Interactive art featured at ACM Multimedia 2015
The Interactive Art Program for ACM Multimedia 2015 was curated around the themes of media, installation and interactivity—meaning the works needed to address and incorporate real and digital space (and media) as essential elements to the work and also be…
Jennifer Chayes opens inaugural Women in Data Science conference
The prospect of forging new business models and drug therapies by analyzing large scale networks will be among the topics explored in the welcoming keynote address as the inaugural Women in Data Science Conference (opens in new tab) opens at Stanford…
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era will interest students and scholars of digital media and their impact on society and will engage readers in a broader dialogue and conversation about their own participatory practices in this digital age.
The Evolution of Bing’s ObjectStore
By Vikas Sabharwal and Vineet Pruthi, Microsoft Shared Platform Group In late 2011, Bing’s shared platform team started looking at different solutions for distributed NoSQL stores. We needed a fast, unified, distributed key value-store that is scalable and can be turned…
Swimming in a deluge of user generated content
The Internet is awash in user generated content (UGC)—from blogs, reviews, and Q&As, to wikis, tweets, and Facebook posts. And let’s not forget photo- and video-sharing sites: every second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube, and an average…
Preview of ACM’s Multimedia Conference Oct 29 keynote address
Zhengyou Zhang, research manager and principal researcher at Microsoft Research, will present his team’s latest advances in immersive human-human telecommunications at ACM’s annual multimedia conference in Brisbane, Australia. The 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference runs from October 26-30. View the full conference…
ACM MM: Best Papers
Below are the best papers from ACM Multimedia 2015. Analyzing Free-standing Conversational Groups: A Multimodal Approach Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Yan Yan (University of Trento, Italy), Elisa Ricci, Oswald Lanz (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy), Nicu Sebe (University of Trento, Italy) During natural…
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Difficile Est Primum Esse: How A Triple Whammy Undermined The Triple Aim
By 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services wants 85 percent of traditional Medicare reimbursements to be based on quality or value, with 30 percent of payments reimbursed through alternative payment models like Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). Toward that…
CIKM: Sports bookie wins machine learning competition
Editorial note: The CIKM 2015 Machine Learning Competition asked participants to predict the outcomes of every match in the Australian 2015 football league season. The competition received more than 90 submissions from the machine learning community. Sports bookmaker Hung Doan…