We hope people throughout Houston and the world, especially parents, relatives and friends of the graduates will enjoy the ability to watch the ceremony. The streaming technology process is fairly complicated, and involved a number of Information Technology professionals. This results in a time lag of 10 to 20 seconds. The people who helped with the broadcast included input from Fran Beach , the Manager of Operating Systems, Phil Booth of the Technology Support Services department, who manned the camer a, David Potts, a Video Production Specialist, who helped set up the equipment, and Georgette Michko , an Operating Systems Programmer III, who supervised the network connections. They were assisted by Lonzo Jackson, a Media Assistant, and Greg Johnson, a TSS Digital Media Developer in the Academic Technology Support Center, who monitored the signals as they passed through the computers and to the Web.
Booth plans to edit the film and present it to viewers over the Web as a streaming package.
The Web location of the video will be announced on this Web site when it becomes available. IT has been involved with other Internet streaming projects since it began exploring its practical applications in early 1998, but this was the first general-public project the division has done so far. IT doesn't plan to stop with this one, however.