Biographical sketches of authors
V. Michael Bove, Jr.
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: vmb@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Bove holds an S.B.E.E., an S.M. in visual studies, and a Ph.D. in media technology, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently head of the Media Laboratory's Object-Based Media Group. He is a cofounder of, and technical advisor to, WatchPoint Media, Inc.
Jonathan Dakss
WatchPoint Media, Inc., 129 South Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02111 (electronic mail: dakss@watchpointmedia.com).
Mr. Dakss received a B.A. in computer science from Columbia University in 1997. He worked at Columbia's Center for Telecommunications Research and aided in the development of algorithms for a wavelet-based image and video compression and segmentation system now in use by the United States Air Force, Rome Laboratories. He received a master's degree in media technology at the MIT Media Laboratory in 1999. He cofounded WatchPoint Media, Inc. in 1999.
Edmond Chalom
Sarnoff Corporation, 201 Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08540 (electronic mail: echalom@sarnoff.com).
Dr. Chalom received his B.S., M.S., E.E., and Ph.D. degrees all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. research was performed at the MIT Media Laboratory. He is currently a member of the technical staff at Sarnoff Corporation in the Multimedia Technology Laboratory, specializing in image compression, image analysis, and pattern recognition. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu since 1987.
Stefan Agamanolis
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (personal Website: http://www.agamanolis.com).
Mr. Agamanolis is a Ph.D. degree candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory and a research assistant in the Object-Based Media Group. He has worked on a wide variety of research projects involving telepresence and telecollaboration, hyperlinked video, interactive storytelling, responsive environments, ambient media, and intelligent authoring tools for multimedia applications. His experimental Isis programming language serves as the foundation for the hyperlinked video prototypes described in this paper. Before coming to MIT, Mr. Agamanolis studied computer science, philosophy, and film at Oberlin College. Additional information is available at http://www.media.mit.edu/~stefan.
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