For PC users on the Internet, the freely distributed Mbone tools have been ported to Windows/95 and Windows NT. The current release is really just beta code, but you're welcome to try it. See the Microsoft BARC Telepresence Group page. A commercial product has also been recently released by Precept Software. They have a limited use trial distribution that you can get at their web site.

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Speakers

• 1/17/96: "Sun Video Server" (Steve Kleiman, Sun Microsystems)
• 1/24/96: "Architecture of the Mpact Media Processor" (Steve Purcell, Chromatic Research)
• 1/31/96: No Seminar (SPIE Meeting in San Jose)
• 2/7/96: "Microsoft Tiger Video Server" (Bill Bolosky, Microsoft)
• 2/14/96: "Collaborative Computing from the Home" (Gordon Bell, Microsoft)
• 2/21/96: "Cable Modem Standards and their Impact on Delivering Internet to the Home" (Mark Laubach, Com21, Inc.)
• 2/28/96: "A Comparison of Video Shot Boundary Detection Techniques" (John Boreczky, U.C. Berkeley)
• 3/6/96: "Blending Technology and Entertainment using Java" (Karl Jacob, Dimension X)
• 3/13/96: No Seminar (ILP Meeting at Berkeley)
• 3/20/96: "Buying, Renting and Sharing Information Goods" (Hal Varian, U.C. Berkeley)
• 3/27/96: Spring Break
• 4/3/96: "Multimedia Applications of the IEEE 1394 Serial Bus" (Dick Scheel, Sony Research Labs)
• 4/10/96: "Using the World Wide Web to Teach Chemistry Visually" (Marco Molinaro, U.C. Berkeley)
• 4/17/96: "Rate Control for Real Time Video Communications" (Antonio Ortega, USC)
• 4/24/96: "Spinning the Chimera WEB: (Re)Constructing a Prehistoric Place" (Ruth Tringham, U.C. Berkeley)
• 5/1/96: "Consumer Broadband - Never, or Now?" (Gary Herman, HP Labs)

For further information contact Larry Rowe (Rowe@CS.Berkeley.EDU).