At the ACM DocEngineering Symposium in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 16 till 19 September, CWI researchers Jack Jansen and Dick Bulterman received the Best Paper Award.
They received it for their contribution: Enabling Adaptive Time-based Web Applications with SMIL State. The paper, which describes a declarative data-model approach to sharing dynamic presentation context among XML components, was selected as best contribution both by a panel of former program chairs and by the audience at the symposium. The work has also been integrated into the up-coming SMIL 3.0 language for interactive multimedia presentations, set to be published later this year.
Jansen and Bulterman are members of CWI's Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures group. This is the group's second Best Paper award in 2008.
Photo: Jack Jansen (in the middle) accepted the award from Dr. Steven Simske (HP Labs, USA) and Prof. David Brailsford (U. Nottingham, UK).
