Here is the message I sent about the lecture. You can watch the replay at the same site. Larry -- Professor Lawrence A. Rowe Internet: Rowe@BMRC.Berkeley.EDU Computer Science Division - EECS Phone: 510-642-5117 University of California, Berkeley Fax: 510-642-5615 Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 URL: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/~larry
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- To: mm-group@gumby.CS.Berkeley.EDU, 298-list@gumby.CS.Berkeley.EDU
- Subject: "The Future of Interative Television is Internet Webcasting"
- From: "Lawrence A. Rowe" <Rowe@gumby.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 15:56:23 -0800
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley
- Reply-To: Rowe@gumby.CS.Berkeley.EDU
Hi - I will be giving a seminar monday 2/21 at the Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the topic above. The seminar is scheduled for 4 PM CST (2 PM Pacific Time). You can watch the live presentation or the archived replay after the seminar at http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/dls/ assuming you have a Windows PC. I'll be talking about our work on Internet Webcasting. I've included the abstract below. See you on the Internet! Larry -- Professor Lawrence A. Rowe Internet: Rowe@BMRC.Berkeley.EDU Computer Science Division - EECS Phone: 510-642-5117 University of California, Berkeley Fax: 510-642-5615 Berkeley, CA 94720-1776 URL: http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/~larry --- "The Future of Interactive Television is Internet Webcasting" Lawrence A. Rowe Computer Science Division - EECS University of California at Berkeley Traditional broadcast television programs are composed of one video stream with no interaction, fixed image size, and constrained picture quality. The development of media distribution networks such as Broadcast.com and Real Broadcast Networks and single-source multicast protocols suggests that Internet Webcasting will be yet another distribution channel for television programming with the same constraints imposed by current television distribution technologies (e.g., wireless, satellite, and cable). Internet Webcasting, on the other hand, can support multiple video streams, interaction between participants, and variable quality streams. In spite of these technical capabilities, most webcasts today are produced using traditional television technologies and are constrained to the limitations imposed by that technology. This talk describes research on developing computer-based webcasting technology that exploits capabilities of this new medium including broadcast management, video-effects processing, and live production control. The principle application is distance/asynchronous learning, but the technology applies to many more applications including distributed collaboration and entertainment.
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