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Jun 16, 2010
Quick Post: iPad and Mobile Learning - mLearnCon June 15-17, San Diego
Here is the plug for the mLearnCon conference, currently taking place, June 15-17 2010 in San Diego, CA:
"Join the mLearning vanguard as we explore the potentials (and pitfalls) for mobile learning!
mLearnCon is where every aspect of mobile learning including management strategies, platforms (SmartPhones, PDAs, iPods, Tablets, etc), operating systems (Android, BlackBerry, iPhone OS X, Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc.), authoring tools and technologies, content design & development, and best practices will be explored. Whether you are working in an academic, corporate, government, or military setting ... mLearnCon will give you the ideas, information, and community you and your organization need to succeed."
Link: http://www.elearningguild.com/mLearnCon/content/1603/
RELATED
Marc Rosenberg's article provides a good overview of the game-changing issues surrounding e-learning, m-learning, and recent technological advances such as the iPad:
Marc My Words: Thinking About Mobile Learning in the Age of iPad
May 16, 2009
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Dec. 14-16, San Diego, CA
The IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM2009) is an international forum for researchers to exchange information regarding advances in the state of the art and practice of multimedia computing, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of multimedia computing. The technical program of ISM2009 will consist of invited talks, paper presentations, and panel discussions.
Submissions of high quality papers describing mature results or on-going work are invited. Topics for submission include but are not limited to:
Multimedia systems, architecture, and applications
Multimedia networking and QoS
Peer-to-peer multimedia systems and streaming
Pervasive and interactive multimedia systems including mobile systems, pervasive gaming, and digital TV
Multimedia meta-modeling techniques and operating systems
Architecture specification languages
Software development using multimedia techniques
Multimedia signal processing including audio, video, image processing, and coding
Visualization
Virtual Reality
Multimedia file systems, databases, and retrieval
Multimedia collaboration
Rich media enabled E-commerce
Computational intelligence including neural networks, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms
Intelligent agents for multimedia content creation, distribution, and analysis
Internet telephony and hypermedia technologies and systems
Multimedia security including digital watermark and encryption
Mobile Multimedia Systems and Services
Multimodal Interaction, including Human Factors
Multimodal User Interfaces: Design, Engineering, Modality-Abstractions, etc.
Multimedia tools including authoring, analyzing, editing, and browsing
The ISM2009 Workshop Call for Proposals can be found here.
Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop.
The following workshop proposals have now been accepted:
DSMSA
Data Semantics for Multimedia Systems and Applications
MTEL
Multimedia Technologies for e-Learning
http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~knipping/ieee/ism09-mtel/
MIPR
The Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval
http://www.cis.fiu.edu/conferences/mipr09/
MASP
Multimedia Audio and Speech Processing: advancing the state-of-the-art
http://speechlab.ifsc.usp.br/ism2009/
CBTV
Content-based audio/video analysis for novel TV services
http://ism2009.eecs.uci.edu/cbtv09/
MS
Third International Workshop on the Many Faces of Multimedia Semantics
AdMIRe
International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research
http://www.cp.jku.at/conferences/admire2009/
Any general questions regarding ISM2009 Workshops and workshop proposals should be directed to the ISM2009 Workshop Co-Chairs:
Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University, USA
Chengcui Zhang, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Atsuo Yoshitaka, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Ilja Radusch, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany
Check the website for updates.