About the Authors

PHILIPPE AIGRAIN heads the Software Technologies sector of the Technologies and Engineering for Software, Systems and Services unit of the European Commission Information Society Technologies R&D Programme. Trained as a mathematician and theoretical computer scientist, he holds a doctorate and the Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches from Universitè Paris 7. From 1972 to 1981, he worked in software engineering research labs of software companies. In 1982, Mr. Aigrain was a research fellow at University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining the European Commission in 1996, he headed research teams in computer processing, indexing, retrieval and interaction for audiovisual media (video, music, and still images). He is the ...

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