The International Council for Scientific & Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced that its Winter Meeting will be held from February 6-7, 2011, and will be followed by a Workshop, the theme for which will be 'Multimedia and Visualisation Innovations for Science', on February 8, 2010. The Workshop will be open to both members and non-members. Both events will be hosted by Microsoft, an ICSTI member, on their Redmond campus, WA, USA.
Multimedia and visualisation tools and technology are seen to offer tremendous opportunity for accelerating scientific discovery. Where science was once limited to text and two-dimensional graphs and charts for communications purposes, multiple factors have contributed to a rise in the use and availability of multimedia and visualisation as tools to augment and enhance more rapid uptake of science, it has been observed. This workshop will feature leading-edge innovations in science-oriented web multimedia, large-scale data exploration and visualisation, speech and object recognition, image indexing and analysis, human/computer interaction and virtual environments, among other topics.
Presentations will be made by technology, science, and information professionals across the broad spectrum of academia, government, business, and industry. Confirmed speakers include Peter Tu, GE Global Research; Behrooz Chitsaz, Microsoft Research; Lorrie Apple Johnson, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information; Wilmot Li, Adobe Systems; Tim Smith, CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research); Michael Ackerman, National Library of Medicine; Alexander Waibel, Carnegie Mellon University; Robert M. Hanson, St. Olaf College; Rafael Sidi, Elsevier; Curtis Wong, Microsoft Research; Peter Fox, Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Brett Brewer, Microsoft Live Labs; and Mike Frame, US Geological Survey. Interested parties may visit the ICSTI website at http://www.icsti.org for updates, including additional speakers, final programme content and registration form.
Registration for the event is currently open. As seats are limited, advance registration is required. Members of ALPSP, NFAIS, GreyNet, and CENDI are eligible for the member rate for this event, as are members of ICSU's scientific unions and CODATA.
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