Ph.D. Media Arts and Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
MIT Media Laboratory, Machine Understanding Group

M.A. Literary Science and Philosophy (with highest honors)
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Literary Science Department and Philosophy Department

B.A. College of Letters (with high honors)
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
College of Letters

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Also awarded seldom-given, second year renewal of fellowship.

Founding Director
Yahoo! Research Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Yahoo! Research Berkeley is a new research partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and the University of California at Berkeley to explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media on the web. Yahoo! Research Labs - Berkeley combines world-class media technology and design research with the scale and impact of the world's leading internet media company. We are bringing together world-renowned experts in the fields of media technology, social software, context-aware computing, mobile computing, and user and design research who will shape the future of internet media. In support of these goals, Yahoo! Research Berkeley and the University of California at Berkeley have created an innovative corporate-academic collaboration for research and development.

Assistant Professor and Director of Garage Cinema Research
School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Prof. Marc Davis' work is focused on creating the technology and applications that will enable daily media consumers to become daily media producers. His research and teaching encompass the theory, design, and development of digital media systems for creating and using media metadata to automate media production, sharing, and reuse. Prof. Davis and his students in Garage Cinema Research are working on: Mobile Media Metadata (context-aware mobile media technology and applications that leverage contextual metadata-spatial, temporal and social-to infer media content and support media sharing and reuse); the Social Uses of Personal Media (social science and design research to learn how and why people use digital imaging in order to support the design of next generation mobile media applications); Media Streams Metadata Exchange (media metadata framework for annotating, retrieving, sharing, and remixing media on the Web); Active Capture (interactive cameras that use signal processing and computer-human interaction to capture high quality, reusable, annotated media assets); and Adaptive Media (adaptive media templates and automatic editing functions to mass customize and personalize media). Working together, these research projects and their related technologies will radically simplify, decentralize, and personalize media production, sharing, and reuse, bringing about a "Garage Cinema" revolution in which people use computational media to communicate with each other every day.

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
Amova, San Francisco, CA

Responsible for the technical and creative vision of Amova based on a decade of research and development in media annotation and retrieval, automation of media production, and the personalization and reuse of media. Amova develops and licenses patented and proprietary technologies for media automation and personalization.

Conceived and managed product and technology strategy, design, user testing, and demonstrations. Product prototypes include: automated video capture systems; automatically edited and personalized videos; and personalized media web site and services.

Co-author of eight utility patents covering the technologies invented and developed at Amova.

Project Coordinator and Member of Research Staff
Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

Project Coordinator of multiyear, multimillion-dollar research project in automatic media production technology. Provided technical, creative, and managerial leadership of project through research and advanced development phases. Project included technical, production, and business development teams working on systems and prototypes including: media annotation and retrieval tools; media automation and personalization tools and applications; visual language programming tools; and participatory media interfaces and systems.

Responsible for research plans, technical reports, patent applications, external publications, project plans, budgets, detailed annual and quarterly progress reports, project presentations, team building and hiring, employee reviews, design and management of user studies, and business development research, modeling, planning, and presentations.

Researcher on other projects in: home entertainment appliances and applications; interactive video applications using PC-based digital cameras; interactive video database of consumer use of portable objects; home consumer (especially teen) media behavior studies; computer games for pre-teen girls; interfaces for web-based content delivery; and psychological studies of media perception and interaction. Research advisor to many other projects as well.

Initiated and advised Interval’s sponsorship of the MIT Media Laboratory ($2.4 million over 5 years).

Initiated and advised Interval Fellows Program for sponsoring MIT Media Laboratory students‘ research.

Research Assistant
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
MIT Media Laboratory, Machine Understanding Group

Conceived of, researched, and developed Media Streams, a semantic visual language system for annotating, retrieving, and repurposing digital video. Project was supported by the Television of Tomorrow and News In the Future consortia as well as by a directed research grant from British Telecom.

Managed three-person team of Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program students to design and develop Media Streams over several years. Responsible for hiring, budgeting, and employee training.

Conducted numerous (many per week) demonstrations and presentations of Media Streams technology and concepts to visiting delegations from sponsor companies.

Co-developed with other researchers: prototype system for using narrative, character, and storyboards for program debugging interface; prototype system for automatic editing of movie trailers; and conceptual framework for user interaction design (especially as applied to virtual environments).

Research Intern
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA

One of MERL’s first two summer research interns. Designed and developed the Animated Icon Editor for the Media Streams system and presented research to MERL research staff.

Interactive Media Design Consultant
BMW Museum, Munich, Germany

Co-developed proposal for redesign of BMW Museum in Munich, Germany. Proposal suggested using historic BMW automobiles as an interface to an immersive, networked virtual environment simulating the history of Munich and BMW. BMW Museum also recommended me as an interactive media design consultant to General Motors for the redesign of their corporate automotive museum.

At the request of BMW, co-designed and co-lead museum design workshop based on BMW Museum Proposal in conjunction with Expedition '92: Launching to New Worlds of Learning conference.

Research Coordinator, Instructor, and Translator
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Intertextuality Research Project, Literary Science Department

Initiated and managed computerization of multimillion dollar, multiyear Intertextuality Research Project. Developed project computerization proposal and budgets, obtained funding, purchased, installed, and maintained systems, wrote German language documentation, and trained and managed project staff.

Co-translated book length collection of literary theory articles by Professor Renate Lachmann.

Narrative Intelligence Reading Group
Marc Davis and Michael Travers Co-Founders
MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

This weekly reading group (and mailing list) brought together students and faculty from both inside and outside the MIT Media Laboratory to explore issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence, literary theory, and media studies.

Chitra Madhwacharyula, Marc Davis, Philippe Mulhem, and Mohan S. Kankanhalli. "Metadata Handling: A Video Perspective." ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications. 2, 4 (Nov. 2006), 358-388.

Marc Davis. "Editing Out Video Editing." IEEE MultiMedia, 10 (2). April-June 2003. 54-64.

Marc Davis. "From Pirates to Patriots: Fair Use for Digital Media." IEEE MultiMedia, 9 (4). October-December 2002. 4-7.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology." Communications of the ACM (50th Anniversary Edition Invited Article) 40 (2 1997): 42-48.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: An Iconic Visual Language for Video Annotation." Telektronikk 4.93 (1993): 59-71.

Shane Ahern, Marc Davis, Simon King, Mor Naaman, and Rahul Nair. "Reliable, User-Contributed GSM Cell-Tower Positioning Using Context-Aware Photos." In: Adjunct Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006) in Irvine, California, 2006.

Alexander Jaffe, Mor Naaman, Tamir Tassa, and Marc Davis. "Generating Summaries and Visualization for Large Collections of Geo-Referenced Photographs." In: Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR ’06) in Santa Barbara, California, ACM Press, 89-98, 2006.

Shane Ahern, Marc Davis, Dean Eckles, Simon King, Mor Naaman, Rahul Nair, Mirjana Spasojevic, and Jeannie Hui-I Yang. "ZoneTag: Designing Context-Aware Mobile Media Capture to Increase Participation." In: Proceedings of the Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing: New Social Practices and Implications for Technology Workshop (PICS 2006) at the Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2006) in Irvine, California, 2006.

Cameron Marlow, Mor Naaman, danah boyd, and Marc Davis. "HT06, tagging paper, taxonomy, Flickr, academic article, to read." In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (HYPERTEXT '06) in Odense, Denmark, ACM Press, 31-40, 2006.

Alexander Jaffe, Mor Naaman, Tamir Tassa, and Marc Davis. "Generating Summaries for Large Collections of Geo-Referenced Photographs." In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW '06) in Edinburgh, Scotland, ACM Press, 853-854, 2006.

George W. Furnas, Caterina Fake, Luis von Ahn, Joshua Schachter, Scott Golder, Kevin Fox, Marc Davis, Cameron Marlow, and Mor Naaman. "Why Do Tagging Systems Work?" In: Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006) in Montréal, Québec, Canada, ACM Press, 36-39, 2006.

Marc Davis, Michael Smith, Fred Stentiford, Adetokunbo Bambidele, John Canny, Nathan Good, Simon King, and Rajkumar Janakiraman. "Using Context and Similarity for Face and Location Identification." In: Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE 18th Annual Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology Internet Imaging VII in San Jose, California, IS&T/SPIE Press, 2006.

Ryan Shaw and Marc Davis. "Toward Emergent Representations for Video." In: Proceedings of 13th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) in Singapore, ACM Press, 431-434, 2005.

Marc Davis, Michael Smith, John Canny, Nathan Good, Simon King, and Rajkumar Janakiraman. "Towards Context-Aware Face Recognition." In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) in Singapore, ACM Press, 483-486, 2005.

Ana Ramirez Chang and Marc Davis. "Active Capture Design Case Study: SIMS Faces." In: Proceedings of Conference on Designing for User eXperience (DUX 2005) in San Francisco, California, 2005.

Rahul Nair and Marc Davis. “Bluetooth Pooling to Enrich Co-Presence Information.” In: Adjunct Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005) in Tokyo, Japan, 2005.

Nancy A. Van House and Marc Davis. “The Social Life of Cameraphone Images.” In: Proceedings of the Pervasive Image Capture and Sharing: New Social Practices and Implications for Technology Workshop (PICS 2005) at the Seventh International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2005) in Tokyo, Japan, 2005.

Ana Chang and Marc Davis. "Designing Systems That Direct Human Action." In: Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005) in Portland, Oregon, ACM Press, 1260-1263, 2005.

Nancy Van House, Marc Davis, Morgan Ames, Megan Finn, Vijay Viswanathan. "The Uses of Personal Networked Digital Imaging: An Empirical Study of Cameraphone Photos and Sharing." In: Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005) in Portland, Oregon, ACM Press, 1853-1856, 2005.

Marc Davis, Nancy Van House, Jeff Towle, Simon King, Shane Ahern, Carrie Burgener, Dan Perkel, Megan Finn, Vijay Viswanathan, and Matthew Rothenberg. "MMM2: Mobile Media Metadata for Media Sharing." In: Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2005) in Portland, Oregon, ACM Press, 1335-1338, 2005.

Marc Davis, Simon King, Nathan Good, and Risto Sarvas. "From Context to Content: Leveraging Context to Infer Media Metadata." In: Proceedings of 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2004) Brave New Topics Session on "From Context to Content: Leveraging Contextual Metadata to Infer Multimedia Content" in New York, New York, ACM Press, 188-195, 2004.

Marc Davis and Risto Sarvas. “Mobile Media Metadata for Mobile Imaging.” In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004) Special Session on Mobile Imaging in Taipei, Taiwan, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004.

Ana Ramirez and Marc Davis. “Active Capture and Folk Computing.” In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004) Special Session on Folk Information Access Through Media in Taipei, Taiwan, IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004.

Marc Davis, Nathan Good, and Risto Sarvas. "From Context to Content: Leveraging Context for Mobile Media Metadata (Workshop Paper)." Presented At: MobiSys 2004 Workshop on Context Awareness at the Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services in Boston, Massachusetts, 2004.

Risto Sarvas, Erick Herrarte, Anita Wilhelm, and Marc Davis. “Metadata Creation System for Mobile Images.” In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys2004) in Boston, Massachusetts. ACM Press, 36-48, 2004.

Anita Wilhelm, Yuri Takhteyev, Risto Sarvas, Nancy Van House, and Marc Davis. "Photo Annotation on a Camera Phone." In: Extended Abstracts of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004) in Vienna, Austria. ACM Press, 1403-1406, 2004.

Jeffrey Heer, Nathaniel S. Good, Ana Ramirez, Marc Davis, and Jennifer Mankoff. “Presiding Over Accidents: System Direction of Human Action.” In: Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004) in Vienna, Austria. ACM Press, 463-470, 2004.

Marc Davis. "Theoretical Foundations for Experiential Systems Design." In: Proceedings of the ACM SIGMM 2003 Workshop on Experiential Telepresence (ETP 2003) at the 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Berkeley, California, ACM Press, 45-52, 2003.

Marc Davis. “Active Capture: Integrating Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Vision/Audition to Automate Media Capture.” In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2003) Special Session on Moving from Features to Semantics using Computational Media Aesthetics in Baltimore, Maryland, IEEE Computer Society Press, Vol. II, 185-188, 2003.

Marc Davis and Michael Travers. "A Brief Overview of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group." Invited Paper In: Papers from AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence in North Falmouth, Massachusetts (Technical Report FS-99-01), AAAI Press, 11-16, 1999.

Marc Davis and Warren Sack. "IDIC: Assembling Video Sequences from Story Plans and Content Annotations." In: Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems in Boston, Massachusetts, IEEE Computer Society Press, 30-36, 1994.

Marc Davis, Daniel Russell, Catherine Baudin, and Smadar Kedar. "No Multimedia Without Representation." In: Proceedings of Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia in San Francisco, California, ACM Press, 181-182, 1994.

Marc Davis. "Knowledge Representation for Video." In: Proceedings of Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94) in Seattle, Washington, AAAI Press, 120-127, 1994.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: An Iconic Visual Language for Video Annotation." In: Proceedings of 1993 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages in Bergen, Norway, IEEE Computer Society Press, 196-202, 1993.

Marc Davis, Kevin McGee, and Edith Ackermann. "Design and Evaluation of Virtual Realities (Tutorial Notes)." In: Proceedings of INTERCHI'93 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ACM Press, 1993.

Marc Davis and Michael Travers. "Programming with Characters." Short Paper In: Conference Companion for CHI '92 in Monterey, California, ACM Press, 1992.

Marc Davis and Michael Travers. "Programming with Characters." In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Orlando, Florida, ed. Wayne D. Gray, et al., ACM Press, 269-272, 1993.

Marc Davis and Kevin McGee. "Virtual Reality as Mass Medium." In: Proceedings of Electronic Imaging International '91 in Boston, Massachusetts, Miller Freeman Expositions, 281-289, 1991.

Marc Davis. "Virtual Camcorders and Cyberstyles." Abbreviated Abstract In: Collected Abstracts of The Second International Conference on Cyberspace, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 47, 1991.

Marc Davis. "Director's Workshop: Semantic Video Logging with Intelligent Icons." In: Proceedings of AAAI-91 Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces in Anaheim, California, ed. Mark Maybury, AAAI Press, 122-132, 1991.

Marc Davis, John Canny, Nancy Van House, Nathan Good, Simon King, Rahul Nair, Carrie Burgener, Bruce Rinehart, Rachel Strickland, Guy Campbell, Scott Fisher, and Nick Reid. "MMM2: Mobile Media Metadata for Media Sharing (Video)." In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) in Singapore, ACM Press, 2005.
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Shane Ahern, Simon King, and Marc Davis. "MMM2: Mobile Media Metadata for Photo Sharing (Demonstration Description)." In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) in Singapore, ACM Press, 2005.

Rahul Nair, Nick Reid, and Marc Davis. "Photo LOI: Browsing Multi-User Photo Collections (Demonstration Description)." In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) in Singapore, ACM Press, 2005.

Marc Davis, John Canny, Nancy Van House, Nathan Good, Simon King, Rahul Nair, Carrie Burgener, Bruce Rinehart, Rachel Strickland, Guy Campbell, Scott Fisher, and Nick Reid. "MMM2: Mobile Media Metadata for Media Sharing (Video Description)." In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) in Singapore, ACM Press, 2005.

Shane Ahern, Simon King, and Marc Davis. "PhotoRouter: Destination-Centric Mobile Media Messaging (Demonstration Description)." In: Proceedings of 13th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2005) in Singapore, ACM Press, 2005.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: Metadata Creation System for Mobile Images (Video)." In: Video Proceedings of 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2004) in New York, New York, ACM Press, 2004.
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Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: Metadata Creation System for Mobile Images (Video Description)." In: Proceedings of 12th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2004) in New York, New York, ACM Press, 936-937, 2004.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata (Video)." Presented At: Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2004) in Boston, Massachusetts, 2004.
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Marc Davis. "Active Capture: Automatic Direction for Automatic Movies (Video)." In: Video Proceedings of 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Berkeley, California, ACM Press, 2003.
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Marc Davis, Jeffrey Heer, and Ana Ramirez. "Active Capture: Automatic Direction for Automatic Movies (Demonstration Description)." In: Proceedings of 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Berkeley, California, ACM Press, 88-89, 2003.

Marc Davis. "Active Capture: Automatic Direction for Automatic Movies (Video Description)." In: Proceedings of 11th Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia in Berkeley, California, ACM Press, 602-603, 2003.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing (Video)." In: Video Proceedings of Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia in San Francisco, California, ACM Press, 1994.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing (Video Description)." In: Proceedings of Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia in San Francisco, California, ACM Press, 478-479, 1994.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing (Demonstration Description)" In: Proceedings of Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia in San Francisco, California, ACM Press, 464-465, 1994.

Marc Davis. "Narrative Intelligence." In: The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, eds. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan. London: Routledge, 2005.

Marc Davis and Michael Travers. "A Brief Overview of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group." In: Narrative Intelligence, eds. Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers. 27-38. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Company, 2003.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: An Iconic Visual Language for Video Representation." In: Readings in Human-Computer Interaction: Toward the Year 2000, eds. Ronald M. Baecker, Jonathan Grudin, William A. S. Buxton, and Saul Greenberg. 854-866. 2nd ed., San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., 1995.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing." Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995. Readers: Professor Kenneth Haase, Professor Seymour Papert, Professor Henry Jenkins.

Marc Davis. "Die Philosophie der Sprache und die Sprache der Philosophie: Eine Untersuchung zur Rhetorik der Philosophie am Beispiel Hobbes" ("The Philosophy of Language and the Language of Philosophy: An Investigation of the Rhetoric of Philosophy in Hobbes"). M.A. Thesis, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany, 1987. Readers: Professor Wolfgang Iser, Professor Michael Cahn, Professor Gottfried Gabriel.

Marc Davis. "Nietzsche: Philosophical Reading and Writing." B.A. Thesis, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1984. (Nominated by College of Letters for University Honors). Reader: Professor Judith Butler.

Marc Davis and Brian Williams. "Automatic Media Editing System." Patent TW482987B. Filed: January 3, 2000. Issued: April 11, 2002.

Marc Davis and Brian Williams. "Automatic Personalized Media Creation System." Patent WO0150416. Filed: January 3, 2000. Issued: July 12, 2001.

Marc Davis and Brian Williams. "Secure Uniform Resource Locator System." Patent TW544615B. Filed: January 3, 2000. Issued: August 1, 2003.

Marc Davis and Brian Williams. "Automatic Media and Advertising System." Patent TW482985B. Filed: January 3, 2000. Issued: April 11, 2002.

Marc Davis and Brian Williams. "Automatic User Performance Capture System." Patent TW484108B. Filed: January 3, 2000. Issued: April 21, 2002.

Marc Davis and Brian Williams. "Automatic Personalized Media Creation System." Patent TW487887B. Filed: January 3, 2000. Issued: May 21, 2002.

Marc Davis and Brian Williams. "Automatic Personalized Media Identification System." Patent TW482986B. Filed: January 3, 2000. Issued: April 11, 2002.

Marc Davis, et al. "Time-Based Media Processing System." US Patent 5,969,716. Filed: August 6, 1996. Issued: October 19, 1999.

Marc Davis, et al. "Time-Based Media Processing System." US Patent 6,243,087. Continuation of US Patent 5,969,716. Filed: September 28, 1999. Issued: June 5, 2001.

Paul Freiberger, et al. "Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device." US Patent 6,034,652. Filed: March 22, 1996. Issued: March 7, 2000.

Marc Davis, et al. "Method for Creating Reusable Automatic Personalized Media." Filed: January 3, 2000.

Marc Davis, et al. "Automatic Electronic Advertising Viewership Tracking System." Filed: January 3, 2000.

Marc Davis, et al. "Home Media Tools: Animation, Media Editing, and Production for Individuals." Research Overview for Interval Research Home Page. Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, California, 1997.

James Fallows. "A Thousand Words." The Atlantic Monthly. 297 (4), April 2006, 133-135.

Prof. Greg Niemeyer. "Press # for Democracy." Center for New Media: Colloquium Blog. March 15, 2006.

Christine Herron. "Yahoo! Mobility Breaks Open the Space-Time Continuum." Christine.net. January 26, 2006.

Michael Bazeley. "Yahoo! wants you to share, not just search, on Web." The Seattle Times. Seattle, Washington, January 23, 2006.

Ajit Jaokar. "Mobile Web 2.0: A Service Blueprint." Open Gardens. January 15, 2006.

Matt Marshall. "Auto tagging with camera phones?" SiliconBeat. San Jose, California, December 23, 2005.

Celeste Biever. "Camera phone helps label snaps." NewScientist.com. Issue 2531, December 23, 2005, 9.

Myron Kassaraba. "New Scientist Technology - Camera phone helps label snaps." Camera2Web.com. December 21, 2005.

Michael Bazeley. "Yahoo Gets Personal: Search Firm Seeks To Lead Movement To 'Social Media'." The San Jose Mercury News. San Jose, California, November 20, 2005.

Ben Charny. "Yahoo Opens Research Facility for UC Berkeley Students." eWeek.com. Berkeley, California, October 12, 2005.

Susan Kuchinskas. "Cooking Up Social Media." internetnews.com. Berkeley, California, October 12, 2005.

Kevin Kelleher. "Yahoo!'s Brainpower." TheStreet.com. New York, New York, August 15, 2005.

Wendy Qi. "Yahoo, UC Berkeley Join to Create Research Lab." The Daily Californian. Berkeley, California, July 18, 2005.

Kimberly Hill. "Yahoo Collaborates with Berkeley on Research Project." NewsFactor Magazine Online. Berkeley, California, July 18, 2005.

Charlie Schick. "Yahoo cements UC partnership / Research lab to be established near Berkeley campus." Lifeblog. Helsinki, Finland, July 17, 2005.

Dana Bostrom. "Yaherkeley." Chief Node. Berkeley, California, July 17, 2005.

Marc Canter. "The beat goes on at Yahoo." Marc's Voice. San Francisco, California, July 16, 2005.

Ellen Lee. "Yahoo, Cal plan joint lab." Contra Costa Times. Walnut Creek, California, July 16, 2005.

Kiersten Hollars. "Yahoo! Research Labs Establishes New Center of Excellence with UC Berkeley." Yahoo! Inc. Press Release. Sunnyvale, California, July 15, 2005.

Chris Richardson. "Yahoo Opens Research Facility With UC Berkeley." webpronews.com. July 15, 2005.

Verne Kopytoff. "Yahoo cements UC partnership: Research lab to be established near Berkeley campus." San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco, California, July 15, 2005.

John Battelle. "Marc Davis Teams With Yahoo." John Battelle's Searchblog. Berkeley, California, July 15, 2005.

Bradley Horowitz. "Mobile, Media, Marc, and Me." Yahoo! Search Blog. Sunnyvale, California, July 15, 2005.

Susan Kuchinskas. "Internet Media Meets Media Eggheads." internetnews.com. Berkeley, California, July 15, 2005.

Jeremy Zawodny. "Marc Davis Joins Yahoo, Job Update, etc..." Jeremy Zawodny's blog. Sunnyvale, California, July 15, 2005.

Russell Beattie. "Woohoo! Marc Davis Joins Yahoo!" Russell Beattie Notebook. Sunnyvale, California, July 15, 2005.

Juan Carlos Perez. "Yahoo Opens New Research Lab Focused On Search Tech." NetworkWorld. IDG News Service, July 15, 2005.

Kathleen Maclay. "UC Berkeley, Yahoo team up to research new Internet technologies." UC Berkeley Press Release. Berkeley, California, July 15, 2005.

Glen Chapman. "Internet's Yahoo teams up with university students in Berkeley." AFP (Agence France Presse). Los Angeles, California, July 15, 2005.

Alex Bozikovic. "Free Thinker Interview: Do-It-Yourself Television." THIS Magazine. 37 (2). Sept-Oct 2003.

Committee on Information Technology and Creativity of the National Research Council. "Narrative Intelligence." in Mitchell, W.J., Inouye, A.S. and Blumenthal, M.S. eds. Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity. National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2003, 108-111.

Karlin Lillington. "Starring in a movie directed by you may become a reality thanks to the camera." Irish Times. Dublin, Ireland, December 5, 2002.

Matthew Magee. "DIY will bring innovative direction for home cinema." The Sunday Tribune. Dublin, Ireland, December 1, 2002.

Matthew Clark. "Scientist puts Hollywood in a handheld." ElectricNews.Net. Dublin, Ireland, November 26, 2002.

Niamh Lyons. "Radical Changes in Consumer Patterns Predicted to Revolutionise Broadcast Media." Media Lab Europe Press Release. Dublin, Ireland, November 25, 2002.

David C. Cobb. "Happiness is a Warm Gadget", Behind the Themes (No. 7), Themed Entertainment Association, Fall 2001, 12-13.

Chris Okon. "Media Streams: Toward a Common Video Database Retrieval Language." Advanced Imaging, January 1995, 30-34.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams Tools Mentor HyperCard Stack." In: The Macintosh Development Tools Advisor (Developer CD-ROM February 1992), Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California, 1992.

Marc Davis. "Context, Content, and Community: Mobile Social Media and the Future of the Internet." Invited Talk At: IS246: Multimedia Information, School of Information, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 26, 2007. Invited By: Dr. Michael Smith.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media: Connecting Context, Content, and Community." Invited Talk At: Stanford - Nokia Mobile Computing Seminar, Stanford Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, October 31, 2006. Invited By: Prof. Scott Klemmer.

Marc Davis. "Inventing the Future of Internet Media." Invited Talk At: University of Tokyo, Tokyo,  Japan, June 23, 2006. Invited By: Prof. Masaru Kitsuregawa.

Marc Davis. "Yahoo! Research Berkeley: Designing the Future of Social Media." Invited Talk At: Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD) Seminar, Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 11, 2006. Invited By: Prof. John Canny.

Marc Davis. "Cameraphones: Phenomenology, Technology, and Politics." Invited Talk At: New Media Colloquium (CNM 201), Center for New Media, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, March 15, 2006. Invited By: Prof. Greg Niemeyer.

Marc Davis. "The Future of Mobile Applications." Invited Talk At: Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS 2006), Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, February 23, 2006. Invited By: Prof. Jitendra Malik.

Marc Davis. "Yahoo! Research Berkeley: Designing the Future of Social Media." Invited Talk At: IS 296A-1 Information Access Seminar, School of Information, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, February 3, 2006. Invited By: Prof. Michael Buckland.

Marc Davis. "Yahoo! Research Berkeley Overview." Invited Talk At: Mobile Prototyping Workshop,  Yahoo! Research Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, January 10, 2006. Invited By: Shane Ahern.

Marc Davis. "Yahoo! Research Berkeley: Designing the Future of Internet Media." Invited Talk At: EECS Joint Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 21, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Jitendra Malik.

Marc Davis. "Yahoo! Research Berkeley: Designing the Future of Internet Media." Invited Talk At: Intel Research Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 6, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Eric Brewer.

Marc Davis. "Sharing a Billion Pictures: Towards New Paradigms for Cameraphone Photo Sharing." Invited Talk At: Human Computer Interaction Workshop 2005 on "The Future of Mobile Interaction", Stanford University Department of Computer Science Annual Affiliates Meeting, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, May 17, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Scott Klemmer.

Marc Davis. "SIMS and the Future of Digital Media: An Overview of Garage Cinema Research." Invited Talk At: SIMS Annual Open House for the Public, Cal Day 2005, University of California at Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 16, 2005. Invited By: Phil Walz.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: IS 296A-1 Information Access Seminar, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, March 18, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Michael Buckland.

Marc Davis. "Bridging the Sensory Gap Working Group Presentation." Invited Talk At: Dagstuhl Seminar 05091 Perspectives Workshop: Multimedia Research - where do we need to go tomorrow,  Schloss Dagstuhl International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Wadern,  Germany, March 3, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Susanne Boll.

Marc Davis. "Reclaiming the World for Multimedia." Invited Talk At: Dagstuhl Seminar 05091 Perspectives Workshop: Multimedia Research - where do we need to go tomorrow,  Schloss Dagstuhl International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science, Wadern,  Germany, March 2, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Susanne Boll.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction INS2,  National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam,  The Netherlands, February 28, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Lynda Hardman.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: Mobile Monday Meeting on "Mobile Media",  Microsoft Silicon Valley Campus, Mountain View, CA, USA, February 7, 2005. Invited By: Anita Wilhelm.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema Research and the Future of Media Technology." Invited Talk At: Search and Marketplace Group Deep Dive Speaker Series,  Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA, January 28, 2005. Invited By: Bradley Horowitz.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: BayCHI Mobile Applications BOF Event,  BayCHI, San Francisco, CA, USA, October 28, 2004. Invited By: Blake Engel.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: Nokia Research Center, Helsinki,  Finland, August 24, 2004. Invited By: Henry Tirri.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: Mobile Media Workshop,  Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), Helsinki,  Finland, August 23, 2004. Invited By: Marko Turpeinen.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema Research and the Future of Media Technology." Invited Talk At: Ricoh Innovations, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA, August 2, 2004. Invited By: Greg Wolff.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: User Experience and Design Group Speaker Series,  Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA, July 28, 2004. Invited By: Vam Makam.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema Research and the Future of Media Technology." Invited Talk At: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA, USA, July 27, 2004. Invited By: Steven Rosenberg.

Marc Davis. "From Context to Content: Leveraging Contextual Metadata to Infer Media Content." Invited Talk At: Multimedia Workshop at Columbia University,  New York, NY, USA, June 18, 2004. Invited By: Professor Shih-Fu Chang.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Palo Alto, CA, USA, June 16, 2004. Invited By: Victoria Belotti.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: MIT Media Lab Colloquium Series,  MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 9, 2004. Invited By: Henry Lieberman.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: From Personal to Planetary Media Creation, Sharing, and Reuse." Invited Talk At: HP/CITRIS 2004 Workshop on Planetary-Scale Applications,  Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Berkeley, CA, USA, May 26, 2004. Invited By: Dr. Rick McGeer.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema Research Overview." Invited Talk At: Introduction & Research Overviews, BiD Kick-Off Meeting, Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD), Berkeley, CA, USA, May 14, 2004. Invited By: Professor John Canny.

Marc Davis. "Can The Telco Differentiate Itself Via User-Created Content?." Invited Talk At: Monetizing Digital Content Across Networks Workshop,  France Telecom R&D San Francisco, South San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12, 2004. Invited By: Michael Smith.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema Research and the Future of Digital Media." Invited Talk At: SIMS Annual Open House for the Public, Cal Day 2004, University of California at Berkeley School of Information Management and Systems, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 17, 2004. Invited By: Phil Walz.

Marc Davis. "Where, When, and Who: Leveraging Space, Time, and Community for Mobile Media." Invited Talk At: Plasmatica 040404: A Colloquium on New Media and the Unfolding of New Structures in Old Spaces, Department of Art Practice, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 4, 2004. Invited By: Prof. Greg Niemeyer.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata: The Future of Mobile Imaging." Invited Talk At: Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University Program in Human-Computer Interaction, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA, April 2, 2004. Invited By: Prof. Terry Winograd.

Marc Davis. "UC Berkeley Center for New Media: Humanities, Technology, Arts and Design for the 21st Century." Invited Talk At: IS 296A-1 Information Access Seminar, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, November 21, 2003. Invited By: Professor Michael Buckland.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema Research and Mobile Content Communities." Invited Talk At: SIMS-BCIS-HIIT Seminar on Information Society Research, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 23, 2003. Invited By: Marko Turpeinen.

Marc Davis. "The Coming Media Revolution." Invited Talk At: Cal Homecoming & Parents Weekend 2003 Faculty Seminars, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 4, 2003. Invited By: Kristi Mitchell.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema Research Overview." Invited Talk At: IS 295 SIMS Doctoral Colloquium, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 22, 2003. Invited By: Professor Yale Braunstein.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology." Invited Talk At: Film Studies and Digital Media, Department of Rhetoric, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, August 26, 2003. Invited By: Professor Linda Williams.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology." Invited Talk At: Design|Media Arts Winter 2003 Events,  UCLA Department of Design | Media Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA, June 4, 2003. Invited By: Professor Victoria Vesna.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology." Invited Talk At: Information Studies Seminar,  UCLA Department of Information Studies, Los Angeles, CA, USA, April 24, 2003. Invited By: Professor Elizabeth Cohen.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema and the Future of Media Technology." Invited Talk At: SIMS Annual Open House for the Public, Cal Day 2003, School of Information Management and Systems, Berkeley, CA, USA, April 12, 2003. Invited By: Phil Walz.

Marc Davis. "Metadata for Media Automation and Mass Customization." Invited Talk At: Virage, Inc., San Mateo, CA, USA, March 18, 2003. Invited By: Bradley Horowitz.

Marc Davis. "TVLand: Popular Culture as Media Playspace." Invited Talk At: 030303: Collective Play,  Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, March 3, 2003. Invited By: Professor Greg Niemeyer.

Marc Davis. "Media Automation and Personalization for Consumers." Invited Talk At: Philips Research Eindhoven, Eindhoven,  The Netherlands, December 10, 2002. Invited By: Dr. Nevenka Dimitrova.

Marc Davis. "Towards Computational Media: Metadata for Media Automation and Reuse." Invited Talk At: Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems, CWI (National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science), Amsterdam,  The Netherlands, December 9, 2002. Invited By: Dr. Frank Nack.

Marc Davis. "Towards Computational Media: Metadata for Media Automation and Reuse." Invited Talk At: SIMS Affiliates Workshop: Current Research at SIMS: A Sampler, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, November 15, 2002. Invited By: Dean Hal Varian.

Marc Davis. "Towards Computational Media: Metadata for Media Automation and Reuse." Invited Talk At: Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, Stanford University Program in Human-Computer Interaction, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, November 1, 2002. Invited By: Professor Terry Winograd.

Marc Davis. "Towards Computational Media: Metadata for Media Automation and Reuse." Invited Talk At: Video and Image Processing Group Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 25, 2002. Invited By: Professor Avideh Zakhor.

Marc Davis. "Understanding the Future of Digital Media." Invited Talk At: BA 294.8 Technology Topics and Trends Seminar, Haas Technology Club, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 22, 2002. Invited By: Manuel Bronstein.

Marc Davis. "Towards Computational Media: Metadata for Media Automation and Reuse." Invited Talk At: Group for User Interface Research (GUIR),  University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 21, 2002. Invited By: Professor James Landay.

Marc Davis. "Multimedia for Strategic Computing." Invited Talk At: IS C224 Strategic Computing and Communications Technology, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, October 1, 2002. Invited By: Professor Hal Varian.

Marc Davis. "Towards Computational Media: Metadata for Media Automation and Reuse." Invited Talk At: IS 296A-1 Information Access Seminar, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 6, 2002. Invited By: Professor Michael Buckland.

Marc Davis. "Metadata for Media: Revising Video Capture, Annotation, Editing and Reuse." Invited Talk At: UC Berkeley Computer Vision Group Seminar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 3, 2002. Invited By: Professor Jitendra Malik.

Marc Davis and Mike Travers. "A Brief Overview of the Narrative Intelligence Reading Group." Invited Talk At: AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence,  North Falmouth, MA,  November 5, 1999. Invited By: Michael Mateas & Phoebe Sengers (Workshop Chairs).

Marc Davis. "Media Streams and MPEG-7: Issues and Solutions for Video Representation." Invited Talk At: 2nd MPEG-7 Seminar, San Jose MPEG Meeting,  San Jose, CA,  February 4, 1998. Invited By: MPEG-7 Committee.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: Representing Video for the 50,000,000 Channel Future." Invited Talk At: New Paradigms for Using Computers Workshop,  IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA,  July 27, 1995. Invited By: Ted Selker.

Marc Davis. "Media Streams: Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing." Invited Talk At: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA,  August 4, 1994. Invited By: Bob Powell.

Marc Davis. "Design for a Temporal, Interactive, Multisensory, Computational World." Invited Talk At: Columbus Society for the Communicating Arts, Columbus, OH,  October 15, 1992. Invited By: Brenda Laurel.

Marc Davis. "Repositioning for Content Management in New Media." Invited Talk At: Color Connections 4, Cambridge, MA,  August 1, 1992. Invited By: John Clippinger.

Marc Davis. "Making Media Assets Fluid." Invited Talk At: Movies of the Future and Television of Tomorrow Symposium,  MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA,  May 1, 1992. Invited By: Professor Andrew Lippman.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Panel." Panel Presentation At: Futures of Entertainment 2 Conference,  MIT Comparative Media Studies (CMS) Program, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 16, 2007. Invited By: Prof. Henry Jenkins.

Marc Davis. "Emerging Technologies Panel." Panel Presentation At: Mobile 2.0 Conference,  San Francisco, CA, USA, October 15, 2007. Invited By: Mike Rowehl.

Marc Davis. "Panel #2: Bridging the Translational Research Gap – Mechanisms and Goals." Panel Presentation At: Doing Business with the University of California’s Southern Campuses,  University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA, February 20, 2007. Invited By: Kathryn Atchison.

Marc Davis. "Web-2-Mobile Business Plan Competition Finalist Presentations." Panel Presentation At: Web-2-Mobile Business Plan Competition,  Yahoo! Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA, January 24, 2007. Invited By: Riku Mäkelä.

Marc Davis. "Foundations and Directions of Multimedia Research." Panel Presentation At: ACM Multimedia 2006,  Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October 26, 2006. Invited By: Prof. Matthew Turk.

Marc Davis. "Multimedia and Web 2.0 - Hype, Challenge, Synergy." Panel Presentation At: ACM Multimedia 2006,  Santa Barbara, CA, USA, October 25, 2006. Invited By: Prof. Susanne Boll.

Marc Davis. "Why Do Tagging Systems Work?." Panel Presentation At: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006),  Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 26, 2006.

Marc Davis. "Foundations of Multimedia Computing, Communication, and Interaction." Panel Presentation At: ACM Multimedia 2005,  Singapore,  Singapore, November 10, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli.

Marc Davis. "Life in Context Expert Panel." Panel Presentation At: Technology Horizons Program Fall Research Exchange: Life in Context,  Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, CA, USA, October 25, 2005. Invited By: Michael Liebhold.

Marc Davis. "From Media to Code: Towards Participatory Media." Panel Presentation At: New Models and Technology for Sharing, Access and Delivery - I, Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television, Archival TV and Intelligent Television, Berkeley, CA, USA, September 30, 2005. Invited By: Jeff Ubois.

Marc Davis. "Retracing Social Space." Panel Presentation At: Panel 2 > Zoning Out, 050505 ZONING AND GRINDING, UC Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley, CA, USA, May 5, 2005. Invited By: Prof. Greg Niemeyer.

Marc Davis. "Sociable Media and Tagging Roundtable." Panel Presentation At: Search and Marketplace Group Deep Dive Speaker Series,  Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA, April 1, 2005. Invited By: Bradley Horowitz.

Marc Davis. "Between Context-Aware Media Capture and Multimedia Content Analysis -- Where do We Find the Promised Land?." Panel Presentation At: ACM Multimedia 2004,  New York, NY, USA, October 14, 2004. Invited By: Susanne Boll.

Marc Davis. "Mobile Media Metadata Overview." Panel Presentation At: Panel on Context and Location-Aware Systems, BiD Kick-Off Meeting, Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD), Berkeley, CA, USA, May 14, 2004. Invited By: Professor John Canny.

Marc Davis. "What Are The Appropriate Business Models For Digital Content Delivery?." Panel Presentation At: Monetizing Digital Content Across Networks Workshop,  France Telecom R&D San Francisco, South San Francisco, CA, USA, May 12, 2004. Invited By: Michael Smith.

Marc Davis. "Panel on Experiential Systems." Panel Presentation At: International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2003),  Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA, July 25, 2003. Invited By: Prof. Hari Sundaram.

Marc Davis. "From Static Assets to Recombinable Components: The Future of Moving Image Archives." Panel Presentation At: Discovery Digital Images Panel, 2002 Annual AMIA Conference,  Boston, MA, USA, November 22, 2002. Invited By: John Tariot.

Marc Davis. "NPUC '95 Speaker's Round Table." Panel Presentation At: New Paradigms for Using Computers Workshop,  IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA,  August 22, 1996. Invited By: Ted Selker.

Marc Davis. "Garage Cinema: Multimedia Research and Repurposing Popular Media." Panel Presentation At: Panel on Personal Narrative Spaces, Third ACM International ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM 1995),  San Francisco, CA, USA, November 8, 1995. Invited By: Sha Xin Wei.

Marc Davis. "Image and Video Semantics: Advanced Tools for Multimedia Indexing and Presentation." Panel Presentation At: Panel on Multimedia Databases and Information Systems, Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 1994),  San Francisco, CA, USA, October 18, 1994. Invited By: Prof. Sandy Pentland.

Marc Davis. "MTV Video Music Awards Conference Panel on the Line Between Truth and Fiction." Panel Presentation At: New York, New York, USA, June 22, 1992.

Marc Davis. "MIT Media Lab Colloquium on the Relationship Between Education and Research." Panel Presentation At: Cambridge, MA, USA, October 17, 1991. Invited By: Prof. Stephen Benton.

Co-Instructor with Professor Ray Larson. IS202: Information Organization and Retrieval. School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Co-Instructor with Professor Terry Winograd. CS378: Phenomenological Foundations of Language, Cognition, and Computation. Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

Teaching Assistant for Professor Seymour Papert. Media Laboratory Doctoral Seminar (Required Graduate Course). MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

Teaching Assistant for Professor Kenneth Haase. The Art of Artificial Intelligence Programming (Graduate Course). MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

University Lecturer. ENG 1711: Honors English for Engineers. Northeastern University, Boston, MA.

Guest Lecture: “Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing.” At: SIMS 202: Information Organization and Retrieval, School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, October 18, 2001. Instructors: Professor Warren Sack and Professor Ray Larson

Thesis Reader for Golan Levin. Painterly Interfaces for Audiovisual Performance. MS Thesis. MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 2000.

Supervisor for Interval Fellow and Summer Intern Warren Sack. Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA.

Thesis Reader for Zhonghui Xu. Kuafu: Annotate and Search for Images on the Web. MS Thesis. MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 1997.

Guest Lecturer and Advisor At: Interval University Workshop. Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA. Workshop Organizer: Joy Mountford.

Supervisor for Interval Fall Intern Nuno Correia. Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA.

Guest Professor At: CS378: Phenomenological Foundations of Language, Cognition, and Computation. Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, February 15, 1996. Instructor: Professor Terry Winograd.

Supervisor for Interval Summer Intern Anil Chakravarthy. Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA.

Guest Lecture: “Media Streams: Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing.” At: CS547: Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, May 27, 1994. Instructor: Professor Terry Winograd.

Guest Lecture: “Media Streams: Representing Video for Retrieval and Repurposing.” At: EAL 299: Graduate Research Course. UC Davis Livermore Labs, Livermore, CA, November 17, 1993. Instructor: Professor Meera Blattner.

Guest Lecture: “Media Streams: Interfaces and Representations for Reusable Media.” At: CS547. Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. December 2, 1992. Instructor: Professor Terry Winograd.

Instructor and Workshop Creator for Computerized Methods for Literary Research. Literary Science Department. University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.

Instructor and Workshop Creator for Improvisational Dance Workshop. Center for Holistic Living, Konstanz, Germany.

Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Philosophy and Instructor for Improvisational Dance. Massachusetts Advanced Studies Program, Milton Academy, Milton, MA.

Marc Davis, Kevin McGee, and Edith Ackermann. "Design and Evaluation of Virtual Realities." Tutorial Taught At: INTERCHI'93. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 1993.

Marc Davis and Kevin McGee. "BMW Museum: New Models of Learning." Invited Tutorial Taught At: Expedition '92: Launching to New Worlds of Learning, Munich, Germany, September 1992.

Marc Davis, Kevin McGee, and Edith Ackermann. "Virtual Exploratoria for New Learning." Tutorial Taught At: Expedition '92: Launching to New Worlds of Learning, Munich, Germany, September 1992.

Marc Davis, Daniel Russell, Catherine Baudin, and Smadar Kedar. "Workshop on Indexing and Reuse in Multimedia Systems." Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-94), Seattle, WA, August 1994.

Marc Davis, Daniel Russell, Catherine Baudin, and Smadar Kedar. "No Multimedia Without Representation." Second ACM International Conference on Multimedia, San Francisco, CA, October 1994.

Marc Davis and Kevin McGee. "Virtual Reality for Two Year Olds." The Tenth International Conference on Technology and Education, Cambridge, MA, March 1993.

Reviewer for the Journal The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (Previously Hypermedia 1989-1994). eds. Douglas Tudhope and Daniel Cunliffe. University of Glamorgan, United Kingdom.

Program Committee Member and Reveiwer for Multimedia 2001: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Manchester, United Kingdom, September 8-9, 2001, eds. Nuno Correia, Joaquim Jorge, Huw Jones, and Meera Blattner Kamegai. New York: Springer Computer Science, 2001.

Program Committee Member and Reviewer for Multimedia'99: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Milano, Italy, September 7-8, 1999, eds. Nuno Correia, Glorianna Davenport, and Teresa Chambel. New York: Springer Computer Science, 1999.

Project Reviewer for various Interval Research Corporation Projects: on video databases and interactive exhibits for designing portable effects; on new interfaces and instruments for enhancing musical expression; on psychological studies of perception and interaction; on networked digital home media appliances; on distributed intelligence and sensing for lifelike animal robots; on real-time computer graphics, behavior animation, and virtual reality; and on constraint-based animation rendering and authoring.

Employee Performance Reviewer for numerous Interval Research Corporation employees at various levels in the organization.

Reviewer for Professor Kenneth Haase's Promotion Case. MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

Reviewer for UIST '93: Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, November 3-5, 1993 in Atlanta, GA, ACM Press, 1993.

Graduate Student Representative to MIT Media Lab Architectural Redesign Review Commission. MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA.

Co-Founder and Chairman
Amova, San Francisco, CA

Manage external relations including investor relations, strategic relations, corporate identity, and patent counsel.

Co-developed business strategy, product strategy, business plan, business model, technology white papers, and company presentations. Presenter of company vision, technology, and business to prospective investors and partners.

Responsible for recruiting and team development. Hired VP of Business Development, Director of Interaction Technology, User Testing Manager, and Production Assistants.

Technology and Strategy Consultant
San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Goodman Group: identified industry leaders in innovation, ergonomics, and technology in the Macintosh hardware and software markets.

Gateway Pacific Foundation: helped develop presentations to "Creating Our Future" and the Rockefeller Foundation at Apple Computer's Multimedia Lab in San Francisco.

Vividata: conducted market, ergonomic, and design research for color handheld scanner project and developed product proposals, specifications, and marketing materials for high-end graphics workstation project.

Dragonfly Software: helped establish European distribution channels at international computer show (CEBIT '88) in Hanover, Germany. Conducted demonstrations, coordinated production of marketing materials, and participated in international press conference.

Vice President of Marketing and Sales
ColorTech, Inc., Berkeley, CA

Managed sales, marketing, and operations of mail-order computer and printer supplies company allied with software maker Unisom World (maker of PrintMaster). Redesigned company sales and marketing materials and corporate identity, developed sales projections and budgets, hired and trained customer service staff, and achieved most profitable quarters in company history.

Numerous presentations and demonstrations to industry executives from: Sony, Kodak, Apple Computer, Intel, Microsoft, IBM, EDS, Dentsu, Disney, Warner Bros., Universal Studios, Major League Baseball, BMW, Daimler-Chrysler, Simon Property Group, Showtime Networks, Monitor Television, WGBH, British Telecom, and many others.

Amova Media Automation and Personalization Engines

Amova's patented and proprietary technologies revolutionize the media production process by transforming it from a tedious, difficult, manual process to an easy to use, automated process for capturing, annotating, editing, sharing, and reusing personalized media assets.

Amova Automated Capture Engine

Amova software and interaction design automate the capture of stills and video for, and of, users. Using real-time and non-real-time media analysis in an interactive control loop, Amova software structures the user's interaction with a capture device to record reusable, annotated media assets.

Amova Adaptive Media Engine

Amova has developed patented and proprietary technology for the mass customization and personalization of media by structuring media assets into Adaptive Media Templates. Adaptive Media Templates encode media assets in such a way that they can co-adapt input media assets and compute a unique customized and/or personalized result.

Amova has systematically automated the main functions of cinematic editing, including: reframing and repositioning of images and video (especially of people); audio-video synchronization; cutting on motion; 1-shot/2-shot/cutaway editing; audio Foley; a variety of parametric special effects; and basic editing operations such as keying, compositing, and sequencing. Amova's automatic editing functions enable the Adaptive Media Engine to render professional quality personalized and customized media in seconds on consumer level platforms that would take skilled operators on expensive hardware hours to produce.

Personalized Media Delivery Engine and Flash Authoring Plug-In

Amova's Delivery Engine works with the Adaptive Media Engine to deliver personalized and customized media in a variety of formats for a range of distribution channels. The Delivery Engine can render personalized and customized stills, animations, and video for Web delivery via HTML email, progressive download video, streaming video, as well as output to fixed media (DVD, CD-ROM). Amova has integrated the Amova Delivery Engine as a plug-in into Macromedia's Flash Generator software to enable Flash authors to leverage Amova's proprietary technology. With Macromedia's Flash Generator and Amova's Delivery Engine, Web users can view Flash content featuring personalized stills, animations, and Flash movies.

Applications:

Amova Personalized Media Web Site
The Amova Personalized Media Web Site prototype utilizes Amova technology to create a media appliance-like Web interface for navigating, appearing in, rating, and sharing a wide variety of automatic personalized media.

DV Camera and Laptop Capture System
At Amova, we reduced the MovieBooth down to a mini-DV camera and a laptop. Eventually we see our automatic movie technology embedded in capture devices to proactively guide users in capturing annotated reusable media assets.

Adaptive Media Templates
At Amova, we have developed a variety of adaptive media templates which used the Automated Capture engine and Adaptive Media engine to automatically capture and edit users into movie trailers (T2, Blair Witch), movie scenes (Godzilla), commercials (MCI, 7Up, Gap), and even a Karaoke Elvis music video. We also developed adaptive media templates that leverage Amova's Personalized Delivery engine to automatically insert users into banner ads and a variety of Web-delivered Flash animations.

MediaFlow

MediaFlow is a PC software toolkit for creating applications that analyze and synthesize media, both stored and real-time. MediaFlow applications combine functional dependency and content representations to automatically capture and edit media assets. A typical MediaFlow application has media inputs, functions that analyze the media inputs, and functions that synthesize output media based on the results of analysis functions. MediaFlow provides:

• C++ classes for analyzing, representing, and processing media (including images, video, and audio)
• A dependency graph mechanism for creating media-processing algorithms and applications
• A Player window for playback of live, stored, and computed media
• A Timeline window for viewing stored media
• A plug-in capability for extending MediaFlow with new data types and functions
  

Applications:

T2 MovieBooth
Using MediaFlow, we built a shower stall studio (a "MovieBooth") that automatically edited video of its guest into a Terminator 2 movie trailer (the guest appeared as the Terminator). The T2 MovieBooth used a host of MediaFlow capabilities to create an automatic personalized movie of cinematic quality. The T2 MovieBooth prototype was seen and enthusiastically endorsed by the attraction developers of Universal Studios.

Godzilla vs. Interval MovieKit
The Godzilla vs. Interval MovieKit automatically edited human-directed shots into a mini-movie starring the subject of the shots as the hero of Interval Research defeating the onslaught of the terrifying monster Godzilla.

Media Streams

Media Streams is a system for media analysis, annotation, retrieval, and repurposing according to semantic descriptions of media content. In Media Streams, annotators use an iconic visual language designed for video representation to create stream-based annotations of video content. Media Streams utilizes a hierarchically structured semantic space of iconic primitives which are combined to form compound descriptors which are then used to create multi-layered, temporally indexed annotations of video content. Media Streams' iconic semantic descriptors (6000) can be used to form millions of unique descriptions. The annotation language is designed to support the representation of the consensual aspects of video content—what one sees and hears, rather than what one infers from context—in order to facilitate the convergence of annotations and to enhance the repurposability of the content described by these annotations.

Media Streams supports query of annotated video according to its temporal, semantic, and relational structure. Media Streams' retrieval mechanisms are specifically designed to support the repurposing of video content. A query for a video sequence will not only search the annotated video streams for a matching sequence but will compose a video sequence out of various annotated segments in order to satisfy the query. Media Streams' key features are:

• Stream-Based Representation (better segmentation and reuse)
• Semantic Indexing (what things are similar to)
• Relational Indexing (who is doing what to whom)
• Temporal Indexing (when things happen)
• Iconic Interface (designed visual language for global use)
• Universal Annotation (standardized markup of consensual features
• Retrieval-By-Composition (system can assemble video sequences from partial query results)
  

In recognition of the technological superiority of our approach, the MPEG-7 committee, which is setting the global standard for media content description, has drawn heavily from the published work on Media Streams.

PFXStreams

We developed a customized version of Media Streams designed to represent the domain and the interpretive activity of Rachel Strickland's Portable Effects (PFX) project that was compiling a database of video portraits of people talking about the things they carry and wear. PFXStreams required us to represent the domain of containers and objects in extreme detail, to develop representations for abstract ideas expressed by the subjects of the documentary footage, and to create a clear framework for delineating the various interpretations of annotators of the video and audio content.

MediaCalc

MediaCalc was a prototype media authoring system combining media analysis, content representation, and functional dependency to enable the computation of new media from media inputs. By combining the capabilities of modern media editing systems with an insight from spreadsheets, MediaCalc embodied a new model for multimedia authoring in which content annotations of time-based media could be operated on by functional dependencies in order to compute new media.

Functions in MediaCalc are applied to media by means of a visual programming language in which function icons are dragged from a palette onto media handles and thereby connected into a network of dependencies. Constraints among media streams, and among abstract streams of different types describing the "contents" of other streams, form a language for prototyping and creating media and software artifacts.

Demos:

AutoBuddy
Demonstrating a host of automatic editing techniques, in AutoBuddy two players are asked to cooperate in a multi-player video game, each situated in front of separate cameras and microphones - potentially at different sites. Shortly afterward their entire play experience has automatically been turned into a movie starring them - with L-cut dialogue editing, 1-shot/2-shot/cutaway video editing, enhanced visual effects, and music - all edited according to the rhythm of their own dialogue and game play.

Numb Celery
Demonstrating the automation of music and video synchronization, Numb Celery automatically synchronizes video of celery chopping to the guitar lead in U2's song "Numb" from the Zooropa CD.

Kung Fu Foley
Demonstrating the automation of Foley editing, sounds in a fight scene from a Kung Fu movie are automatically replaced by sounds similar in length from a database of body noises.

Doritos Music Video
Demonstrating the automation of music and video synchronization, this Media Calc demo resynchronizes the durations of the shots in a Doritos commercial to a variety of MIDI soundtracks.

Ping Pong 2 Bach
Demonstrating the automation of music and video synchronization, Ping Pong 2 Bach automatically synchronizes video of a ping pong game to a MIDI score of Bach prelude and vice versa.

AutoRumbler
Demonstrating an example of an automatic parametric special effect, in AutoRumbler the video image is shaken (moved and scaled) as a function of instantaneous audio levels using a simple MediaCalc functional dependency.

Bots

Using computer technology to make the television viewing experience more participatory, social, and enjoyable, we built a prototype system inspired by the "bots" of Mystery Science Theater 3000. As we watch live television, several animated characters "Bots" join us and react in character to activity on the programs--often cued invisibly by closed-caption text strings they know how to react to, by television audio, and by each other. The animation layer allows the Bots to share the video screen with the television video. The Bots prototype had a Rush Limbaugh Bot, a Jesse Jackson Bot, a Dog Bot, and a Fly Bot.

IDIC: Assembling Video Sequences from Story Plans and Content Annotations

The IDIC prototype generated a video sequence according to a story plan by selecting appropriate segments from an archive of annotated video. IDIC used a simple planner to generate its stories. The domain was that of promotional television trailers for "Star Trek: The Next Generation." By critically examining the strengths and weaknesses of the representation and algorithm employed in the planner, we were able to describe some interesting similarities and differences between planning and video story generation. We used our analysis of IDIC to investigate the representation and processing issues involved in the development of video generation systems.

Nose Goblins: Programming with Characters

Programs are hard to build, and even harder to understand after they are built. We lack intuitive interfaces for visualizing and manipulating many parts of programs and the ways in which these parts interact. Constraint systems have addressed these problems. In Nose Goblins, we generalized some of the notions inherent in constraint systems to agent-based systems, and explored the use of animated characters (the cartoon characters "Ren and Stimpy") as interface representations of agents. In particular, conflict detection and resolution is dramatized by the use of these characters and their emotions The history of their interactions is presented as a narrative using video and storyboard techniques. Building programs out of agents and enabling users to manipulate program parts by interacting with simple animated characters can aid relatively unskilled users in understanding and modifying complex systems.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Fluent German, revivable reading knowledge of French and Latin, dormant rudimentary Japanese, basic biblical Hebrew, and programming knowledge of LISP and HTML.

Power User of: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Macromedia HomeSite, Macromedia Fireworks, Apple QuickTime, and Macintosh Common Lisp.

Digital video production and post-production, voice impersonations and singing, music composition on piano and guitar.