Renaissance Podcast: Dr. Gillette's simultaneous Oxford/Ball State Presentation (Part 1 of 2)
The above link will begin playback of an excerpt from Dr. Gillette's presentation last Friday given simultaneously via the Polycom PVX Videoconferencing solution. Dr. Gillette has dubbed our use of this Polycom innovation as "everybody's videoconferencing", as the PVX is a software solution that will interface with several mid-range computers over a high throughput connection. In our case, Dr. Gillette used a mid-range laptop and Oxford's Internet connection to connect to our dedicated Polycom stand-alone hardware unit in the CICS Solution Center at 384 kbps.
Please note that the audio quality is the result of the available microphone (a fairly low-end "stick mic" that is available to laptop users on Dr. Gillette's end, thus a low pickup of anyone seated far from the mic as Dr. Gillette was [to an extent] and that many of the guests on the Oxford end were as well [to a much greater extent]) and packet loss over our trans-Atlantic connection that was being routed across at least a couple of different firewalls.
This presentation, 1 of 2, is from some of Dr. Gillette's introductory comments to his presentation. Look shortly for part 2 of 2 which includes the question and answer session with commentary from the US and the UK.
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