This site is dedicated to the Centennial of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, a leading light in the field of complexity. The site contains the information for a conference being held in his honor in Moscow during June, 2003.

http://www.kolmogorov.com/

Jürgen Abel is now tracking conferences which will be covering data compression topics. This listing includes the conference, dates, web page, and submission deadline. You are encouraged to keep Jürgen updated with any new information.

http://www.data-compression.info/Conferences/

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC’2002), held each spring in Snowbird, Utah. This is the main event in the compression world. Note that the 2002 advance program is available here as of 3/02.

http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~dcc/

The term “Multimedia” obviously covers a lot of different topics. Compression is one of them, and there is certainly a great deal to learn about compression and media formats at this conference.

http://lass.cs.umass.edu/~shenoy/conf/mmcn02/

A set of handouts for a survey course on Data Compression, inlcuding papers on various types of coding, information theory, and more. An academic approach to the topics but quite accessible.

http://www.cse.ucsc.edu/classes/cmpe263/Winter01/handouts/

The ACM Multimedia conference for 2002 takes place December 1-6, 2002 in beautiful Juan-les-Pins on the French Riviera. Get your submissions in quick before the show fills up.

http://www.acm.org/sigmm/MM2002

Toshiba is creating MPEG-4 support chips that vendors are looking to included in mobile handset. This article notes that the chipset will be designed to work with specific baseband hardware, such as Qualcomm’s, and might not work elsewhere.

http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20011030S0044

A collection of class notes, homework assignments, and links for a class on Data Compression at the University of Minnesota.

http://www.ece.umn.edu/users/kieffer/ece5585.html

A set of slides, apparently for a course talking about data compression.

http://www.cdt.luth.se/~johnny/courses/smd074_1999_2/CodingCompression/kap28/slide0.html

A course being given by the Image Coding Group at Linköping University. Contains a few useful links plus some course material.

http://www.icg.isy.liu.se/courses/tsbk01/

All of the papers from the 1999 Data Compression Conference are available here on line. Yes, there is a catch - you will have to pay if you want to do more than read the abstract. (Looks like a strong incentive to become a member of the IEEE Computer Society.)

http://www.computer.org/proceedings/dcc/0096/0096toc.htm

All of the papers from the 2000 Data Compression Conference are available here on line.

http://www.computer.org/proceedings/dcc/0592/0592toc.htm

All of the papers from the 1997 Data Compression Conference are available here on line.

http://www.computer.org/proceedings/dcc/7761/7761toc.htm

All of the papers from the 1998 Data Compression Conference are available here on line.

http://www.computer.org/proceedings/dcc/8406/8406toc.htm

This conference is being held June 5-9 in Istanbul Turkey. The call for papers deadling is June 10, 2000. This is the 25th anniversary meeting of the ICASSP.

http://icassp2000.sdsu.edu/

Home Page for Steve Tate, University of North Texas. State Tate is an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas, and has links to a few data compression papers on his site.

http://www.cs.unt.edu/~srt

The following short courses are offered in 1998-1999, based on the book A Friendly Guide to Wavelets by Gerald Kaiser:
A Detailed Introduction to Wavelets With Applications to Image Analysis and Lossless Coding
A Detailed Introduction to Mathematical and Physical Wavelets
With Applications to Image Analysis, Sonar and Radar

http://www.wavelets.com/

8 lectures by David J.C. MacKay
January 1995. Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, Great Britain.
All of these lectures are available as PostScript files. The eight lectures cover data compression, coding, arithmetic coding, noisy channel coding, and much more

http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/pub/mackay/info-theory/course.html

Notes on suffix tree construction, some course notes for COMP 612: Graduate Seminar in Compiler Construction, includes some pointers to important papers.

DataCompression.info user David D. had this complaint: None of the links work on this page, all there is is a short paragraph on suffix trees. I have to agree, it’s a rather strange page.