali is a manager and
research staff member in pervasive computing solutions at the IBM T.J.
Watson Research Center. He

received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1993, and was a
member of the technical staff at Bell Labs till 2001 when he joined IBM.

His work has spanned real-time visual and audio-visual tracking of human
activity, pervasive multimedia technologies and contextual

interfaces. Pingali leads a team at IBM that introduced steerable
interfaces for smart spaces and is currently driving efforts on

chronicling tools for the enterprise. He received the Mark Weiser Best
Paper Award at the IEEE Pervasive Computing Conference in 2003, 

the Best Industry Related Paper Award from the International Association
for Pattern Recognition in 2000, and the 2003 Pat

Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award in Computer Science, Electrical
Engineering and Mathematics at IBM Research. He is 

an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and has
been chair of  the ACM Workshop on Telepresence 

from 2002 to 2004.

 

 

Additional Information:    Faculty sponsor is Ramesh Jain, the Donald
Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences.

 

 

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