Well I’m finally back from ASSETS and the jet lag is disappearing. While ASSETS allocates the official Best Paper prizes most years I disagree. This year is no exception and for me the best paper - and science at ASSETS 2012 was ‘Evaluation of dynamic image pre-compensation for computer users with severe refractive error’ Armando Barreto This paper was authored by Jian Huang, Armando Barreto, and Malek Adjouadi and was presented by Armando Barreto.

As promised an attempt was made at an ACM ASSETS 2012 Live Stream. There were two streams one of the Keynote and One of Session 1. Here are the archived versions. http://youtu.be/31k-xJUFQvQ http://youtu.be/HW-n2ro7RSY Remember to tweet the captioning - crowd source style - this is not an official ACM ASSETS broadcast. #Assets2012 ASSETS12 Conference Google Hangout

This year at the W4A we used USTREAM to broadcast everything to anybody who wanted to see. We got generally good responses and 20% of the audience was (at some points) watching online. The only complaints came because of the adverts inserted into the stream at the expense of the talks. So at ASSETS there doesn’t seem to be a stream - but I though I’d try an adhoc Google Hangout Broadcast.

The ACM SIGACCESS Student Research Competition (SRC) is a forum for undergraduates and graduate students to present their research, exchange ideas, receive feedback from a panel of experts, and have an opportunity to win awards for their work. Lets see who’s made it this year to the SRC at ASSETS. Don’t be fooled, the SRC submissions go through a number of reviewing steps including a standard review by the SRC judges before they are even accepted to the conference.