Formal name: Prof.dr. D.C.A. Bulterman
Function: Group leader, Scientific Staff Member
Email: Dick.Bulterman@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4300
Room: M370
Research groups:
(SEN5) Distributed and interactive systems
Research
At CWI, Dick Bulterman heads the Distributed and Interactive Systems group. This group studies models and systems for supporting the capture, transfer and rendering of time-sensitive data across a heterogenous infrastructure. The problems studied include the development of active interfaces for rich social networking systems, the integration of sensor-based data from the "internet of things", the modeling of high-level semantic properties of content, and the development of rendering architectures that allow application-driven, time-constrained synchronization of user interaction across wide area networks. This work has resulted in over 100 publications, two well-received books, several major open-source software publications, and numerous invitations for keynote addresses. He has worked on over a dozen European and US research projects in the past 25 years. During his appointments at CWI, Bulterman has organized major scientific conferences for ACM, IEEE and others. He has been chair of the W3C Synchronized Multimedia working group SYMM since 2004. In 2011, Bulterman was nominated to be Vice-Chair of ACM SigWEB (with elections scheduled for May 2011).
Bulterman received a PhD in computer science from Brown University (USA) in 1981. He has held faculty appointments at Brown (1980-1989 and 1993-1994), TU Delft (1986), Univ. Utrecht (1989-1991), UvA (1990-1992) and, more recently, a professorship at the VU University in Amsterdam (2009-present). Bulterman first joined CWI in 1988. In 1998, he was the founder of the CWI spin-off company Oratrix Development BV. In 2002, he rejoined CWI.
Career
| 2010 - | Group leader SEN5 - Distributed and Interactive Systems |
| 2008 - | Full professor VU University |
| 2004 - 2009 | Scientific staff member SEN5 - Distributed and Interactive Systems |
| 2003 | Scientific staff member INS0 - Standardization and Knowledge Transfer |
| 2002 | Head CST/Groupleader DIR - Directie |
| 1988 - 1996 | Scientific staff member CS - Computer Systems & Telematics |
Selected Awards and Honours
| 2008 | EuroITV 2008 |
| 2008 | ACM symposium on document engineering 2008 |
| 2008 | ACM international conference on multimedia, October 2008 |
| 2008 | ACM international conference on multimedia, October 2008 |
Selected Academic Activities
| 2010 - 2011 | Organizer Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ACM Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video Workshop - [NOSSDAV] |
| 2009 - 2012 | Principal Investigator EU FP7-IP |
| 2007 | Organizer TaiChung, Taiwan - IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia - [ISM] |
| 2006 | Organizer Amsterdam, The Netherlands - ACM Symposium on Document Engineering - [DocEng] |
| 2006 - 2011 | Chairman W3C - [W3C] - Synchronized Mulimedia WG (SYMM) |
Selected Publications
| I. Vaishnavi, A. Arefin, D.C.A. Bulterman, K. Nahrstedt, R. Rivas. Eureka: A methodology for measuring bandwidth usage of networked games, environments and applications. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2010, Singapore, 2010. |
| Jack Jansen, Pablo Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman. A model for editing operations on active, Temporal multimedia documents. Proceedings of the 10th ACM symposium on Document engineering, 27–36, 2010. |
| B. Gao, Jack Jansen, Pablo Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman. Beyond the playlist: seamless playback of structured video clips. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics 56, 1495–1501, 2010. |
