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Date: Wed, 11 May 88 10:27:05 edt
From: lfl@sabre.bellcore.com (Lester Ludwig)
Subject: Xvideo conf announcement text
X.11 VIDEO EXTENSION MEETING
JUNE 9 - 10
Hosted by Bellcore, 331 Newman Springs Road, Red Bank, NJ.
(one block east of Garden State Parkway Exit 109)
Bellcore will be hosting a technical meeting for those in the X.11 community
involved with completing the standardized X.11 extensions for live and
still-frame video. These extensions will also be important to those in wideband
real-time raster graphics display. The meeting will be nuts-and-bolts in
content and must be limited to 50 people max because of room size limitations.
The need for the meeting was identified at the Video Birds-of-a-Feather
session during the MIT X.11 conference held this January.
BELLCORE:
Bellcore ("Bell Communications Research") is the 7000 employee research
consortium for the nation's phone companies. It does only research, does not
manufacture products, and is in no way affiliated with AT&T even indirectly
in compliance with Judge Green Consent Decree effective Jan 1, 1984.
Bellcore started the work with Parallax Graphics and MIT Athena to put live
and still video display features and operations under X10R4 in 1987 as a step
towards a ubiquitous, vendor-independent standard for multimedia communications.
The conference organizers picked Bellcore as the site because of existing demo
facility, travel, and organizational logistics. Other places considered were
CMU, MIT, Silicon Valley, Denver, and San Antonio.
ORGANIZATION:
Again note we can only host about 50 people. Please RSVP as to which day(s)
you will be attending. If you do not receive confirmation of your RSVP within
a few days, please use the telephone. Please send the RSVPs and questions to:
Arpa Internet: xvidex@sabre.bellcore.com
Usenet: xvidex%sabre.UUCP
Phones: 201-758-2226 or 201-758-2225 (*please* use sparingly)
The above phone and email addresses will be answered by Diane V. and Karen M.
The organizers include Robert Cavelier (Carnegie Mellon) and myself with help
from Martin Levy (Parallax), Ben Davis (MIT), Mark Levine (MIT), and Dany
Guindi (Georgia Tech). Anyone who would offer to help with remaining
conference organization should contact me via the addresses above.
AGENDA:
THURS (June 9): The X.11 Video Extension and Its Role in the X Protocol
9AM - 5PM with refreshment breaks and lunch
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* Support of one or more live video windows;
* Put/Get/Save/Restore functions;
* Graphics overlay on live/still video;
* Video "grab" and/or "sync" acknowledgements;
* Server design issues (such as video window location constraints, etc.);
* Relevance of real-time wideband graphics display under the extension;
* Color-table control/switching/management/standardization/conversion issues
pertaining to video and real-time wideband graphics display.
The morning will be devoted to speakers discussing the issues above. The after-
noon will be an open working discussion aimed at reaching a consensus on the
spec of the X.11 video extension to be submitted to MIT for standardization.
The issues will be raised in talks given by Martin Levy (Parallax Graphics)
and myself. Martin has been working with fine details of providing video under
X.10R4 and X.11.
FRI (June 10 AM -- half-day): Video-Related Topics
9AM-12NOON with refreshment break and lunch
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These include laserdisk/vcr/camera control, video & multi-media communications,
multi-media databases with video, and multi-media document authoring systems
using video. Presentations and demonstrations will be given by Matt Hodges
(MIT Athena/DEC), Russ Sasnett (GTE), Glorianna Davenport (MIT Media Lab),
Martin Levy (Parallax), and Bellcore's multi-media communications lab.
HOTELS:
1. The Marriott Courtyard hotel is being built directly across the street from
the meeting location and is due to be completed in time. However, it will still
be another week before I will have a confirmation that the hotel will indeed be
available. Nevertheless, they offer a block of rooms at $68/night. Contact
Chris Callahan at 301-340-2800. I will send updates on this as I find out.
2. Only 5-7 minutes by car is the Oyster Point hotel overlooking the Red Bank
Marina. It is a nice place, and Red Bank offers many interesting shops/sites
for Fri afternoon and restaurants for the mornings/evenings. A block of rooms
at $75 night is available if you make reservations by May 5; call 201-530-8200.
3. FOR A LOW RATE, try the McIntosh Inn, 4 blocks down 36 East off exit 105;
rooms are about $40 for a single including tax (201-542-7900) (10 min away).
It is a newly constructed place, but I have no idea what you will get.
4. Other hotels in the area are the Hilton (201-544-9300), Appleton Inn
(201-389-2100), and Residence Inn (201-389-8100); these are in Tinton Falls
right off exit 105 on the Garden State Parkway, 5 minutes from Bellcore.
The historic Molly Pitcher Inn (201-747-2500) in Red Bank has older rooms
but is interesting and quite nice with Marina views, 5 mins from Bellcore.
TRAVEL:
Use Newark Airport. Limos are available at $55-65 each way, and car rentals
are of course available. Limos can be found at a desk on the baggage floor;
if you want to have a limo meet you, contact the conference RSVP address.
If you drive from the airport, follow signs (they use a circular, Green+Yellow
symbol) to Garden State Parkway SOUTH. Use exit 109 for Bellcore and the
Red Bank Hotels and Exit 105 for the Tinton Falls hotels. It will be a 40 min
drive and cost three or four 25-cent tolls.
Bellcore is just on the fringe of a stretch of rural horse boarding farms
and is considerably south of NJ's infamous urban/industrial crowding. There
are scenic drives, shoreline, and many parks nearby. New York is about 1hr N.
MEETING LOCATION:
Please try to arrive between 8:30 and 8:45 to enable a good start at 9AM.
Coming South: Take exit 109, pay toll and turn left onto Newman Springs Road
[from airport] (towards Redbank). Go under the overpass and keep right. Go one
light and turn right onto the Bellcore campus just before the
second light. This all occurs in about two short blocks.
Coming North: Take exit 109 and take the ramp right onto Newman Springs Road.
[from Tinton The Bellcore campus is your first right turn.
Falls Hotels]
From Red Bank: Take Newman Springs Road (Rt 520) West towards Lincroft and
the Garden State Parkway. There is a light for a left turn
into the Bellcore Campus.
Once your on the Bellcore campus, look for some parking around the building
on your right (Building 3). Go into the building to the Guard's desk where
RSVP badges will be waiting. We will have people escort you to the meeting
room. (The security deals with protection of BOC proprietary information.)
If there is a problem, call 201-758-2225 and the secretaries will help you.
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It should be an interesting and perhaps historic meeting. I'm looking forward
to meeting all of you. Lester Ludwig
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