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From: alves@calvin.usc.edu (William Alves)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.sys.mac
Subject: QuickTime video cards
Date: 9 Apr 1992 12:35:57 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: calvin.usc.edu

I am looking for relatively inexpensive (pref. < $1000) video cards
for the Mac that will record QuickTime movies. So far I have only
heard about the SuperMac Video Spigot. However, I am concerned about
information posted here that it will only record QuickTime with its
own software; that is, I will not be able to use other QuickTime
record applications with it. Also, I am hoping to find something with
a bit depth of greater than 8 bits. What is the bit depth of the
Video Spigot and what is the approximate price?

I have heard that Mass MicroSystems will be coming out with an inex-
pensive 24-bit QuickTime card, but I have yet to see it. As far as I
know, the next least expensive QuickTime-compatible card available is
the RasterOps 24STV. Thanks for any information you can add.

Bill Alves
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: rjenning@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Robert D Jennings)
Subject: Multimedia at the National Demonstration Laboratory
Followup-To: rjenning@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Summary: collection of programs for public use
Keywords: library of congress, multimedia
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 18:05:32 GMT


I recently came across an article that would be of interest to the
"readers" of comp.multimedia. The article is as follows:

     "The Library of Congress has established a computer center to
   educate the public about multimedia and its potential uses.
     The center, called the National Demonstration Laboratory for
   Interactive Technologies, opened last month with a collection of
   200 multimedia programs on art, foreign languages, history, law,
   management, mathematics, medicine, science, and more. The programs
   were contributed by higher-education institutions, computer
   companies, libraries, and publishers.
     The demonstration laboratory is part of a larger program to show
   how the library's collections can be used in digital formats, such
   as compact and optical discs, says Ellyn Blanton, the deputy
   director.
     The center is consulting with the Council on Library Resources
   about creating the Library of Congress in 'virtual reality,' an
   interactive technology that lets a person 'enter' a computer
   environment. In a virtual-reality version of the library, a person
   could walk through the stacks, peruse their contents, and select
   and review materials while actually sitting in a local library or
   classroom.
     The center, which is open by appointment, is supported by funds
   from private sources and equipment from computer manufacturers.
     For more information, contact Ms. Blanton, National Demonstration
   Laboratory, James Madison Memorial Library, 101 Independence
   Avenue, S.E., Washington 20540; (202) 707-4157."

Taken from the April 8, 1992 edition of_The Chronicle of Higher Education_,
(ISSN 0009-5982), 1255 Twenty-Third Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20037.

Has anyone used the facilities of the demonstration laboratory? Does anyone
have any more information about this service? I have not contacted Ms.
Blanton at this time, but will do so in the near future.

--
Robert Jennings                     EMAIL rjenning@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
The Ohio State University           VOICE (614) 292-5235
Department of Industrial Design     CIS   70524,2002
128 N. Oval Mall, 380 Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH 43210
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Robert Jennings                     EMAIL rjenning@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
The Ohio State University           VOICE (614) 292-5235
Department of Industrial Design     CIS   70524,2002
128 N. Oval Mall, 380 Hopkins Hall, Columbus, OH 43210
From: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se (Brad Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Which is better: SBPro or Adlib gold?
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:32:08 GMT
Reply-To: exubrst@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Inc.

In article 16801@usenet.ins.cwru.edu, ap353@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kamarul Baharin Khalid) writes:
>
>ANyone know which is better?  Adlib gold 1000 or SoundBlasterPro?

The specs are certainly better on the Adlib gold 1000.  I have yet to hear it, though.

>And what the difference between Adlib gold 2000 and 1000?  Thanks.

The Adlib gold 2000 is specifically made to comply with MME for windows.  It is essentially a 1000 with
the SCSI controller built in.  I think it also comes with more software.  Anyone else know more?  I'd like
to hear, too.

---
Brad Steele
From: andre@wright.seas.ucla.edu (Andre Stechert)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: UCLA Multimedia
Summary: UCLA MUG Group Plans
Keywords: MUG UCLA Multimedia
Date: 16 Apr 92 22:57:29 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Distribution: ca
Organization: Office of Instructional Development (UCLA)

(This was originally mailed to members of UCLA's computer community)
   The Office of Instructional Development at one time supported an on-campus
organization called the Multimedia User's Group (MUG for short).  Since Jan
Vescera, its organizer, left our department for Parking Services, we have had
to suspend our sponsorship of the group.  However, it is currently under
consideration to reorganize this group.  I would greatly appreciate any feed-
back I could get from this group about interest levels around campus (it would
greatly aid my cause with our director) and projects underway at the University
.  If you would like to see the MUG group reinstated or if you have any 
suggestions for us, I can be reached through email at andre@seas.ucla.edu.
   Also, through the efforts of Maroun Harb and Apple Computer, there will be
a Quicktime overview on Friday, April 17 from 9 am to 12 noon and from 1 pm
to 4 pm.  It will be held at the Dickson Art Center Rm 5209 and all faculty
and staff are welcome to attend.  Please RSVP to (310) 338-5816, leave your
name number and the date and time of the event (there were several others
at other locations last week, sorry about the lateness, I got the flyer 4/16)
Light refreshments will be served.  The morning and afternoon sessions mirror
each other.  The topic to be addressed are:

Session One  Session Two  Topic                                  Speaker
-----------  -----------  -------------------------------------  ------------
9:00 - 9:30  1:00 - 1:30  Introduction to Multimedia             Ying Chieh
			  Overview of Quicktime                  Apple Computer
9:30 - 9:45  1:30 - 1:45  Demo - Still Image Compression         Ying Chieh
9:45 -10:05  1:45 - 2:05  Video Capture with _Video Spigot_      M. Weinstock
								 Supermac
10:05-10:35  2:05 - 2:35  Editing with Premiere                  Bill Lindsay
								 Adobe Systems
10:35-10:40  2:35 - 2:40  Product Overview                       Marina Moreno
								 Macromedia
10:40-11:00  2:40 - 3:00  Demonstration of _Director_            Marina Moreno
11:00-12:00  3:00 - 4:00  Hands-on with _Magic_                  Marina Moreno

If you would like to receive information about similar events in the future,
email me with an address at which you can be reached.  We still maintain a
mailing list for the MUG group.

Hasta! Andre
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 You know, with all the hype about IAC, DDE, and interprocess communication
 I've started to wonder what exactly all those programs are talking about
 behind my back.					andre@seas.ucla.edu	
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Future of fax?
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 17:03:35 GMT

>In British Columbia, a Canadian province on the west coast (Pacific Ocean-side)
>the government sees FAX as a "handy source of revenue" (quotes are mine!). In
>the latest budget for the province, the government has started charging sales
>tax on FAX transmissions. 

How exactly do they differentiate between a fax call and a voice call? I 
can see this being done on those fax services that offer lower rates
for fax calls only that some of the phone companies provide but I can't exactly
see how they are going to identify about 95% of the fax calls that are on
plain voice lines?

>Obviously, this tax must be collected by the
>telephone company, who inadvertently become tax collectors thru their
>accounting process.

Every retailer in Canada is already the government tax collector with
the Goods and Services Tax and the phone company has already been
charging GST on regular service. WHats new here?

tj
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel)
Subject: Re: Multimedia PC requirements.
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 03:53:14 GMT

About the MPC requirements, I forgot about 386SX. And the other stuff, 
like RAM, will not be much different than ordinary computers, in other words,
many computers will already meet the other little requirements (including
the 386SX requirement). I did not mention exactly what "audio card" was
either. Anyway, it looks like many things can qualify, and for things like
sound, is there some kind of standard that an "MPC-compliant" app will use?
Also, like CDTV and CD-I, it does not have any provisions for motion
 video, something I and many consider important. (CDTV has a very limited
 format just quarter screen 10 fps using it's 4096 colors.)

 MPC should include some kind of provision for DVI, and the price for
 DVI should come down. This is the best way to go for multimedia of the
 future.

 Nish Patel   nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
From: lopes@cogsci.ucsd.EDU (alann lopes)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Philips CD-ROM writer
Keywords: CD-ROM Philips
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:19:40 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego


    Anyone have a number for Philips -- I need some info
    on their CD-ROM writer.  Are there any other CD-ROM
    writers in the price range ($5,000-$6,000 I think) of 
    the one from Philips?

                         Thanks very much

                             alann


   alann lopes:        alopes@ucsd.edu       -- internet
   (619) 534-7417      ALOPES@UCSD           -- bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: martin@waco.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin)
Subject: Re: Information about CD-I and CD-I titles anyone?
Keywords: CD-I
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:35:13 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.141803.4960@dutrun2.tudelft.nl> kok@dutiba.tudelft.nl (Kees-Jan Kok) writes:

>I'm posting this for a friend who has no access to the internet.
>
>I've heard that we are going to get CD-I this year. It ought to be really 
>fast with images and video. Can anyone tell me if this is true, especially
>when compared to CD-ROM?

CD-I came out last year, October I believe.  Video is currently not
supported, they say an upgrade board will be available "soon".

>Also, I'm interested in a list of CD-I titles that are available at the
>moment.

There are dozens (a new batch was released in early April).  Maybe
someone else has them online.




-- 
Steve Martin            USENET: {ctvax,im4u,texsun,rice}!ti-csl!martin
The opinions in this    ARPANET: SMARTIN@CSC.TI.COM  COMPUSERVE: 72727,1471
article are my own.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Andrew Patrick)
Subject: Re: DVI boards
Keywords: DVI
Organization: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:28:26 GMT

In article <1992Apr5.022523.6651@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Nishith A. Patel) writes:
>I wanted to know more about Intel's DVI boards. How much do they cost, both
>list and street price? Any applications that support it, such as video editing
>with DVI compressed images? Any help would be appreciated.
>
>What kind of support do they have. Will support increase, like with a reduction
>in price?They are supposed to be coming down in price.
>
>Nish Patel
>nap42487@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu

Contact Intel and tell them you want the

	Directory of DVI Multimedia Application Developers
	2nd Edition, 1992
	
	Intel Corporation
	Literature Sales
	P.O. Box 7641
	Mt. Prospect, IL  60056-7641
	
	1-800-548-4725
	
This directory provides information on three groups of services:
Production Services, Enabling Technologies, and End-User Applications.
It will also tell you who to contact to buy the boards.

Check out Page 20 to see what we have been up to :-)

-- 
Andrew Patrick, Ph.D.       Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, CANADA
andrew@calvin.dgbt.doc.CA
            "Making computers do the things they do on television."
            "Making television do the things that computers do."
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
Subject: Re: List of all multimedia magazines...
Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 01:58:57 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1992Apr13.160435@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov> jstan@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (John Stansbury [Hernandz] exp. 12/31/92) writes:
>
>Have you tried "Verbum"?  I think it's published quarterly in hardcopy, and there is a version on CD-ROM.

How about "MPC" magazine?

It is on all the larger newstands in Dallas.  It is bi-monthly and two issues
have been published.  The April/May issue is on stands right now.

It is sort of a "Popular Multimedia" type magazine (ie, not very technical).
It is oriented towards PC compatibles.
-- 
--Steve
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From: ap353@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kamarul Baharin Khalid)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Which is better:SBPro or Adlib gold?
Date: 8 Apr 92 07:06:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr8.070637.16801
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


ANyone know which is better?  Adlib gold 1000 or SoundBlasterPro?
And what the difference between Adlib gold 2000 and 1000?  Thanks.
							- KB
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From: nlonginow@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Feature selection of NNs (Take two)
Date: 9 Apr 92 09:58:45 EST
Organization: USAF AL/CFH, WPAFB, Dayton, OH

In article <1992Apr9.085124.1193@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil>, nlonginow@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil writes:
>> 
>> I must have missed the original posting of this. Dennis Ruck (Air Force Inst
>> of Techn) did an excellent paper called "Feature Selection Using a Multilayer
>> Perceptron", where he rank ordered input features according to their effect
>> 
> 
> 	Some people expressed concern as to getting aholt of this paper.
> Sorry for being so vague, but I can only supply the authors email address.
> If anyone knows of the actual citation, please post it. Email me for the
> address if you need it.
> 
	This method isnt working. I cant respond to some of you cause my
email bounces. So here is Dennis' address: druck@afit.af.mil. Enjoy!

-- 
Nick Longinow
Armstrong Lab
Human Engineering division


"The opinions and views expressed here are strictly my own and do not 
necessarily reflect the official position of either the U.S. Air Force 
or its contractors. "  You should think otherwise ?

Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Failure to Overfit
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 01:05:26 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


    From: arms@cs.UAlberta.CA (Bill Armstrong)
    If we train neural networks with the goal of fitting empirical data,
    how can we expect them to come up with different functions we really
    want which are not "overfitted"?

If the training set is of finite size and contains some noise points, then
there's a tradeoff between properly classifying *all* the training points
and simplicity of the separating surface.  The user (or some automatic
process) can manipulate that tradeoff in a number of ways: use a net
topology with a limited number of free parmaeters, stop training before the
training-set score becomes perfect, use a lot of weight decay to keep the
separating surface smooth, and so on.

But how do we know what that tradeoff should be?  Usually this is done
either by some sort of VC-dimension analysis or by cross-validation, in
which a validation set, drawn from the same underlying distribution as the
training set, is used to test the network from time to time.  When the
validation-set performance levels off or starts to deteriorate, that's a
good sign that the network has learned all the real structure in the
training set and is now beginning to learn the noise.  At that point, you
should stop training (and stop adding new units to the net).

It's true that setting aside a cross-validation sets wastes valuable
training data.  Some people follow the procedure outlined above to
determine the best net size, then train that net with ALL the available
data to get the best possible fit.

It's also true, as Bill points out, that this is not an infallible
procedure.  There's always some small possibility that you won't get a
separating surface that does what you want (i.e. reduces the error to the
desired degree).  However, by using larger training and validation sets,
drawn fairly from the underlying distribution, you can make the network
"probably almost correct" to any desired degree.

-- Scott
===========================================================================
Scott E. Fahlman
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Internet: sef+@cs.cmu.edu
From: najmy@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Fred Najmy)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: CMAC Network?
Date: 9 Apr 92 11:41:44 GMT
Reply-To: najmy@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Fred Najmy)
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

Anyone ever hear of a CMAC network?  If anyone knows of sources of
information on this please let me know.  Thanks.


				     ----- F. Najmy, Jr.
From: cornell@aud2.aud.auc.dk
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: HELP requested for RCE!
Date: 9 Apr 92 13:41:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: aud2.1992Apr9.134143.1
Organization: Aalborg University Center, Denmark


Hi !

I am looking for information about Neural Nets. ESPECIALLY about a new type
of neural net called RCE. (If you can call the RCE a true neural net)

The RCE is characterised by needing no normal "training". It groups input
in spheres in the n-dimensional space, and is excellent for sorting tasks. 
 
Im working on a program/model, but I need some more information about the
theories/maths behind.  

If you have any documentation or know any ftp-sites please e-mail me.

                              Thanks

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From: d3e145@tesla.pnl.gov (Shawn Bohn)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Neural Net chips
Keywords: Neural networks, VLSI ,hardware
Date: 15 Apr 92 22:00:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: oracle.1992Apr15.220018.19317
Followup-To: comp.ai.neural-nets
Distribution: world
Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Labs, Richland, WA

I am interested in obtaining summary information and contact addresses
for manufacturers of artificial neural network chips.  I will post a
summary of the response to the network.

Please send response to the following e-mail address.
Thank you,

	sj_bohn@pnl.gov
From: chouck@eos.ncsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER  HOUCK)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: TD algorithm
Summary: anyone have running code
Date: 8 Apr 92 23:32:26 GMT
Organization: NCSU Project Eos

I am interested in Richard Sutton's TD algorithm and was wondering if
there was anybody that had implemented it.  I would very much like to 
get a copy of working code.

Thank you.

Christopher R. Houck
chouck@eos.ncsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: jim@hydra.maths.unsw.oz.au ()
Subject: Failure to Overfit
Organization: school of Mathematics UNSW
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 08:01:37 GMT

Sometimes if you train a small net on some data, then train a much
larger net on the same data, the result is much the same (i.e.,
much the same function is computed by the trained net). So why
doesn't the large net, with many free parameters, overfit?
Is there a tendency for large nets to seek a fit that is good,
in some sense (low entropy?)? Does anyone understand what is
going on?
						Jim Franklin
						Mathematics
						University of NSW
From: sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: (multi-layer + shortcut connections) vs general feedforward net
Date: 14 Apr 92 00:20:43 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


    From: moutarde@aar.alcatel-alsthom.fr (Fabien Moutarde)
    
    Am I wrong, or are you simply suggesting that it is often better to use 
    fully connected feedforward nets instead of *layered* feedforward nets?
    
Well, most people use the phrase "fully connected feedforward net" to mean
that each layer is fully connected to the next layer.  When I speak of a
net that is "fully connected with shortcuts", I mean that each unit
receives incoming connections from every unit in *every* earlier layer
(plus the original inputs and the bias).

    In fact, I've been wondering myself for a while why most NN designers
    using backprop restrict themselves to the class of multi-layer nets,
    despite the fact that the general form of the algo deals with *any*
    feedforward net.

Just tradition, I think.

    My guess was that introducing what you call the shortcut
    connections was avoided because it increases the total number of weights,
    but from what you say, it seems that you then need less neurons...
   
That is often true.

    However I would expect that allowing many composed non-linearities
    might make the cost hypersurface (in weight-space) even more complex
    and increase the probability to fall in a local minimum much higher
    than the global minimum. Does anyone has any comment or reference about that?
    
Well, nets with many layers are hard to train, unless you are using
something like cascade-correlation that trains only one layer at once.  I
thinkt hat the problem is not local minima, but rather the attenuation and
dilution of the error signal as it tries to propagate backwards through
multiple layers.  Shortcut connections seem to help a lot in this case.

One other data point is that for XOR, the 2-1-1 network with shortcut
connections is much less likely to get stuck than a 2-2-1 net with no
shortcuts.  But I wouldn't try to draw any sweeping conclusions from this
isolated case.

-- Scott
===========================================================================
Scott E. Fahlman
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Internet: sef+@cs.cmu.edu