Building Social Life Networks

  • Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine; Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft

Massive volumes of geo-spatial heterogeneous data streams generated by social media, sensor networks, internet of things, and digitalization of transactions are bringing the next generation of social networks not only to connect people with other people, but also to connect people with other people and essential life resources. We call these networks Social Life Networks (SLN) and believe that this is the right time to focus efforts to discover and develop technology and infrastructure to design and build these networks and to apply them for solving some essential human problems. A person needs to be connected to appropriate resources under the given situations. Situations in a SLN should be detected by using heterogeneous data streams. We are building a software framework for situation recognition and determining personal context to connect people to resources efficiently, effectively, and timely.

Speaker Details

Ramesh Jain is an entrepreneur, researcher, and educator. Ramesh co-founded several companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. These companies include PRAJA, Virage, and ImageWare. Currently he is involved in two new start-ups as cofounder and advisor: mChron and Stikco Studio. He has also been advisor to several other companies including some of the largest companies in media and search space. He is a Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine where he is doing research in Event Web and experiential computing. Earlier he served on faculty of Georgia Tech, University of California at San Diego, The university of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Wayne State University, and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, and SPIE. His current research interests are in searching multimedia data and creating EventWebs for experiential computing. He is the recipient of several awards including the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award 2010.

    • Portrait of Ramesh Jain

      Ramesh Jain

      Professor

      University of California, Irvine

    • Portrait of Zhengyou Zhang

      Zhengyou Zhang

      Research Manager Principal Researcher

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Series: Microsoft Research Talks