Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo

Universityof Southern California

Time: 10-12, May 22 (Thursday) 2014

Venue：C505, Administration Building, Haiyun Campus

Abstract:Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become more mature after its development for more than half a century. We are in a new era in which ICT research has shifted its focus fromtechnology developmenttonovel applications. For example, digital technologies have been widely applied to speech, audio, video and graphics in various commercial applications today. Furthermore, the availability of the broadband wired/wireless Internet infrastructure and the cloud computing facilities has changed the way of web-based services. This lecture will address new business and career opportunities in the modern information society due to the paradigm shift in the following area:

•         From the analog implementation to the digital implementation

•         From PC-centric to cloud/network-centric

•         From one-way broadcasting to two-way interaction

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

Driven by the broadband network and cloud computing infrastructure, ICT-enabled web services have become a phenomenon. Examples of them include: YouTube, Google Map, Wikipedia, Facebook, etc. Several common features of the new web services will be discussed. These services provide a scalable platform that allows a large number of users to participate in content creation and interact with each other. Each site is essentially a large database as well as a community. The success of these services lies in a workable business model such as on-line advertisement. More and more advertisements from the traditional media such as newspaper and audio/video broadcast programs are moving to the web-based advertisement due to its efficiency. Finally, the lecture will provide an outlook to future business and business opportunities and R&D directions.

Biography of Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo

Dr. C.-C. Jay Kuo received his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987. He is now with the University of Southern California (USC) as Director of the Media Communications Laboratory and Dean’s Professor in Electrical Engineering-Systems. His research interests are in the areas of digital media processing, compression, communication and networking technologies. Dr. Kuo is Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation in 1997-2011, and has served as Editor for 10 other international journals. Dr. Kuo received the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (NYI) and Presidential Faculty Fellow (PFF) Award in 1992 and 1993, respectively. He was an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2006, and the recipient of the Electronic Imaging Scientist of the Year Award in 2010 and the holder of the 2010-2011 Fulbright-Nokia Distinguished Chair in Information and Communications Technologies. Dr. Kuo is a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE and SPIE. Dr. Kuo has guided 121 students to their Ph.D. degrees and supervised 23 postdoctoral research fellows. He is a co-author of about 220 journal papers, 850 conference papers and 12 books.

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