Sunday, March 22, 2009

CORESA & WMM 2009

Last week, 19-20 March 2009, we had organized the CORESA 2009 conference together with the Workshop on Multimedia Metadata 2009. See this website:
http://coresa2009.enseeiht.fr/

I've just realized how cool is to have your presentations posted anywhere. So here it is my presentation:

It was quite a fun experience. As an organizing and participating student I had a lot of activity. Firtst there were all the planning meetings and other tasks. Then of course the preparation of the presentation ... my presentation, as I was participating to the WMM also. I'll put the article on my website.  Also all the papers from the WMM (including mine) have been published here:

During the conference I enjoyed all the nice talks from the WMM experts as well as presentations from other PhD students. One of the great things was the chance to meet one of the mobile guide gurus, professor Timo Ojala, which was a very cool guy. Also WMM experts as Ralf, Harald, Christian or Mathias are really nice people to meet.

From the CORESA side I can't say much as I've been participating almost entirely at the WMM but from what I've heard it was very cool too. One of our colleagues presented a paper at the end of the conference.

We had a gala dinner at the Bemberg Foundation. This is a very nice (and old) building where Mr. Bemberg, which from what I've heard was very rich, has exposed his art collection which was big enough to make you busy more than 2 hours. More information can be found here:

At the end everyone was happy with the organization (especially with the excellent transportation that we've provided... :D) and level of the conference so I can say it was successful. 


Thursday, March 5, 2009

New Intelligent GPS device from NAVIGON

The company Navigon has created a GPS-based car navigation device which is "smart". Why? Because it seems that it can record the user preferences (roads, visited places, etc...) and provide the best choices for the user. It also comes with many other interesting features, like real views of exists. Check an article here or their website