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Collaboration Presentation for CPS600

This module describes desktop collaboration with a comparison of some of the existing tools including

Communique! (Insoft) and the toolkit DVE (Digital Video Everywhere)

InPerson (SGI)

Proshare (Intel)

Eclipse (CLI -- standalone system)

MBONE -- Internet standard

We also discuss standards (there are dozens of incompatible systems) and compression needs of this application

Table of Contents for Collaboration Presentation for CPS600

001 CPS600 Module on
    Computer Collaboration
    March 4,1995
002 Abstract of CPS600 Collaboration Module
003 Desktop collaboration vs face-to-face meeting
004 Collaborative environment
005 Requirements for
    Collaborative Environments 
006 Common collaborative tools
007 Audio Tool Functionality
008 Text Tool Functionality
009 Graphics Tool Requirements
010 Shared White Board Functionality
011 Video to Image Tool Functionality
012 TV Tool Functionality
013 File Exchange Tool Functionality
014 Share Application Tool Functionality
015 Collaboratory technology evaluation and benchmarking
016 List of collaboratory software 
    -- UNIX and Internet
017 List of collaboratory software 
    IBM PC and Macintosh
018 NPAC HPCC/ATM/VOD Laboratory
019 ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network
020 NYNET - Upstate Corridor
021 Video Compression -- I 
022 Video Compression -- II
023 Compression Hardware
024 Audio Compression
025 Videoconferencing Standards
026 Open DVE - Digital Video Everywhere (Insoft, Inc.)
027 Communique! ver 3.2.1 InSoft ($9495)
028 Communique! (2)
029 Communique! (3)
030 Communique!  (4)
031 InPerson ver 1.0 SGI ($495)
032 InPerson ver 2.0 SGI (beta release)
033 ProShare ver 1.8 Intel ($2499)
034 Eclipse Videoconferencing System -- I
035 Eclipse Videoconferencing System -- II
036 MBONE  - Multicast BackBONE
037 MBONE (2)
038 MBONE (3)
039 MBONE References(4)
040 Introduction to Collaborative MOO Environments
041 A Formal Definition of Collaborative MOO Environments
042 Characteristics of a MOO
043 Use of a MOO
044 Interacting in a MOO
045 A MOO Seesion Starts LIke This
046 MOO Commands from request: help manipulation
047 The Spatial Metaphor
048 Comments on Multi-User Simulations

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