Dynamic virtual communities spring from audio-visual content networks
February 8, 2013
CONTENT Network of Excellence (NoE) is a European Research Network coordinated by Prof. Dr. Arturo Azcorra from University Carlos III of Madrid, recently appointed Director General for Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurial Development at the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, and Director (on leave) of IMDEA Networks. CONTENT NoE has recently concluded a three year joint research effort in the field of telecommunications, targeted to the advancement of state of the art Content Delivery Networks for Home Users, which constitute an integral part of Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms. The overall goal has been the integration of a vast community of researchers aiming to boost the availability of new technologies and models for low-cost, pervasive audio-visual content conservation and distribution, with particular emphasis on the reinforcement of European networking communities. Thinking of tomorrow, CONTENT NoE has focused on the dissemination of excellence as a primary scientific objective, on the basis that research of new technologies that allow different levels of communication contributes to the emergence of new communication styles and language patterns. A key factor of scientific development in the field of telecommunications is its central impact on the multiplication of human/societal/communicative ways of being in the world.
The R&D work carried out by CONTENT NoE members has laid the foundation for the first generation of Autonomic Content Networks, covering around 30 joint tasks related to content networking, overlay networking, and content services. CONTENT NoE can be best described as a community of scientists working together in an environment that fosters the integration of research trends and outputs, in a manner that epitomizes the very subject and object of their work, that is, to enable and enhance European Community Networking at all user levels. CONTENT NoE has made the education and training of young researchers key to further develop the European Research Area through collaboration and it has established the basis for a sustained increase of European leadership in the development of a key aspect of Information society technologies: content networks.
Amongst the partners of this Network of excellence were representatives from major European universities, such as University Carlos III of Madrid, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Technische Universität Darmstadt and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The private sector was represented by associates such as Telefonica Research Barcelona, Philips Research, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia Research Center and Google Switzerland GmbH amongst others.
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