SIGMM Award - Call for Nominations

Dear members of SIGMM:
We are proud to announce the new

   SIGMM Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions
to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

This award is presented every year to a researcher who has made significant and lasting contributions to multimedia computing, communication and applications. Outstanding technical contributions through research and practice will be recognized. Towards this goal, contributions will be considered from academia and industry that focus on major advances in multimedia, including multimedia processing, multimedia systems, multimedia network protocols and services, and multimedia applications and interfaces. The award will recognize members of the community for long-term technical accomplishments or those who have made a notable impact through a significant technical innovation.

The selection committee will focus on candidates’ contributions as judged by innovative ideas, influence in the community, and/or the technical/social impact resulting from their work. The award includes a $1000 honorarium, an award certificate of recognition, and an invitation for the recipient to present a keynote talk at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM Multimedia). A public citation for the award will be placed on the SIGMM website.

Nominations are now solicited. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2008, in time to allow the above recognition and award presentation at ACM Multimedia in Vancouver in October 2008.

Nominations for the award must include:
1. A statement summarizing the candidate’s accomplishments, description of the significance of the work, and justification of the nomination (two pages maximum);
2. Curriculum Vitae and list of publications of the nominee;
3. Up to three endorsement letters supporting the nomination including the significant contributions of the candidate. Each endorsement should be no longer than 500 words, with a clear specification of the nominee's contributions and impact on the multimedia field;
4. A concise statement (one sentence) of the achievement(s) for which the award is being given. This statement will appear on the award certificate and on the website.

The nomination rules are:
1. The nominee can be any member of the scientific community.
2. The nominator must be a SIGMM member.
3. The endorsement letters can be from any members of the scientific community.
4. No self-nomination is allowed.
5. Nominations that do not result in an award can be resubmitted twice.
6. Current members of the SIGMM Executive Committee as well as members of the Awards Selection Committee are not eligible.

Please send your nomination by July 31, 2008 to the following email address:
      effelsberg@informatik.uni-mannheim.de

Yours sincerely,
Wolfgang Effelsberg
Chair of the SIGMM Awards Committee