TechTalks Event
Networked Digital Video
with guest experts Joel Mambretti and Bob Taylor
February 3, 2000
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Who wants video in higher education institutions and why? Is digital video on campus "just around the corner" or is it already here? Why do we need, do we need, high-res video? Can the commodity network handle short term video demands? How does the Internet2 relate to video on campus? What is the difference between "broadcast," "narrowcast," and "multicast?" What does digital video do to substantial vested interests, on campus, in analog video? How does it affect other campus stakeholders?
Guest Experts
Joel
Mambretti is the Director of the International
Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University,
in Chicago. The Center has four mission areas, advanced applications
(including digital video), advanced network middleware, advanced
infrastructure and public policy studies. He is also Director of
the Metropolitan Research
and Education Network (MREN), a cooperative advanced high-performance
network in the upper midwest that interlinks major upper-midwest
research universities, several national laboratories, and advanced
national networks. He chairs the Internet2
Digital Video Initiative and the Digital Video Working Group
for the Coordinating Committee for International Research Networks.
He recently co-authored, with Andrew Schmidt, a book published by
Wiley entitled, the Next Generation Internet.
Bob
Taylor, also at Northwestern, is Director
of Academic Technologies. Bob's role is to support Northwestern
faculty in the implementation and adaptation of technology towards
instructional and research goals, providing training and one-on-one
consulting to faculty members and managing the University's electronic
classrooms and computer lab/classroom facilities.
Co-Hosts
Howard Strauss, Manager of Academic Applications at Princeton
University, is TechTalk's Technology Anchor.
Co-Host Judith Boettcher is CREN's Executive Director.
Together, Howard and Judith will ask the really tough questions—and
relay the questions you email to them at expert@cren.net.
Background & Resources
- Added during the broadcast, thanks to listener Richard Bloom is the University of Pennsylvania's Streaming Media Shootout.
- I2DV is Internet 2 Digital Video, which is a distributed organization intending to provide a joint informational structure for projects regarding Internet video.
- One of I2DV's services is this Digital Video Portal.
- The International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University provides many useful, related resources and links.
- The Role of Advanced Networks in the Education of the Future by Carole A. Barone and Mark A. Luker is an excerpt from Preparing Your Campus for a Networked Future, a new book from Jossey-Bass (see below). Barone and Luker discusses the role of networked digital video at length.
- Here are the standards for MPEG-4.
- Digital Video Magazine and its archives contain enough startling reading to keep you up for a few nights.
- ACUTA, the Association for Telecommunications Professionals in Higher Education, provides resources and links. Some of the audio clips and associated slide shows from its Winter Seminars 2000 might be of interest.
- And a look at this Broadcast History Timeline might help put things into exciting perspective!
- Joel's latest book is available through Amazon.com: Next Generation Internet: Creating Advanced Networks and Services.
- Preparing Your Campus for a Networked Future by Mark A. Luker of EDUCAUSE, from which an excerpt online is linked above, is also now available from Amazon.com.
