CFP: ACM MULTIMEDIA'95

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                        ACM MULTIMEDIA'95
                        November 5-9, 1995 
		    Hyatt Regency (Embarcadero)
			San Francisco, CA

  THE THIRD ACM INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION

      	Sponsored by the ACM SIG Multimedia, SIGCHI, SIGGRAPH,
	SIGBIT, SIGOIS, SIGIR, and IEEE Communications Society

                  PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Multimedia can substantially improve communication between information
providers and consumers by making it more effective and more engaging.
ACM Multimedia'95 will provide an international forum for papers, panels,
videos, demonstrations, courses, workshops, and exhibits focusing on all
aspects of this multi-disciplinary field: from underlying technologies
to applications and issues, and from theory to practice. We invite your
participation.

Topics include, but are not limited to: applications in education,
entertainment, government, medicine, etc.; collaboration environments;
databases; digital libraries; distributed systems; documents and
authoring; hardware and architectures; image, video and audio
compression techniques; information retrieval; interactive television;
media integration and synchronization; networking and communication;
operating system extensions; programming paradigms and environments;
standards and legal issues; storage and I/O architectures; tools; user
interfaces; and virtual reality.

Papers
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Technical papers on completed or in-progress research, innovative
applications, or experience with multimedia systems are solicited.
Submissions must use a typeface no smaller than 10 point, double sided
if possible, and be no longer than 12 pages including figures, tables, 
and references. Where applicable, prototype demonstrations or videotape 
presentations are encouraged to supplement the talks. Submit complete
papers to: Polle Zellweger, Program Chair.

Outstanding papers on different areas of multimedia will be given awards.
Papers with a student as the primary author will enter a student paper
award competition. A cover letter must identify the paper as a candidate
for the student paper competition. Selected papers will be forwarded to
ACM/Springer-Verlag Multimedia Systems, Communications of the ACM,
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, or ACM Transactions on Information
Systems.

Panels
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Panels are solicited that examine innovative, controversial, or
otherwise provocative issues of interest. Proposals should be limited
to 2 pages, plus a biography of at most one paragraph for each
participant. Submit panel proposals to:  Fillia Makedon, Panels Chair.

Videos
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Videos of innovative multimedia technology  should be 5-8 minutes long,
in NTSC format, and accompanied by one copy of a 1-2 page description
of the material shown in the video. Submit videos to:  Gil Cruz, Videos 
Chair.

Demonstrations
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We solicit demonstrations of working systems in technical and artistic
categories. Submissions (at most 2 pages) should include a description of
the exhibit, demo requirements, a biography, and a single VHS NTSC video.
Submit demonstrations to: Tom Little, Demonstrations Chair. 

Courses
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There will be a series of 1/2-day tutorial courses, focused on issues
relevant to researchers and/or practitioners of multimedia technology.
Proposals (at most 5 pages) should include a description of the subject
matter and brief biographical sketches of the instructors.  Evaluation
of proposals will be based on expertise and experience of instructors,
relevance of subject matter, and the use of multimedia technology in the
presentation. Submit tutorial proposals to: Sorel Reisman, Tutorials 
Chair.

Workshops
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Workshops preceding the conference will allow participants to exchange
ideas on a topic. Workshop results and issues will be integrated into the
main body of the conference. Submit workshop proposals to: Ephraim 
Glinert, Workshops Chair.

Exhibits
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ACM Multimedia'95 offers a unique opportunity for vendors and publishers
to exhibit and demonstrate multimedia products. For more information,
contact Don Collier, Exhibition Manager.

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Authors of accepted submissions will be required to submit both a camera-
ready copy of the manuscript for the printed proceedings and an electronic 
copy for the CD ROM proceedings.

Authors must assign copyright to ACM as a condition of publishing their
work in the proceedings. An author who embeds an object, such as an art
image, copyrighted by a third party is expected to obtain that party's
permission to include the object with the understanding that the entire
work may be distributed as a unity to ACM members and others.

Up-to-date information about ACM Multimedia'95, including a more detailed
version of this call, can be found on the World Wide Web at
http://acm.org/MM95/.

IMPORTANT DATES 
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Six copies of all submissions due: March 29, 1995. Notification of 
acceptance: June 30, 1995. Submissions in final form due: August 11, 1995.

			CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
			--------------------
General Chair:				Treasurer:	     
R.B. Allen, Bellcore		 	M. Brown, DEC	    

Electronic Information:			Networking:
H. Zhang, CMU			 	G. Paxinos, Metro Link

Electronic Publishing:			Proceedings:
R. Phillips, LANL		 	S. Heller, GWU

Publicity:				European Liaison:
R. Mehrotra, UM-St. Louis 		C. Thanos, Consiglio Nazionale
					delle Ricerche (Pisa)

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
S. Bulick, US WEST
A. Kuchinsky, Hewlett Packard

PROGRAM CHAIR:				PANELS CHAIR:				
Polle Zellweger		 		Fillia Makedon
Xerox PARC			 	Dept. of Math and Computer Sci.
3333 Coyote Hill Road		      	Dartmouth College
Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA	 		6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, Room 109
[e-mail]		 	Hanover, NH 03755-3510 USA
Phone: [phone]		 	[e-mail] 
				 	Phone: [phone]
				 	
VIDEOS CHAIR:				DEMONSTRATIONS CHAIR:
Gil Cruz, R. Hill		 	Tom Little
MRE-2B280			 	Dept. of Elec. and Computer Engr.
Bellcore				Boston University	
445 South Street		 	44 Cummington St.
Morristown, NJ 07960 USA	 	Boston, MA 02215 USA
{gil,rdh}@bellcore.com 	 		[e-mail] 
Phone: [phone]		 	Phone: [phone]

TUTORIALS CHAIR:			WORKSHOPS CHAIR:
Sorel Reisman			 	Ephraim Glinert
Dept. of Computer Science	 	Dept. of Computer Science
California State University	 	R. P. I.
Fullerton, CA 92634 USA	 	 	Troy, NY 12180 USA
[e-mail] 	  	[e-mail]
Phone: [phone]		 	Phone: [phone]

EXHIBITS CHAIR:				EXHIBITOR INFORMATION:	
Brent Hailpern			 	Don Collier
IBM T.J. Watson Res. Ctr.	 	DC Expositions, Inc.
30 Sawmill River Roada		 	555 Republic Drive, Suite #316
Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA	 	 	Plano, TX 75074 USA
[e-mail]		 	[e-mail]
Phone: [phone]		 	Phone [phone]


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