UC Berkeley

Garage Cinema Research is a research group lead by Professor Marc Davis at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS) that is focused on creating the technology and applications that will enable daily media consumers to become daily media producers. Garage Cinema Research's work encompasses the theory, design, and development of digital media systems for creating and using media metadata to automate media production, sharing, and reuse.

Garage Cinema Research, UC Berkeley, and Yahoo! Inc. have launched Yahoo! Research Berkeley, a new research partnership to explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media on the web. Professor Marc Davis is the Founding Director of Yahoo! Research Berkeley and many Garage Cinema Research students, alums, and faculty will be involved in this exciting new lab.