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===== News =====
=== Cross-Modal Search Engine demo online ==
A demo of our [[http://dolphin.unige.ch/search|CMSE]] (CoMmonSensE) is now [[http://dolphin.unige.ch/cmse/|online]]...
=== PhD Positions available  ===
The group is opening 2 PhD positions in Distributed Information Indexing and Retrieval (April 2010). [[http://viper.unige.ch/doku.php/jobs|Read more >>]] 

=== ACM SIGIR 2010 ===
The Viper team was granted the organisation of the 33rd Internatonal Conference on Information Retrieval. 
see [[http://www.sigir2010.org|the conference site]]...
=== CUSO Seminar 2010 ===
We co-organise the [[http://members.unine.ch/jacques.savoy/Events/IR2010.html|Seminar of the CUSO third cycle "Information Retrieval: New Challenges, new Perspectives"]] (March 2010)...
=== ACM CIVR 2009 ===
The Viper team was granted the organisation of the Internatonal Conference on Image and Video Retrieval. 
see [[http://www.civr2009.org|the conference site]]...