This paper presents a system designed to automate the production of webcasts, the Virtual Director. It automates simple tasks such as control of recording equipment, stream broadcasting, and camera control. It also automates content decisions, such as which camera view to broadcast. Directors can specify the content decisions using an automation specification language. The Virtual Director also...

New and emerging technologies were extensively explored in this year’s cardiology symposium along with novel approaches to common cardiac challenges. The symposium itself used new technology by webcasting to 12 centres around the world and receiving webcasts from three renowned speakers from the Cleveland Clinic, USA. The sessions included new approaches to commonly encountered cardiology probl...

Collaboration between e-business partners happens online and without boundaries. The SAP Community is a platform for business people around the globe to connect, interact and share best practices for running their e-business. The focus is on real-life experiences and must-have strategies needed to gain competitive advantage. Members benefit from exclusive online offerings for knowledge interact...

eXtension (pronounced e-extension) is an online resource transforming how faculty can collaborate and deliver equine education. As the first Community of Practice launched from eXtension, HorseQuest (HQ) offers free, interactive, peer-reviewed, online resources on a variety of equine-related topics at http://www.extension.org. This group has adapted traditional educational content to the online...

A multipoint videoconference was webcast live to an audience who could communicate with conference panelists and each other via chat. The videoconference, webcast, and chat were done entirely over the Internet. Seven panelists at four conference sites that had Internet2 connectivity and were located in different time zones within the continental United States discussed the topic of "Evaluating ...

This paper presents several techniques for broadcasting multimedia data (audio and video) over the Internet. Internet broadcasting (also called webcasting) techniques have become very important in applications such as Internet (or Web) radio and television, realtime broadcasting of critical data (such as stock prices), distance learning, videoconferencing, and many others. We describe the curre...

This chapter presents several techniques for broadcasting multimedia data (audio and video) over the Internet. Internet broadcasting (also called webcasting) techniques have become very important in applications such as Internet (or Web) radio and television, realtime broadcasting of critical data (such as stock prices), distance learning, videoconferencing, and many others. We describe the cur...

We study the behavior of an application, Web-Canal, that implemented a reliable multicast protocol , the Lightweight Reliable Multicast Protocol , LRMP. LRMP was designed for multicasting of WWW documents in a reliable, ordered, scal-able fashion. We wrote a simulator and ran around ninety simulations, varying a number of parameters , like group size and loss severities. Our experiments show th...

Advances in multimedia device processing capabilities and the Internet have contributed to the proliferation of collaborative applications such as distance learning (DL) webcasting. The challenge that remains to be addressed in existing DL systems is providing access to multimedia content to any user regardless of device capabilities, IP network heterogeneity, and personal preferences such as m...

This chapter presents several techniques for broadcasting multimedia data (audio and video) over the Internet. Internet broadcasting (also called webcasting) techniques have become very important in applications such as Internet (or Web) radio and television, real-time broadcasting of critical data (such as stock prices), distance learning, videoconferencing, and many others. We describe the cu...