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6th consecutive year
In AIT by renowned
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Dr Brian Mandell.
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Multimedia, Knowledge and Web Technologies Research Area

Overview

The Multimedia, Knowledge and Web Technologies research area, following the emerging paradigm of cross-disciplinary research in the media and web worlds, masters education, research and development activities that build upon and innovate through the synergy of web (Semantic Web/Web 2.0/Web 3.0) technologies and knowledge engineering practices with multimedia technologies, aiming at devising next generation intelligent, self-aware/self-adaptable rich media interactive web applications and services deployed and validated in a number of application areas, such as:

  • E-learning, edutainment, serious/educational games
  • Entertainment through gaming (multi-player, online, mobile)
  • DTV/iTV and digital cinema, VoD, web TV, IPTV, video on the web
  • Multimedia archives and digital libraries, rich media web portals, multimedia information systems and search engines, recommender systems
  • Social networking applications, social media (Blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Delicious, Facebook, etc.)
  • Virtual/mixed reality worlds in digital entertainment, art, culture, education, collaboration spaces, etc.
  • E-commerce, e-business, e-government, e-publishing, etc.

Through research in this area we envision to build a solid research base in the areas of multimedia, knowledge and web technologies, so as to elicit from innovation new applications and services, and, by exploiting synergies, prove the synergetic concept in carefully selected application areas.
 

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MBIT Graduation, March 8, 2010
2010-03-11

On Monday, March 8, 2010, 40 students graduated from AIT ‘s Master in Management of Business, Innovation, and Technology (MBIT) . The graduates are from Armenia, Greece, Jordan, and Romania. The guest speaker at the graduation was Mr. Marios Kyriakou, President and CEO of KPMG Hellas.

Open Day Presentation
2010-03-11

An Open Day presentation took place on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at the AIT premises.

The AIT Alumni Club
2010-03-02

Is organizing an excursion to Kalavryta

AIT's Professor was elected as Chairman of the IEEE Photonics Society Greek Chapter
2010-02-22

Dr. Ioannis Tomkos of AIT was elected as Chairman of the IEEE Photonics Society Greek Chapter

OPEN INVITATION TO AIT RESEARCH SEMINAR, February 26, 2010
2010-02-19

"Detecting Fraud in Online Games of Chance and Lotteries"
by  Dr. Ioannis Christou, AIT
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