MADEFAST Media Events

Media-based Collaboration Efforts

• Mark Cutkosky visits Utah on 21 April 94. Returns with plans to do a satellite video conference and a preliminary 2-D gimbal design sketch that is put in the Madefast web. The motivation for the video conference is that web pages and email from unknown people at Stanford seems confusing until a personality is attached to the electronic messages.
• Satellite Video Conference between Utah and Stanford on 27 Apr 94.
• Bill Chan of CMU and Charles Petrie of Stanford perform a non-video test of mbone unicast on 20 May 94. Bill Chan was able to capture a fragment of a Mosaic GIF, convert it to PostScript, and add it to the shared whiteboard where both could annotate it.
• On 31 May 94, Mark Cutkosky of Stanford and Mike Terk of CMU attempt to use mbone for a design session. They discover that the 30K limit on PostScript files is too limiting for real design discussion.
• Mbone use by Mark and Carolyn in July, experimentally.
• Collaboration has continued almost exclusively using the WWW in July - November 1994. Messages too numerous to document have been exchanged with details of web reorganization, new pictures available, changes in URLs, ect.