Calit2 Seminar Series
Calit² Webcast Series PresentsRamesh Jain
Seminar on Experience Systems
On Thursday, Nov. 15 at 2:30 PM PT, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology will stream live video to the Web of a seminar on "experience systems," presented by UC San Diego Professor Emeritus Ramesh Jain. The webcast will originate from the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the UCSD campus in La Jolla, CA. The event is the latest in an ongoing series of seminars and live webcasts sponsored by Calit².
To view the webcast live on Thursday beginning at 2:30 PM PT using RealPlayer, go to: rtsp://132.239.50.152:554/encoder/jain.rm
Note: Netscape users may have to copy this address and paste it into the RealPlayer Location. If you have any questions or problems, please contact Michele Foley at 858.454.5889 or email webinfo@calit2.net. (The seminar will also be archived shortly for on-demand viewing from the Calit² website's Video Corner.)
(If you are interested in attending the presentation in person, please send an email to ktull@soe.ucsd.edu.)
Our society has evolved to become an information society and is on its way to becoming an experience society. We observe the environment using five senses and combine these observations with our knowledge of the world to experience and function in it. Dynamic world is full of events. Data are observed facts or measurements, including those from our senses. Information is derived from data in a specific context and is used for communication. Information is used for implementing decisions; decision-making requires insights. Experience results from direct observation of or participation in events, and is the basis of insights, information, and knowledge.
Compelling and engaging experiences require immersion in a rich set of multimedia data and information so that one can directly observe a subset of the data and information. Experience Systems provide an environment to assimilate data from disparate sources and present it in an immersive and interactive environment. In this presentation, we will discuss components of Experience Systems and focus on two important components of experience systems, Unified Indexing and Contextual Navigation. We will present a few working examples of Experience Systems from Business, Entertainment, and other applications.
Ramesh Jain is a world-renowned pioneer in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems, and is both an entrepreneur and an academic researcher. Jain founded three companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. Currently he is the co-founder and CTO of PRAJA Inc., located in San Diego. Prior to PRAJA, he was the founding CEO and Chairman of Virage (NASD: VRGE), a San Mateo-based company developing systems for media management solutions and visual information management. He was also the Founder and Chairman of ImageWare Inc., which provided solutions for surface modeling, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, and inspection. ImageWare was acquired by SDRC.
While professor of computer science and engineering at UCSD and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Jain founded and directed artificial intelligence and Visual Computing labs. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and serves on the editorial boards of several magazines in multimedia, business and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 250 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. Among his co-authored and co-edited books, is "Machine Vision", a textbook used at several universities. Jain also serves on the boards of several companies, is involved in research, and enjoys writing.