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LAS VEGAS — Eastman Kodak Company announced today that it will demonstrate a prototype of a higher-resolution, digital cinema system. The unique system will incorporate very high quality image projection, Kodak color management, anti-piracy protection, theatre automation, and multi-screen distribution. Testing will begin in the next several weeks at the Kodak Imaging Technology Center (ITC) […]
The U.S. Census Bureau’s new Internet site is devoted exclusively to “Measuring the Electronic Economy.” It features recent and upcoming releases, information on methods, classification systems, and background papers.
AUSTIN, Texas – Building upon the software it pioneered to remotely manage videoconferencing networks, VTEL Corporation (Nasdaq: VTEL) today announced the newly released 3.0 version of SmartVideoNet Manager™, which provides administrators the ability to remotely manage and access real-time information on their VTEL videoconferencing networks from any device connected to a Web browser. With this […]
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Computer Motion Inc. (Nasdaq: RBOT), the leader and pioneer in medical robotics, announced that a London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) team of surgeons in London, Ontario, Canada performed the world’s first series of telecollaborative surgeries using Computer Motion’s SOCRATES™ Telecollaborative System. To date a total of six robotically assisted procedures have […]
Aflenz, Austria — Telekom Austria AG (NYSE: TKA; VSE: TKA) today launches its latest product, SkyMultiMedia, offering ADSL-like broadband data connections via satellite transmission. Successful trials of the technology in Austrian schools have proven that SkyMultiMedia is an effective way to offer high bandwidth data connectivity to areas without current access to broadband communications. Telekom […]
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The Matrix may be the future of virtual reality, but researchers say the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving.
NAPERVILLE, Ill. – NETg, powering intelligent decisions through learning for the Global 2000, today announced that NASCAR greats Geoffrey, Brett and Todd Bodine will appear at NETg’s annual e-Learning industry event, NETglobal 2001. The Bodines, tight-knit brothers and top-notch competitors, will share their hard-won insights about preparation, practice and precision, and how all three factor […]
The University of Oregon with the support of Cisco Systems will netcast the Internet2 members meeting in Washington D.C. The sessions will be encoded with H.261 and MPEG-1 codecs.
El Segundo, CA — DIRECTV, Inc., provider of the nation’s leading digital television service, today announced the launch of DIRECTV GOES TO SCHOOLTM, a public service initiative that will provide up to 50,000 qualifying K-12 educational institutions around the country with free access to the widest array of news, educational and informational programming available. Teachers […]
Information technology (IT) research has created a 3D computerized tutor that helps profoundly deaf children to develop their conversational skills. “Baldi” the animated instructor converses via the latest technologies for speech recognition and generation, showing students how to understand and produce spoken language. The conversational agent for language training was developed through a three-year, $1.8 […]