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SIGCOMM Networking Conference Live Over the Internet
Hui Zhang writes "The 2003 ACM SIGCOMM (Special Interest Group in Data Communication) conference held in Karlsruhe, Germany is being broadcast live over the Internet. There will be sessions on overlay and peer-to-peer networks, Internet routing and measurement, DoS, queue management and traffic engineering, with presentations by leading researchers from universities and research labs. The keynote speech on the first day, by David Cheriton, is entitled 'The Internet Architecture: Its Future and Why it Matters.' We will also have a re-play for each day's program in time periods that are more convenient for viewers in the U.S. Below is the broadcast schedule." The broadcast is using Quicktime, but the linked page addresses watching with Linux using CodeWeavers' CrossOver.
"8/27 Wed 1:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST First Day Program Re-play
8/28 Thr 3:00 am - 11:30 am EST Second Day Program Live
8/28 Thr 1:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST Second Day Program Re-play
8/29 Fri 3:00 am - 11:00 am EST Third Day Program Live
8/29 Fri 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST Third Day Program Re-play
Please check out esm.cs.cmu.edu/sigcomm03 for more details.
The broadcast is made possible by End System Multicast peer-to-peer streaming
technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University."
Quantity, not Quanity. Come on now.
Special Interest Group in Data Communication
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No kidding about Special Interest. Nearly half an hour, and only two (Well, three now) AC posts
How can I get this Crossover for my Mac. I want to be able to watch quicktime movies too.
Why not use mplayer instead of quicktime/wine?
-molo
Using your sig line to advertise for friends is lame.
This is really very nice. They are actually doing it for free! What has always made me upset about all these conferences in my area of interest is that they cost huge amounts of money to just start with, so unless you have some rich institution behind you, you're probably screwed (this doesn't have to apply to all of you guys, but it certainly applies to poor student in poor country such as me).
So, interestingly unlike many well known companies, these people seem to believe that information should be free. Granted, it's still not the same as actually being there, but think about all those poor people in development countries that may have some way to access to internet, but certainly have no chance to get 1000 euros to go around visitng conferences, and thus are in big disadvantage against those lucky ones born in richer countries.
IMHO, this is something, where internet can really be of great help. Now, we just need more freely accesible publications.
"Two beers or not two beers. That's the question." -- Shakesbeer
Hopefully we won't slashdot this confrance stream, like we did to rubicon. I bet CMU has the bandwith to handle it, but you never know.
------ Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
Or better yet: MBone multicasting (that would surely prevent slashdotting). I'd prefer a RealVideo stream.
;)
Just kidding
My cats ate my karma. They also wrote this comment.
mad first props to my homeboy. you done good, man.
I just checked it out and the quality is really not that good. While the sound was pretty clean, clear and seemed lag free, the picture quality was not good... diagrams were not readable at all and even the text was sometimes only hardly recongizable (Running on a RoadRunner link btw.).
Also, I think it is extremely inconvenient that they only broadcast... while I guess it is supposed to save resources, I like computer movies because I have the convenience that I can watch them whenever I want. This somewhat seems like a step back to me. An xvid avi (or matroska for tha matter) with a bittorrent link would be soooo much better IMO.
~Squisher