On Coding Algorithms and Techniques for Multimedia Networking

Dear Fellow MMTC Members, Time flies, and it has been almost two years since I served as the MMTC Chair from June 2012. In this message, I would like to call for nominations of MMTC officers for 2014-2016 and MMTC Service Awards of 2014. During the past two years, MMTC has continued to flourish through the dedicated services of many volunteers. 13 MMTC Interest Groups have taken lead in organizing numerous special issues in top journals and magazines as well as conferences and workshops on hot multimedia topics. The TC has been keeping providing high quality monthly publications, with E-letters published in odd months and R-letter published in even months. Each issue of E-letter contains a special issue on emerging topics in multimedia as well as an industry column focusing on the recent industry innovations. Each issue of R-letter recommends top recent papers from the community, and includes a new distinguished category through collaborative recommendations with the Interest Groups. MMTC Service & Publicity Boards and Membership Boards work together in providing the best services to the community, through timely updates of the MMTC website and maintaining active MMTC Facebook and LinkedIn pages. MMTC Award Board is playing the key decisive role in selecting MMTC Best Paper Awards (by working with the Review Board) and MMTC Service Awards (by working with the MMTC officers). What I am particularly proud is the formalization of various voting and selection procedures, regarding the nomination and election of the following important positions/awards: For all the above positions and awards, MMTC has formulated a transparent procedure that usually involves nominations open to MMTC members through the email list, followed by a voting by a committee usually includes the current MMTC officers, and/or IG Chairs/Vice-Chairs as well as Board Directors/Co-Directors. The procedure encourages the maximum participation from the community, and the decisions are made through the collected wisdom of the most active volunteers who are contributing to the success of MMTC on a daily basis. Moving forward, it is now the time to elect the next edition of the TC leaders. An ad-hoc election committee has been formed, which is chaired by the past TC Chair, Dr. Haohong Wang ([email protected]) and includes a few past TC Chairs and senior officers. If you are interested in taking a leading role in shaping and serving the MMTC community in the next two years, please send your nomination (including self …