kanarick@bbn.com (Craig M. Kanarick) (04/04/91)
I hear there is a big conference coming up in like mid-May in NYC. Is this correct? If so, could someone please email me the information about it. Thanks, -- cmk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Do I love you? Yes, I Craig M. Kanarick love you. All this talking, kanarick@bbn.com talking, is only bravado..." - The Blue Nile ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ittai@shemesh.GBA.NYU.EDU (Ittai Hershman) (04/05/91)
In article <63552@bbn.BBN.COM>, kanarick@bbn.com (Craig M. Kanarick) writes: > > I hear there is a big conference coming up in like mid-May in NYC. > Is this correct? If so, could someone please email me the > information about it. It is called Multimedia Expo and is being held May 14-16 1991 at the New York Hilton. It seems to be run by a company called American Expositions, Inc (212-226-4141). This information is from a flyer I received in the mail, nothing more. -Ittai
Larry@postgres.Berkeley.EDU (Larry Rowe) (04/07/91)
This conference is held twice a year, in the fall in San Francisco and in the spring in NY. More recently, they've started to run it in other cities too (e.g., LA). I went to the conference last fall and found it very interesting. They charge a lot for attendance (something like $350 just to attend), but it is a good introduction to problems, products, and research in multimedia. The conference consists of tutorials on specific topics (e.g., Using Hypercard to produce a multimedia course, etc.), sessions on more general topics (e.g., video walls, high speed networking, hypermedia authoring systems, etc.), and a moderate-sized exhibition. Since the multimedia market is rather eclectic, the vendors that show up run from the usual computer vendors (e.g., IBM, HP, etc.) to innovative companies doing interesting things (e.g., AVID Technology's video editing system, Supermac Technology showed a video board for the mac and a disk interface with built-in compression, etc.). Generally speaking, if you're familiar with multimedia products, you probably won't learn a lot. If you're new to the field, this conference is well worth the visit. I doubt that I'll go again next year, but I learned a lot last fall.