"Global Lecture Hall" videoconference for TeleTeaching'93 on 8/21st (fwd)

[Mark Boolootian <booloo () framsparc ocf llnl gov>]

[I thought this sounded sort of interesting, particularly the part about the
 full-color, full-motion video via the Internet! - mb]



> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1993 09:46:49 -0400
> From: "T. UTSUMI"
> </PN=TUTSUMI/O=ASSOCIATES.TNET/ADMD=TELEMAIL/C=US/@SPRINT.COM>
> To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <DEVEL-L@auvm.bitnet>
> Subject: "Global Lecture Hall" videoconference for TeleTeaching'93 on 8/21st

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 22, 1993

CONTACT:
TAKESHI UTSUMI
Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
718-939-0928


                           PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT

                       "Global Lecture Hall" (GLH) (TM)
       (multipoint-to-multipoint multimedia interactive videoconference)
                                      of
         The U.S.-Russian Electronic Distance Education System (EDES)
                              at the occasion of
                                TELETEACHING'93
                               Trondheim, Norway
                                August 21, 1993


                          Videoconference Organizer:
                         Dr. Takeshi Utsumi, President
                   Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA)
                 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998
                            Tel: +001-718-939-0928
                              utsumi () columbia edu

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Date:       Saturday, August 21, 1993
~~~~~
Time:       15:30 to 18:00 (Trondheim time)
~~~~~        9:30 to 12:00 noon (EST/USA)

Range:      North, Central and South America; Western, Northern, Central and
~~~~~~      Eastern Europe, including the Commonwealth of Independent States
            and the Baltic.  (Some areas depend on the satellites we are now
            confirming.)

First 90 minutes:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Panel Discussion:       "Compressed Digital Video, Its Quality and
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~       Applicability to Instructional Television"

      Panelists:  Dr. Lionel V. Baldwin
      ~~~~~~~~~~  President
                  or
                  Mr. Tom McCall
                  National Technological University (NTU)

                  Professor F. Lawrence Bennett, P.E., Head
                  Engineering and Science Management
                  University of Alaska Fairbanks

                  One other panelist from NTU consortium member

      Their video will be uplinked to GSTAR-1 simultaneously to demonstrate
      the effectiveness of the new compressed digital video technology, and
      their composite video in analog will be broadcast to aforementioned
      areas.

                                     - 2 -


Second 60 minutes:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Demonstration of videoconference via Internet by:

            Professor Kevin Jeffay
            Computer Science Department
            University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      Professor Jeffay will demonstrate full-color, full-motion videoconfer-
      ence through Internet data communication network, without use of
      satellite nor dish antenna.  The video appeared on his computer screen
      will be broadcast via satellite to the aforementioned areas.

Objectives:
~~~~~~~~~~~
(1)   To demonstrate "Global Lecture Hall" (GLH) (TM) videoconference technol-
      ogy for TeleTeaching'93 conference attendees,
(2)   To hold "get-acquainted" face-to-face meeting via satellite between
      American instructors and prospective Russian students of the newly
      established U.S.-Russia EDES,
(3)   To demonstrate the effectiveness of the new compressed digital video
      technology,
(4)   To demonstrate the new technology of videoconferencing via Internet.

Participation:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      If you have a satellite downlink facility and our satellite foot-prints
cover your area, receive our sateite signal.

      Other than participation fee, all participants have to be responsible
for the costs of (1) down/uplinking from/to satellites; (2) telephone call to
a videoconference center in the U.S. for Q&A; and (3) sending fax to the
center for backstage coordination.

      Should you be interested in participating in this event, please contact
Takeshi Utsumi to obtain registration form, instructions for participation and
technical information.
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 * Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.                                              *
 * President, Global University in the U.S.A. (GU/USA)                *
 * A Divisional Activity of GLOSAS/USA                                *
 * (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.) *
 * 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-3998, U.S.A.               *
 * Phone: 718-939-0928; EIES: 492 or TAK;                             *
 * SprintMail: TUTSUMI/GU.USA/ASSOCIATES.TNET                         *
 * INTERNET: utsumi () columbia edu                                      *
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