Message from ICME 2012 General Chairs

ICME 2012 is the thirteen in the series of ICME conferences that has been held annually since 2000, in various cities throughout the world. The success of this conference would not have been possible without the generous help of sponsors. Paper prizes and Student Travel Grants are sponsored by the National Information and Communications Technology Australia (NICTA), Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA), and Advanced Analytics Institute (AAI) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). ICME 2012 features a new plenary session - Time Machine! The session consists of a series of expert presentations that re-introduce ideas published "before their time" and, as a result, their impact has not yet been fully realized. ICME 2012 also has outstanding lectures including keynote lectures and research overviews. ICME 2012 will offer several paper prizes, including Best Paper Award, Best Student Paper Award, and Best Demo Award.