Fwd: www2007info WWW2007 Newsletter -- December/06 Issue

Dear all,

should we propose a panel for "The role of multimedia metadata for  
the Semantic Web"
Who could be the panelists?

Kind regards,
Susanne


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>                WWW2007 Newsletter -- December/06 Issue
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> This is the fifth issue of the WWW2007 Newsletter. In this issue:
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> 1. Call for panel proposals
> 2. Prabhakar Raghavan confirmed as plenary speaker
> 3. Record number of refereed paper submissions received
> 4. Nine workshops accepted for WWW2007
> 5. Yahoo! is our first Gold Sponsor
> 6. SAP confirmed as a Bronze Sponsor
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> 1. Call for panel proposals
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>
> Send us your ideas for an exciting WWW2007 panel!
>
> WWW2007 panels should focus on emerging technologies, controversial
> issues, or unsolved problems in the World Wide Web community. Panels
> are expected to stimulate lively, thoughtful, and sometimes  
> provocative
> discussions. Panelists are expected to actively engage the audience  
> and
> help them broaden their understanding of the issues.
>
> Proposals should be 4-6 pages long and can be submitted in either
> HTML or PDF. Please send proposals for WWW2007 panels to
> www2007panels@iw3c2.org
>
> See Call for Panels CFP for full details:
> http://www2007.org/cfp-Panels.php
>
>
>
> 2. Prabhakar Raghavan confirmed as plenary speaker
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>
> Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Research, is confirmed as a plenary
> speaker for WWW2007. His research interests include text and web
> mining, and algorithm design. He is a Consulting Professor of Computer
> Science at Stanford University and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal  
> of the
> ACM. Raghavan received his PhD from Berkeley and is a Fellow of the  
> ACM
> and of the IEEE. Prior to joining Yahoo, he was Senior Vice-President
> and Chief Technology Officer at Verity; before that he held a  
> number of
> technical and managerial positions at IBM Research.
>
>
>
> 3. Record number of refereed paper submissions received
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>
> The WWW2007 Program Committee will review 755 research papers, out of
> 767 submissions (some were withdrawn or did not meet quality  
> standards).
>
> This is the largest number of submissions in the history of the World
> Wide Web Conference. This makes WWW2007 a very competitive venue,
> ensuring a very high quality program and keeping the tradition of the
> WWW conference series.
>
> WWW2007 also received 37 proposals for workshops (see note below), and
> 27 proposals for tutorials. We are looking forward to a very exciting
> and high quality technical program.
>
>
>
> 4. Nine workshops accepted for WWW2007
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>
> A total of nine workshops were chosen by the Program Committee for
> the WWW2007 conference. They are:
>
> * Third International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on
>   the Web (AIRWeb 2007)
>
> * Workshop on Social and Collaborative Construction of Structured
>   Knowledge
>
> * I3: Identity, Identifiers, Identifications -- Entity-Centric
>   Approaches to Information and Knowledge Management on the Web
>
> * IPTV and Emerging Applications over World Wide Web
>
> * MobEA V - Mobile web in the developing world
>
> * Query Log Analysis: Social and Technological Challenges
>
> * Third Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions
>
> * Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization
>
> * First International Workshop on the Semantic Web for Health Care and
>   Life Sciences Data Integration
>
> Workshops will take place on the first day of the conference, Tuesday,
> May 8th. Websites with submission instructions and important dates for
> each Workshop can be found at http://www2007.org/prog-Workshops.php
>
>
>
> 5. Yahoo! is our first Gold Sponsor
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>
> Yahoo! has been confirmed as the first Gold Sponsor for WWW2007.
>
> Yahoo! Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a leading
> global Internet brand and one of the most visited Internet  
> destinations
> worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions,
> their communities, and the world's knowledge. Yahoo! is also strongly
> committed to fundamental research aiming at creating groundbreaking
> technology that will improve the online experience of our users.
> Yahoo! Research has operations in 6 offices in the US, Latin America
> and Europe, and counts on some of the most prominent researchers in
> areas such as data management, artificial intelligence, information
> retrieval, algorithms and theoretical computer science.
>
>
>
> 6. SAP confirmed as a Bronze Sponsor
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>
> SAP, the third largest independent software provider in the world,
> has been confirmed as a WWW2007 sponsor. Founded in 1972 as Systems
> Applications and Products in Data Processing, SAP serves more than
> 36,000 customers worldwide, making it the world's largest business
> software company. Recognized as a leader in providing collaborative
> business solutions for all types of industries and for every major
> market, SAP has a rich history of success and employs more than
> 38,400 people in more than 50 countries today.
>
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Professor Dr. Susanne Boll
University of Oldenburg
Department of Computing Science
Media Informatics and Multimedia Systems
Escherweg 2
D-26121 Oldenburg
Germany
Tel: +49-441-9722 213
Fax: +49-441-9722 202
WWW: mmit.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de
eMail: susanne.boll@informatik.uni-oldenburg.de