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SAI SPRING WORKSHOP-Prof. Alexandre François, who developed IMSC's Software Architecture for Immersipresence (SAI), speaks to spring SAI workshop participants.

Students showcased projects being developed with IMSC's Software Architecture for Immersipresence (SAI) at a successful Spring 2004 SAI Workshop in April.

The SAI architecture framework is a model for designing, analyzing and implementing applications performing distributed, asynchronous parallel processing of generic data streams. SAI enables modular design and fast prototyping of real-time systems.

The students gave short project presentations on their experience using SAI from design to implementation, to maintenance and evolution.

The projects were:

• "Expression Synthesis Project: Driving Through a Musical Landscape," which is developing a car-like driving interface that enables users to control the tempo and dynamics of a musical performance. Presented by Aaron Yang and Jie Liu. (Yang and Liu won the best undergraduate paper award at the IMSC Student Conference in March for their paper on this project.) Prof. Elaine Chew directs this project.
• Distributed Immersive Performance project, which is developing the technology for a concert with the conductor, musicians and audience in different physical locations, delivered in real-time over the Internet. Presented by Frances Hui-Yun Kao and Kanika Malhotra. This project is an IMSC Vision project.
• Sound visualization, presented by Janaki Amin.
• Visual SAI, presented by Kevin Cheng Zhu.

Prof. Alexandre R.J. François, who developed SAI, organized the session. Janaki Amin conducted directed research with Prof. François, and Kevin Cheng Zhu is working with him as an IMSC Research Assistant on the SAI project. IMSC's first SAI Workshop took place last fall.

For more information on SAI, go to http://imsc.usc.edu/research/project/sai.