{"id":1889,"date":"2009-09-22T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T13:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=1889"},"modified":"2009-09-22T07:02:46","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T14:02:46","slug":"larry-rowe-wins-acm-sigmm-outstanding-technical-achievement-award-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=1889","title":{"rendered":"Larry Rowe wins ACM SIGMM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 winner of the prestigious <a title=\"ACM SIGMM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sigmm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia<\/a> Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement is our own Dr. Lawrence Rowe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have seen this award referred in a number of different ways (even on the ACM SIGMM website), but the above, and &#8220;Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications&#8221; seem to be the most common.\u00a0 It is only the second year of the award, so we have to wait a while before a cute nickname arises.\u00a0 (The Mummy award?)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stealing directly from his bio:\u00a0 Dr. Rowe is  currently President of <a title=\"FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fxpal.com\" target=\"_blank\">FX Palo Alto Laboratory<\/a> and an Emeritus Professor of  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.\u00a0The ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement  award, given in recognition of outstanding contributions over a researcher\u2019s  career, cited his \u201cpioneering research in continuous media software  systems and visionary leadership of the multimedia research community.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 The  award will be presented at <a title=\"ACM Multimedia Conference 2009\" href=\"http:\/\/sigmm.utdallas.edu\/Conference%20Calendar\/acm-mm-2009-beijing\" target=\"_blank\">ACM Multimedia 2009<\/a> that will be held October 19-24,  2009 in Beijing China.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to call him Dr. Rowe in this post, but I don&#8217;t think any former student of his could feel comfortable calling him anything other than &#8220;Larry.&#8221; Prior to his work on multimedia, Larry made important contributions to the relational database field.\u00a0 The Multimedia community probably doesn&#8217;t care much about Larry&#8217;s work on the <a title=\"Ingres (Database) | Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingres_%28database%29\" target=\"_blank\">INGRES<\/a> and the POSTGRES database systems, but they should.\u00a0  Every relational database system, every collection of metadata, every corporate or not-so-corporate website that lets you log in and customizes your interface and interaction owes a huge debt to what Larry and his colleagues did.<\/p>\n<p>In the multimedia space, the Berkeley MPEG1 tools created by Larry and his students are responsible for video on computers moving from requiring the purchase of special purpose hardware and software to being something we all take for granted.\u00a0 The Berkeley lecture <a title=\"UC Berkeley Video and Podcasts for Courses &amp; Events | UC Berkeley\" href=\"http:\/\/webcast.berkeley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Webcast<\/a> system was broadcasting the UCB Multimedia Seminar across the <a title=\"MBone: Multicasting Tomorrow's Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savetz.com\/mbone\/\" target=\"_blank\">MBone<\/a> before most people were using web browsers, and led to a system that lets people world-wide watch great UC Berkeley courses.<\/p>\n<p>So, congratulations Larry!\u00a0 I can speak for your former students and your current FXPAL colleagues by saying that we are incredibly pleased and proud!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2009 winner of the prestigious ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement is our own Dr. Lawrence Rowe.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I have seen this award referred in a number of different ways (even on the ACM SIGMM website), but the above, and &#8220;Outstanding Technical Contributions to Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications&#8221; 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