Broadcast Television and Postgraduate Education

Broadcast Games and Digital Television

Digital television (DTV) allows simultaneous transmission of data along with traditional AV content. It provides an inexpensive and high bandwidth data pipe that enables new forms of interactive television and also new types of games, and other applications, for game consoles. This paper explores the potential role of DTV in future game titles and addresses how to merge television viewing with ...

Tracking Pitches for Broadcast Television

I n baseball, a pitcher’s fame and fortune depend on his mastery of the strike zone. Pitches that pass outside the strike zone count as balls and can be safely ignored. Those that pass through it untouched, however, count as strikes, three of which will retire the batter to his team’s dugout. Players, fans, and sports journalists thus have an intense interest in compiling statistics about these...

AT_TV: Broadcast Television and Radio Retrieval

This paper reports recent work at AT&T Laboratories Cambridge to develop retrieval systems for broadcast television and radio programmes. Unlike some other systems, it does not rely on manual classification or annotation of the broadcast material; it is indexed automatically from the air. While many digital video library projects focus solely on broadcast news, we have broadened our efforts to ...

Postgraduate Medical Education.

Postgraduate education for pediatricians.

Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...