IN2 search interfaces development Ltd

IN2 is the top class provider of solutions and services to search, retrieve, and experience multimedia content. We focus on both rich media content indexing and content presentation. We support context-based browsing and visualization, making vast digital collections easily and speedily accessible to the user. IN2’s technologies are licensed to third party media asset management solution providers, and has been awarded “Innovationspreis 2007 ITK” in Germany for its excellence. More info at http://www.in-two.com/.

spring techno GmbH

Located in North Germany, Spring Technologies provides custom-tailored software solutions and innovative interface technologies. Its specialty is development of state-of-the-art client software. Since 2000, Springs´ team of software developers has focused on cutting-edge customized products for institutional clients. Spring Technologies produces lean, flexible products that are easily extendable and customizable. Middleware solutions enable administrative client access and rights, and client focused individual messaging and activity logs. More info at http://www.springtechno.com/.

VISup S.r.l

VISup, founded in November 2007, is the first Italian company working on Information Visualisation and User Experience Design; offering its services to global leaders in areas of sport technology, pharmacology, cartography, cultural heritage, and new media. The company is also involved in active research through educational partnerships with prominent Italian universities and international researchers, with a focus on Human Computer Interaction and Digital Services Design.
VISup has been active in the national start-ups scene, recognized by Provincia di Milano in 2008 as one of the most creative and innovative companies; and recently winning 3rd prize for top innovative Italian start-ups during SMAU edition in Milan. The company also operates with a keen social focus, providing opportunities for local youth in places like Southern Italy. Lately, VISup has invested in R&D projects such as ClosR.it and VisualSport.com, in order to evaluate new user scenarios. More info at http://www.visup.it/.

Stiching Hogeschoolvoor de Kunsten Utrecht

Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) is the largest institute of postgraduate and professional education in the arts in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. The institute is nationally and internationally recognised for its teaching and research in digital and interactive media, and its research in the areas of e-learning, e-research and knowledge management. More info at http://www.hku.nl/.

Università degli Studi di Firenze, Centro per la Comunicazione e l’Integrazione dei Media

Università degli Studi di Firenze is an academic institution engaged in higher level education and research. It is a public institution providing higher level education to more than 50.000 students in several fields, covering medicine, humanistic, scientific and technological areas. Technological disciplines are the main subject for the School of Engineering. The Media Integration and Communication Center was established in September 2001 at the University of Firenze by the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research as a national “Center of Excellence” in the area of new media, addressing advanced information technology and applications, as well as their related legal aspects. Its mission is to develop qualified research and innovation transfer in cooperation with national and international universities, research institutions and companies, as well as high-level education, in cooperation with the Master in Multimedia of the University of Firenze. The Center contributes also to PhD programs and professional training both in the information and communication technology and in juridical, social and communication sciences. More info at http://www.micc.unifi.it/.

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores

The Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering is a non-profit institution, dedicated to ICT research. Its mission is to develop tomorrow’s technologies by excelling in research today. It consists of over 70 staff members – mostly university professors – and numerous post-graduate students. In the last 5 years, INESC-ID has generated over 1000 scientific papers in journals and international conferences, dozens of industrial prototypes and computer systems based on state-of-the-art technologies, and a number of patents and awards. The Spoken Language Systems Lab L2F of INESC-ID includes around 30 researchers, consisting of professors (7), IST (Instituto Superior Tecnico) graduate students, post-docs (3), and guest researchers from other universities (3). This strongly interdisciplinary group is actively involved in many areas of spoken language R&D, such as speech recognition and synthesis, audio indexation, multimodal dialogue systems, language and dialect identification, speech-to-speech machine translation (S2SMT), and computer-assisted language learning (CALL). More info at http://www.inesc.pt/.