Dr. Hamid Torabi is the Director of IBM Research and Intellectual property in Middle East and Africa managing all IBM’s nanotechnology research projects. Dr. Torabi is the overall IBM technical and operational interface between IBM and its research partners. Prior to that, Dr. Torabi was the Director of Research at IBM research facility in Zurich, Switzerland. Dr. Torabi has over 25 years of experience at IBM in the areas of research, product design, process development, manufacturing, and business development. During this period, Dr. Torabi has been involved in several special projects working with 3rd party agencies on operational efficiencies and cost reduction program across all IBM Microelectronics sites. Dr. Torabi holds advance engineering, science, and business degrees from several universities in the United States.
"Advanced Technologies creating a Smarter Planet"
Summary: The world will continue to become smaller, flatter and smarter. We are moving into the age of the globally integrated and intelligent economy, society and planet. Today, IBM's research focuses on eleven core areas of technology, three of which—water, petrochemicals and nanotechnology—are bridged by this pivotal joint research institute.
IBM scientists are working in research projects which strive towards creating a smarter planet that will impact how people live world-wide.
This talk will focus on the recent research projects which work towards creating a smarter planet, give an overview on one such project, the KACST / IBM project, and share some of the results achieved to date.
Professor Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann is the Director of MIRALab, University of Geneva, Switzerland and Director of the Institute for Media Innovation (IMI), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She pioneered the field of Virtual Humans and received several artistic awards. At the University of Geneva she was involved in intensive research in Virtual Humans and 3D virtual worlds that have been funded by the European Commission and the Swiss National Foundation. She has received many awards and recognitions. Few of them are: Dr. Honoris Causa in Natural Sciences from the Leibniz University of Hannover in Jan 2009, Honorary Doctorate degree in June 2010 by University of Ottawa and Distinguished Career Award at Eurographics'2010 in May 2010. Professor Nadia is a Member of many professional and academic institutions and editor of very famous journals. She has published more than 450 scientific papers, written more than 40 books and produced more than 25 virtual reality interactive shows.
"New trends in the convergence of multimedia worlds"
Summary: In the Network of Excellence INTERMEDIA, the vision is to make the user as a multimedia central to access multimedia anywhere and anytime exploiting diverse devices. To realize the user-centric convergence, three key challenging issues have been defined: dynamic distributed networking, mobile and wearable interfaces, and multimedia adaptation and handling. Each field of interest investigates a transparent access to diverse networks for seamless multimedia session migration, a flexible wearable platform that supports dynamic composition of diverse wearable devices and sensors, as well as the adaptation of diverse multimedia contents based on the user’s personal and device contexts. To prove these goals, two scenarii have been proposed, called Chloe@University and Chloe@home. The speaker will show convergence of this multimedia knowledge and also present some visual results of the INTERMEDIA project.
Submission Deadline
31 May 2011 - 15 June 2011 Notification of Acceptance 25 August 2011 Camera Ready Papers Due
21 September 2011 Conference Oct 26 and 27, 2011
