CISE Research Instrumentation: Equipment for Multimedia Information Systems

9320436 Jain改进的计算方法和信息管理工具对于提高国家在广泛经济领域的竞争优势以及在教育、医学、全球变化分析和科学努力的其他几个方面取得快速进展至关重要。直到最近，计算机中的信息几乎都是字母数字形式的，但今天，字母数字信息在我们与计算机的交互中似乎非常有限。我们需要能够无缝地管理音频、视频、图形、字母数字和其他几种形式的信息的多媒体系统。为了满足这些新的需求，加利福尼亚大学圣地亚哥分校的研究人员正在研究多媒体计算的许多方面。该奖项为加州大学圣地亚哥分校计算机科学与工程系和电气与计算机工程系在多媒体计算新兴领域的活跃研究项目提供设备支持。海量存储设备将用于多个研究项目，涵盖多媒体计算的许多重要领域：多媒体服务器、网络、操作系统和数据库。这种设备还将促进分布式多媒体信息系统的联合研究项目。大量的存储将有助于将一些算法和研究提升到现实原型的水平。此外，该设备还将提供给在机器人、人工智能、医疗保健、制造业和其他相关领域开发多媒体工具的其他研究人员。＊＊＊

9320436 Jain Improved computational methods and information management tools are critical in order to enhance the national competitive edge across broad sectors of the economy and to make rapid progress in education, medicine, global change analysis and several other aspects of scientific endeavor. Until recently, information in computers was almost always in alpha-numeric form, but today, alpha-numeric information seems very restricting in our interactions with computers. We need multimedia systems that will seamlessly manage audio, video, graphics, alpha-numeric and several other forms of information. To meet these new demands, many aspects of multimedia computing are being addressed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego. This award provides equipment to support active research projects in the emerging areas of multimedia computing in the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. The massive storage equipment will be used for several research projects covering many important areas of multimedia computing: multimedia servers, networking, operating systems, and databases. This equipment will also facilitate joint research projects in distributed multimedia information systems. The massive storage will help to take some of the algorithms and studies to the level of realistic prototypes. In addition, the equipment will also be available to other researchers developing multimedia tools in robotics, artificial intelligence, health care, manufacturing and other related areas. ***