1. Collaboration Technologies & Deployments Fred Videon University of Washington, Computer Science & Engineering

2. Outline Projects – ConferenceXP – Classroom Presenter Lecture Archiving & Playback Deployments – Professional Masters Program – Work with LATAM Questions/Discussion

3. Center for Collaborative Technologies Supported by Microsoft Research External Relations and Programs Center Goals: – Investigate education and other collaborative scenarios – Extend and maintain the ConferenceXP platform – Build the community of users and developers http://cct.cs.washington.edu

4. ConferenceXP Platform for real-time collaboration High-quality multipoint conferencing Full-screen, real-time video at 30 fps Built-in presentation capability, whiteboard & screen sharing Supports archiving Shared source license

5. Classroom Presenter TabletPC-Based Distributed Presentation System Instructor navigation and annotation on local and remote displays Students can contribute to class using digital ink on instructors slide Also fine as a stand-alone presentation system Open source license

6. Classroom Presenter Student Submission Example Instructor Projected Display Students

7. Multicast CXP Archive Service CXP Audio/Video (multiple sites) Classroom Presenter Instructor Tablet Classroom Presenter Students & Projected Displays (Multiple Sites) Archiving Schematic All devices use CXP Multicast Networking CXP Archive Service provides a simple way to collect all classroom activity Data is automatically time stamped and stored in a database

8. Archive Playback Future Work: Port WebViewer to Silverlight!

9. Deployments: Professional Masters Program Site-to-site courses between UW and Microsoft since Winter 1997 Master’s level courses Goal: interaction across sites – Approximate single classroom Using ConferenceXP & Classroom Presenter since 2003

10. Oct 30, 2008IIIT Bangalore

11. 4-Way Courses Courses 2004: Public Policy 2005: Cyber Security 2006: History of Computing Quarter-length classes between UW, UCSD, UC Berkeley, and MSR Met the originally stated goal for ConferenceXP

12. UW – Pakistan, Spring 2008 Masters class – University of Washington – Lahore University of Management Science – Microsoft Computing for the Developing world

14. LATAM Virtual Institute Latin American and Carribbean Collaboration for ICT Research Shared Seminars: – University of Washington – University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Spring and Autumn 2008

15. Technical Challenges with International Deployments Ensuring adequate bandwidth – Limited bandwidth to Pakistan Reliability – Some issues with LATAM Ensuring that we do not compromise existing UW-MS classes Time zone differences

16. Resources & Contacts CCT Website/Wiki Announcements Email List Contacts: cct.cs.washington.edu cct-announce-request@cs.washington.edu cct@cs.washington.edu fred@cs.washington.edu anderson@cs.washington.edu