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Prof. Thad Starner

 

  Georgia Institute of Technology (Gatech), USA

 

Thad Starner is an Assistant Professor in Georgia Tech's College of Computing, where he founded and directs the Contextual Computing Group. Thad holds four degrees from MIT, including his PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory in 1999. Starner was an Associate Scientist with BBN's Speech Systems Group in 1993 when he created one of the earliest high-accuracy on-line cursive handwriting recognition systems. Starner is one of the pioneers of wearable computing and has authored over 100 scientific publications and book chapters in mobile computing, human computer interaction (HCI), computer vision, augmented environments, and pattern recognition. [more]

 

More information: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~thad/

 

 

 

 

 

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Prof. Anind K. Dey

 

  Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), USA ¡¡

 

Anind K. Dey is an Assistant Professor in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Dey received a Bachelors of Applied Science in Computer Engineering from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada in 1993. He received a Masters of Science in AeroSpace Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1995. Then, he received a 2nd Masters of Science and a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Georgia Tech in 2000. For his dissertation, he researched programming support for building context-aware applications: The Context Toolkit. [more]

 

More information: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~anind/

 

 

 

 

 

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Prof. Albrecht Schmidt

 

  University Duisburg-Essen, Germany

 

Albrecht Schmidt is a professor for Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Previously he was head of department at the Fraunhofer institute for intelligent information and analysis systems. From 2003 to 2006 he headed the embedded interaction research group at the University of Munich. Albrecht studied in Ulm, Karlsruhe and Lancaster, where he completed his PhD on the topic ¡°ubiquitous computing - computing in context¡±. [more]

 

More information: http://www.pervasive.wiwi.uni-due.de/en/team/albrecht-schmidt/

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Dr. Vincent Lepetit

 

  Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne(EPFL), Switzerland

 

Vincent Lepetit received the engineering and master degrees in Computer Science from the ESIAL in 1996. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Vision in 2001 from the University of Nancy, France, after working in the ISA INRIA team. He then joined the Virtual Reality Lab at EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) as a post-doctoral fellow and became a founding member of the Computer Vision Laboratory. [more]

 

More Information: http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~vlepetit/

 

     
 

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Dr. Dr. Norbert A. Streitz

 

  Fraunhofer institute IPSI, Germany

 

Dr. rer. nat. Dr. phil. Norbert Streitz (Ph. D. in physics and Ph.D. in psychology) is a Senior Scientist and Strategic Advisor with 25 years of experience in information and communication technology. 11 years ago, he initiated and then managed the research division "AMBIENTE - Smart Environments of the Future" at Fraunhofer IPSI in Darmstadt, Germany, while also teaching at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University. Before joining IPSI in 1987, he was an assistant professor at the Technical University (RWTH) Aachen. He was a post-doc fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, a visiting scholar at Xerox PARC and at the Intelligent Systems Lab of ETL-MITI, Tsukuba Science City, Japan. During the whole duration, he was the Chair of the Steering Group of the EU-funded initiative "The Disappearing Computer". [more]

 

More Information: http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/ambiente/profil/mitarbeiter/streitz.html/

 
     
     
 

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Prof. Jonathan Gratch

 

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  University of Southern California (USC), USA

 

Dr. Jonathan Gratch (http://www.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/) is an Associate Director for Virtual Humans Research at the University of Southern California¡¯s (USC) Institute for Creative Technologies, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and co-director of USC¡¯s Computational Emotion Group. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Urban-Champaign in 1995. Dr. Gratch¡¯s research focuses on virtual humans (artificially intelligent agents embodied in a human-like graphical body), and computational models of emotion. [more]

 

More Information: http://www.ict.usc.edu/~gratch/

 
     
     
 

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Prof. Dai-Jin Kim

 

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  Pohang Univeristy of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Korea

 

Dai-Jin Kim received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, in 1981, and the M.S. degree in computer science from University of Southern California, 1996. In 2000, he received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. From 1992 to1999, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at DongA University, Pusan, Korea. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at POSTECH, Pohang, Korea. His research interests include intelligent systems, biometrics and RFID sensor networks.

 

More Information: http://imlab.postech.ac.kr

 

 
     
     
 

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Prof. Jun Park

 

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  Hong-ik University, Korea

 

Jun Park received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Statistics from Seoul National Univeersity in 1993, and the M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 1996. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California in 2000. From 2001, He joined Rockwell International, Science Center as a post-doctoral researcher. Since 2002, he is assistant professor in the department of computer science, Hong-ik University, Korea. His research interests include Augmented Reality, Human Computer Interacion, Computer Graphics, and Medical Imaging.

 

More Information: http://iml.hongik.ac.kr/junpark.htm

 

 

 

 

     
 

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Prof. Steven Feiner

 

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  Columbia Univeristy, USA

 

Steven Feiner is a Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where he directs the Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. Prof. Feiner's research interests include virtual environments and augmented reality, knowledge-based design of graphics and multimedia, wearable and mobile computing, information visualization, and hypermedia. He is coauthor of Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice and Introduction to Computer Graphics,, and is general co-chair for the upcoming 2008 ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology.

 

More Information: http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/graphics/top.html

 

 

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