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The Intelligent Media Initiative (IMI) is a partnership between University College London, Imperial College, University of the Arts London and King's College London. The overall aim of the IMI is to bring together London's top creative, scientific and technological expertise from academia and industry to create multi-disciplinary collaborative research projects in the emerging area of "intelligent media".
The IMI is not a funding body, however it has resources to develop thematic research areas (by hosting and organising meetings, events and workshops) and to facilitate, help develop and find funding for multi-disciplinary collaborative research proposals. The IMI is particularly interested in developing research programmes that combine academic and industrial research.
Intelligent Media refers to the new synergies developing between the traditionally separate disciplines of science, technology the arts and industry. Intelligent Media can be defined as 'any physical or digital medium that contains some intelligence'. This broad definition could include any software, fabric, music video, television, print, film, building material or even paper which either contains or exhibits some computationally driven or biologically inspired intelligent behaviour.
Smart materials, wireless sensor networks within buildings, the use of computers in art and design, management of digital resources, music information retrieval, bioinformatics and intelligent packaging are all examples of intelligent media.
Although intelligent media is an emerging field, many of the components of IM already exist in leading research groups in the partner London Universities including computer science, mathematics, fashion design, materials science, chemistry, physics, product design, art and engineering.
