Netherlands Prize for ICT-research awarded

Foto: Hilde de Wolf Fotografie.

Netherlands Prize for ICT-research

Dr Cees Snoek of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has won the Netherlands Prize for ICT research 2012. The prizewinner also receives €50,000. Computer scientist Snoek leads a research team working on the development of a smart search engine for digital video: the Media Mill Semantic Video Search Engine. The Netherlands Prize for ICT research was [...]

A new spring, a new domain

As of today my website will be accessible from the personalized url: http://www.CeesSnoek.info

Abbey loves multimedia

PhD thesis still going strong

This week I learned that my PhD thesis, entitled “The Authoring Metaphor to Machine Understanding of Multimedia“, is still actively used for research purposes, but certainly not in the way it was intended ;)  My office-mate Sander found a useful application of the research, see the picture on the right. For those of you interested [...]