As we move from the age of data to the age of knowledge, as we live in the age of Web 2.0, one man's vision is helping us make the paradigm shift from information to experience.
Ramesh Chandra Jain is a scientist, teacher and entrepreneur, whose decades long career has spanned several universities and start-up ventures. Dr. Jain has been an active researcher in Multimedia Information Systems, Image Databases, Machine Vision, and Intelligent Systems, and currently, Experiential Computing.
Dr Jain is currently at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) as the first Bren Professor in Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences in 2005. He comes to UCI from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he held the Distinguished Chair in Embedded Experiential Systems and was named a GRA Eminent Scholar. At Georgia Tech, he founded the Experiential Systems Group, his fourth significant research laboratory. While professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual computing labs.
He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Multimedia magazine and Machine Vision and Applications journal and serves on the editorial boards of several magazines in multimedia, business and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 250 research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. He has been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE. Currently, he is the Chairman of ACM SIG Multimedia.
Not one to be content with life as an academic, the entrepreneur in him has been equally active. He founded three companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. Most recently, he was the co-founder of PRAJA Inc. located in San Diego. Prior to PRAJA, he was the founding CEO and Chairman of Virage, a San Mateo-based company developing systems for media management solutions and visual information management. He was also the Founder and Chairman of ImageWare Inc., that provided solutions for surface modeling, reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, and inspection.
The multifaceted personality that he is, he is actively involved with industry as well as academia and enjoys writing. He is an avid blogger and shares his research and technical ideas on his blog. His current research is in experiential systems and their applications.
We are a people in transition, says Dr. Jain, in the process of moving from an information society to an experiential society, which will require systems and applications that allow us to immerse ourselves in rich sets of multimedia data and information that we can directly observe. Pragyan '10 presents a technological visionary with an Entrepreneur's spirit, Dr Ramesh Jain.
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