(From SU Shaowei of National Network and New Media Technology Research Center) "The Second Youth Forum of Network and New Media" was held in the Chaohu city of Anhui Province by IACAS and the Joint Laboratory of Network Communication Systems and Control of USTC from Apr. 19 to 20. More than 30 young researchers from IACAS and USTC participated in the Forum.

The forum launched lively discussions on the key issue and core technology of network and new media. The academic reports made by the participants were related to many aspects such as distributed deployment of digital media content, wide-area mass storage, distribution and management, the optimal allocation of resources and location, dynamic load balancing, information integration and retrieval, P2P technology, wireless return of terrestrial TV band, network integration and family networking, analysis of user behavior, etc.

Wang Jinlin, Director of National Network and New Media Technology Research Center and Wu Gang, Vice President of Institute of Information Science and Technology of USTC delivered speeches, respectively. They both set great hopes on the Forum and expected it could make more contributions to the studies of network and new media in our country.