Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi,comp.parallel.pvm,fj.comp.parallel
From: ram@yama.bus.utexas.edu (Ram Chellappa)
Subject: MBONE broadcast - the CAPPS conference !
Organization: Center for Information Systems Management
Date: 19 Oct 1994 09:10:09 -0500
Message-ID: <3839c1$lgr@yama.bus.utexas.edu>

Questionaire on MBONE !!!

Hi everybody,

We at the Center for Information Systems Management are interested in looking
at implications of technologies like MBONE on the Internet versus proprietary
conferencing systems.  Basically, we are interested in analyzing the convergence
of various features like browsers, databases and conferencing tools on the
Internet.  Therefore we are conducting a survey on usage of MBONE for 
conferences, the key idea being to promote the Internet in business as well.

As a first step we are broadcasting the CAPPS (Commercial Applications of
Parallel Processing Systems) conference at Austin on MBONE.  We've been 
successful in broadcasting Video and White-board but not Audio owing to the
limited bandwidth on our site :-(  However tomorrow (19th Oct) I'll be 
putting up slides that speakers would be using and I hope to encourage 
questions from some participants on the whiteboard.  I guess interaction is
less chaotic on the whiteboard !!  

Speakers at the CAPPS conference are not exposed to this technology and 
are very interested in trying this out.

Also I would like to solicit questions from people who remotely "attended" the
other two conferences to hear their views on MBONE.  I could mail the 
questionaire to you or alternatively it is in a form structure (all you do is
click :-)) on our web page.

The URL is http://cism.bus.utexas.edu/ram/survey.html

FOR THOSE INTERESTED I CAN SEND THE RESULTS OF THE SURVEY AND THE PROCEEDINGS
OF THE CAPPS CONFERENCE.  WE SHALL ALSO RE-BROADCAST THE CONFERENCE FROM OUR
CENTER AT A HIGHER BANDWIDTH SO AUDIO SHOULD BE NO PROBLEM.

Thanx,

Ram Chellappa (ram@cism.bus.utexas.edu)

