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Distributed and Interactive Systems group news
New book published from Pablo Cesar: The Evolution of TV Systems, Content, and Users Toward Interactivity
TV viewing has undergone a tremendous change during the past twenty years. Originally, TV viewing was a social activity, fostering social interaction with communities of viewers. A host of technical developments has …
New Google service 'Rich Snippets' based CWI-technology
Google introduced a new enhancement called Rich Snippets in May 2009, giving searchers new ways to filter results and adding new types of data to the search results themselves. The feature is …
ACM CHI Lifetime Service Award for Steven Pemberton
Steven Pemberton (CWI and W3C) has been awarded the prestigious international ACM CHI Lifetime Service Award.
CWI Researchers Improve Multimedia Language SMIL
On 1 December 2008 the multimedia language SMIL3.0 was announced as W3C Recommendation by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Best Paper Award for SMIL State research
At the ACM DocEngineering Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Jack Jansen and Dick Bulterman received the Best Paper Award.
Best Paper Award for Interactive Television Research
The award was granted to CWI researchers.
Dick C.A. Bulterman appointed professor of Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures
On 1 March 2008, CWI researcher Dick Bulterman was appointed professor of Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures at the VU University Amsterdam (VU). At the VU Bulterman will work within the Business, …
CWI contributes to SMIL 2.1 W3C Recommendation
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released SMIL 2.1, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, as a W3C Recommendation on December 13, 2005. With SMIL, authors can create interactive multimedia presentations and animations …
