Center for Collaborative Technologies at the University of Washington Richard Anderson, Fred Videon University of Washington Paul Oka Microsoft Research External Research and Programs

Announcement of the Center The Center for Collaborative Technologies at the University of Washington will develop the ConferenceXP platform, apply the technologies to a wide range of educational and collaborative scenarios, and strengthen the educational and research communities that use these collaboration tools. The Center has been funded by Microsoft Research External Research and Programs for a period of three years. The Center is a collaboration between members of the University of Washington’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the Pacific Northwest Gigapop, and the ResearchChannel.

A Brief History of ConferenceXP Project began at MSR in 2001 as DISC Initial deployment for distance learning Spring 2002 Successful deployment for distance learning, Spring MSR ConferenceXP RFPs funded First 4-way distance learning deployment Autumn 2004 November 2006, CXP 4.0 released

2002

2003

ConferenceXP Scenarios High-quality, real- time collaboration Highly interactive distributed learning Active learning in wireless-enabled classrooms

Real-time Collaboration ConferenceXP Client High-quality multipoint conferencing Full-screen, real-time video at 30 fps Built-in presentation capability, whiteboard & screen sharing

Distributed Learning

4-way Distributed Classroom Quarter-length classes between UW, UCSD, UC Berkeley, and MSR Quarter-length classes between UW, UCSD, UC Berkeley, and MSR Met the originally stated goal for ConferenceXP Met the originally stated goal for ConferenceXP Courses Courses 2004: Public Policy 2004: Public Policy 2005: Cyber Security 2005: Cyber Security 2006: History of Computing 2006: History of Computing

Cross-cultural Business School Course Cross-cultural Business School Course University of Massachusetts, Amherst and University of Ireland, Galway

Australian School of the Air Australian School of the Air Australian Northern Territories Education Department

Live, Distributed Musical Performances Live, Distributed Musical Performances Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; Moscow State University omniMusic Application

Engineering Design Sketching Engineering Design Sketching Massachusetts Institute of Technology InkBoard Application

Current Release ConferenceXP 4.0 Support for.NET 2.0 VS 2005 Improved support for a wide range of cameras Venue Service 4.0 Archiver 4.0 Reflector 4.0

ConferenceXP 4.1 Support of localization Extract strings to a resource file Initial Languages Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish Vista Support

The Future of ConferenceXP CCT projects Security & Access Control Reliability, Diagnostics & Management improvements Developing World Scenarios High Definition Video integration

What are the benefits of a Community Based, shared source platform? Provides a great platform for research in collaborative environments APIs designed for extensibility.Net Framework shortens development cycle Includes rich AV device support Provides a proven platform for distance learning and distributed meetings Existing tools support integrated TabletPC based presentation, archiving and integrated archive playback

Planned CXP Work Access Control & Security Integration with emerging federated inter- realm identity management frameworks such as Shibboleth and OpenID Real-time stream encryption Reliability Bandwidth scaling to support heterogeneous network and system capabilities. Automated failover

Planned CXP Work (cont.) Diagnostics Real-time holistic conference status discovery and reporting Conference Management & Scheduling Integration with existing scheduling systems Dynamic generation of virtual meeting spaces Node Management Asynchronous & Remote operation Automated window placement

Planned CXP Work (cont.) New educational scenarios (including developing world) Single-machine lecture archiver Support for asynchronous use of video Adjustable bandwidth requirements High Definition Video Low-latency VC-1 encoding

Deployments with Impact UW Professional Masters Program Conducted distance learning classes between up to 4 classrooms each term since Spring 2002 Currently running at a high level of quality and reliability New directions Support for WWAMI Distance education International courses

Maintaining and Building Community What are the next steps for the ConferenceXP Community?

Codeplex Microsoft’s open source project hosting website: Supports web-based source control similar to cvs and svn. ConferenceXP and related projects are available in source & binary distributions

Community Resources CCT Website/Wiki MS ConferenceXP Site List Contact us: cct.cs.washington.edu cct-announce Richard Anderson: Fred Video:

ConferenceXP Seminar Seminar style public ConferenceXP sessions to address a variety of topics of interest to the community Schedule and topics TBD If you are interested in participating, contact Richard Anderson

Call to action We are looking for feedback on CXP features See the wiki Participate in forums and CXP seminar Use ConferenceXP! Let us know how you are using it Source code available on CodePlex Community development of CXP