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UltraGrid technology developed by CESNET wins prestigious ACM award in Japan
UltraGrid technology developed by CESNET wins prestigious ACM award in Japan
Nara (Japan). The UltraGrid technology, developed by CESNET specialists at Brno-based SITOLA laboratory, was awarded at the prestigious ACM Multimedia 2012 conference. The 20th annual congress of researchers dealing with multimedia content and processing took place in Nara, Japan, on 29 October to 2 November. The ACM Multimedia 2012: The Best Open-Source Software Award was accepted in person by Petr Holub, head of the UltraGrid team of CESNET.
The ACM Multimedia conference receives the best rating (A or A+) among this type of events on computer science. Based on the citation impact, it ranks among the first 15% of the best conferences in the area.
UltraGrid had been enrolled into the Best Open-Source Software Competition by the paper titled UltraGrid: Low-Latency High-Quality Video Transmissions on Commodity Hardware by Petr Holub, Jiří Matela, Martin Pulec and Martin Šrom. It won the award based on the quality of the software, the paper, and the final presentation during the conference.
