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From: mac9067@cs.rit.edu (Mark Collien)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia Degrees
Date: 10 Sep 92 14:54:15 GMT
Followup-To: comp.multimedia
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

In article <willdye.715666272@helios>, willdye@helios.unl.edu (Will Dye)
wrote:
> 
> kpm8447@tesla.njit.edu writes:
> 
> > I think this has been asked before, but what are some
> > universities offering Multimedia major degrees?
> 
> Some Universities offer an Integrated Studies program, which allows you 
> to develop a customized degree (if the Dean approves it).  I just 
> graduated from the University of Nebraska with an Integrated Studies 
> degree in Multimedia Computing.  It was about half Computer Science; and 
> half a mix of media-related topics such as Film Studies, audio, Video 
> Production, acting, art, and some special topics degrees where I worked 
> one-on-one with a professor on a multimedia presentation. 
> 
> I started several years ago, when mm wasn't so popular; but it was fun, 
> and to my knowledge I'm the first person in the world with a degree in 
> Multimedia Computing.  I'm job-hunting now, and the only hard part is 
> that I want to stay in Nebraska or Colorado to stay close to family.  
> If there's a center to mm, it's the Bay area.  I may yet wind up there.
> 
> You might want to check out San Francisco State, they are offering a 
> couple of courses in mm.  If you don't like California, try asking 
> the college of you choice about a specialized degree.  A few people 
> will give you a funny look, but don't get discouraged until someone 
> who knows for sure says 'no'.  Good luck, please let me know how it 
> turns out.
> 
> --Will
> willdye@helios.unl.edu

Rochester Institute of Technology offers a graduate certificate program
in Interactive Media Design, several other graduate courses in interactive
media (can be used as a minor in the Computer Graphic Design MFA and
others) and a BS program in Information Technology that has some
interactive media courses in it.  

The graduate certificate program (24 credit hours, 6 courses) 
can be used in conjunction with other masters programs here like Graphic
Design, Imaging Arts/Computer Animation, Computer Graphic Design,
Instructional Technology, etc.

We have beein teaching courses in interactive media since 1984.



-- Mark

Mark Collien
Interactive Media Laboratory
Rochester Institute of Technology
mac9067@cs.rit.edu  -or-  mac9067@ritvax.bitnet
716.475.6625
716.475.5804 fax
From: metz@iam.unibe.ch (Igor Metz)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Is the CD-I World magazine dead?
Date: 7 Sep 92 14:45:32 GMT
Reply-To: metz@iam.unibe.ch
Organization: Dept. of CS, University of Berne, Switzerland

I got my first (and sofar only) issue of CD-I World (Vol. 1, issue 2) in June.
The impressum says, that it should appear 10 times a year !!
Is CD-I World still around?
---
Igor Metz <metz@iam.unibe.ch>
Institut fuer Informatik und angew. Mathematik, Universitaet Bern, Switzerland.
Phone: (0041) 31 65 49 90  Fax: (0041) 31 65 39 65
From: tnguyen@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Thinh Nguyen)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:46:13 GMT
Subject: Mac 16" Monitor, Video card and Misc. FORSALE
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia


       Summer-end clean-up.
       I have some Mac, computer stuff for sale all in good to exel. condition,
   some has manuals and some don't (do I read manual??  Nah):

    1/ 16" hi-res color monitor:
        - Sony made, originated for Sun WS.
        - 1024 x 768 picx worked great with my MAC.(but you need the video card 
          of course ) also worked with PC with some SVGA card such ATI W.
       price: $600. 

    2/ Supermac Video card (8 bits):
       - Ideal for large monitor for such the one above. or any Multi-sync
         large screen monitor.
       price: $450.
       If you buy both is $1K and include RGB cable. 

    3/ Apple 8.24 GC Video Card:
       - Millions colors and fast for 13" RGB monitor or large multi-sync type
         monitor.
       - Latest Rom version (B I think), onboard 2Meg Vram.
       price: $450.

    4/ Apple 4.8 color Video Card
         - 256 colors video card for Mac RGB monitor.
       price: $150/BO
    
    5/ Apple 16 colors standard Video Card.
       price: $100/BO

    6/ Conner SCSI Hard disks:
         - 120MB 3.5" half-high, currently is Mac formatted, but can use for
           PC.    price $250 .
         - 40MB  3.5" half-high, currently is Mac formatted, but can use for
           PC.    price $120.

    7/ Mac 13" Mono monitor:
         - Metal box, look funny but worked good. Make me an offer.

    8/ Misc:  (Make me an offer which I can't refuse)
         - Working MAC and PC Ethernet cards. 
         - Working 2400 bps ext. modem for Mac and PC.
         - Broken Mac hard drive 20MB to larger.
         - Broken Mac Superdrive or 780K.
         
    9/ Any more Mac and PC junk you want to buy ? just ask see if I have it.

     All the Mac stuff is for Mac with Nubus type
     Email or call me after 7PM (San Jose,CA)if you're interest 
   or need more info. to these items above, shipping is not include.
      
     Email address: tnguyen@cup.hp.com
     Home Phone   : (408)729-8160
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: sarb@usace.mil (Sarbjit Takhar)
Subject: Philips CD Recorder
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers, Sacramento District
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 17:27:29 GMT

Does anyone know where I can purchase a Philips CD Recorder.

I tried calling Philips US and they told me to call thier distributor
Ingram Micro.

However, Ingram Micro could only give me the names of some
of thier bigger clients.  They couldn't tell me who specifically
carries the CD Recorder.

Any leads are appreciated.

Sarbjit Takhar
sarb@usace.mil
From: noel@crs.cl.msu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Growth chart for CDROM. etc.
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:55:27 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University

I hope this is the right newsgroup for this:

I'm working with a professor on a project at MSU, and we are looking for a
growth chart that shows the proliferation of the use of such multimedia
tools as CDRom, Laserdisk, interactive video, etc.  We have contacted Apple
and all of the other obvious places, but have found out nothing.  Would anyone
out there know of such numbers or where they might be obtained.  I thought they
would be fairly easy to get.  Specifically, we want to know how the numbers
of such technologies (hardware and software) have grown since their inception.

Any help would be greatly appreciated (either E-mail or Post)


--
Noel Estabrook          |       Let us not merely do that which is our
noel@crs.cl.msu.edu   __|__	RIGHT, rather, let us desire to do that
Educational Technology  |	which IS right - Me
Michigan State Univ.    |				Romans 12:2
From: BJGLEAS@auvm.american.edu (bj gleason)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia PC specs - what are the levels?
Date: 15 Sep 92 03:57:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: auvm.92258.235715BJGLEAS
Organization: The American University - University Computing Center

I would be interested in knowing more about the specs to just the
MPC standard.  What cards/software are required?  If I could get a
pointer, I could look it up...

bj
From: tevonian@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu (Pete Tevonian)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:37:32 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley) writes:


>If your decision is to buy an Amiga, I do warn you again that you may
>You may also want to look at possibly getting an Amiga 2000.. maybe with
>an accelerator... or possibly the 3000T (I haven't heard recent prices
>of it in a while).
> 

Latest I saw, (this past weekend in an Amiga World mag of unkown date),
the 3000T with 5M RAM, 120M HD and 28(?)mHz 68040 was going for $5,995

>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-------------
>    /// John Dudley
> \\///  Vertex Laboratories
>  \X/   Only AMIGA Makes it Possible!

--Pete Tevonian
From: samson@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Mark Samson)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Where is the FAQ? (Address for CD-I Green Book)
Date: 8 Sep 92 13:44:22 GMT
Reply-To: samson@prlhp1.UUCP (Mark Samson)
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Redhill, UK

In article <1992Aug25.194332.1529@cs.ubc.ca> tessmann@cs.ubc.ca (Markus Tessmann) writes:
>The subject sums it up.  I do not recall seeing a FAQ posted.
>3) What is the best source of info about the CDI standard (Sony, Phillips etc.)

You will probably find Robert A. Bruce's CD-ROM Frequently Asked Questions 
file useful (it is uploaded to alt.cd-rom USENET news group). The following
may help with your 3rd question:

     "Green Book" is the CD-I (compact disc interactive) standard.
      You can get the Green Book from
           American CD-I Association
           11111 Santa Monica, Suite 750
           Los Angeles, CA  90025
           (213) 444-6619
 
 
You may also find these phone numbers useful:

Philips CD-I hotline numbers:

US: Consumer hotline:    800-845-7301
    For nearest store:   800-223-7772
    Developers hotline:  800-234-5484
                            (CDI)

UK Philips CD-I hotline: 0800-885-885

Mark

******************************************************************************
Mark Samson: Information Technology Group, Philips Research Laboratories,       
Cross Oak Lane, Redhill, Surrey RH1 5HA, UK                                     Email:- UNIX: samson@prl.philips.co.uk                  
******************************************************************************
From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Centralized timing service
Date: 10 Sep 92 16:32:47 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Sep9.224534.11086@smsc.sony.com>, dce@smsc.sony.com
(David Elliott) asks about syncing multiple programs as part of a multimedia
presentation.

These sorts of capabilities are described in detail in the QuickTime
documentation. I must admit this is one area of QuickTime which I haven't
actually tried out, but here are some of the things the documentation leads
me to believe you can do:

      * You have "timebase" components and "clock" components.
	A "clock" is an actual time reference (such as a hardware clock),
	whereas a "timebase" is something you slave to a clock (or to another
	timebase). A timebase may also mark time at a rate other than 1:1
	relative to its master, and it may loop.
      * QuickTime 1.0 provides two standard clocks: the "tick" clock
	(60.15 ticks = 1 second) and the Time Manager microsecond clock
	(actual claimed resolution is 20 microseconds). You could define
	additional clock components, for example one that was just a slave
	to a central time service on a network.
      * You can attach callback routines to a clock or timebase component
	instance. A callback can be triggered at a specific time, at a specific
	time but only if time is moving in a particular direction (!), or on a
	change of rate of passage of time, or on a sudden jump in the
	current time value. You specify whether the callback is an interrupt
	or non-interrupt routine; the latter has more flexibility in what it
	is allowed to do when invoked, but the invocation latency is greater.
      * You can change the timebase or clock attached to a movie.
	For example, this could be used to synchronize the playback of
	a group of movies, without any further special action.

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+12:00
A copy of my new automatic enclosure-encoding software follows.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia,comp.mail.multi-media,comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
From: aba@hp835.mitek.com (Binion Amerson)
Subject: Interactive Multimedia Comes of Age--STC Lone Star Chapter Meeting
Summary:  September 10, 1992, Society for Technical Communication Meeting
Keywords: STC, Multimedia
Organization: OpenConnect Systems, Dallas, TX
Distribution: tx
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 12:49:28 GMT

                       F I N A L   N O T I C E 

       * * *   INTERACTIVE  MULTIMEDIA  COMES  OF  AGE   * * *

The Society for Technical Communication (STC) Lone Star Chapter is pleased to 
announce its September 1992 meeting:

WHO:            STC Lone Star Chapter (Dallas/Fort Worth)

WHAT:           September 1992 Meeting

PROGRAM TOPIC:  Interactive Multimedia Comes of Age

SPEAKERS:       Scott Lamb, Creotec Corporation
                David Harrison, Sky Island Communications
                Catherine Dodd, Communication Strategies, Inc.
                Steve Lee, Communication Strategies, Inc.

ATTENDEES:      Anyone interested in technical communication--writers,
                entry-level and experienced alike

WHEN:           Thursday, September 10, 1992

WHERE:          Harvey Hotel-Addison
                14315 Midway Road
                Dallas, Texas

TIME:           6-7 p.m.   Registration, Demonstrations, and Happy Hour
                7-8 p.m.   Dinner
                8-9 p.m.   Program

DOOR PRIZES:    Multimedia and Graphics Software

DINNER COST:    Members $18.00
                Nonmembers $20.00

RESERVATIONS:   Call (metro) 817-540-5494 for dinner reservations.  Reservation
                for dinner must be made or canceled by noon, September 8, 1992.
                Otherwise space is subject to availability.  Dinner no-shows 
                will be billed.  Additional $5.00 without a reservation.  

INFORMATION:    Dale Erickson, (metro) 817-267-8765

MEMBERSHIP:     Nancee Moster, (metro) 817-267-9662

MAIL ADDRESS:   STC Lone Star Chapter
                P.O. Box 515065
                Dallas, Texas 75251-5065

-- 
 Binion Amerson, Senior Technical Writer, OpenConnect Systems, Inc., 2033 
 Chennault Dr., Carrollton, Texas 75006; 214/308-0447; aba@hp835.oc.com
 General Manager: 40th STC Annual Conference, June 6-9, 1993,  Dallas, TX
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: ppai@pei.us.oracle.com (Pei-Ming Pai)
Subject: Re: VGA -> VCR/TV
Organization: Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores CA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:58:26 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by an unauthenticated user
              at Oracle Corporation.  The opinions expressed are those
              of the user and not necessarily those of Oracle.

Why not just get a demokey.  A small device, gets output from the VGA port and 
costs only about $200 less.  I know, this only get 640x400, but you can't
beat the price...


						Pai
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Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: roy@dutetvd.tudelft.nl (Roy Natadarma)
Subject: KnowledgePro meeting
Organization: Delft University of Technology
Distribution: eunet
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 19:16:16 GMT



KnowledgePro User Group Europe (KPUGE) Meeting

Are you an user of KnowledgePro? Then, there is a great
opportunity to meet other european users and also the developpers
of KnowledgePro from Knowledge Garden, USA. 
Last year at the first usergroup meeting in Norway KPUGE has been
established. KPUGE is a dynamic network with the following aims:
- to exchange knowledge and expertise;
- to maintain a cooperative and independent relationship to    
  other user groups and Knowledge Garden Inc.;
- to increase membership of the user group.
Since the meeting of last year has been very interesting and
useful we would like to continue this way of communicating with
each other. 
So,  the next user group meeting will be from the 5th to the 8th
of October 1992 in Fiesole (close to Florence), Italy.

For more information:
                                             phone:
Guido Calcagno                  Italy        +39-125-612795
Endre Sjovold                     Norway     +47-7-831597
Turbologic Inf.               The Netherlands +31-4956-2686
Sabine Kunst             The Netherlands     +31-15-783037
From: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
Date: 14 Sep 92 21:04:24 GMT
Reply-To: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
Organization: CEBAF



ATTENTION: To the future purchaser of the Amiga 2000 or 3000...... DON'T
GET IT!
 
I strongly urge you to consider the new Amiga 4000.... it has much
better graphics WITHOUT additional hardware.
 
The newly released Amiga 4000 (a mailorder house I know of is selling it
for $2800) comes with the new AGA (Advanced Graphics Architecture)
chipset.... (Yep! A bunch of new names for chips like Dorothy, Lisa,
Alice, etc.).... But this new chipset(which might not be compatible with
earlier Amigas) includes higher resolution modes, and a palette of 16.8
million colors.  Some screen modes allow you to get a full 256,000
colors (from the selectable 16.8 million) on screen at one time.
 
This new machine may make it so that you would not need to purchase the
A3000 with DCTV, etc... Plus, this system comes standard with the
Motorolla 68040 microprocessor.

Check out the amiga newsgroups (comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, and
comp.sys.amiga.misc) for more information on this new machine.

If you do decide to go with the 3000, make sure your dealer is giving
you the free CDTV Multimedia Machine WITH your 3000... if not, call
Commodore and find out why not.
 
Once again... a new machine was released this weekend.. Check it out!
From: 2719weberj@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Quest Authoring System
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 03:56:46 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2719weberj@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

Hi all,
Just a quick question.  A few years ago, I did a lot of work with the
Quest Authoring System, by Allen Communications.  It was with Video
discs, but I figure this would probably be the place to ask if any one
has used it recently and what direction the software(if it is still
around) has taken.  If memory serves me right, it ran about $3,000 and
at the time it was one of the best...I think the DOE uses it too.

Any way, any replies would be apreciated.
Thanks in advance
JOE
From: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: Buying a multimedia system
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:27:36 GMT
Reply-To: dudley@cebaf4.cebaf.gov (John Dudley)
Organization: CEBAF


In article <1992Sep9.041425.9379@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>,
mdicker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Dickerson) writes:
> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> 
> >I'd like to know what sort of images you saw on the DCTV. Were they
> >computer-generated animations, or captured digital video?
> 
> They were computer generated, but the entire frame was changing each
> time, because it was a flying-observer type of deal where objects were
> moving in the scene and also the observer was moving too which had the
> effect of the entire background of the image changing.  Looked
> way-fine.  The salesdroid indicated it had been rendered on an Amiga
> 3000 with some sort of animation program. 
> 
>    M/

  The fact that it was rendered on an Amiga 3000 doesn't mean too much.
The Amiga 2000 or 500 could do the same rendering, albeit slower.
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: neideck@nestvx.enet.dec.com (Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz)
Subject: Re: DECstation audio/XMedia
Organization: CEC Karlsruhe
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 12:35:49 GMT

Christian Huitema writes (forgot where):

>>Except one little detail. The first thing that "audioserver" does is to try to
>>connect to the local X server, and it aborts if it cannot.

No. I checked and it never connects to X in it's whole lifetime.

In article <53069@dime.cs.umass.edu> hgschulz@gaia.cs.umass.edu (Henning Schulzrinne) writes:
>One more little detail: It doesn't work. While XMedia may be a superb
>tool for playing sound bites for a multimedia kiosk or such, we have not
>been able to get it (Version 1.1, that is), to work in anything
>approaching real-time. We need to read audio data in 22.5 ms chunks for
>delay reasons and the XMedia alib interface doesn't seem to be able to
>handle that type of call frequency and leave processing power for other
>system chores.

This is a different statement than "it's all bulls**t". Yes, there
are areas for which even the XMedia 1.1 audio server does not work
well enough. There is more than a performance problem, it has
to do with the philosophy of handling client side data streams that
make it hard/impossible to a good job with very short latencies. This
problem will be rectified in the future, but it would be somewhat
overkill to get rid of the entire concept of a audioserver because
of that.

Apart from that, I will try to do my best (now putting down my head as
a somewhat proud XMedia engineer and taking my hat as european EERP
manager) I will try and see what we can do to provide both you and
Christian Huitema with an interim solution (maybe even device interface
descriptions as Christian Huiteman originally pointed out). No promises
but at least I will ask what the conditions would be.

		Burkhard Neidecker-Lutz

Multimedia Engineering, CEC Karlsruhe	   EERP Portfolio Manager
Software Motion Pictures		   Multimedia Base Technology
Digital Equipment Corporation
neidecker@nestvx.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: tessmann@cs.ubc.ca (Markus Tessmann)
Subject: Re: Sony LANC/Control L
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 19:17:25 GMT

DonD@cup.portal.com (Don Robert DeCosta) writes:

>Looking for info on Sony's LANC/Control L protocol... Any Ideas where to
>look?  I would like enough info to write software drivers for it without
>a V-Box (or at least enough info to try!)

Me too, please post this info.

Thanks,
	Markus

Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
From: bbs.peter@tsoft.sf-bay.org (Peter Blum)
Subject: Re: Street Price: IconAuthor
Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:00:47 GMT

grossnik@iam.unibe.ch (Bruno Grossniklaus) writes:

> Hi there
> 
> Whats the street price of the Icon Author software in US?
> 
> Thanks a lot
> 
> Bruno Grossniklaus
> 
> grossnik@iam.unibe.ch

        It is being sold by Amisys (Advanced Multimedia integration 
Systems) for $4559 this is version 4.0.

                                Peter Blum

--
Peter Blum (bbs.peter@tsoft.sf-bay.org)