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From: eec@po.CWRU.Edu (Edward E. Conroy)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: need advice on video cards
Date: 26 Jan 1993 07:51:11 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: thor.ins.cwru.edu


I want to buy a computer system with the capability of viewing,
editing and storing full colour video and stereo sound. This
machine will be used for research into multimedia education, and
should be able to interface easily with VCRS and audio equipment.
I'm currently looking into some of the VL-bus machines, but I'm
not sure what sort of video card to get. It's very important that
I purchase a top-of-the-line, reliable card to do this sort of
thing, and I'd appreciate any advice, suggestions, warnings and/or
wild rumors that anyone might be able to give me.

Thanks in advance for the help.
-ed conroy
eec@po.cwru.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: ayisi@media.mit.edu (Ayisi wa Makatiani)
Subject: Re: Philips CD-I on a DOS machine?
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 21:41:43 GMT



I am interested in making CD-I titles and other CD-I development. I was 
wondering if there is a cheaper means of doing it other than buying 
all the combinations of equipment that Phillips (PIMA) advises one to buy.

I would appreciate replies directly to my email address.

Thanks in advance,

ayisi makatiani
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Overcoming Barriers to Multimedia
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:01:57 GMT
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <81307@hydra.gatech.EDU>, jt34@prism.gatech.EDU (THOMPSON,JOHN C) writes:
>
> One of the most talked
> about issues concerns technical capabilties of the various hardware and
> software alternatives, another concerns the perceived advantages of these
> various platforms by both users and developers, another issue concerns
> baseline capabilities in the installed base of equipment, another is cost -
> both before and after installation, and another depends on availablitiy
> and widespread knowledge of available titles. What do you think?

I don't know whether this comes under your category of "technical capabilities",
but it seems to me a very important issue is the availability of an overall
architecture which allows easy interoperability between a wide selection of
plug-in hardware and software. This allows you to tailor the cost and features
of the system to suit your needs: like using hardware-assisted compression
on the authoring machine, without this being a necessity on the delivery
machine. It also eases the incorporation of multimedia features into more
"mainstream" applications, such as databases and e-mail.

> My definition of Interactive Multimedia: Computer based presentation of
> information in multiple modalities including but not limited to textual,
> audio,still graphics, and motion video in a way that requires active interaction
> by the user (active response and control - not just passive viewing).

I would say further that "Interactive Multimedia" is splitting into two
distinct varieties: the "traditional" variety, involving reliance on external
hardware like laserdisc players and the like in the delivery platform, and
(for want of a better term) the "desktop digital video" variety, exemplified
by QuickTime and Video for Windows.

The "traditional" variety, it seems to me, uses the computer as little more
than a control centre, sending commands to the external hardware telling it
to start and stop and so on. "Desktop digital video", on the other hand,
involves storing the data (and not just video) in computer-accessible digital
form, and playing it back from there. Both kinds let you be interactive, but it
seems to me the latter form offers new opportunities for interaction, because
you can do all kinds of manipulations of the stored data that aren't otherwise
possible--create your own presentations, in other words.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro                       fone: +64-7-856-2889
Computer Services Dept                     fax: +64-7-838-4066
University of Waikato            electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
Hamilton, New Zealand    37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+13:00
From: larry@tweety.cs.berkeley.edu (Larry Rowe)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Digital data --> NTSC Commercial boards: info needed.
Date: 27 Jan 1993 01:22:27 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley EECS Dept.
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: larry@cs.Berkeley.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: tweety.cs.berkeley.edu

We have the Parallax XVIDEO board which includes video out option.
The board's expensive (around $7K) but it comes with optional compression
chip (CL550).

If you've got money to burn, I played with a Yamashica scan converter
(approx. $15K (?)) from an outfit in Kansas (Grunefield, I think) who
is the US distributer.  It's a *very* nice device and it produces excellent
pictures.  You can connect it up to any of several high scan rate workstations.
	Larry
From: Erik_Ramberg@SMTP.esl.com (Erik Ramberg)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Ways of recording screen sequences without using a videocamera
Date: 22 Jan 93 19:36:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: esl

In article <4388@sapwdf.UUCP>, spielman@sapwdf.UUCP (Nicola Spielmann)
wrote:
> 
> 
> problem: we are not satisfied with the quality of videotapes taken by a
> videocamera from the computermonitor.
> There are to be ways to bypass the camera by sending the signal of the
> computer (UNIX HP  X-Terminals) directly to the videorecorder.
> This might be a common problem, so we hope some of you has already found
> a solution.
> I look forward to hearing from you.
> N. Spielmann

There are several RGB-NTSC converter boxes available, but you'll not be
very
satisfied with their results either.  Realize that you are trying to show
840 horizontal and 1152 verticle lines of resolution on a system that is
limited to 525  (in reality ~ 450 lines are displayed) horizontal lines,
and
vertically you are limited to (assuming a Super-VHS recorder) about 425
lines,
or about 250 lines using a regular VHS recorder.  You also have the problem
of progressive scan versus interlaced which further reduces your apparent
resolution.  The only good solution is to go to film.

-Erik

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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Sound effects in a multimedia enviroment
From: djlewis@ualr.edu
Date: 20 Jan 93 17:25:44 GMT
Organization: University of Arkansas at Little Rock

In article <VAAGA.23.727455066@gribb.hsr.no>, VAAGA@gribb.hsr.no (Vaaga, Hans Egil       7-93) writes:
> Hi!
> 
> I don't know if this is the right group to send this letter, but 
> I hope you can give me some help anyway.
> 
> I'm going to make a program in The Microsoft Windows enviroment. It's a 
> tool that operates the synthesizer in a sound card (e.g. Pro Audio
> Spectrum 16). It will make the card play sounds like an explosion, type-
> writer click etc.
> 
> Does it exists programs like this? I'm also interested in books, magazines,
> etc. that have conections to this program I'm going to make.
> I hope somebody will answer me.
> 
> 
> Hans Egil Vaaga
> vaaga@gribb.hsr.no
Do you mean that you want to write a FM Editor program? Or just have this 
program play sound files ?
Don Lewis
<djlewis@ualr.edu>
<djlewis@spider.ualr.edu>

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: bryanw@rahul.net (Bryan Woodworth)
Subject: Re: New (.AVI) MultiMedia player available?
Organization: a2i network
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:03:28 GMT

In <C14w71.Bo6@solaria.mil.wi.us> smp@solaria.mil.wi.us (Steven M. Palm) writes:

>Is the new MultiMedia player software available for FTP from anywhere?  I
>realize it comes with MicroSoft's Video For Windows, but wondered if it
>was available for FTP to allow non-owners of VFW to view the .AVI files.

ftp.cica.indiana.edu /pub/pc/win3/uploads/DEC92, I believe.

Scan using archive for "vfwrun.zip" to find it at your country's local cica
mirror..

>Thanks.


-- 
Bryan Woodworth <bryanw@rahul.net>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,alt.books.reviews,misc.books.technical,rec.arts.books,rec.arts.comics.xbooks,biz.books.technical
From: borrel@dhhalden.no (Borre Ludvigsen)
Subject: Electronic Books
Reply-To: borrel@dhhalden.no (Borre Ludvigsen)
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:22:33 GMT


I have 3 students working on an electronic book project. Anyone have any suggestions  
for good references, examples, etc.?

- Barre Ludvigsen <borrel@dhhalden.no>
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: mbrooks@ravel.udel.edu (Morris Brooks)
Subject: MCI string for videodisc frame display
Organization: University of Delaware
Distribution: world 
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:28:11 GMT


Does anyone now if there is a MCI command string for the videodisc
device to enable and disable the frame display?  I've looked through the
Microsoft Multimedia Programmer's Reference and I can't find anything
that looks as if it would do this.  Almost all videodiscs support this
feature.
-- 
             Morris W. Brooks
             Instructional Technology Center
             University of Delaware
From: benanav@earth.njit.edu (Dan Benanav)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Recording a computer demo with voice?
Keywords: multimedia, sound
Date: 28 Jan 93 20:10:22 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.


Hello,

Here is what I would like to do.  I would like to prepare lectures
which can be viewed on the computer.  The way I feel would be easiest
to prepare the lecture would be to create a set of slides.  Then I
would like to talk into a microphone and use the mouse to point to
things on the slides.  The software I am looking for should record the
actions of the mouse and keyboard and the sound.  Essentially I give
the lecture once and the computer records it.  Then I should be able
to playback the lecture.  Does anyone know of software that can do
this for PC's.

On a related note what would be the best sound board to use for this?
Two things are important: decent quality recording and compression.
Which boards do compression?



                   Dan Benanav
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Re: XA Multisession cd rom yet?
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:42:03 GMT

>Is there an xa multisession CD rom drive with a scsi interface
>that can be hooked up to a PC?  I see lots of XA drives
>but no multisession ones.  I heard Nec was going to make
>a CDR-75 which was supposed to be a multisession version
>of the 74, but I haven't seen anything about it.

I think you mean Photo-CD Multisession capable. 
I read a blurb from Toshiba that their 3301 drive is multisession
compatible (there is a suffix to it that indicates this)
SOny CDU561 is also compatible.
The Apple CD 300 is multisession capable, but I think it is
just the Sony drive in an Apple box.
There are others, I just can't remember them all at this time.
There is a list on COmpuserve somewhere. I saw references in the
COrel SCSI discussions and they pointed to another forum that
had an older list of capable drives. Maybe it has been updated.
Kodak did release a list early on in the Photo-CD game.
Perhaps they have a more recent one. Give them a call.

tj
From: menath@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Thomas Menath)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Function: Maximum with NN (psychoacoustics)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:07:21 GMT
Organization: LTE, University of Erlangen, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: alpha.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de
Keywords: Maximum Function NN psychakoustics


Hi,

has anybody an idea how I can create a NN to calculate the function Maximum of
some Floats. For example:

Inputs: 0.4   0.6   0.9  0.2     -->   Output: 0.9
Inputs: 0.0   0.3   0.2  0.1     -->   Output: 0.3

I am working on a HP9000 with aspirin/migranes. The project I am working for, is to estimate some psychoacustics with NN.

Thanks in advance,
                        Thomas Menath

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Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: 19064@chopin.udel.edu (Liang-Wen Chang)
Subject: Kolmogorov's approximation theorem
Summary: constructive 
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:23:13 GMT

The impression of Kolmogorov's approximation theorem given by R. H.
Nielsen was existence theorem.  However, recent papers (G. G. Lorentz)
have shown the constructive side of the theorem.  My questions are
a. How powerful is this constructive procedure to handle complicated
systems presented as functions?  b. What is the analogy between 
recurrent neural networks and the Kolmogorov's approximation theorem?
c. Do we treat Neural networks as a design problem or a problem of
function approximation given that there exists Kolmogorov's theorem to
construct functions abstractly?

Boris
From: pchan@iss.nus.sg (Patrick Chan Khue Hiang - with Dan)
Subject: Recurrent Neural Nets
Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, NUS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:31:40 GMT

Dear netters,
	I have some problem getting the below technical reports:

	Williams,R.J., and Zipser,D.1990.  
	Gradient-based learning algorithms for recurrent connectionist
	networks.
	Tech. Rep. NU-CCs-90-9.  Northeastern University,
	College of Computer Science, Boston.

	Have anyone come across such report or is able to get their hands on
	the above... if so, please leave me a note ... help is greatly
	appreciated.  Thank you.

Patrick Chan
Institute of System Science
<email: pchan@iss.nus.sg>

Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: jochenr@neuro.informatik.uni-kassel.de (Jochen Ruhland)
Subject: Re: Kolmogorov's approximation theorem
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:34:06 GMT

In article <C1762q.Hpt@news.udel.edu>, 19064@chopin.udel.edu (Liang-Wen Chang) writes:
|> The impression of Kolmogorov's approximation theorem given by R. H.
|> Nielsen was existence theorem.  However, recent papers (G. G. Lorentz)
|> have shown the constructive side of the theorem.  My questions are

Pardon my ignorance: Could someone please give me the full reference
of the mentioned article by G. G. Lorentz?

Please mail me at address below.
Thanks in advance
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:23:13 MST
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject:  Understanding NNs book - Caudill & Butler
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Keywords: Neural nets
From: rhelps@bones.et.byu.edu (Richard Helps)

          email address of Caudill or Butler wanted

I have recently acquired volume 1 and 2 of "Understanding Neural Networks" by
Maureen Caudill and Charles Butler.  They are a good exploration
of NN basics using the computer.  I would recommend them for anyone learning
about NNs for the first time or as a quick review of unfamiliar architectures.
The books are practical rather than theoretical and need a companion volume
to explain the theory behind the various networks.  They are quite enough for
anyone wanting a working knowledge of NNs without first taking courses in
probability and signal processing.

I want to get hold of the author(s).  I have found a few typos and problems 
with the computer files supplied.  Anyone who has email addresses for either
or both authors, could you please send them to me.  Ordinary US mail address
would also help.  I believe Mareen Caudill is at UCSD.

Thanks,
    - Ricard Helps, BYU, Provo, UT -
From: kens@castle.ed.ac.uk (K G N Sutherland)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Request: Refs on NNs for medical diagnosis
Date: 25 Jan 93 11:13:39 GMT
Distribution: comp.ai.neural-nets
Organization: Edinburgh University

Hi, I wonder if anybody out there knows anything
about the problems of using NNs for medical diagnosis?
I'm keen to try to use a conventional MLP to establish
whether a particular set of clinical symptoms can be 
reliably related to a particular diagnosis. However,
a number of problems are apparent.

I'm particularly interested in the problems of:

- subjectivity of the data.
- 'fuzzy' nature of some symptoms (ie. fairly XXX).
- sample size in relation to number of symptoms used.

Any refs/suggestions ?

Thanks in advance.

Ken

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From: george@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Recurrent networks
Date: 27 Jan 93 11:37:36 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

I've been trying to get neural networks to learn sequences
of type DIFFERENT->SAME->DIFFERENT states, e.g.

A->B->C and X->B->Y

is a simple example. However, with a recurrent network (feeding
back the hidden layer), the output of a network for both pattern
sequences can be given as: (fn O() is output layer, H() hidden)

O(H(A)) and O(H(X)) both must equal B

This seems to force the hidden representation for A and X to be
identical. On the next step when B is given as input, the context
fed back, i.e. the hidden representation H(A) or H(X), will
not distinguish the network's state to output C or Y as appropriate.

i.e. O(H(B, H(A))) = O(H(B, H(X)))

How can this problem be overcome?

Thanks - George Bolt
From: koehler@secs.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Olfactory Cortex Simulation
Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:27:08 GMT
Organization: UCSC Molecular Engineering Laboratory
Reply-To: koehler@secs.ucsc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moldes.ucsc.edu

Hi - I'm interested to know why the *olfactory* cortex is being simulated.
Is it because of some special "connectedness" or is there anything at all
to do with olfaction -the sense of smell?  
-Hoping for some aspect of olfaction,
	Ryan
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 12:56:04 CET
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Just a test




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From: fischthal@vnet.ibm.com (Scott Fischthal)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 08:54:40 EST
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: a beginner's quiestion
Organization: IBM Federal Systems Co.
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <93026.180345K77BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <K77BC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
> My question is: When I run the XOR problem with one hidden layer
> it converges (abeit slowly). But if I use more than one hidden
> layer, it gets stucked (in local maximum?).
> Is this supposed to happen or It's just my code...?

It probably is not your code; standard backprop nets with multiple
hidden layers are always more difficult to control.  How many nodes are
you using in each hidden layer, what is your learning rate and momentum
and what activation function are you using?  Also, how many epochs (runs
through the data set) are you giving it before you throw in the towel?
With some sets of random weights, I've found XOR-analogous sets to take
literally hundreds of thousands of iterations to learn (on the other
hand, sometimes the net converges very quickly).

Keep in mind that the XOR problem is not really an appropriate one to
solve with neural nets; it's important to know that it *can* be solved,
but such discrete, highly linearly non-separable problems are generally
better handled with other techniques.

Scott Fischthal
Artificial Intelligence Technology Center
IBM Federal Systems Company
Gaithersburg, MD
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: pchan@iss.nus.sg (Patrick Chan Khue Hiang - with Dan)
Subject: Recurrent Neural Nets
Organization: Institute Of Systems Science, NUS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 03:38:28 GMT

Hi netters, I am currently researching into the recurrent neural net.
Have anyone come across source code which implement the Real Time
Recurrent Learning by William and Zipser or any program that are able to
implement flexible and partial recurrent nets ?  If you do, please
do leave a note of where I can get the source... any help is greatly
appreciated... thanks

Patrick Chan
Institute of System Science
<email: pchan@cherry.iss.nus.sg>
From: fal@vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Franz Lackinger)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Public Domain literature for NN ?
Keywords: NN
Date: 28 Jan 93 16:11:09 GMT
Organization: DB and ES Subdivision, TU Vienna

I'm looking for ftp sites for literature on NN.
Any pointers are very much welcome. Please respond directly
to my email-address as I do not read this newsgroup regularly.

best regards,


Franz
franz@wgs.estec.esa.nl
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: jss@cs.bham.ac.uk (John Swapp-Sweet)
Subject: 80X86 Neural Software & Source
Organization: University of Birmingham
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 09:36:30 GMT

I'm looking for an FTP site that carries N.N s/w and/or source code for such. 
I'm doing a summer MSc project and would rather write the net I need than use a
simulator.  

Thanks in advance.
From: ska@hercules.acpub.duke.edu
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Seeking information - NN research in the NYCity area
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:36:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
Originator: ska@raphael.acpub.duke.edu

Hello all:

   Could knowledgeable netters please email me the contact addresses of neural
network researchers in Columbia University, NYU, Rockefeller University
and other schools in the NY area.

Thanks in advance. 
Please email responses to ska@raphael.acpub.duke.edu

-santosh
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
From: RPugmire@massey.ac.nz
Subject: Request:  Refs on Hierarchical and Cascaded Nets
Summary: Combining nets to solve more complex problems
Organization: Massey University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 22:57:29 GMT

I am looking for references or information on people working on the combination
of nets to solve complex problems. I am working on the use of hierarchical nets
which contain subnets pretrained to solve parts of the problem. My particular
area of interest is image processing but I would also be interested in research
using this sort of technique for different applications.
I will try and summarise the replies I get and post this to the list.

Please reply to RPugmire@massey.ac.nz

Ralph Pugmire
From: mpmehta@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Manish P. Mehta  ISE Grad)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Jordan's recurrent neural network
Date: 22 Jan 93 20:51:04 GMT
Organization: College of Engg. & Tech., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Originator: mpmehta@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu

Hi netter!
I am sorry for my last posting which was empty.
What i am looking for is a software developed for Jordan's recurrent neural
network. If any one has used or developed a software please mail that to me.
Or if you know where I can get it please let me know...
Thanks
Please mail it to 
mpmehta@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu
-Manish Mehta


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