ACM/SIGDOC 2008

José Miguel Sales Dias born in 1961, father of two lovely girls and a beautiful boy. Holds a PhD (1998) in Sciences and Information Technologies, field of Computer Graphics and Multimedia, at ISCTE, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (Higher Institute for Work and Enterprise Sciences. Holds a Msc (1988) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, area of Electronics, at IST-UTL, Instituto Superior Técnico (Higher Technical Institute), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (Technical University of Lisbon). Holds a BS (1985) in Electrical Engineering, field of Telecommunications and Electronics, at IST-UTL. Director of Microsoft Language Development Center in Porto Salvo, Portugal (since November 2005). Associated Professor of the Department of Sciences and Information Technologies at ISCTE; Past President of ADETTI; Past Vice-President since 1988. Lectures undergraduates and graduates at ISCTE in variety of courses such as: Computer Graphics and Augmented Reality. His main research interests are: Multimodal User Interfaces, Speech and Natural Language Computer Graphics namely, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Digital Rights Management, JPEG2000 Digital Image Standard, Computer Vision. He is a member of the editorial board of the on-line Virtual Journal, and of the Eurographics Computer Graphics Educational Materials Source, all dealing with Computer Graphics. He is the Vice-President of the Eurographics Portuguese Chapter and he is member of several Program Committees of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality. He is regularly commissioned by the EC for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Since 1992, he has participated in 8 National and 25 International R&D International research projects, where he has raised 3.900 K€ in European R&D funds and, 170 K€ in National R&D funds, for ISCTE. Projects include: Esprit II 6534 3D Fashion, TEN-IBC B1004, B2004 and B3004 Fashion-Net, TEN-IBC B1007, B2007 and B3007 Visinet, TEN-IBC B3011 Artline, Telematics IE2101 MAID, ESPRIT 22038 AITEAR, ESPRIT 26287 M3D, IST 2KAN, IST Fashion On-Line, IST Fashion-Me, ISP DEGAP, IST PRIAM, FP6 IP MEDIANET, FP6 NoE E-Next, FP6 STREP WCAM, INTERREG IIB 190 PIMHAI. Fellowship contract Nr. 77983 in RACE MONALISA. Author of 1 patent and more than 100 papers in national and international conferences and journals, being 20 indexed in ISI. Co-author of more than 70 European project deliverables.