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Internet and Multimedia System Challenges in Next Generation Tele-Immersive Environments

Dr. Klara Nahrstedt
Ralph M. & Catherine V. Fisher Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

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Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Klara Nahrstedt is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Computer Science Department. Her research interests are directed towards multimedia middleware systems, quality of service (QoS), QoS routing, QoS-aware resource management in distributed multimedia systems, protocols for tele-immersive systems, and multimedia security. She is the coauthor of the widely used multimedia books Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications published by Prentice Hall 1995, and Multimedia Systems published by Springer Verlag 2004. She is the recipient of the Early NSF Career Award, the Junior Xerox Award, the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, and the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professorship Chair. She was the editor-in-chief of ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal (2000-2005), she was the general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2006, and she is the co-chair of ACM NOSSDAV 2007.
Klara Nahrstedt received her BA in mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 1984, and M.Sc. degree in numerical analysis from the same university in 1985. She was a research scientist in the Institute for Informatik in Berlin until 1990. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science.

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