From: M.Eisenstadt@open.ac.uk (Marc Eisenstadt)
Subject: Lieberman (MIT) in "on-line stadium" interview 18th Oct
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 08:21:31 +0100
Organization: The Open University


From: M.Eisenstadt@open.ac.uk (Marc Eisenstadt)

LIEBERMAN "MAVEN OF THE MONTH" ON-LINE INTERVIEW OCT 18TH

The Open University's new Knowledge Media Institute is hosting a monthly
series of on-line interviews with top research personalities, using a
medium it refers to as "KMi Stadium".  KMi Stadium is billed as an
experiment in very large scale telepresence, and aims to host an event with
100,000 attendees by the end of 1996.  The stadium uses a mixture of audio
and images, combined with a custom-built software suite based on Sun
Microsystem's Java language.  A prototype non-Java version is up and
running at http://kmi.open.ac.uk/stadium/welcome.html and launches on
October 18th at 12:00 noon Eastern Daylight Time (17:00 British Summer
Time) with "Maven of the Month" Henry Lieberman from the MIT Media Lab. 
Live attendees will have the opportunity to discuss current research issues
with the guest speaker in a "talk radio with graphics" format.  Visit early
to preview the relevant research issues, and register to ask a question. 
KMi Stadium will phone you, if required, and your discussion will be
re-broadcast live over the net using RealAudio's live encoder technology
from Progressive Networks.  You'll need to obtain the RealAudio player from
http://www.realaudio.com to listen to the KMi Stadium audio channel.

-- 
Marc Eisenstadt | M.Eisenstadt@open.ac.uk | CUSeeMe: 137.108.81.18
Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK
Tel. +44 908 65-3149 (Fax -3169) |  WWWeb: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/