From: dorothy@calvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Dorothy Phillips DGBT/DBR) Subject: CONF: Banff Multimedia Communications '93, April 13-16, 1993 Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 19:23:22 EST MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS '93 PROGRAM (as of February 2, 1993) April 13 - 16, 1993 Banff, Alberta, Canada For further information please contact: Christine McLaren President Western Convention Consulting Services Ltd. 15016 - 77 Ave., Edmonton, Alberta T5R 3B3 Tel: 403 487 8102 Fax: 403 487 2417 April 13 9:00 - 12:00 Tutorials 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch 13:30 - 16:30 Tutorials 18:00 - 20:00 Welcoming Reception 12:00 - 22:00 Demonstrations set-up (List available upon request) Wed. April 14 10:30 - 18:30 Demonstrations Room Open 9:00 - 10:30 PLENARY SESSION #1: Opening Remarks: Speakers: Mr. R.H. David, President and CEO, (ED TEL, Edmonton, Alberta Mr. Anthony Pilarinos, Media Technology Laboratory, (Hewlett-Packard, Chelmsford, MA, USA) Others TBA 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Wed. April 14, 11:00 to 12:30 Parallel Sessions #1 MARKETS, APPLICATIONS & SERVICES: Multimedia Education and Training DISTANCE EDUCATION MS-DOS Training on a Stand-Alone Multimedia Workstation by: Craig Cunningham (Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) WORKPLACE TRAINING Multimedia and Workplace Training by: Lyndsay Green (Lyndsay Green Associates, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) DISTANCE EDUCATION PROGRAM IN EUROPE EPOS and ECOLE - Collaborative Open Learning in Europe by: Peter Zorkoczy (European PTT Open Learning System International, Rap- perswil, Switzerland) DELIVERY OF EDUCATION Multimedia Implementation Strategies in a Changing Educational Environment by: Milton Petruk and Garry Popowich (University of Alberta, Apple Canada Education Foundation, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: Multimedia Conferencing PCIT: A Tele-working PC over ISDN by: Mu-kuen Chang (Min. of Transp. Comm., Taipei, Taiwan) CCITT Audiographics Standards by: Ilan Dallal (BNR, Verdun, Quebec, Canada) Technologies Influencing Recent Advances in Multimedia Communications by: Roberto Minerva (CSELT, Torino, Italy) POLICY AND REGULATORY ISSUES: Creating the Appropriate Policy Environment The Effects of Multimedia Telecommunications on the Environment and Energy Stores by: Paul Hoffert, with Eric Hoffert and Martin Hoffert (York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and U.S.) Creating an Economic and Policy Environment for the Use of Multimedia in Training and Education by: Anna Stahmer (Stahmer Consultants, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Formation a distance et multimedia : quelle politique ? by: Jean-Pierre Chamoux (Universite de Marne-la-Vallee; et Droit et Informatique, Paris, France) Telematics Systems R&D in the European Community; the Case of Flexible and Distance Learning by: Ms. Lieve Van den Brande (C-DELTA, Brussels, Belgium) 12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH Wed. April 14, 13:30 - 15:00 Parallel Sessions #2 MARKETS, APPLICATIONS & SERVICES: Multimedia and Workplace Engineering PUBLISHING The Impact of Data Communications on the Publishing Industry by: Peter Hammersley (Middlesex Polytechnic, London, UK) TRAINING VD-I Technology in Distance Education and Training by: Don Harvey (Multimedia Learning Corporation, Burnaby, BC, Canada) INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC Instant Access to City Hall by: Ronnie Bankston (University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA) BANKING Multimedia Communications in a Banking Environment by: Diethelm Bauer (Siemens Public Comm. Networks Group, Munich, Germany) MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: Architectures and Coding I Residential Services Architecture for One-Way Communications and Interactive Delivery by: Larry Ball (BC Tel, Burnaby, BC, Canada) Multimedia Communication Architecture in SMART by: Seungchul Park and Yanghee Choi (Seoul Nat. Univ., Seoul, Korea) An Experimental Evaluation of Video Coding Algorithms for ATM-based Networks by: Azam Syed and Carey Williamson (TR Labs, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada) POLICY AND REGULATORY ISSUES: Multimedia in Broadband Networks PROMOTER/ADVOCATES Multimedia Residential Services Over Telecom Networks by: Andrew Hollbach (BNR, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Au-dela des Medias Traditionnels, la Cablodistribution et les Applications Multimedia by: Francois-Pierre Le Scouarnec (Association des cablodistributeurs du Quebec Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada) POLICY/COMMENTARY Convergence of the Telephone and Cable Industries - Policy, Legal and Regulatory Issues for Multimedia Communications by: Hank Intven (McCarthy-Tetrault, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Wed. April 14, 15:30 to 17:30 Parallel Sessions #3 MARKETS, APPLICATIONS & SERVICES: Interactive Video Services VIDEO CONFERENCING Affordable Desktop Videoconferencing by: Dilip Kandlur and Mon Song Chen (Watson Lab, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA) PC-VIDEOPHONE Prototyping of Built-in PC-Video Phones by: Hiroshi Fujiwara, T. Sakaguchi, I. Kimura, R. Enoki and H. Ishida (GC Technology, Tokyo, Japan) MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING Desktop Multimedia Conferencing Applications by: Lib Gibson (IIS Technologies, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) RESIDENTIAL MULTIMEDIA SERVICES: The Residential Demand for Broadband Services and Multimedia Applications by: Johanne Lemay (DTI Telecom Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada) MULTIMEDIA AND VIRTUAL REALITY Du Multimedia aux Espaces Virtuels: Le Centre Sauvage by: Louise Guay and Claude Faribeault (Public Technologies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: Architectures and Coding II Integration of Multimedia Variable Bit Rate Sources over FDDI Networks by: Abinder Dhillon and L. Orozco-Barbosa (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Delivering Multimedia in a Networked Environment by William Kemper (Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, Oregon, USA) Transport-Level Abstractions for Multimedia Communications by: K. Ravindran (Kansas State Univ., Manhatten, Kansas, USA) and R. Steinmetz (IBM-ENC, Heidelberg, Germany) POLICY AND REGULATORY ISSUES: Multimedia in the Broadcasting Environment PROMOTERS/ADVOCATES Off-Air Digital Broadcasting: Programming and Multimedia by: Stephen Castell (Computer and Systems Telecomm Ltd., Witham, Essex, U.K.) Show-Case Installation and Applications of an Enabling Broadband Infrastructure for High School Districts by: Reg Kaenel (WavePhore Inc., Tempe, Arizona, USA) Metaphors for Multimedia Development by: David Shefrin (David Shefrin & Associates, New York, NY, USA) POLICY/COMMENTARY Delivery of Broadband and Multimedia Services to the Home: Technology and Policy Options by: Heather Hudson (University of San Francisco, USA) 18:30 - 22:00 Multimedia Event At Banff Centre Thursday April 15 10:30 - 18:30 Demonstrations Room Open 9:00 to 10:00 Plenary Session #2 (Technology) Speaker: Robert Pfeffer, Vice President, Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Thursday April 15, 10:30 to 12:00 Parallel Sessions #4 MARKETS, APPLICATIONS & SERVICES: Multimedia and Healthcare TELEMEDICINE ISDN Based Telemedicine Multimedia Applications by: Fernando Ramos and A. Pereira (University of Aveiro, Portugal) MEDICAL RESEARCH Design of Living Book in Multimedia Applications by: Jorn Nilsson, D. Khakhar and B. Sonesson (Lund University, Sweden) HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Broadband Interactive Television for the Teaching of Cardiac Arrest Skills by: John Dunn and A. Williams (Education Development Centre, Burnaby, BC, Canada) MEDICAL IMAGING Multimedia Networking for Medical Imaging and Environmental Modelling by: Edgar Froese (Advance Cultural Technologies, Vancouver, BC, Canada) MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: Multimedia Database Access and Manipulation A Multimedia Information and Communications System: MEDIABASE by: Ahmed Karmouch (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) Medialog, A Multimedia Electronic Library by: Raymond Descout and C. Chapdelaine (Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre, Laval, Quebec, Canada) Performance Modelling of Distributed Data Integration in Multimedia Scenarios by: Li Li, Nicolas Georganas and Ahmed Karmouch, (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) POLICY AND REGULATORY ISSUES: Multimedia Evolutionary Paths and Standards PROMOTERS/ADVOCATES A Fax Path to Multimedia by: Bill St. Arnaud (Vision 2000 Inc., Canada) Stategic Analysis of ISDN and a Multimedia Conceptual Viewpoint - Public Policy or Implementation by: Greg Tatchell, BC Tel, Burnaby, BC, Canada) Status of Developments of International Standards Related to Multimedia and Hypermedia by: G. Ken Holman (Microstar Software Ltd., Canada) POLICY/COMMENTARY User Involvement In Standards Making by; Liora Salter (Osgoode Hall Law School, Canada) 12:00 - 13:30 Lunch Thurs. April 15, 13:30 to 15:00 Parallel Sessions #5 MARKETS, APPLICATIONS & SERVICES: Multimedia and Impact on Society MULTIMEDIA-VILLAGE Multimedia: The Retribalizer by: Shobha Das (CMC Ltd., Secunderabad, India) MULTIMEDIA AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Multimedia and Developing Countries - An Expensive Toy or a Useful Tool? by: Ameeta Jadav (CMC Ltd., Secunderabad, India) MULTIMEDIA TRAINING BENEFITS The Importance of Computer-Based Knowledge Transfer Tools in the Learning Environment by: John Kelly (DVS Communications, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) CINEMATIC RESOURCES Multimedia Data Bases and the Management of Cinematic Resources for Teaching and Research by: Seth Feldman (York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: Applications Development Video on Demand Services by: Michel Fortier (BNR, Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Speeding up the Process of Multimedia Application Development by: Meinrad Niemoller and Ulricke Harke (Siemens, Munich, Germany) COOP: A CSCW Multimedia Development Environment by: Simon Legault (Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre, Laval, Quebec, Canada) POLICY AND REGULATORY ISSUES: Multimedia in the Wireless Environment PROMOTERS/ADVOCATES Wireless Multimedia Communication by: Paul Mermelstein (BNR and INRS Telecommunications, Canada) Multimedia and Wireless Communications by: Chris Baucom (International Business Machines Corporation, Canada) POLICY/COMMENTARY Market Forces and the Public Interest: Radio Spectrum Management and the Entrepreneurial Culture by: David A. Townsend (University of New Brunswick, Canada) 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee 15:30 to 17:30 Parallel Sessions #6 MARKETS, APPLICATIONS & SERVICES: Multimedia & Business Justification BUSINESS-EFFECTIVENESS Multimedia Application Profiles Towards a Tool for Business Effective Applications and Communication Infrastructure by: Mark Willems (CGS, Stratix, Amstelveen, The Netherlands) Networked Digital Multimedia by: Keith Kocho (Digital Renaissance, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) MARKET MODELS Multimedia Communications in the Future: Realistic Forecast vs. Vague Conjuncture by: Roger Hough (CSRG Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) A Market-Based Model of the Restructured Information Industry by: Una Mansfield (University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia) Multimedia Applications and Return-on-Investment by: J. David Ford (IBM Canada, Vancouver,BC, Canada) MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES: Applications Development II Operating System Support for Multimedia Applications by: Varuni Witana and A. Seneviratne (UTS, New South Wales, Australia) Network Support for Educational Multimedia Applications by: Darryl Williams (Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Visual Authoring: Transforming Text Into Images for Efficient Multimedia Communications by: Louis W. Stokes (DVS Communications Inc., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) The Eurobridge Project - Providing Integrated Multimedia Communications by: Kai Jakobs (Technical University of Aachen, Germany) POLICY AND REGULATORY ISSUES: Copyright: Chaos or Stimulus to Creativity Case Studies on Intellectual Property Issues Raised by Multimedia by: Jonathan Band (Morrison and Forester, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) The New Jagged Edge: The Intersection Between Law and Multimedia by: Mark Radcliffe (Ware and Freidenrich, Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.) Medialab - A Copyright Case Study by: Zenaide Lussier (Canadian Workplace Automation Research Centre, Laval, Quebec, Canada) 18:30 - 19:30 Reception 19:30 - 22:00 BANQUET 18:00 - 22:00 Demonstrations taken down Friday, April 16 8:30 - 10:30 PLENARY SESSION #3: (Markets) Multimedia: Real World Users and Applications Panelists: Paul Wollaston, Multimedia Market Development, Apple Computer Inc. Alan Baratz, Hawthorne Lab, IBM Others TBA 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee 11:00 - 12:30 PLENARY SESSION #4: (Policy) Closing: Policy and Implementation Panelists TBA 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch