From: hochberg@ACFCLUSTER.NYU.EDU (Estelle Hochberg)
Subject: A Worldwide Multimedia Network, Fri., Nov. 20
Organization: New York University
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 18:48:48 GMT

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                         Building the Foundations
 
                                   for a 

                       Worldwide Multimedia Network

                        A special presentation
                   in a New York University series of colloquia
           on uses of computers in higher education learning and research,

                             to be given by
                             Eric M. Hoffert
                       Senior Research Scientist, 
              Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer, Inc.

                      Friday, Nov. 20 at 2:00 p.m.
                   in Room 109 of Warren Weaver Hall 
          (251 Mercer Street, corner of Mercer and West Fourth Streets)
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Multimedia and network technologies are used today by students and scholars
for enhanced instruction, learning  and research.  With the appropriate
technical, economic and political support, a worldwide multimedia network
could be built within the next decade. A network of this type will support
an integrated environment for teleseminars, telecommuting, teleconferencing
and teleinformation, all with the potential for dramatically reshaping the
educational process.

Such a network could have as dramatic an impact on our society as did the
development of railway networks and highways in the earlier parts of this
century.  Indeed, the merger of multimedia computing with
telecommunications promises to reshape the way we work, live and play. The
advent of narrowband and broadband digital connectivity standards -- such
as the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and Asynchronous Transfer
Mode (ATM)-based packet switching -- augur well for a pervasive "digital
dial-tone" of real-time, multimedia connections to both people and
information.

In this talk, an overview of the state of multimedia desktop computing will
be provided.  The effects of an evolution toward a ubiquitous network
infrastructure will then be considered, including the synergistic
relationship between multimedia telecommunications and the global
environment. The talk will include  a variety of practical demonstrations
of QuickTime, a new standard for digital media. The demonstrations will
include a look at high-performance software digital video, multimedia
documents and databases, exploration of virtual environments, and a tour of
the Virtual Museum, an educational hypermedia system.

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ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:  Eric Hoffert is a Senior Research Scientist in the
Advanced Technology Group at Apple Computer, Inc.  At Apple, he co-founded
the QuickTime project, which has resulted in a multimedia standard for the
personal computer industry. Before joining Apple,  Mr. Hoffert was a member
of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the Visual
Communications Research Department, where he co-founded a new business
venture in parallel-processing for image computing.  Mr. Hoffert has
published a number of papers on digital media, and his digital media and
computer graphics work have been exhibited at conferences worldwide. He has
also contributed to work on the development of digital HDTV standards. More
recently, he has been working on extending the boundaries of what is
possible with interactive media content, and exploring networked digital
video issues.

Mr. Hoffert received the B.S. degree in Computer Science at NYU, the B.S.
degree in Mechanical Engineering at Cooper Union, and the M.S. degree in
Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New
York University.

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All faculty, staff, and students are welcome.  If you are interested in
attending, please call 998-3333; it will help us in our planning.  We hope
you will be able to join us. 

This colloquium is sponsored by the Academic Computing Facility, the
Faculty of Arts and Science the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
the FAS Departments of Fine Arts and Computer Science, the Interactive
Telecommunications Program (Tisch School of the Arts), and the Hippocrates
Project (NYU School of Medicine), with support from Apple Computer, Inc. 
It will be of interest to faculty, researchers and students in a broad
range of disciplines in the arts, media, the physical, social, and medical
sciences, as well as computer science.