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Organising Committee Nikos Sarris Athens Technology Center S.A. http://www.atc.gr   Scientific Programme Yiannis Kompatsiaris Informatics and Telematics Institute http://mklab.iti.gr Ebroul Izquierdo Queen Mary University of London http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/mmv Noel ‘O Connor Dublin City University http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie Gael Richard ENST http://www.tsi.enst.fr Professional Programme Wilfried Runde, Jochen Spangenberg, Martin Pinkerneil Deutsche Welle http://www.dw-world.de Paulo Villegas Telefonica I+D http://www.tid.es Antonis Karatzias DIAS publishing http://www.dias.com.cy Local Arrangements Mary Saltou, Garifalia Sebou Athens Technology Center S.A. http://www.atc.gr Important links SSMS 2008 venue SSMS 2007 SSMS 2006 Scope Understanding and thereby manipulating multimedia content at the semantic level is the only way towards realizing the full potential of emerging digital media technologies aimed at the delivery of compelling multimedia solutions. The integration of knowledge, semantics and low-level multimedia processing for the purpose of automatic semantics extraction from multimedia content is still the subject of active research in academia and industry. The purpose of this event was to bring the relevant academic and media professional societies closer to the latest research and commercial developments providing the opportunity to gain deeper insight into the related research challenges and the ever increasing number of new applications. Programme for researchers Multimedia Signal Processing      Prof Noel O'Connor Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Cross-modal analysis and fusion, ,      Dr Alexander Hauptmann Semantic Web and Multimedia      Prof Steffen Staab Multimedia Ontologies for Reasoning and Analysis      Prof Ralf Moeller Multimedia Information Indexing and Retrieval      Prof Alan Smeaton Flexible Interfaces for Semantically Annotated Multimedia      Prof Lynda Hardman Semantics and 3D media,      Dr Michela Spagnuolo Social Networks and Multimedia Semantics, ,          Dr Peter Mika Download the full programme Programme for professionals "360 Degree Journalism" Networked Media Production & Consumption in a Convergent World Calais - the media and the semantic web,      Barak Pridor, CEO, ClearForest, a division of Thomson Reuters Towards Seamless Multimedia Production and Multi-Platform Delivery - Cutting Edge Research and Applications for Media Professionals and Users        A News Agency in Transition      Meinolf Ellers, Managing Director dpa-infocom GmbH, Hamburg, Germany      Mobile Services and Mobile Devices      Paola Hobson, Motorola UK Research Lab, Basingstoke      Newsgaming      Julian Kuecklich, Press Association, London      A newspaper goes multimedia      Robert Freeman, Head of video, Guardian, UK      Content Management, Data Mining, CRM      Frank Poerschmann, IBM Global Business Services, Lead Media & Entertainment GB, Lead CRM Strategy, IBM Deutschland GmbH Concerns on Privacy and Innovation in ICT and Media Industries       Rainer Boehme, Faculty of Computer Science, TU Dresden Talking about Networked Journalism, Search, Privacy, Filtering, Personalisation       Clancy Childs, Sales Engineer, Partner Services, Google, London, UK      Willi Ruetten, Director European Journalism Centre, Maastricht      Robert Freeman, Head of video, Guardian, UK      Andreas Neus, IBM Germany / Karlsruhe Service Research Institute, Karlsruhe University Download the full programme Video recordings of most lectures are available at videolectures.net SSMS 2008 was attended by 74 students and 30 media professionals. Download the full list of people who participated in SSMS 2008. You can also visit the 'Summer School on Multimedia Semantics 2008' group in Facebook SSMS has been held on two previous occasions and SSMS2008 built upon the success of these events. A notable novel aspect of this year's programme was the objective to connect multimedia semantics researchers with the professional media sector. To this end, two groups of attendees were catered for: postgraduate students and researchers attending a 5-day programme centred around state-of-the-art technologies and research issues; and professionals attending a 3-day programme explaining the application of semantic technologies to their day-to-day activities. A common day allowed interaction between the two groups for a creative exchange of views. Venue SSMS 2008 was hosted by the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, situated on the beautiful island of Crete, in the south of Greece. Event dates 1 - 5 September 2008: SSMS for researchers 3 - 5 September 2008: SSMS for professionals Requests for specific information can be directed to the SSMS helpdesk