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The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support: EXECUTIVE SPONSORS * Amdocs, Inchttp://www.amdocs.com KNOWLEDGE NETWORK PARTNERS * Inclusion Inc.http://www.inclusion.net CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE:http://www.worldinternetcenter.com Past copies of our newsletters and directions to the Center are available on the Web site. ALL PROGRAMS ARE HELD AT THE CENTER UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED. ***THINK TANK SESSION: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2001 *************************************** ***PUB: THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2001 ***NO PUB: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2001
The explosion of mobile communications in Europe and Asia has lead to speculation about when and how the U.S. market will embrace similar trends and jump aboard the mCommerce wagon. As a follow up-program to the Center's Think Tank Session on mCommerce on June 27, 2001, we are coordinating a session focused specifically on the driving factors behind mCommerce in the United States. * Are those key factors technological? Social? Standards-based? * What actual elements need to be addressed before we see mCommerce take off in the U.S. market? * What is the timeline for benefiting from the business opportunities in mCommerce? For possible participation, please send your name, title, company name, email address and telephone number along with a bio to: Dr. Venilde Jeronimo
At this tech demo, Dr. Arnon Amir will discuss IBM CueVideo, developed at the IBM Almaden Research Center. CueVideo provides video and speech indexing, retrieval, and advanced browsing. Those in attendance will also have the opportunity to learn more about IBM CueVideo and consider partnering opportunities with IBM. PARTNERING OPPORTUNITIES WITH IBM The CueVideo team is looking for partnerships with consulting and services companies that would integrate CueVideo into their content management and knowledge management solutions. By attending this technology demo, you will have the opportunity to talk to Dr. Amir directly and be able to follow-up with him and his team for one-on-one meetings. ABOUT CUEVIDEO CueVideo provides video and speech indexing, retrieval, and advanced browsing. It is a server-client architecture, integrated with multimedia streaming and advanced video browsing. Its speech retrieval capability is not only speech recognition (ViaVoice), but also combines phonetic retrieval of out-of-vocabulary words, sound-like words, and words missed by the speech recognition. The people and markets interested in CueVideo include Web content creators, broadcast news, remote education, media content consumers in various industries, and others. CueVideo provides easy access to large video databases, and makes searching and browsing video almost as simple as that of text. It is most suitable for video-enriched applications such as those arising in distance learning, corporate training, just-in-time learning, remote education, video archives, video conferencing, and video proceedings of conferences. CueVideo also addresses the challenges that arise in the creation, indexing and use of large video databases. With advances in hardware and network technology, the proliferation of ever smaller and cheaper video capture devices, and the emergence of the web, more and more media rich applications are becoming economically feasible. One of the key emerging areas is distance or distributed learning. For applications in this area, the content usually consists of media rich material, such as video, audio, text and foils. Video content, when properly hyper linked to text and foils, significantly enhances learning and the communication experience. Video provides the realism, interest and detail not available in other media and it is critical in many areas, such as medical, maintenance, sales and training. A CueVideo Toolkit is available for evaluation and licensing via Alphaworks (IBM's prototyping Web site) or directly from IBM Almaden Research Center. REGISTRATION AND FURTHER INFORMATION Registration is not necessary, but recommended due to limited seating. To register, please send your name, title, company and email address to: Ms. Debra Wright The IBM Almaden Research Center has developed IBM CueVideo, which provides video and speech indexing, retrieval and advanced browsing. It is a server-client architecture, integrated with multimedia streaming and advanced video browsing. Its speech retrieval capability is not only speech recognition (ViaVoice), but also combines phonetic retrieval of out-of-vocabulary words, sound-like words, and words missed by the speech recognition. The people and markets that are probably interested in this include Web content creators, broadcast news, remote education, media content consumers in various industries. The Cue Video team is looking for partnerships with consulting and services companies that would integrate CueVideo into their content management and knowledge management solutions. In addition, a CueVideo Toolkit is available for evaluation and licensing via Alphaworks (IBM's prototyping Web site) or directly from IBM Almaden Research Center. FURTHER INFORMATION Dr. Arnon Amir
On behalf of the Center, we wish everyone a safe and happy Labor Day weekend holiday! The weekly Pub will resume the following week.
The Pub Talk begins at 6 p.m. The Pub gathers 80-100 mid- to high-level executives every week and, as always, is a great place to come and meet people from the Silicon Valley and all over the world. Representatives from small start-ups and major companies to venture capital and academic join in the exchange at the Center's Pub. It's...
For directions, please visit http://www.worldinternetcenter.com and click on directions. The dress is casual and there is no fee to attend. Just bring your good ideas! Companies with an interest in giving a Pub Talk should contact For inquiries about upcoming Center programs, send an email to mailto:wright@worldinternetcenter.com To unsubscribe from this eNewsletter: click: http://thecenter.inclusion.net/thecenter/preferences.html |