Data Compression Conference 2008, Call For Papers
Posted by Sachin Garg on 23rd August 2007 | Permanent Link
If you are in any way interested in data compression, DCC is a place where you really want to be. Where else can you expect to meet so many people who can all get so excited about saving 5 more bytes :-)
Just like every year, this time too it will be held at Cliff Lodge, Snowbird, Utah on March 25 - 27, 2008. They have posted the call for papers, so if you have anything cooking, you better check out the details. Submissions are due by November 12.
Here is the description of what all the conference covers, straight from their website:
Held at the Cliff Lodge convention center in the beautiful Snowbird / Alta Ski areas; located a short ride from the Salt Lake City International Airport. It is an international forum for current work on data compression and related applications. The conference addresses not only compression methods for specific types of data (text, images, video, audio, medical, scientific, space, graphics, web content, etc.), but also the use of techniques from information theory and data compression in networking, communications, and storage applications involving large data sets (including image and information mining, retrieval, archiving, backup, communications, and HCI). Both theoretical and experimental work are of interest.
September 18th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Please send me more information
October 18th, 2007 at 2:08 am
Could you send me registation / price information
October 18th, 2007 at 2:34 am
The fee is $485 for IEEE or affiliate members, $585 for non-members, and $385 for full-time students.
For more information on registration:
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/Registration.html
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc
February 11th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Sachin,
I am just beginning my research. Do you know where I might find some info on the market size for data compressed technology?
David
February 11th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Thats not a easy question to answer, I am not a marketing analyst and there is no ‘one’ data compression market :-)
It will depend a lot on what ‘application’ you want your research to be used for, and then maybe look at size of that market. If its a very generic compression thing, then list all the applications that will have a compelling enough reason to use it (5% better compression is not compelling enough to make people stop using zip).
I know I haven’t really answered your question but this is best I can do :-)
February 12th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
It is tough to compete with free software. Speaking from experience, you are better off giving your software away. If it is good, then opportunity will follow.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
You don’t even need to give away the compressor code! RAR seems to do well considering that only the decompressor is open-source.
PKWare is still in business even with all the free zip utilities available out there.
And so on.
February 15th, 2008 at 6:04 am
As far as I know, only the decompressor of an older version of RAR format is opensource.
February 15th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
You are probably right. But that just proves the point too seeing how the early RAR decompressor started up being available for most OSes of the time.
Give them a taste, don’t give out the family jewels, just a taste. And if your system is any good you will develop interest in your system even if it is closed source. On the other-hand if you try to lock everything and demand money/NDA to even let someone test your ideas, one should not be surprise if no-one bothers to look at your system.
February 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Yes, this makes sense.