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Harrick M. Vin;Harrick M. Vin; Assistant Professor of Computer Sciences at;the University of Texas at;Austin; Director, Distributed Multimedia;Computing Laboratory; Education;B. Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (1987);Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay;M. S. in Computer Science (1988);Colorado State University;Ph.D. in Computer Science (1993);University of California, San Diego; Honors, Awards, and Professional Service; NSF CAREER Award, 1996-2000; IBM Faculty Development Award, 1995; NSF Research Initiation Award, 1994-97; San Diego Supercomputer Center Creative Computing Award, 1992; NCR Innovation Award, 1989; Editorial Board, IEEE Multimedia; Vice-Chair for the area of Distributed Multimedia Systems,;17th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS); Co-Chair, Program Committee, Multimedia Computing and;Networking 1997; Co-Chair, Program Committee, Multimedia Computing and;Networking 1996; Member, Program Committee: (1) ACM Multimedia'96, (2) Electronic;Imaging and Multimedia Systems, Beijing, China, November 1996, (3);International Conference on Networking and Multimedia, Kaohsiung,;Taiwan, December 1996, (4) 4th Eurographics Workshop on Multimedia,;Rostock, Germany, (5) ACM Multimedia'95, (6) Second International;Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems and Applications 1995,;and (7) Third International Eurographics Symposium on Multimedia;Systems 1994; Areas of Interest;Multimedia systems, high-speed networking, databases, mobile;computing, and distributed systems; Summary of Research;The main objective of our research is to design and implement an;end-to-end system architecture for enabling a wide range of;distributed multimedia applications. Specifically, we are developing:;(1) an integrated multimedia file system, (2) algorithms and protocols;for efficient transmission of digital audio and video over networks,;and (3) large-scale multimedia databases.; Selected Recent Publications;H. M. Vin, P.J. Shenoy, and S. Rao, ``Efficient Failure Recovery in;Multi-Disk Multimedia Servers'', In Proceedings of the 25th Annual;International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing (FTCS-25),;Pasadena, California, Pages 12-21, June 1995;D.J. Gemmell, H. M. Vin, D.D. Kandlur, P. Venkat Rangan, and L. Rowe,;``Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial'', IEEE Computer,;Vol. 28, No. 5, Pages 40-49, May 1995;H. M. Vin, S. Rao and P. Goyal, ``Optimizing the Placement of;Multimedia Objects on Disk Arrays'', In Proceedings of the IEEE;International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems;(ICMCS'95), Washington, D.C., Pages 158-165, May 1995;P. Goyal, S.S. Lam, and H.M. Vin, ``Determining End-to-End Delay;Bounds in Heterogeneous Networks'', In Proceedings of the 5th;International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for;Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV'95), Durham, New Hampshire,;April 1995;H. M. Vin, A. Goyal and P. Goyal, ``Algorithms for Designing;Multimedia Servers'', Computer Communications,;Vol. 18, No. 3, Pages 192-203, March 1995; Sponsors; Our research work is sponsored by various industrial and federal;institutions including IBM, Intel, National Science Foundation;Research Initiation Award, NSF CAREER Award, NASA, Mitsubishi Electric;Research Laboratory (MERL), Sun Microsystems Inc., Electrospace;Systems Inc., and The University of Texas at Austin.; Courses;;CS380L: Advanced Operating Systems;;CS384M: Multimedia Systems;;CS395T: Multimedia Communication and Databases; Contact Information; Email : vin@cs.utexas.edu; Phone : (512) 471-9732; Fax : (512) 471-8885; Mailing Address :; Department of Computer Sciences; Taylor Hall 2.124; The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, TX 78712-1188, USA;