Stella, others I can relate to your feeling of not being able to attend a talk, i really wanted to go to.
The next best thing to attending a talk, live in person, is watch the video. The lectures for ee380, the ee cs seminar course @ stanford, are streamed live & also available , on demand, over the web, on the course website. http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ (click on the camera icons) cheers ashish On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Stella Podgornik <stellap at uw.edu> wrote: > would there be a way to get him up here? I would love to hear this talk. > > From: ashish makani <ashish.makani at gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:17:40 -0500 > To: TIER <tier at tier.cs.berkeley.edu>, <change at change.washington.edu> > Subject: [change] Fwd: [EE CS Colloq] Design of Video Collaboration, Video > Town Halls and a Distributed * 4:15PM, Wed Jan 19, 2011 in Gates B01 > > This talk might be of interest to TIER & CHANGE folks, given VSee's use in > refugee camps. > > The talk is tomorrow @ Stanford @ 4:15pm > > cheers > ashish > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > Date: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:37 PM > Subject: [EE CS Colloq] Design of Video Collaboration, Video Town Halls and > a Distributed * 4:15PM, Wed Jan 19, 2011 in Gates B01 > To: ashish.makani at gmail.com > > > Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium > 4:15PM, Wednesday, Jan 19, 2011 > HP Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B01 > http://ee380.stanford.edu > > Design of Video Collaboration, Video Town Halls and a Distributed Social > Network for Humanitarian Environments > > Dr. Milton Chen > VSee *About the talk:* > > Over the last five years, the VSee <http://vsee.com/> team has worked in > refugee camps from Asia to Mideast to Africa -- most recently at the > Iraq-Syria border supporting Hillary Clinton and Angelina Jolie for a global > broadcast by the UN Refugee Agency. We will present the design of three > communication systems for refugee and humanitarian environments -- > specifically, featuring robust network tolerance and ease of use for > non-experts and illiterate first time computer users. The first system is a > managed peer-to-peer multiparty video calling, application sharing, and file > transfer tool. Its network tolerance made it a favorite tool among NGOs in > Afghanistan for medical and education initiatives. The second system is an > interactive video town hall on Facebook and Twitter where participants are > physically dispersed and network-challenged. Successes include Mandy Moore's > Facebook anti-malaria campaign, Nothing But > Nets<http://www.nothingbutnets.net/>, > and a multi-location musical exchange by > PlayingForChange<http://playingforchange.org/>. > The third system is a distributed social network that can be used offline > and synced periodically over cost and bandwidth-constrained networks. We > will share practical insight from our field experience, as well as goals for > an upcoming i-ACT/Darfur Sister Schools <http://iactivism.org/> trip in > March, 2011. > > *About the speaker:* > > Milton is the CEO of VSee <http://vsee.com/>, a video collaboration tool > that lets you share any application with one click, and send any file with > one drag. VSee is used by over 6000 enterprises such as Shell, NASA, Navy > SEALs, US Congress, the National Science Foundation, and to stream video > over 3G from police cars. Milton received a bachelor's degree in Computer > Science from UC Berkeley and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction from > Stanford University. His insight in how to make videoconferencing and > webconferencing an everyday experience has led to more than 100 invited > talks to countries ranging from Iceland to Nigeria to Saudi Arabia. He also > received the DEMO God award at DEMO 06, and is the co-author of XMPP video > standard. > > *Contact information:* > > Milton Chen > 3188 KIMLEE DR > San Jose, CA 95132 > > 650.331.0165 > > > > > -- > *"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, > when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic > about." > -- Albert Einstein > * > _______________________________________________ change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20110119/232ae3f0/attachment.html>
