The challenges of the internet cannot be solved by technology alone. New
methods of research and product innovation are needed that enable the
iterative analysis, design, and development of "sociotechnical" systems
and applications. The challenges of creating large scale internet
services that connect billions of people, computational devices, and
media assets into a functional network require us to rethink computer
science, information science, social science, media studies, and design.
This talk will discuss new ways of reconceptualizing the objects and
methods of information technology research (especially in the area of
multimedia information systems) as well innovation processes for
corporate and academic research and development designed to address the
challenges and opportunities of inventing the next generation of
internet media systems and applications. We will also demonstrate
projects from Yahoo! Research that are researching and developing new
social media and mobile media technology and applications that leverage
contextual metadata and the power of communities to enable people to
create, describe, find, share, and remix media content (especially
photos, video, and audio) on the global internet. |