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From: shoun@netcom.com (Lissa Shoun)
Subject: January 12 IICS Meeting in San Francisco
Summary: Trip Hawkins will be presenting
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 21:44:18 GMT

Next Meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the International
Interactive Communications Society (IICS) will be:

Tuesday, January 12
7-10pm       (7:00 for munchies, 7:30 for meeting start)

Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts
3601 Lyon St.
San Francisco

TOPIC: The Second Coming of Trip Hawkins - Multimedia Maven to Reveal
Mass Marketing Strategy

Accepting a January speaking invitation from the IICS for the 
second year in a row, Trip Hawkins will discuss how The 3DO Company - 
his latest business venture (formerly known as SMSG, Inc.)- plans to
address the fledgling consumer multimedia market.

Employed at Apple Computer earlier in his career, Hawkins is noted for
founding Electronic Arts, the world's largest supplier of computer
entertainment software. Hawkins' impressive credentials include a
degree in Applied Game Theory and Strategy from Harvard and an MBA
from Stanford.

Don't miss a chance to hear one of the truly gifted visionaries of the
multimedia industry!



COST: $10 for non-members, free for all members.
You may join the IICS at the door. Individual $75, Student $40 for
one year plus a one-time $10 processing fee for new members.
Includes Newsletter, monthly presentations, directory, great networking
opportunities. Put my name as a referral (Lissa Shoun) so I can win a
mug or some other fantastic prize. Meetings are held on the second
Tuesday of every month. The hotline number (415) 328-7318 has current
meeting information.

DIRECTIONS: Take 101 north to the Van Ness exit. Turn right onto Van
Ness at the bottom of the off-ramp and head North following signs for
the Golden Gate Bridge. After 2.2 miles, turn left onto Lombard.
In a little more than a mile, bear right on Richardson Avenue. Turn
right at Lyon Street, into the Exploratorium parking lot. Go left
around the circle to the main entrance on the north side.

From the east bay, take the bay bridge to 101 North and the Van Ness
exit. Follow directions above.

From Marin, take 101 South across the Golden Gate bridge. Turn right
into the Exploratorium parking lot where the freeway ends at Marina
Blvd.

-- 
Lissa
shoun@netcom.com     (408) 926-0812
From: slambert@willamette.edu (Sean Lambert)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Another Question(s)
Date: 8 Jan 93 04:48:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: willamet.C0Iqp8.DFI
Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR

a)  When using VideoSpigot's ScreenPlay to record a QT, and then use the
IN and OUT points to shorten the movie, is there a way to save it in
this shortened form, so that if it is opened up w/ another program, the
QT will be the shorter one, and not even include the edited portion?

b)  When using the special effects in Premiere, whenever I open the
project bace up (after it has obviously been closed) the program says it
cannot find the special effects that I used, although they are in the
same spot on the disk, and even appear in the SE windo.  I then have to
replace them w/ the one found in the SE window.  Is there a way to avoid
this??

thanks a lot


sean
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: shall@obiwan.nosc.mil (Scott R. Hall)
Subject: Sound Blaster Pro "?"
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:18:27 GMT

Curious..... How can I use my sound blaster pro board to record music from  
a boom box? I would like to be able to record samples of music from the  
radio, and the CD and tape player. Is a MIDI cable neccesary? I am working  
with no documentation or books at the time, but am knowledgeable enough to  
get something going if pointed in the right direction. Thanks in advance.

Scott
shall@nosc.mil


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From: dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca (Dominic Richens)
Subject: WANTED: advice on video digitizing and playback (except from Stephan)
Followup-To: poster
Originator: dominic@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca
Organization: MCRLab - University of Ottawa
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 02:00:09 GMT


We are planning to build a video server, a computer connected to an data
network (i.e. ethernet) and an AV network.  With this box, you can have it
digitize something off of the AV network (e.g. the signal from the camera
on my desk) and write it to disk, or take a clip that is on disk and play
it over the AV network (e.g. to a VCR or the monitor on my desk).

Currently we are planning to build it using an EISA based 486 running UNIX.
Anybody know of any card or set of cards that could meet this requirement?
Preferably a card (EISA or ISA) which which would compress the data before
passing it to the software to be written to disk, or an EISA card that just
provides raw video data.

thanx

dominic

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: sine@ravel.udel.edu (sine@sun.acs.udel.edu)
Subject: animation questions
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 19:57:30 GMT


I've just gotten a query on animation files and MCI and could use some
net.wisdom.  The end goal is to show animations and "movies" sing MCI
calls.

First, what are the current standards for animation files? I know that
MacroMind Director and Autodesk Animator seem to be the chieftools, but
are there others?  What about the animation files that are/were used in
the MS Multimedia Developers Kit under Windows 3.; are they still
around?  Are there others that I don't know about?

Second, how does this relate to QuickTime for Windows and Video for
Windows?  Are there utilities within those packages that show orconvert
animations?  

Third, there is an MCI animation and movie player command set.  How does
this relate to the animations mentioned above?  Are there MI drivers
available for each of these products? 

Is there an FAQ that I should be reading to find this stuff out?

Thanks for your help!


Pat
-- 

Pat Sine                                         sine@brahms.udel.edu
Instructional Technology
305 Willard Hall Ed. Bldg., University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: Video grabber + video camera = scanner ?
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:55:04 GMT

>I have a video camera, if I purchase the Video Blaster (?) board,
>which can capture the video image, is it as good an image as a scanner?

In some ways it is as good as a scanner or better, in others it falls
far short. A scanner is much higher resolution normally. A typical
grab of a video frame is 640x480 pixels. Unles the original is an object
2 inches wide or less, the scanner (typically 300 dots per inch) is
higher resolution. As well, there is considerably more noise in a video signal
than there is in a scanned image. The dynamic range of a scanner is usually
better. I think video is normally about equivalent to 16 bit colour where
the scanner can usually do 24 bit colour. And last but not least (at least
of the points that leap to my mind!), because of the way colour is handled
in NTSC video I think there are many colours that NTSC cannot handle
properly that can be done in printed matter, as well, there are certain
colours that can be adjacent to eachother in print that NTSC will bleed
together badly in video.

That said, there are certain times for screen use of images that the 
frame grabber approach is certainly the most economical, quickest and
most practical solution.

tj
From: msimmons@ec.uwa.oz.au (Michael Simmons - mgmt_staff)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Videospigot for Windows
Date: 7 Jan 1993 04:47:55 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

harti@mikro.ee.tu-berlin.de (Stefan Hartmann (Behse)) writes:

>In <C0E4wo.6yq@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> tlilley@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Tripp Lilley) writes:



>Hi,
>well, why just wait for a non-finished product, when you can get today
>the PC-Hurricane ??

>We just offer also VISA card payment, so you can order via email with
>your VISA card number, expiration date and name.

>It is 499 US$ incl. airmail shipping to you.

> Also, if you have the Xing Technology software only MPEG encoder, 
>it will be possible to compress this about 400 single
>TARGA(tm) pics with just one second command to a MPEG movie !

>Best regards, Stefan Hartmann,c/o Gatz & Hartmann
>email to: leo@zelator.in-berlin.de

I'm getting a bit sick and tired of Stefan harping on about the PC-Hurricane
and Xing Mpeg Player.
Could someone hunt down his net connection and disconect it!
What next Net Ad's for Mac-Donalds,toothpaste and baby nappies.
Stefan please don't use the net for this anoying form of blatent advertising.
There is enough garbage on the net as it is.

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: gcm@world.std.com (Gretchen C Macdowall)
Subject: Re: Another Question(s)
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 08:46:16 GMT

slambert@willamette.edu (Sean Lambert) writes:

>b)  When using the special effects in Premiere, whenever I open the
>project bace up (after it has obviously been closed) the program says it
>cannot find the special effects that I used, although they are in the
   
The Premier Prefs file, plug-in filters, and effects all have to be in the
Plug-Ins folder.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: DEMON Project
From: baragry@amdahl1.lat.oz.au (Jason Baragry)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:45:00 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University

G'Day,
	I have been reading about a project at Bellcore to investigate the
Delivery of Electronic Multimedia Over the Network (DEMON) in the May 92 issue
of IEEE Communications.

	The article was "Multimedia Communications for Users" by Rosenberg, et
al (for those interested). And I was wondering if anyone has any pointers
to other references to this project or knows how I could contact the
Multimedia Communications dept at Bellcore to find out more about DEMON.

thanks for any info.

Jason.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: hsu@leda.TTI.COM (Joe Hsu)
Subject: Help with PAS-16, NEC-84, and Adaptec 1522
Reply-To: hsu@tti.com
Organization: Citicorp+TTI
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:05:49 GMT


I just got the multimedia upgrade kit from Media Vision.
The kit contains the PAS-16 sound card and the NEC-84 cdrom drive.
I installed the card and connected it to the cdrom drive.

I have a separate Adaptec 1522 SCSI card connected to a Quantum hard disk.

When the Trantor SCSI CD driver comes up, it locates the SCSI interface 
on the PAS-16.  It then identifies the cdrom drive.  But then
it proceeds to identifies another SSCI interface (the Adaptec 
SCSI card) and hangs. I can't boot up the machine.

If I take out the Trantor driver from the CONFIG.SYS, then I 
can boot up the machine with Adaptec talking to the Quantum drive and
PAS-16 with sound capability. But no cdrom.

The bottom line is I cannot use the cdrom drive I just paid
dearly for.  I either get the sound capability or I can't
even boot the machine.

Any suggestion?


Have A Nice Day....
Joe Hsu    Citicorp(+)TTI            Email: hsu@soldev.TTI.COM           
3100 Ocean Park Blvd. Q34            Voice: (310) 450-9111 Ext. 3117 
Santa Monica, California  90405      Fax  : (310) 450-3932           
{philabs,psivax,pyramid,quad1,rdlvax,retix,rutgers}!ttidca!hsu 







Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: Jonathan Rosenberg <jxr@thumper.bellcore.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for Proceedings...
Organization: Bellcore
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 17:21:40 GMT

> Preliminary copies of the proceedings were handed out during the
> workshop.  I don't know whether extras are available (for $$ or
> otherwise).  Try sending e-mail to av-workshop@cs.ucsd.edu asking about
> copies.

That e-mail address should have been:

	avconf@cs.ucsd.edu

Sorry for any confusion.

JR
From: andor@inode.com
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: HELP
Date: 12 Jan 93 08:34:19 EST
Reply-To: andor@inode.com
Distribution: world
Organization: inode BBS, Usenet Access for NYC (212-679-9146)

help

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From: u8013536@cc.nctu.edu.tw ()
Subject: Re: recurrent neural network (A Question)
Organization: National Chiao Tung University
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:00:50 GMT

giovanni cartabia (cartabia@ghost.dsi.unimi.it) wrote:
: I am a C.S. student wich works on neural nets (boltzmann machines) but
: I heared somethink about recurrent neural networks. Can anyone suggest
: me some GOOD papers about the argument?
: 

  I need those papers, too. But I am a communication engineering student 
working on my M.S. paper. 

  I train the recurrent network for the purpose of speech recognize. 
But I can not find any paper that explain the behavior of the network.
So I have a question: "How do the recurrent network work ?". 

  In a book I see those words...

(Neurocomputing, Robert Hecht-Nielsen, Addison Wesley, p185)  

  F : (y(0),x(1),x(2),....,x(n)) -> (y(1),y(2),.....,y(n))

  "Thus, we can view the operation of such a spatiotemporal system as 
performing a mapping from a set consisting of the initial system states and a 
set of input values provided over the run to a set consisting of thr output
states produced by the system over the run."

  Could anyone tell me more information about the theory of the recurrent 
network ? Any help is appreciated. And thanks in advance.

					liao,
					u8013536@cc.nctu.edu.tw
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: QUESTION: NeuroShell and Dynamind
From: brooks@icbr.ufl.edu
Date: 5 Jan 93 08:16:58 -0500
Organization: ICBR

I would like to hear from anyone who has had experience with either Ward
Systems Group's NeuroShell or Neurodynamx's Dynamind neural emulation software.

I have a rather complex multiple regression problem to solve, and I need a
neural net emulator to run on my PC (486/33).

I have technical information about both packages, but I would like to hear the
advantages and disadvantages of either software, in particular the presence/
absence of bugs and the general robustness of the software.

Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike Brooks
University of Florida College of Medicine
brooks@icbr.ifas.ufl.edu
Bitnet:  brooks@ufbiot
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From: sef@sef-pmax.slisp.cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,soc.college.grad
Subject: Re: Schools strong in neural nets?
Date: 10 Jan 93 16:12:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.C0nBpH.A0r.1
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon


    From: Franklin Chang <fc0v+@andrew.cmu.edu>

    >	Carnegie Mellon		Psychology and Computer Science
            Jay McClelland
            Johnathan Cohen
            Mark Johnson
    
    Could people also put down people that are doing neural networks
    research in these departments?  I've filled in CMU to the best of my
    knowledge.

In addition to the CMU people you've listed (all in psychology), we have
Dave Touretzky, Alex Waibel, Dean Pomerleau, and me in CS/Robotics, plus
a fair number of other CS people who are interested in neural nets but not
(yet?) fully committed in this area.  I'd include Tom Mitchell, Avrim Blum,
Hans Berliner, and Merrick Furst in this extended group, and there are
probably others.

In addition, there are a number of people in the engineering departments
who are working on aspects or applications of neural nets.  Among them are
Ginny Stonick, Vijaya Kumar, Jose Moura, and Jim Garrett.  David Casasent
has a group in ECE who work on optical technology for neural nets and image
processing.

There is a new program in computational neuroscience that involves CMU
(mostly the psychology people plus Dave Touretzky), and a larger group of
people at Pitt, including a good number from the medical school there.

So if you add it all up, Carnegie Mellon has a lot going on in this area.

-- Scott

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From: mcramm@dct.ac.uk (McRamm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: WNNW'93
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:06:29 GMT
Organization: Dundee Institute of Technology

Has anyone received a list of the papers for the Weightless Neural Networks
Workshop '93 yet?

I understood that the decision was to be made by 20th December '92 and would
really like to know what the list is.

-- 
 Angus M. Marshall, MCRAMM@DCT.AC.UK,amarshal@mcs.dund.ac.uk, (+44 382) 308600
Then I was gone, and in my place - a cat with green eyes.
    )     <-- Cheshire Smiley?
From: ajmontal@eos.ncsu.edu (ANTONIO J MONTALVO)
Subject: DARPA NN Study
Organization: NCSU Project Eos
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:48:48 GMT

I am looking for the DARPA Neural Network Study, edited by Carol Weiszmann
in 1988.  If anyone has this report I would like a pointer on how to get
it.  Please e-mail me directly.
Thanks.
Tony Montalvo
From: pikoehn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Philipp Koehn)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: SUMMARY: US universities with NN courses (Jan12 update)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:49:52 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui09.informatik.uni-erlangen.de


I've got about twenty replies to my request for US universities, that have 
graduate schools, that offer courses about neural nets. My informations so far:

Boston University 
  Center for Adaptive Systems:
  Grossberg, Carpenter, Bullock, Cohen, Mignolla are some of the
  professors teaching there.
  Very strong in the theory of ANS.

Boulder, Col.
  offers two or three courses that deal with NN, for instance "connectionst     
  approach to AI",
  Mozer and Smellensky teach,
  estimated annual costs are $19'000,
  Deadline for internation students for the Fall Term is Dec 1st

Bloomington, Indiana
  is very strong in cognitive science (Hofstaedter is prof.) and offers 
  courses about NN

University of Calif., Los Angelos
  is recommended by some replicants (no, that's not the right word, repliers?)
  Deadline is Jan 15.

Caltech
  is recommended
  highly competitive (6-10 ppl per year, <10% acceptance rate)
  tuition and books are $15000, but help is easy to get
  Deadline is Jan 15 ("but they are understanding")

Southern Methodis University (near Dallas, Tx.)
  offers two NN courses, one more CS, one more EE

Washington State         
  offers an NN course, held by two competent persons
  the Univ. is near Univ. of Idaho, therefor switching Univ. is easy

Corvallis, Oregon
  offers a NN course
  estimated annual costs are $13300
  Deadline is May (or later)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Offers one course in neural networks and one in fuzzy logic.   Work focuses
  on machine vision (aside note: UNC is considered by many to be the #1 school
  in graphics).   Dr Jonathan Marshall is the focal point for their neural 
  network efforts.   He is a former student of Grossberg.    CS program is for
  graduate students only.   Most NN work is independent study/RA.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  Several researchers using neural networks, spread over several
  departments. There was a class last semester on neural
  networks in the CS department, but it's a special topics
  class, so it may not be permanent.  There is a permanent class
  in machine learning and pattern recognition that includes both
  symbolic and connectionist approaches.  EE may have classes as
  well.  Professors: Ahuja, Huang, Rendell, Ray, Hutchinson,
  Ponce, Bradshaw, and more.


Please mail further informations (or comments, because all the listed 
data is NOT official data).



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From: jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu (Joseph T. Devlin)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets,bionet.neuroscience,comp.ai
Subject: Re: Biologically Plausible Dynamic Artificial Neural Networks
Date: 11 Jan 1993 11:42:25 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: pollux.usc.edu
Summary: The level of the model varies according the task
Keywords: ANN, biological modeling, cognitive modeling

Ulf Andrick  writes:
>I just wanted to counter the view that Artificial Neural
>Networks (ANN) are suitable to explain everything in the brain.

  I think I can be fairly confident when I say that no-one
really suggests that ANNs might explain "everything in the
brain" - that'd be a neat trick!  It'd put us all out jobs,
however...
 
>Further more, the posting I answered to referred to small
>neural systems in simple organisms, and here, I don't see a
>field for the application of ANN. I think of the stomatogastric
>ganglion of the crab or the flight generator of the locust
>when talking about small neural systems. 

  I think this depends on what exactly you are referring to
when you say "Artificial Neural Net (ANN)".  If you mean any
computational model of neural activity then certainly
Selverston's work at UCSD qualifies as a small ANN in a simple
organism (the lobster stomatoganglion system).
  If, on the other hand, you mean solely the more traditional
ANNs such as the models in McClelland and Rumelhart's PDP book
then I would agree.  These types of models seem to provide no
real insight into detailed neural systems that are fairly well
characterized biologically but I don't believe they were intended
to, either.  PDP models are more useful for modeling cognitive
issues where the underlying biology is as yet unknown but 
nonetheless the modeler would like to capture general components
of the biology - such as distributed representation, massive
parallelism, etc.  As it stands there is certainly debate concerning
the usefullness of these models - see the ongoing McCloskey/Seidenberg
debate - but  I like Seidenberg's arguments which I think are very
elegant (but I work in his lab so I'm biased. :-) 

							- Joe

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University of Southern California  *
Department of Computer Science     * "The axon doesn't think.
Los Angeles, CA 90089              *  It just ax."  George Bishop
*************************************************************************

  McClelland and Rumelhart (1986) _Parallel Distributed Processing_, MIT Press.

  McCloskey (1992) Networks and theories: The place of connectionism in cognitive
science. _Psychogical Science_

  Rowat & Selverston (1991) Learning algorithms for oscillatory networks with
gap junctions and membrane currents.  _Networks 2_, 17-41.

  Seidenberg (in press) [A response to McCloskey...] _Psychological Science_

Note: The references are from memory basically so I apologize for any
      inaccuracies in advance.  I just can't remember the title of the
      Seidenberg paper - my copy doesn't have one.

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