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MEDIA ADVISORY: Demo of super high-speed network at SFSU on Sept. 27
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Students team with Skywalker Sound to collaborate on Japanese film that demonstrates the high-speed future of digital media. WHAT: A sneak peek at the future of digital filmmaking via super computing networks. SFSU cinema students will team with engineers from Skywalker Sound to demonstrate a powerful 10 GB network that is thousands of times faster than the current Internet. The team will add sound via this ultra fast network to a 4K (4,000 pixels across) Super High Definition video streamed live from Tokyo. Twenty-four channels of audio from SFSU will travel over the network and be synched with the high-definition video. A live feed of the product will be received by SFSU as well as at iGrid2005, a gathering of international internet researchers on the University of California, San Diego campus (www.igrid2005.org). This is the first demonstration of a simultaneous online collaboration between partners up to 9,000 miles apart. WHEN: 4:45 to 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27 WHERE: Fifth floor, SFSU Administration Building, 1600 Holloway Avenue at 19th Avenue, San Francisco WHO: The demo will be hosted by SFSU's Institute for Next Generation Internet (INGI) in partnership with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s newly established Digital Media Advisory Council (DMAC). INGI was founded to form a partnership of educational institutions, government agencies, major corporations, small businesses and community based organizations that will utilize high speed networks to improve education, employment opportunities and economic development. Corporate partners on the project include Skywalker Sound and Japanese filmmaking giants NTT and NHK. Students from Youth Radio, a Bay Area youth development organization, will also participate. The mayor and members of DMAC are expected to watch the demo on the SFSU campus. MEDIA WISHING TO ATTEND THE DEMO SHOULD CONTACT THE SFSU PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT (415) 338-1665 FOR MORE INFORMATION.
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