These sessions aren't specifically Linux ones but, nonetheless, should be interesting. -JDA --- Wednesday, October 17, 2001, 8:00 pm
COMPUTER GRAPHICS FILM SHOW Joint meeting: ACM SIGGRAPH & Media Communications Association - Princeton Chapters Speaker: Jeff Posdamer Jeff will be show some of the latest and greatest computer-generated animated films from the most recent ACM SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference. Jeff will show a variety of technologies: scientific visualization graphics, commercial graphics used in television and movies, and some examples of current computer graphics research. The films include everything from state-of-the-art supercomputer technology to graphics that can be done with today's personal computers. Come see why this is the best attended meeting we have all year. --------------------------- Thursday, November 15, 2001, 8:00 pm ADDING SIGHT TO SOUND: TELEVISION'S PAST, PRESENT, & FUTURE Joint meeting: Princeton Chapter Media Communications Association, Philadelphia Section, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers), Delaware Valley Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America, Society of Broadcast Engineers, and Philadelphia Chapter of the Audio Engineering Society Panel Moderator: Alex Magoun, Director of the David Sarnoff Library. This special meeting will present a wide-ranging panel of speakers, each telling a piece of the story of the history of television. As the events of September 11 showed, broadcast video remains the most affecting and effective method of mass communication around the world. This meeting is part of Sarnoff Corporation's celebration surrounding the IEEE's Milestone award to the RCA Laboratories for the invention of electronic, monochrome-compatible, color television. Speakers will include RCA retirees who were involved in the creation of color television and current authorities on future developments of digital broadcasting and convergence technologies. Place: Sarnoff Corp., Routes 1 and 571, Princeton, NJ On-line info: http://www.acm.org/chapters/princetonacm
