The Web has changed the way we live, work, and socialize. The nodes in the current Web are
documents and hence the current WWW is a Document Web. Advances in technology and
requirements of emerging applications require formation of a parallel and closely connected Web
of events, the EventWeb, in which each node is an event. EventWeb is essential for extending
the reach of current WWW from only Cyberspace to the real physical world. Emerging
applications of information systems increasingly contain vast amount of multimedia and sensory
data and require more holistic pictures of evolving situations. In this presentation we explore
growth of EventWeb as a natural next step in the evolution of the Web with rich multimodal
sensory information. We will discuss the research challenges and exciting opportunities in this
area.

Ramesh Jain joined University of California, Irvine as the first Bren Professor in Bren School of
Information and Computer Sciences in 2005. He has been an active researcher in multimedia
information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. While professor
of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the
University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual
computing labs. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and
Machine Vision and Applications journal and serves on the editorial boards of several magazines
in multimedia, business and image and vision processing. He has co-authored more than 250
research papers in well-respected journals and conference proceedings. Among his co-authored
and co-edited books include Machine Vision, a textbook used at several universities. Ramesh has
been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE.