sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Sunergy Live Satellite Broadcast #9: "Creativity In The Digital Domain" March 15, 1994 8:30 - 10:00 am PST SunFLASH Vol 63 #2 March 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 63.02 Sunergy Broadcast #9: "Creativity In The Digital Domain" March 15, 1994 8:30 - 10:00 am PST Multimedia, information highways, virtual corporations, electronic libraries...these terms are becoming commonplace in our daily language. Sunergy #9 will take a look at some of the current uses of digital data (how it is manipulated, stored, shared and accessed), what the latest applications look like and what the technical future holds in store. Email address for sunergy: sunergy@sun.com (250 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is an updated version of the agenda for the upcoming Sunergy satellite broadcast #9. If you are planning to downlink this broadcast and have not notified us, please do so, as the satellite and transponder information differs from the last broadcast. Send us email requesting this broadcast's satellite information. All requests should be addressed to sunergy@sun.com. Thank you. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ***ANNOUNCING*** ^ ^ SUNERGY #9 ^ ^ LIVE/INTERACTIVE SATELLITE BROADCAST ^ ^ "CREATIVITY IN THE DIGITAL DOMAIN" ^ ^ MARCH 15, 1994 ^ ^ 8:30 - 10:00 am PST ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Guests include: John Gage (HOST) - Director of the Science Office, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Marc Andreessen - Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT) Philip V.W. Dodds - Executive Director, Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA) Tom Van Sant, M.F.A. - Founder and CEO, The GeoSphere Project Geoffrey Baehr - Chief Technical Officer, SunConnect IF YOU HAVE SATELLITE RECEIVE CAPABILITIES AND WOULD LIKE THE SATELLITE COORDINATES* FOR THIS BROADCAST, EMAIL THE SUNERGY OFFICE AT sunergy@sun.com. (*As coordinates can vary from broadcast to broadcast, please be sure to contact the Sunergy office for the coordinates specific to this broadcast if you are planning to downlink this show.) This program will also be broadcast out on the MBONE. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ GUEST BIOGRAPHIES ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Marc Andreessen, Enterprise Integration Technologies Marc Andreessen works for Enterprise Integration Technologies of Palo Alto, CA on commercial applications of Internet technologies. As an undergraduate he was one of the original two people behind NCSA Mosaic, a state-of-the-art Internet- based hypermedia information discovery and retrieval system now being used by hundreds of thousands of people in both industry and academia. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Philip V.W. Dodds, Executive Director, Interactive Multimedia Association Philip V.W. Dodds was named Executive Director of the Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA) in January 1993. Previous to being appointed Managing Director in March 1992, Mr. Dodds served as IMA Compatibility Project Director. As the founding Vice President of the Interactive Video Industry Association (now the IMA), his efforts on the IVIA's Compatibility Committee were a continuation of his work to establish compatibility among multimedia systems. Mr. Dodds began spending a major part of his time toward this goal more than five years ago. Prior to serving as IMA Compatibility Project Director, Mr. Dodds was project analyst and software engineer at Randall House Associates, Inc., in Annapolis, Maryland, a multimedia software consulting firm specializing in digital audio and desktop video products. In 1983, Mr. Dodds founded Visage, Inc., in Framingham, Massachusetts, a developer and manufacturer of multimedia products, including interactive video systems, digital audio products, development tools, and system software. He served as President, Chairman and CEO of Visage before joining Randall House Associates in 1989. Prior to 1983, Mr. Dodds served as Vice President, Engineering, of Kurzweil Music, during the development of Kurzweil's first digital keyboard products. Before his position at Kurzweil, Mr. Dodds was Vice President of Engineering for ARP Instruments, Inc. ARP was a leading manufacturer of professional music instruments and produced the first electronic keyboard that connected to Apple and IBM PC computers, a forerunner of the MIDI standard. After the sale of ARP to CBS, Inc., Mr. Dodds became Director of Engineering, Music Division, at CBS, where he was responsible for electric keyboard design for Fender Rogers Rhodes. Mr. Dodds has been appointed chairman of the Executive Committee for the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) MultiMedia World Conference and Exhibition to be held in March 1994, having served in the same capacity for last year's conference. Also, he is editing a book entitled "The Digital Multimedia Cross-Industry Guide" to be published in early 1994. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tom Van Sant, M.F.A., Founder and CEO The GeoSphere Project Tom Van Sant is a sculptor, painter, muralist, architectural designer and environmental planner. In forty years of professional work he has executed over seventy major sculpture and mural commissions for public spaces around the world. These include the Central Lobby of Honolulu International Airport, the Los Angeles International Airport, the Taipei International Airport, the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance headquarters, the City of Inglewood Civic Center, the Century Park Sheraton Hotel in Manila and the Kona Surf, Wailea Beach and Yacht Harbor Hotels in Hawaii. Tom Van Sant has had fifteen one-man exhibits in the United States, Europe and Australia. His work is represented in both public and private collections around the world. He is also known for his innovative design of large-scale kites, which have been flown and exhibited in museums of art and museums of science around the world. In 1968 Van Sant served the Congressional Library and the Commandant of the Marine Corps as a war combat artist with the First Marine Division in Vietnam. Van Sant has done extensive work in environmental planning and architectural design, and has won three design awards from the American Institute of Architects. From 1967 to 1975 he served as Environmental Master Planner for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, the City of Inglewood Civic Center, the Irvine Financial Plaza of Newport Beach, and the Davies Pacific Center in Honolulu. Long recognized for his attention to issues of scale and perception, Tom Van Sant's interest in space and technology have resulted in unique environmental projects. In 1980 he created "Reflections from Earth" for the City of Los Angeles Bicentennial, in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. At 1.4 miles in size, it is the world's largest man-made image. A year later, Van Sant created the world's smallest man-made image, "Ryan's Eye". One-quarter micron large, "Ryan's Eye" was made in cooperation with The National Center for Sub-Micron Studies, Cornell University. His "Eyes On Earth From Space", a real-time zoom from a space satellite to the surface of the Earth, was commissioned by the Los Angeles Pacific Design Center in 1986. In 1989 Tom Van Sant founded, with associates from the scientific and art communities, the California Non-Profit Corporation EYES ON EARTH for environmental research and education, and the GeoSphere Project for dissemination of the products and systems developed by EYES ON EARTH. The GeoSphere products include the GeoSphere Image, the Earth Situation Room Network, the electronic Global Visual Library and the Global Ground-truth Monitoring System. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Gage - Director, Science Office, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation John Gage works for Bill Joy, the Chief Technical Officer of Sun, and is responsible for Sun's relationships with the world scientific and public policy communities, international scientific institutions and groups developing new forms of scientific research involving computing. He is on scientific and advisory panels of the United States National Science Foundation, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the European Institute of Technology and the United States National Academy of Sciences. He has recently been appointed to the US National Research Council Mathematical Sciences Education Board. He is a member of ACM, IEEE, SIAM, AMS, AAAS, and SMPTE. He attended the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Public Policy. He did doctoral work in economics and mathematics at the University of Berkeley at the same time as Bill Joy. Gage subsequently left Berkeley with Joy to start Sun in 1982. Gage is on the Board of Directors of Unicode, an industry consortium of IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Novell, Sun, GO Corporation, and others to provide multilingual capability in all world scripts for all documents and applications. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Geoffrey Baehr - Chief Technical Officer- Networking, SunConnect Previously Director of Advanced Development at Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. He initiated ATM projects at Sun along with wireless, spread spectrum radio, mobile IP and authentication. Before Sun, he was the Manager of Network System Engineers at TRW. 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