IM Forum Speakers for 9/29/04: Jim Rowson & Kurt MacDonald

This week's speakers will be Jim Rowson,Prinicpal Scientist in HP's Consumer Applications and Systems Lab, and Kurt MacDonald, 3rd Year MFA student, Interactive Media Division, USC School of Cinema-Television.

Title: Custom Television and the Phiz Network

Abstract: One of HP Lab's new projects, custom television, is attempting to look at consumer digital entertainment beyond TIVO. Being a new project, we'll be largely framing the problem and outlining our social, business, and technical approaches. Kurt MacDonald will be summarizing his summer intern work designing and mocking up custom television shows and entertaining discovery methods for the (fictional) phiz network. He will be illustrating his approaches with example video and showing how to configure custom shows, generate them using templates, and build effective photo videos using tried and true cinema techniques.

Bio:
Jim Rowson is a Prinicpal Scientist in the Consumer Applications and Systems Lab within HP's corporate research lab. Jim is currently investigating applications and technology to support HP's intentions in the consumer digital entertainment area. Prior to HP, Jim spent about 20 years building software tools for hardware, semiconductor, and software engineers. He has a BS in engineering and an MS and PhD in computer science from Caltech.

Location: USC Zemeckis Center, Room 201
Time: 6:30pm-9pm, 9/29/04

Related Readings:

1. Marc Davis @ UC Berkeley has some interesting ideas about metadata for video

2. Paper on "virtual channels"

3. Personalization of TV workshop series
[Workshop on Personalization in Future TV, 2001]
[TV'02: the 2nd Workshop on Personalization in Future TV]
[TV'03: the 3rd Workshop on Personalization in Future TV]
[TV'04: the 4th Workshop on Personalization in Future TV - Methods, Technologies, Applications for Personalized TV ]