IEEE Distinguished Lecture

Time: April 30 (Thursday) 7pm  

Location: Wengert Community Meeting Room

Paradigm Shifts in Modern IT Era Driven by

Digital Media and Broadband Networks

Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo

University of Southern California

Information technologies (IT) have become more mature after its quick development for about half a century. We are in a new era in which IT research has shifted its focus from technology development to novel applications. For example, digital technologies have been widely applied to speech, audio, video and graphics in various commercial applications today. Furthermore, the availability of broadband wired/wireless Internet infrastructures and new technologies such as peer-to-peer networking has changed the way of digital media distribution and exchange. This lecture will address the following four major IT paradigm shifts in this modern IT era:

•         From the analog implementation to the digital implementation

•         From PC-centric to network-centric

•         From one-way broadcasting to two-way interaction

•         From HW/SW/infra-structure provision to contents and value-added services

Then, the lecture will provide an outlook to future business opportunities and R&D directions.

Biography of Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo

Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received the Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. He is now with the University of Southern California (USC) as Director of Signal and Image Processing Institute and Professor of EE, CS and Mathematics. His research interests are in the areas of digital media processing, multimedia compression, communication and networking technologies, and embedded multimedia system design. Dr. Kuo is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE. Dr. Kuo has guided about 90 students to their Ph.D. degrees and supervised 20 postdoctoral research fellows. Currently, his research group at USC consists of around 35 Ph.D. students (see website http://viola.usc.edu), which is one of the largest academic research groups in multimedia technologies. He is a co-author of about 150 journal papers, 770 conference papers and 9 books.  

Dr. Kuo is Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, and Editor for the Journal of Information Science and Engineering, LNCS Transactions on Data Hiding and Multimedia Security (a Springer journal), the Journal of Advances in Multimedia (a Hindawi journal) and the EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing (a Hindawi journal).  He was on the Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine in 2003-2004. He served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing in 1995-98, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in 1995-1997 and IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing in 2001-2003.