Industry Advisory Board Meeting
June 1-2, 2006

Keynote address: Dr. Ramesh Jain

Current search technology, while very useful today, has serious limitations that will make it extremely limited in the next generation of information systems in businesses and other applications. Its fundamental building block is still a page, albeit a web page, and keyword based indexing and access. Emerging applications must deal increasingly with live, spatio-temporal, multimedia data in addition to static web pages and persistent data. People are getting frustrated with a list of mostly useless links often to outdated pages. They are interested in answers, insights, and experiences. What we have seen so far is the early stage of search technology. Next generation search technology will result in tools to manage dynamic event-based data and will allow corporations to offer substantial new capabilities to their employees, customers, and suppliers. These search engines will provide What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get environment to users and will remove the tedium of the keyword box.

About Dr. Ramesh Jain

Ramesh Jain is an educator, researcher, and entrepreneur. Currently he is the Donald Bren Professor in Information & Computer Sciences at University of California, Irvine. Before this he was a Farmer Distinguished Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology. Ramesh is a pioneer in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual information systems labs. Ramesh was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine and serves on the editorial boards of several journals in multimedia, information retrieval and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 300 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. He has co-authored and co-edited several books. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, and SPIE. He is the Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia.

He recently co-founded Seraja to address needs of emerging EventWeb. Earlier Ramesh co-founded three companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. These companies were PRAJA in event-based business activity monitoring (acquired by Tibco); Virage for media management solutions and visual information management (a NASDAQ company acquired by Autonomy); and ImageWare for surface modeling, reverse engineering rapid prototyping, and inspection (acquired by SDRC).

June 2006