IGERT: Graduate Training Program in Interactive Digital Multimedia

这一IGERT奖项将支持在UCSB建立交互式数字多媒体广泛领域的多学科教育和研究研究生培训计划。该计划的目标是培训学生真正跨学科的数字多媒体方法，同时为他们在工业、研究和教育领域的职业生涯做好准备。数字媒体、计算和通信的融合在科学、工程和艺术领域创造了新的令人兴奋的机会。该计划的目标是在一个连贯的培训和研究教育框架内整合多种不同的方法来创建、分析、部署和利用数字媒体。这种多学科的努力需要学生和教师从广泛的背景和视角进行合作，包括计算机科学、电气和计算机工程、心理学、地理学、设计、作曲和艺术。通过创新和跨部门的课程和研讨会，行业实习机会，以及来自多个系的教师的指导，学生将获得关于交互式多媒体的独特视角，包括多媒体内容的创建、编码和分发，以及多媒体系统在教育、通信、艺术和娱乐中的应用。研究和教育的重点领域包括图像、视频和音频处理、网络、人机交互、图形和可视化、视觉艺术、互动媒体和计算机音乐。研究生培训计划将强调其中几个领域的广泛背景，而研究项目、互动装置和艺术表演将把拥有不同专业知识的小型跨学科研究人员团队聚集在一起。IGERT支持的计划将利用UCSB在相关领域的现有优势，并将涉及几个部门的参与。该项目将补充UCSB媒体艺术与技术项目，这是一个硕士级别的研究生项目，使来自几个系的博士生能够在现有基础上再接再厉。IGERT是一个NSF范围的项目，旨在应对培养具有多学科背景的美国博士科学家和工程师的挑战，以及未来职业需求所需的技术、专业和个人技能。该项目旨在通过建立创新的研究生教育和培训新模式，在超越传统学科界限的合作研究的肥沃环境中，催化研究生教育的文化变革。在该计划的第五年，将向21个机构颁发奖项，这些机构的项目共同涵盖了NSF支持的科学和工程领域。

This IGERT award will support the establishment of a multidisciplinary graduate training program of education and research at UCSB in the broad field of interactive digital multimedia. The objective of the program is to train students in a truly interdisciplinary approach to digital multimedia, while preparing them for careers in industry, research, and education. The convergence of digital media, computing, and communication has created new and exciting opportunities in science, engineering, and the arts. The goal of this program is to integrate multiple, diverse approaches to the creation, analysis, deployment, and utilization of digital media within a coherent educational framework of training and research. This multidisciplinary endeavor necessitates collaboration between students and faculty from a broad spectrum of backgrounds and perspectives, including computer science, electrical and computer engineering, psychology, geography, design, composition, and art. Through innovative and interdepartmental courses and seminars, opportunities for internships in industry, and guidance by faculty from several departments, students will gain a unique perspective on interactive multimedia, including the creation, encoding, and distribution of multimedia content, as well as applications of multimedia systems in education, communication, and arts and entertainment. Areas of focus for research and education include image, video, and audio processing, networking, human-computer interaction, graphics and visualization, visual arts, interactive media, and computer music. The graduate training program will emphasize a broad background in several of these areas, while research projects, interactive installations and artistic performances will bring together small, interdisciplinary teams of researchers with diverse expertise. The IGERT-supported program will leverage existing strengths at UCSB in related areas and will involve the participation of several departments. The program will complement the UCSB Media Arts and Technology Program, a masters-level graduate program, by enabling doctoral students from several departments to build upon the current foundation it provides.IGERT is an NSF-wide program intended to meet the challenges of educating U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers with the multidisciplinary backgrounds and the technical, professional, and personal skills needed for the career demands of the future. The program is intended to catalyze a cultural change in graduate education by establishing innovative new models for graduate education and training in a fertile environment for collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries. In the fifth year of the program, awards are being made to twenty-one institutions for programs that collectively span the areas of science and engineering supported by NSF.