[comp.society] Multimedia Information Systems Conference

samia@violet.berkeley.edu (Samia Benidir) (11/10/90)

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            AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE
		   1991 Call For Presentations

                  MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS
                    ASIS 1991 Mid-Year Meeting
		         APRIL 26-29, 1991
		      Santa Clara, California 


	The 20th ASIS Mid-Year Meeting will focus on one of the most 
important new areas in information systems: Multimedia. Traditional 
concerns with text and numerical data are being supplemented and may 
ultimately be supplanted by increasing attention to the documentation 
of objects, sounds, images, and moving images. Digitized sounds and 
still, moving and 3-D images are being stored, indexed, retrieved, and 
manipulated.  Combinations of text with images and sounds are becoming 
more common.  These new developments promise to change the way we think
about information.

	How are multimedia developments going to be used to provide
improved information services? What relevant experiences from art 
collections, museums, engineering files, and photo, film and sound 
archives can be used for digitized records? What new opportunities
and challenges will digitized forms of sounds and images bring?

	Building better information services will require that we 
effectively use images and sound in combination with test and numerical
data. To achieve these advancements we must make significant progress
in computing, data storage, and telecommunications. The 1991 ASIS 
Mid-Year Meeting will present cutting-edge research and development in
the information sciences which build upon our experience with text and
data by adding access to sound and images. It will also explore current
and potential applications of this research.


DUE DATES & WHERE TO SEND YOUR SUBMISSION:

Please submit your proposed contributions by November 30, 1990.
Proposals may be sent via U.S. mail, electronic mail, or fax.
You will be notified by January 2, 1991 of acceptance or rejection.
At that time further information will be provided to those whose 
proposals have been accepted.

Send all proposals to:

	MICHAEL BUCKLAND
	Technical Program Chair,
	1991 ASIS Mid-Year Meeting
	School of Library and Information Studies
	University of California
	Berkeley, California, USA 94720

	Telephone: (415) 642-3159
	Fax: (415) 642-5814

	Internet: Buckland@cmsa.Berkeley.edu
	Bitnet: Buckland@ucbcmsa