[Cmul_merc] CMul lectures next week

[fp]

  Dear CMul students

  While it was not my intention to travel more until the end of this 
semester,*I come here to tell you that next week, days 11 and 12 April, 
there will be no CMul Lectures. To compensate the missing theoretical 
lectures, there will be a 3 hours long theoretical lecture on Thursday, 
April 14, at 3pm, in room 1.3. *This long lecture will be very important 
because, by coincidence, will be fully dedicate to audio (notably MP3) 
coding.

  Because you deserve an explanation, I should tell you the reason for 
this change ...

  Google/YouTube are organizing the next April 11-12, a YouTube World 
Research Summit at their premises (and all at their expenses) in San 
Francisco for which they invited what they called the 'world top 
professors in Media Creation, Social Interactions, and Video 
Processing/Infrastructure' (in this case, 25 professors from US and 
Europe). The idea is to have YouTube top managers presenting the invited 
people their ideas about the future and labs, and hear our feedback and 
suggestions.

  While I though about rejecting this invitation to avoid missing the 
CMul lectures, I concluded after that this would be a silly decision as 
the students themselves will finally, although indirectly, benefit from 
my presence at this Summit and what I will learn there.  I hope you 
agree ...

  Regards
Fernando Pereira

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Fernando Manuel Bernardo Pereira, Ph.D.
IEEE, EURASIP, IET Fellow, IEEE SPS BoG, EURASIP BoD, JPEG Reqs Chair
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa - Instituto de Telecomunicações
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Phone:  + 351 21 8418460           Fax:    + 351 21 8418472
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