This week I am attending the ACM Multimedia conference in Vancouver. The ‘city of glass’ is proclaimed to be one of the best places to live in the world. This could be due to the many possibilities for outdoor activities in the direct viccinity of the city. One such activity is hiking, which we did today. Together with Xirong, Marcel, and Bouke we went to Lake Garibaldi. It took us some time to get there, but it was certainly worthwhile. The view was magnificent. Luckily the conference starts tomorrow, so that we have some time to recover. I wonder whether there are some interesting developments in the multimedia field to report the coming days.


The University of Amsterdam is on the lookout for a professor specializing in historic Dutch multimedia, or someone who studies the Dutch media developments in radio, television, and quite likely the Internet, over the past century. The vacancy is supported by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, not accidentally a close collaborator of our group also. I wonder if our semantic video search engine would be of any use for the new professor and her/his team. To be continued?