Data Compression Conference - DCC '98

               Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TCCC

                             Snowbird, Utah
                        March 29 - April 1, 1998

All future information about DCC will be sent by email!
To be added to the email list, send email to: dcc@cs.brandeis.edu
For further information, see the web page: www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc

COMMITTEE:
J. Storer (DCC chair, Brandeis U.)
M. Cohn (DCC program chair, Brandeis U.)
A. Apostolico (Purdue/Padova)
R. Arps (IBM)
T. Bell (U. Canterbury)
B. Carpentieri (U. Salerno)
J. Cleary (U. Waikato)
M. Effros (CalTech)
R. Gray (Stanford U.)
S. Haggerty (Ball Aerospace)
P. Howard (AT&T)
A. Kiely (NASA)
J. Kovacevic (Bell Labs)
G. Langdon (UC Santa Cruz)
A. Lempel (Technion)
A. Moffat (U. Melbourne)
M. Rabbani (Kodak)
K. Ramchandran (U. Illinois)
J. Reif (Duke U.)
E. Riskin (U. Washington)
A. Rodriguez (Scientific Alanta)
D. Sheinwald (IBM)
G. Sullivan (PictureTel)
J. Villasenor (UCLA)
J. Vitter (Duke U.)
I. Witten (U. Waikato)
H. Yokoo (Gunma U.)
K. Zeger (UC San Diego)
J. Ziv (Technion)

THEME: An international forum for current work on data compression and
related areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Source
coding, quantization theory, parallel compression algorithms and hardware,
lossless and lossy compression algorithms for specific types of data
(including text, images, video, speech, music, maps, instrument data,
graphics, animation, and bit-maps), data compression standards, bi-level
coding, transform methods, wavelet and fractal techniques, string
searching and manipulation, closest-match retrieval, minimal length
encoding and applications to learning, system issues relating to data
compression (including error control, data security, indexing, and
browsing), medical imagery, scientific and space data.

SUBMISSIONS: Authors should send by surface mail (NOT fax or email) four
copies of an extended abstract of 8 to 10 pages (including affiliation,
address, phone number, and email address) by 11/14/97 to: Prof. Martin
Cohn, Computer Science Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA  02254
(questions can be sent to dcc@cs.brandeis.edu). Authors will be notified
of acceptance or rejection via email by 12/19/97. A final camera-ready
draft is due 1/16/98.

INDUSTRY WORKSHOP: On the day following the conference is a Workshop on
Industrial Applications; contact Susan Haggerty (303-939-5083,
shagerty@ball.com).

TRANSPORTATION / HOTEL:  Delta Air Lines has special fares that do not
require Saturday night stay; call 800-241-6760 and specify that you are
with IEEE-DCC, File No. 104783A. The hotel may be reached by limousine
from Salt Lake City Airport (about $20.00). Space is limited; rooms may
NOT be available after February 1. Rooms are $90 to $125 per night and
may be occupied by up to 4 persons; dorm rooms are $34. Call the Cliff
Lodge, Snowbird, UT 84092, 800-453-3000 or 801-742-2222.

ADVANCE REGISTRATION:  Includes registration reception, poster session
reception, proceedings, coffee breaks. The fee is $375 for IEEE or
affiliate members, $475 for non-members, and $275 for students; there is
an additional $100 late fee for all registrations after February 1.

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NAME:

AFFILIATION:

ADDRESS:

PHONE:

EMAIL:

IEEE MEMBER:  NO___    YES___ (membership number ____________)

STUDENT:  NO___   YES ___ (ID's will be required at registration)

AMOUNT ENCLOSED:

Payment is non-refundable and must be a check to DCC in U.S. dollars drawn
on a U.S. bank. For more information contact Myrna Fox,
maf@cs.brandeis.edu (617-736-2700).

Send to:
     DCC Registration
     Computer Science Dept.
     Brandeis U.
     Waltham, MA 02254
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