ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia Systems (SigMultimedia)

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ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia
Systems(SigMultimedia)
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MissionSIGMM provides an international
interdisciplinary forum for researchers,
engineers, and practitioners in all aspects of
multimedia computing, communication, storage and
application.
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Membership
Professional Affiliates Students Total Retention
June 2001 410 16 82 508 67.32
June 2002 358 11 72 442 58.71
June 2003 375 8 65 449 68.51
June 2004 388 18 59 465 70.45
January 2005 382 30 48 460 69.51
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Volunteer Development

• Many active people from different countries
  involved.
• Active volunteers trying to generate new
  activities in the field.
• New elections soon.

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Fund Balance
Date Amount Required Discretionary
D/Member June'01 131,649 27,182 104,467
236 June'02 131,979 35,276
96,703 218 June03 150,066 41,548 1
08,518 242 June04 187,724 50,034
137,690 296 Jan05 150,551
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Conferences

• ACM Multimedia Yearly
• High quality conference most prestigious
• About 300 papers submitted approx. 15 accepted
• NOSSDAV Workshop on Network and Operating
  Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video
• Organized for last 14 years, and continues
• MMSec '04 Multimedia and Security
• Starting last year
• Multimedia Information Retrieval
• Will soon become a yearly workshop independent
  of ACM Multimedia

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Member Benefits

• Receive ACM MM proceedings
• Access to all Workshop proceedings held with ACM
  MM through DL
• Access to Members Only areas of the Web Site.
• Updated website, becoming a big resource for
  members and community.

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SIG MULTIMEDIA AT SGB

• Have been a good citizen
• Regular in attendance
• Regular in submitting reports
• Building a strong volunteer base

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Conclusion

• We are in good shape.
• We are becoming more active and vibrant.