Dear Colleagues, As the Panel Co-Chairs, Professor Ramesh Jain and I are looking forward to receiving your proposals for Panels at ACM MM 2009. The deadline for submitting the proposals will be April 30, 2009. See attached CFP for details. ACM MM 2009 panels should be on the topics of current and increasing interest. The topic may be a controversial topic or a topic that has not yet received much attention, but is rapidly gaining importance. Recently, significant changes in multimedia research and development landscape have taken place in order to deal with large scale data centers, user generated media data, and media rich mobile devices. It is expected that expert panelists will express their views on the topic of panel and discuss with other panelists and the audience their views and experiences. The panels at ACM MM 2009 are not an avenue for panelists to present their own personal research or a narrow scope research project. We welcome panel organizers from both academia and industry. We especially welcome new application perspectives from multimedia related industrial corporations. Thank you very much for your attention and considerations. Ramesh Jain, University of California at Irvine Chang Wen Chen, SUNY at Buffalo -- ********************************************************* Chang Wen Chen, Ph.D. Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. CSVT University at Buffalo, The State University of New York 201 Bell Hall Box 602000 Buffalo, NY, 14260-2000 USA Phone: 1 (716) 645-3180 x 116 FAX: 1 (716) 645-3464 Email: chencw@buffalo.edu *********************************************************