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ACM VRST 2002 November 11–13, 2002, Hong Kong, China ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST) is an annual conference devoted to the technical aspects of virtual reality. The first VRST was held in Singapore in 1994 and since then it has been held in Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Taiwan, England, Korea, and Canada. This will be the ninth VRST annual conference to be held in Hong Kong, China. The VRST proceedings are published by ACM and can be purchased directly from them. VRST 2002 will be held in Hong Kong, China, a dynamic city of over 6 million people and a meeting point of Eastern and Western cultures. The conference will be co-hosted by the state key lab of Zhejiang University and The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in co-operation with other local universities in Hong Kong and Mainland China. VRST 2002 aims at bringing together researchers from both east and west continents to present the state-of-the-art VR advances in this ever-growing dynamic area. Post-conference tour to the major tourist sites in Hong Kong and Mainland will be organized. For information on submitting papers, and more information on the conference see the conference WEB page: http://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/vrst2002. PII: S 0 0 9 7 - 8 4 9 3 ( 0 2 ) 0 0 0 7 0 - 5
WEDELMUSIC 2002 2nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WEB DELIVERING OF MUSIC December 9–11, 2002, Darmstadt, Germany http://www.wedelmusic.org/wedelmusic 2002 The popularity of Internet and multimedia has increased the need for rapid diffusion of culture in new formats. Since its beginnings, music has never shied away from incorporating the latest technological advances to maximise expressive power. Its pioneering role in the use of Internet technology to broadcast audio and music files continues to break new boundaries. Current state of the art still distributes music either on paper or on CD or similar media. However, the possibility to distribute music in several other formats, such as symbolic, audio (in its several available formats) and as images of music scores opens several new avenues for research. At the same time, Internet technologies are having a strong impact on system architectures and business processes, while new regulations are changing the distribution mechanisms of music in important ways. General chair Christoph Busch Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Darmstadt, Germany E-mail address:
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